warner park

took a walk in the woods and earned 3ceus...click here to look at the photos!!!

Hello DCMG members

We have a new and exciting herb garden underway in the Demo Garden and we need your help. No you do not have to come out and dig holes-we plan to use lasagna gardening techniques to build the beds. What we do need are your plants and seeds. Have any herb plants that need to be divided or relocated? Have lots of extra herb seeds or are willing to start a few extra plants for us? Email me and let me know what you can do and I will tell you what we need the most. And as always, we would love some help in the garden so come on out and join us in this endeavor, there could be cake or fresh baked bread to sample too... Thanks for your help and support!

Happy Gardening!

You can email me at the address to the right (see the "need to contact me" box) or leave a comment on this page (see below)

a visit from the seed fairy

sorry folks, no cake today but we did have a visitor. david and i had an opportunity to give a tour of the demo garden to monika mccurdy. she is a representative from ferry-morse seed company, the oldest and largest seed company in the country. it seems that she found us on the internet while searching for information on raised bed gardens for a project that the fmsc is building at their kentucky headquarters. what better garden to look at for examples could she have chosen-absolutely none!!!

the junior master garden is 4 large raised beds and behind them is the herb garden which is a series of small raised beds and the enabling garden-a raised table garden.

of course no tour is complete without learning all about our rain garden

the hibiscus shrubs will be removed and the area will become our new vegetable garden. many of the seeds monika brought us will be used in the vegetable garden!

just a small portion of the seeds that the seed fairy left us!!! thank you again monika and ferry-morse, please come visit us again and see what sprouts in the garden!

spring is creeping in slowly

if you look carefully, there are little bits of spring popping up. along the roads you will see lots of early daffodils, although they are a little late this year. the cold weather has set everything back a few weeks. everything except the weeds. we made it out to the garden on both saturday and sunday to start the spring clean up.

the rain has sprouted a lot more weeds than we expected considering how cold it has been.

the gazebo is back in the rose garden after a short vacation in the fair grounds for the lawn and garden show. darry and mary put it back together and then they cleaned up the rose beds and gave them a new layer of pine straw mulch.

here is cherri planting seeds in the junior master gardeners bed. the seeds are for lettuces and radishes and they will be finished by the time the jmg's need the space.

the jmg beds are getting an addition of leaves to help amend the soil

nancy add the leaves and turning the soil in the jmg beds

mary, darry and nancy cleaning up the walkways in the main garden

what is left of the blackberry coffee cake. every sunday when we come out to the garden, i try to bring a fresh baked cake. join us for cake sometime!

lawn and garden show, 2010

for the davidson county master gardeners, march is always an exciting month. not only is it the beginning of spring and the new planting season, it is also time for the lawn and garden show. this year is a little bittersweet for us, if the mayor gets his wish, the fairgrounds will be gone and the future of the lawn and garden show is uncertain. even so, this years display was gorgeous and all of the members who helped to design and build it should be proud.

we won! we won! we won! on display in the booth were the award for plant awareness and a lovely green ribbon. well done everybody!!!

the beautiful green ribbon

one of my favorite things to visit in the show is the floral display competition. they never fail to amaze me and this year was no exception. i didn't take photos of all of the entries, only 3

this had to be one of the most unique arrangements on display. darry and i really enjoyed it and we were surprised to see that the parrot was made from what appeared to be seed pods

a close up of the parrot

made by ken scott, ilex for flowers

this one took me by surprise. it was almost as if someone was hanging the flowers, as in executing them. they hung by their stems in a sad state of strangulation that caused the blooms to wilt and discolor.

carry ann misamore for fresh by carry ann

when we walked into the exhibit area, this was the first display i saw and wouldn't you know it, my favorite too! i loved the bright colors and the wild forsythia.

the nappa cabbage leaves around the base were a nice touch that camouflaged the base beautifully.

designed by jim knestrick for knestrick by design

and last but not least, darry giving his talk on cultivating shiitake mushrooms in your garden. mushroom cultivation for the home gardener is becoming quite popular and we are excited about it. they are good for you and easy to grow.

REMINDER: 3/13 & 3/14 are work days in the demo garden! from 10am-2pm, bring your tools and a lunch if you like-we've got lots to do!!!