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The tour features six residential gardens and one school garden all located north of I-635, between Carrollton/Farmers Branch and Richardson. Tickets now on sale through Eventbrite UPCOMING PUBLIC EVENTS Categories Education Event Public Event Volunteer Event Agenda Agenda Month Week February 2020 Feb 2020 Collapse All Expand All Feb 4 Tue The Urban Orchard (PE,ED) @ The Colony City Hall Annex Tickets Feb 4 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Registration: https://dallas.tamu.edu/events/ This program teaches basics from what plant varieties work best to pruning and pest control. Master Gardeners Earn 1 CEU Hour Enter on VMS Project Cont. Ed. Add Lecturer Name : Water University Read more Categories: Education Event Public Event Feb 6 Thu Turf Talk (PE,ED) @ Midway Hills Christian Church (Community Hall) Tickets Feb 6 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Presenter: Steven Hudkins CEA/Horticulture & MG Program Coordinator Master Gardener 1 CEU Hour Enter on VMS Project Cont.Ed. Add Lecturer: S. Hudkins Read more Categories: Education Event Public Event Feb 7 Fri Grape, Berry & Fruit Tree Workshop 2020 (PE,ED) @ The Landing at Myers Park Tickets Feb 7 @ 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Are you growing grapes? Berries? Fruit Trees? Would you like information on successfully propagating and pruning them? Texas A & M AgriLife Extension is offering a 1 day workshop on FRIDAY, February 7, 2020 to show you how. We have 3 great speakers lined up to speak at the workshop. There will be a pruning demonstration and, if weather permits, a short tour of the grape growing area in Myers Park. The cost of the workshop is $35.00 and includes snacks, beverages, and a sandwich lunch. Click on the link to register for the event. http://www.ccmgatx.org/about-us/register-for-an-event.aspx?id=10571 8 CEU Hours for Master Gardeners Read more Categories: Education Event Public Event Feb 8 Sat Vegetable & Edible Gardening (PE,ED) @ The Landing at Myers Park Tickets Feb 8 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Provides a wide range of topics with presenters Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service to guide gardeners with their gardening plans and techniques. Fee $20 limited seating Includes Informational booths on site Register: http://www.ccmgatx.org/about-us/event-calendar.aspx?cid=10590 Master Gardeners Earn 4 CEU Hours Enter on VMS Project Cont. Ed. Add Lecturer: TX A&M AgriLife Extension Read more Categories: Education Event Public Event Put the Care into Lawn Care (PE,ED) @ Water and Land Resources Building Tickets Feb 8 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am Register: https://dallas.tamu.edu/events/ We’ll help you create a lush and healthy lawn that will make your neighbors green with envy. Master Gardener 2 CEU Hours Enter on VMS Project Cont. Ed: Add Lecturer- TX A&M AgriLife Read more Categories: Education Event Public Event February 2020 Feb 2020 Subscribe to filtered calendar Add to Timely Calendar Add to Google Add to Outlook Add to Apple Calendar Add to other calendar Export to XML View Public Calendar SPEAKERS BUREAU DCMG provides speakers on a wide variety of gardening topics. Would you like a speaker for your garden club or event? We offer talks of varying lengths on hundreds of topics. More… GARDENING IN NORTH TEXAS THIS MONTH Continue to plant new shade trees, fruit trees, and evergreen shrubs. Mulch root areas. Continue to transplant established trees and shrubs while they are dormant. Finish planting pre-chilled tulip and hyacinth bulbs if you did not do so in December. Plant any bare-root plants including fruit and nut trees as well as roses. Continue planting pansies, snapdragons, kale, Swiss chard and other cool season annuals. Plant onion transplants anytime soil is ready. Plant spinach and snap peas mid to late month. More… QUESTION OF THE MONTH Question: Can my weather-damaged tree be saved? Answer: There is hope because although damaged trees may look bare and deflated, looks can be deceiving. Ask yourself the following questions to assess whether your tree can clearly be saved, it can’t or isn’t worth saving, or it’s a borderline case that should be given time to recover before a final decision is made. More… Important message from the Help Desk: The Master Gardener Help Desk is closed until further notice due to tornado damage. More… Meet Our Speakers Diana Harris Diana grew up in San Antonio and learned the joy of gardening from her parents. She became a Master Gardener in 2000 after moving to Dallas and confronting the harsh North Texas environment with its Blackland Prairie soil, blistering summer heat, and occasional winter freezes. Since then, Diana has taken advantage of opportunities offered by the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association as well as the Texas A&M and University of Florida educational systems to extend her horticultural knowledge. Loving to travel, she further advances her interest in different cultures’ techniques and approaches to garden design by frequently attending seminars in Asia, Europe, Mexico and the United States. Today Diana shares her knowledge on a number of horticultural topics in presentations to the public and to landscape and garden professionals throughout Texas and the Yucatan in Mexico. She is committed to nurturing humans, plants and animals; and embraces design practices that enhance environmental diversity. Diana supports practices advocated by the National Wildlife Federation to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world. Her own landscape is a Certified Wildlife Habitat . In 1987, Diana bought a cattleya orchid in San Francisco and brought it home on a plane. Her gardening passions have varied through the years, but Diana has never abandoned the orchid and hardy tropical collections she still maintains in Dallas and Akumal, Mexico. Community Project Spotlight Moss Haven Elementary School The urban farm at Moss Haven Elementary School in the Richardson Elementary School District (RISD) is a wonderful place of renewal sitting on an area of softly rolling hills near Greenville Avenue, Royal Lane and Abrams Road. Originally Blackland Prairie, the property became a working farm in the mid-1800’s. In the early 1900’s, Highland Park oil magnate Harry Moss bought the land as a family retreat and a place to keep his herd of cows. Moss Haven Elementary’s closest neighbor is the original Moss family farm house so it’s not surprising that one hundred years later, in 2011, a group of school parents and one special education teacher got the idea to “bring back the farm.” Their goal was to show kids how food is grown, combat obesity by encouraging healthy food choices, and enable interdisciplinary education that includes science, math, creative writing and art. Initial development began after RISD approved the concept. Turning a weedy field into a place to grow food and educate kids took patience, trial and error, experts, dedicated ...