Title: 23rd Annual Spring Garden Tour
Location: Multiple Locations throughout the Chattanooga Area
Description: Tour 4 premier private gardens in North Chattanooga & Hixson areas, Bluff View District’s Portera Herb & Sculpture garden and the Food Bank’s new Evelyn Davenport Navarre Teaching Garden. Proceeds benefit the Food Bank’s Community Garden Program.
Gardens on Tour:
Jerry & Donna Smolinski – [...]
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Fruits and Nuts
Black and purple raspberries should be pruned just as buds break in the spring. Shorten branches on the canes to 8 to 12 inches to promote branching. As new canes develop, maintain them at a height of 18 to 20 inches by tipping. This will promote [...]
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The Master Gardeners of Hamilton County have been busy planning and presenting workshops on building rain barrels. (See the informational post on rain barrels here.) The 2-hour workshops are designed so that participants build their own rain barrel and have the knowledge to successfully install them and begin to collect rainwater.
Due to the scarcity of [...]
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New Wildflower and Native Plant Group Springs Up
Do you have a long-abiding love of wildflowers or are you interested in learning more about using native plants in your landscape but don’t know the difference between a native and a weed? Regardless of your knowledge base, you are welcomed to join the newly-formed Wildflower and Native [...]
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Title: Reflection Riding Spring Wildflower Festival and Native Plant Sale
Location: Reflection Riding
Description: The dates for the Spring Wildflower Festival and Native Plant Sale will be April 9, 10, & 11, 2010. Admission is free and the hours of the sale will be Friday and Saturday 9:00am to 5:00pm and Sunday 1:00pm to 5:00pm. [...]
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UT Extension has received a USDA grant to conduct absentee landowner meetings and this program represents the first workshop in our area. The goal of this program is help landowners to be more informed about the management options for their property and they will know who to ask when they have specific questions or seek [...]
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Are you interested in being on a list of knowledgeable folks that can identify and help with treatment of the hemlock woolly adelgid? The folks from “Save Georgias Hemlocks” are presenting a free clinic on April 10th at the Chattanooga Nature Center Auditorium at Reflection Riding. This clinic is being presented by the Benton MacKaye [...]
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With Spring just around the corner, now’s the time to update your landscaping skills. Two Tennessee Yards and Neighborhood Workshops are scheduled for April and May. Each session is held over 2 evenings, each session running from 6 pm to 9 pm. The April workshop will be held April 19th and 20th, and the May [...]
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Title: Arbor Day on Signal Mountain
Location: Thrasher Elementary and SMMHS
Description: To all Master Gardeners on Signal Mountain
We will have the Arbor Day celebration for Signal Mountain with tree plantings at Thrasher Elementary and SMMHS on Friday, March 5th at 10:00 am at both locations. If you like working with kids and teaching others, this [...]
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