Gardening Speakers

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Gardening Presentations for Community Education

Cornell Extension Staff and Master Gardeners are available to provide 45-60 minute presentations for your organization. We offer a variety of research-based programs to Capital area civic and community associations, libraries, adult educational programs, garden clubs and societies for a nominal donation.

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GENERAL GARDENING

• Awakening the Garden in Spring
• Creating a Miniature Garden
• Designing Your Garden: Tools and Tips
• Gardening Basics 101
• Gardening in a Changing Climate
• Getting to Know Your Weeds
• Healthy Habits for Gardening
• Honey, I Shrunk the Lawn
• Keeping a Garden Journal
• Latin Lovers: Understand and Appreciate Botanical Names
• Putting Your Garden to Bed
• Shade Gardening: Dream of the Possibilities
• Trees to Love
• Waking Up the Garden, Waking Up the Gardener
• Weeds: An Ounce of Prevention...
• Winter Interest

FLOWER GARDENING

• Creating a Night Garden
• Dahlias
• Lower-Maintenance Perennial Gardening
• Perennial Garden Basics

NATIVE PLANTS & POLLINATORS

• Bringing Native Plants into Your Garden
• Creating a Welcoming Garden for Hummingbirds and Butterflies
• Harvesting, Saving, and Planting Native Seeds
• Natives Plants Go Public
• Native Perennials & Groundcovers

INDOOR PLANT CARE

• The Care and Feeding of Holiday Plants
• The Care and Feeding of Houseplants

CONTAINER GARDENING

• Container Gardening: Tips and Techniques for Success
• Container Gardening 101

VEGETABLE & HERB GARDENING

• Creating a Backyard Vegetable Garden
• Companion Planting: What Is It & Why?
• Introduction to Herbs: Growing, Using and Drying
• Pests and Diseases in the Vegetable Garden
• Soil: The Foundation of Life
• Why Raised Beds for Gardening and How to Build Them

GARDENING IN ART & LITERATURE

• Monet: Artist and Gardener
• Wildflowers: Faces, Facts and Folklore

Last updated April 18, 2025