Educational Sessions
| Friday
10:00 – 11:00 AM |
Morning Breakout Sessions | |
| Educational #1 – Birds & Native Plants – Tom Hissong | ||
| Educational #2 – Hiding in Plain Sight…- Judy Semroc | ||
| 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM | Educational #3 – Good Plants Gone Bad – Jennifer Windus | |
| Educational #4 – Horticultural Therapy – Joe Lansing, Gail Santner | ||
| Afternoon Breakout Sessions | ||
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Educational #5 – Garden Photography – Ron Wilson | |
| Educational #6 – The 24/7/365 Vegetable Garden – McDermott | ||
| 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM | Educational #7 – Woodland Gardens – Sam Romeo | |
| Educational #8 – A Guide to Ohio Trees – Chris Ahlum | ||
| Saturday
9:45 – 10:45 AM |
Educational #9 – Planting for Pollinators – Scott Beuerlein | |
| Educational #10 – Bulb Layering – Brent Heath | ||
| Educational #11 – House Plants – Pam Bennett | ||
| Educational #12 – Climate Change & OH Gardening – Aaron Wilson | ||
Friday Workshops ($25 additional each)
| 10:00 – Noon | Workshop #1 – Vegetables in a Box – Jasinski, Hupman, Corboy
CLOSED |
| 10:00 – Noon | Workshop #2 – Fundamentals Of Succulent Success – Worth
Contrary to popular folk lore, succulents do not thrive on benign neglect. Jane Worth, Greene County Master Gardner Volunteer and succulent enthusiast will share with you the FUNdamentals of success with succulents. In this workshop, you will learn about the light, water, and soil needs of a variety of common and more exotic succulents. Jane will demonstrate planting methods using a variety of suitable and interesting containers, as well as selecting compatible succulents to create unique arrangements. She will cover basic propagation methods, a money saving way to increase your succulent collection. Then the “FUN” starts: “YOU” get to play in the dirt and create your own mini-arrangement. |
| 2:00 – 4:00 PM | Workshop #3 – Everything’s Coming Up Roses – A. Bennett
CLOSED |
| 2:00 – 4:00 PM | Workshop #4 – My Cutting Garden – M.L. Minor
Mary Lee Minor, an Ohio Association of Garden Clubs (OAGC) Master Floral Designer and Accredited Flower Show Judge will present “My Cutting Garden’s Autumn Harvest For You.” Cutting gardens are different; they focus on abundance and material that will harmonize when on display in a container but not necessarily in a groomed landscape. Mary Lee will teach us how to combine flowers of different colors and shapes and sizes. She will demonstrate the use of texture, fillers and foliage. Although it is late in the growing season, Mary Lee will demonstrate that plant material harvested from a fall garden can be part of a fresh design. She provides directions for starting your own “Cutting Garden” and a handout which lists some of the best performers, so you may have continuously blooming color throughout the year. |
Meet some of our Speakers!
Scott Beuerlein – Friday Night Keynote
A self-proclaimed plant geek, Beuerlein has the perfect mindset for his responsibilities as Manager of Botanical Garden Outreach at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. Like master gardeners, he understands the rewarding feeling of connecting people with plants.
Scott Beuerlein is responsible for CZBG’s extensive plant trials, the Garden’s popular Excellence in Horticulture symposium series, and additional outreach programs for both the public and green industry professionals.
An award-winning communicator, Beuerlein has written hundreds of articles, magazine columns, interviews, and blog posts for Horticulture Magazine, GardenRant.com, and a host of other gardening publications. He’s also a sought-after national speaker with a reputation for being as entertaining as he is informative talking before groups of 12 to 1,200.
Beuerlein’s avid readers and enthusiastic audiences describe him as “highly knowledgeable, profound, wacky, irreverent, thought-provoking, great storyteller, funny, and totally honest.”
Beuerlein and his wife, Michele, live in Cincinnati with what he calls “a garden best described as over-sized and under-maintained.” He adds, “That’s a pretty fair description of myself.”
Dave Nolin – Friday Morning Opening Session
Dave grew up in Fairborn, Greene County. He attended Wright State University, graduated with BS in Biology in 1980. Then, received Master’s Degree in biology from Wright State University in 1984. Retired from Five Rivers MetroParks in 2015 after 30 years involvement in conservation and land acquisition work for the agency. Married to Catherine Queener since 1981. Have son, Jacob, 30. Now volunteering for several conservation entities and former President of Beaver Creek Wetlands Association.
Aaron Wilson – Saturday Session
Aaron B. Wilson is an Atmospheric Scientist at The Ohio State University (OSU), holding a joint appointment as a Principal Investigator at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC) and Assistant Professor, Ag Weather with OSU Extension-the outreach arm of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. Using state-of-the-art weather and climate models, Aaron’s research focuses on weather and climate across diverse environments – from the ice-covered Arctic and Antarctica to the tropical influences on global circulation and extreme weather and climate change in Ohio. His duties with OSU Extension allow him to connect his love of weather and climate with the agricultural community throughout Ohio, to provide data when needed, and increase the understanding of how changing climate is impacting farmers across the state. He feels strongly in providing education and outreach, acknowledging that all sectors have expertise to bring to the table in order to build resilience to changing climate and make informed decisions for the future.
