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2010 Seminar Schedule
Launch your spring gardening plans with timely tips from the experts. More than two dozen sessions cover everything from organic gardening to lawn care to eco-friendly pest control. Relax as entertaining speakers share their know-how and answer your gardening questions. Held in two locations, the seminars are included in your ticket price.
Seminar Schedule Can Change Without Notice
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Bouquet For The Day - Seminar Area
| Thursday, February 18 |
| 2:30 |
Container Challenge - Bruce Crawford |
Four Season Appeal: Container gardens for year-round interest |
| Friday, February 19 |
| 11:30 |
Beth Nardone, Rutgers NJAES Master Gardener |
Coping With Deer |
| 12:30 |
Valerie Sudol |
Garden Secrets: What works, what doesn't? Tried-and-true methods for successful gardening with some myth-busting along the way. |
| 1:30 |
Todd Pretz, Jonathan Green Seedsmen |
Lawn Care Throughtout the Year: Fertilizing, seeding, & organic treatments… |
| 2:30 |
Container Challenge - Ray Rogers |
Growing Plants in Containers: Helpful tips that inspires creative and beautiful plantings. |
| Saturday, February 20 |
| 11:30 |
Melinda Myers * |
Tool Shed Tune-up: Learn about eco-friendly garden tools and accessories
Special thanks to Birds & Blooms Magazine for bringing Melinda to the NJ Flower & Garden Show. |
| 12:30 |
Maryanne McMillan |
Introducing Your Child to Gardening |
| 1:30 |
Melinda Myers * |
Battling the Bugs: Environmentally-sound pest management
Special thanks to Birds & Blooms Magazine for bringing Melinda to the NJ Flower & Garden Show. |
| 2:30 |
Container Challenge - Ken Druse |
Container Gardening 101: The nuts and bolts of creating perfect potted plantings. |
| 3:30 |
Dominick Mondi, ASLA |
Designing with Native Plants: An introduction to beautiful, hardy plants that support local wildlife. |
| 6:00 |
Mel Bartholomew * |
Square Foot Gardening: A nationally-known authority explains his easy, low-maintenance system for boosting home harvests. |
| Sunday, February 21 |
| 12:30 |
Container Challenge - Ken Druse |
Container Gardening 101: The nuts and bolts of creating perfect potted plantings. |
| 1:30 |
Melinda Myers * |
Going Green on a Budget: Affordable, eco-friendly landscape makeovers.
Special thanks to Birds & Blooms Magazine for bringing Melinda to the NJ Flower & Garden Show. |
| 3:00
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Presentation of People's Choice Awards |
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* Author Book Signing |
Gardeners Go To School - Seminar Area
| Thursday, February 18 |
| 2:00 |
Ulrich Lorimer |
Spring Ephemerals: Using nature's earliest wildflowers in the garden |
| 3:00 |
James Farmer, Rutgers Master Gardener |
Composting: Everything you wanted to know about making “black gold.” |
| Friday, February 19 |
| 11:00 |
Michael Pollock |
Backyard Habitat for Birds, Butterflies and other wildlife – The relationship between wildlife and native plants -- and coping with problem critters. |
| 12:00 |
Bill Hlubik |
Top Ten Garden and Landscaping Tips: Save Time, Money and the Environment |
| 1:00 |
Mel Bartholomew * |
Square Foot Gardening: A nationally-known authority explains his easy, low-maintenance system for boosting home harvests. |
| 2:00 |
Lynn Batdorf |
Knowing and Growing Boxwood: Advice from a nationally-known authority who spent 35 years at the U.S. National Arboretum. |
| 3:00 |
Nick Gakos, ASLA * |
The Properly Fitted Garden: A landscape architect explains how to fit new elements into existing landscapes. |
| 6:00 |
Mel Bartholomew * |
Square Foot Gardening: A nationally-known authority explains his easy, low-maintenance system for boosting home harvests. |
| Saturday, February 20 |
| 11:00 |
Mel Bartholomew * |
Square Foot Gardening: A nationally-known authority explains his easy, low-maintenance system for boosting home harvests. |
| 12:00 |
Ken Druse |
Making More Plants: Propagation techniques that help you multiply your favorite plants -- for free. |
| 1:00 |
Bruce Crawford |
Garden State Gardens: A consortium of New Jersey public gardens and arboreta invites your support. |
| 2:00 |
Ray Rogers |
Colorful Coleus & Friends: The founder of the international Coleus Society on exceptional foliage plants for containers and gardens. |
| 3:00 |
Mel Bartholomew * |
Square Foot Gardening: A nationally-known authority explains his easy, low-maintenance system for boosting home harvests. |
| 4:00 |
Susanna Chui |
PES&G’s Solar Loan Program Seminar - Consumers who own their home will learn how solar power can be in their property’s energy future.
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| Sunday, February 21 |
| 12:00 |
Pegi Ballister-Howells |
Perennials in the Garden: Long-lived flowering plants for beds and borders. |
| 1:00 |
Mel Bartholomew * |
Square Foot Gardening: A nationally-known authority explains his easy, low-maintenance system for boosting home harvests. |
| 2:00 |
Ken Druse |
Making More Plants: Propagation techniques that help you multiply your favorite plants -- for free. |
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* Author Book Signing |
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