Master Gardener Event

Visit the Master Gardeners’ Kid’s Garden & Advice Clinic @ the Home & Backyard Show Feb 2-4, 2024

Mississauga Master Gardeners (MMG) & Etobicoke Master Gardeners (EMG) invite you to visit us at the Home and Backyard Show February 2-4, 2024, Mississauga International Center. Explore the Children’s Garden and get your hands dirty while enjoying a  hands-on gardening experience, including learning how to care for different plants. Learn about Good Bugs & Bad Bugs, find out who are the Pollinators in the garden, and how to attract them. Make a pine-cone bird feeder, create your own grass head, and participate in other fun and creative activities.  Children will have a great time discovering the joys of gardening in this enjoyable and educational gardening experience.

Have a gardening or horticultural question? Ask an Expert. Drop by the Master Gardener Advice Clinic and visit our experts bringing your questions, pictures, and challenges, and they will have you walking away with a number of solutions and ideas.

MK

Going to the CNE this year? Bring your gardening questions to the Master Gardener’s Booth @ Heritage Hall

The Canadian National Exhibition  2023 runs from August 18 to
Sept 4, including Labour Day Monday.

Master Gardeners from all over the GTA will be on hand at Heritage Court at the Master Gardener’s booth throughout the event. Find us near the flower show.

Bring your gardening questions along; our MG volunteers are ready and willing to offer our expert advice.

Hope to see you there!

MK

Native Plant Sale @ Blooming Boulevards Mississauga June 10-11th

This weekend is Blooming Boulevards’ 4th Annual Native Plant Sale with thousands of native plants locally grown by volunteers.
And Blooming Boulevards  has a special treat!
Author Lorraine Johnson will be at the sale on Saturday morning, June 10, to sign her very informative new book A Garden for the Rusty Patch Bumblebee. 10:30 to 11:30 am
The book will be offered for sale all weekend
All the details about the sale can be found here: //www.bloomingboulevards.org/plant-sale-2023
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MK

MMG Spring Plant Sale May 23rd, 2020 is CANCELLED

Sadly we must cancel our MMG SPRING PLANT SALE, originally scheduled for Saturday, May 23rd at Riverwood.

All May events at Riverwood are now cancelled, as well as some events in early June, due to the current pandemic.

We take some comfort in the fact that gardening is NOT cancelled and neither is Spring, so we’ll be busy in our own gardens in the meantime. But we are always available online for helpful advice.

And any of the Master Gardener groups would be happy to answer your gardening questions, just ask!

We are especially interested in promoting a renewal of the idea of Victory Gardens in 2020, as a way to provide food security, encourage healthy outdoor activity that allows for needed physical distancing, to give your kids a fun, educational project, help the environment, and so much more.

Check out our MMG social media for helpful times on how to #GetGrowing this season.

And we are hopeful that our proposed Fall Plant Sale 2020 might still be possible…check back for updates on our planned  October event at the Port Credit Library.

Stay safe and healthy, Happy Gardening!

MK

MMG FALL PLANT SALE Saturday October 5th, 2019 at the Port Credit Library

MISSISSAUGA MASTER GARDENER’s FALL PLANT SALE
Saturday October 5, 2019  10am-2pm  at the Port Credit Library

Did you know that fall is a great time to plant?  Perennials are able to concentrate on root development during the autumn as above ground growth slows.

So join us on Saturday October 5th at the Port Credit Library to get some new plants for your garden.  Opportunity all day to have your garden questions answered by the experts.  Spring bulbs (to plant this fall) will be for sale as well.

Presentations:
11 am – Pollination and Growing Native Plants

12 pm – Preparing Your Garden for Winter

See you there!

 

MK

MMG June Outing to Whistling Gardens

MMGs enjoyed a great outing to Whistling Gardens this past weekend. It was cool & grey out, but the gardens made up for it with great displays of colourful peonies, well over 1000 varieties!

Owner Darren Heimbecker gave us a guided tour of his botanical treasures, accompanied by Leggo, his 6 month old puppy. (Leggo wasn’t as interested in the horticultural detail as we were.) But MMGs thoroughly appreciated the collection of rare conifers, native Carolinian trees and unusual ornamental plants.

It was a great outing and we highly recommend visiting Whistling Gardens with your garden group. A unique, must-see collection for any plant lover. Group tours welcome; guided tours available and well worth it!
For more info: www.whistlinggardens.ca

 

MK

MG TECHNICAL UPDATE, JAN 13, 2018

TORONTO MASTER GARDENERS present their 2018 Technical Update: “Growing Food from Around the World”

@ The Toronto Botanical Garden

Speakers for the day include:
Dena Jackson ▪ Toronto comedian & MC ▪ A Light-hearted Look at Growing Food from Around the World
Conrad Richter ▪ President of Richters Herbs ▪ Welcoming
Migrant Herbs to our Gardens
Villiam Zvalo ▪ research scientist, Vineland Research Station ▪ New Plants in Familiar Places…the Science
Ken Brown ▪ horticulturist, writer & home gardener ▪ Down to Earth Solutions for Growing Unusual Edibles

Saturday, January 13, 2018 ▪ 8:30 am Registration & Coffee ▪ 12 noon Lunch ▪ 4:00 pm Wrap-Up

Tickets $45 on Eventbrite
REGISTER HERE://www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-master-gardeners-technical-update-2018-tickets-37914027878?%20discount=MGOI2018

 

Source: Toronto Master Gardeners ▪ Technical Update 2018 Tickets, Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 8:30 AM | Eventbrite

MK