Master Gardeners

04 9, 2022

The Garden that Keeps Giving with the Lake County Master Gardeners

By |2022-04-04T10:42:55-04:00April 9, 2022|

Plant once and harvest food for years? That’s the dream!

Lake County Master Gardener Jane Onspaugh recommends different perennial and self-seeding plants for your garden. She discusses trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, vegetables, and more during a program we hosted earlier this month.

The next Meet Me in the Garden lecture will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 7, at our Main Branch. The topic will be what’s new in annuals and perennials. The talk is free to attend. You can register on our website or by calling us at 440-255-8811 ext. 1.

By the way, did you know that you can get free veggie, flower, and herb seeds from our Seed Library? Check out our collection  the next time you visit our Main Branch. Borrow up to 15 packets of seeds per season.

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03 9, 2022

Adding Plants Affordably with the Lake County Master Gardeners

By |2022-03-27T12:34:10-04:00March 9, 2022|

Diane from the Lake County Master Gardeners explain ways you can add to your garden or landscape without having to spend a lot of money on plants. She discusses seeds, cuttings, layerings, division, bulbs, tubers, rhizomes, grafting, tissue cultures, and more!

By the way, did you know that you can get free veggie, flower, and herb seeds from our Seed Library? Check out our collection the next time you visit our Main Branch. Borrow up to 15 packets of seeds per season.

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04 1, 2019

Video: Perfect perennials for constant color in your garden

By |2019-04-01T06:00:57-04:00April 1, 2019|

Master Gardener Shelley Baeslack explained how you can use perennials to create interest in your garden all four seasons when she visited our library last week.

If you missed her talk (or wish to revisit it,) we filmed it and are sharing it in its entirety online.

By the way, any green thumbs should check out the special collection from Holden Forests & Gardens’ Corning Library available at our Main Branch.

In addition to a gorgeous arboretum in Kirtland, Holden also has a spectacular collection of gardening, horticulture, environmental and botany books at Corning Library within its arboretum.

Dozens of Corning Library’s books are now available to borrow at our Main Branch. Thanks to a partnership between libraries, you can use your cards to check out books from this special collection. Our typical lending rules apply.

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03 12, 2019

Perfect perennials for continuous color

By |2019-03-12T06:00:34-04:00March 12, 2019|

Learn how to use perennials like rhododendron to create continuous color in your garden.

Learn how to use perennials like rhododendron to create continuous color in your garden.

Learn how to create color in your garden all year during a free gardening program at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26, at our Main Branch

A volunteer from the Master Gardener program will demonstrate how to add continuous color to your garden with perennials.

The program is free to attend. We only ask that you register beforehand. You can sign up online or call us at (440) 255-8811 ext. 247.

By the way, any green thumbs should check out the special collection from Holden Forests & Gardens’ Corning Library available at our Main Branch.

In addition to a gorgeous arboretum in Kirtland, Holden also has a spectacular collection of gardening, horticulture, environmental and botany books at Corning Library within its arboretum.

Dozens of Corning Library’s books are now available to borrow at our Main Branch. Thanks to a partnership between libraries, you can use your cards to check out books from this special collection. Our typical lending rules apply.

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03 30, 2018

Get orchid advice from a master gardener

By |2018-03-30T06:00:19-04:00March 30, 2018|

Lake County Master Gardener Susan Cowling offered advice on caring for orchids when she visited earlier this month.

She makes recommendations for watering, light, humidity, fertilizer, and potting the lovely (and surprisingly hardy) plants. She also suggests some lovely starter orchids for novice gardeners.

Speaking of gardening, did you know MPL has a seed library? Here’s how it works:

You can borrow heirloom and organic seeds from us the same way you’d borrow a book or movie.

You can pick from our dozens of varieties of herbs, flowers, vegetables and fruit seeds. Take up to 15 types of seed per year.

All we ask is that when the seeds grow into plants,  you save some of its seeds and return them to the library.

For more gardening tips, including a seed-planting calendar, visit our Seed Library’s page.

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