Tom Hissong – Friday Session
Tom Hissong has followed an exciting career path working as an Interpretive Naturalist /Environmental Educator in the Dayton, Ohio area for nearly 45 years. He retired from his position as the Education Manager at the Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm north of Dayton in March of 2017. Prior to his position at Aullwood, Tom served as a naturalist for 2 years with the Five Rivers MetroParks, which followed 16 years in the position of Curator of Education with the Dayton Museum of Natural History. Tom graduated from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, with a B.S. degree in Environmental Education / Field Biology in 1976. He is well-known throughout the Dayton area for his expertise as an avid ornithology instructor / bird watcher and for his enthusiasm in teaching many children and adult classes on natural history topics each year. Over the past thirty years, Tom has been the planner, organizer and leader of 8 different nine-day expeditions to south Florida and the Everglades for bird study and has led many three-day weekend trips to Pt. Pelee, Canada, to watch birds and to northern Michigan to observe the endangered Kirtland’s Warbler. Listed among his international expeditions are Australia, the Peruvian Amazon and Andes, Kenya, Panama, High Arctic Norway, Costa Rica, Galapagos Islands, and Canadian Rockies. Awards received include Dayton Tripod Camera Club’s 1984 Nature Photographer of the Year, the EarthWatch / Timken Foundation Research for Renewal –Teacher Fellowship, the National Audubon Society ACE Group Award – Flamingo Watch, 1999 Garden Club of Ohio, Inc. – Citation,Northmont Schools Roll of Honor 2006, 2007 Tamar Chotzen – National Audubon Society Educator of the Year, and 2008 Together Green Leadership Fellow.
Judy Semroc – Friday Session
Judy has spent the past 25+ years as a field naturalist in Ohio and other states. She the founder of Chrysalis in Time‚ the first Ohio chapter of the North American Butterfly Association (NABA). Judy also serves on the board of the Ohio Bluebird Society & Ohio Ornithological Society (Conservation Committee). She has co-authored two natural history guides, “Dragonflies & Damselflies of Northeast Ohio” and “Goldenrods of Northeast Ohio: A Field Guide to Identification & Natural History.” As a former Petroleum Geologist and science teacher, Judy loves to learn about and share her passion for the natural world through hikes, interpretive programs, and photography. Learn more about Judy’s latest adventures & offerings through her new company, Nature Spark!
Website: www.naturesparkohio.org
Ron Wilson – Friday Session
Ron is a self-taught photographer. He has over 50 years of experience, including over 30 years as a photography instructor. Ron has a photography business, many publication credits and is an international award winning photographer. Ron is presently a member of Tripod Camera Club, Cleveland Photographic Society and Photographic Society of America. He is a competitor and has served as a judge for these organizations. His photo interests are Amish Lifestyle, Dancers and Rodeo. Ron is also a Master Gardener Volunteer in Warren County.
Tim McDermott
Tim McDermott has been an Extension Educator for the past 8 years after twenty years in private practice veterinary medicine and surgery. He lectures from locally to internationally on urban agriculture and local food systems A priority outreach of his work involves creating urban farming experimental outdoor raised bed and indoor controlled environment agriculture learning laboratories for engaging students and teachers in STEM based agricultural programs. He is entering his 27th year as a community gardener at one of the thee remaining original Victory Gardens established in the 1940’s
Brent Heath
Brent Heath of Brent & Becky Bulbs grew up in Gloucester, Virginia. He is a naturalist, an author, a photographer, a speaker, a daffodil hybridizer and a gardener and because of achievements in all of these areas of expertise, has won many gold medal awards from various organizations in the horticultural industry. One of Brent’s greatest joys is sharing his love of all things natural in the world and inspiring people of all ages and experiences to look at the world around them in a different, eye-opening way. He has helped them understand how to take care of the earth for the next crop and/or for future generations. His plans for the future are to continue to play in his garden and care for the earth while encouraging others to do the same!
Bulbs as Companion Plants For an Earth-Friendly Garden – Whether you are planning to plant bulbs in a fresh, newly prepared empty garden, or whether you are adding them to an already existing one, Brent Heath, 3rd generation bulb grower and co-owner of Brent and Becky’s Bulbs from Gloucester, Virginia, will have the answers for you! With exquisite images illustrating the seminar, he will introduce you to the best of the best…..the right bulbs for the right spots. He will show you how to combine bulbs, perennials, annuals, ground covers and flowering shrubs that will create just the feeling you want to generate for three seasons in your earth-friendly garden. After seeing and experiencing this seminar, you’ll leave with information and inspiration to produce a garden that you, your neighbors and friends will enjoy all year.
Creating Living Flower Arrangements with Layers of Bulbs – We all smile when we receive a beautiful arrangement of flowers. However, that smile will return many times when we realize that the flowers come from live bulbs and will last up to 2 or 3 times longer than cut flowers. Then they can often be recycled into the garden after danger of hard freeze. This lecture covers the particulars on how to do it and which bulb cultivars are best suited to pot culture. We will demonstrate the most innovative methods of creating the forced container, the window box liner, the layered patio planter or individually potted bulbs. This lecture should expand our gardening palette and give us more hours of garden pleasure, an additional season and flowers in additional areas.