MG Annual Training Day

Each year the State Master Gardener Office offers, for a nominal fee, a full day of advanced training on the last Thursday in May at the University of Maryland, College Park Campus. The 2006 training featured keynote speaker Dr. Peter Hildebrand, Chief, Hydrosperic and Biosperic Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard, talking about “Water for Life on Earth”—how the global water cycle changes as climate changes.

In addition, there were over 30 workshops to choose from. These included:

Native Ornamental Grasses
Backyard Habitat
Fertilizers
Fungicides
Green Buildings, Green Roofs, Green Walls
Rain Water Management
New & Cool Woody Plants
Waist-high Salad Gardening
Conserving Plant Diversity
Brambles
Plant Identification
Therapeutic Horticulture
Sex and the Single Holly
Edible Flowers
Wildlife in Urban Gardens
Managing Storm Water Ponds and Water Gardens
Plant Diagnostics & Diseases

Details and the schedule for the upcoming Master Gardener Annual Training Day will be available in March at http://mastergardener.umd.edu/

For more information, contact Web Master

Last updated: 07/12/2008