CONTINUING EDUCATION

Thursday, September 14 – 10 a.m. – 1.5 CEUs Creating Beautiful, Ecologically Productive and Edible Landscapes with Native Plants

Solomon Gamboa, Horticulturist/Conservationist

Cox Arboretum MetroPark, 6733 Springboro Pike, Dayton, Ohio 45449

Thursday, September 21 – Session 1: 10:00-11:30 a.m. – 1.5 CEUs; Session 2: 1:00-2:30 p.m. – 1.5 CEUs Shade Gardening (Session 1) and Xeriscaping-Gardening without Sprinklers (Session 2)

Jenny Rose Carey, Director of Pennsylvania Horticulture Society’s Meadowbrook Farm

Walnut Grove Country Club, 5050 Linden Ave., Dayton, Ohio 45432

Tuesday, September 19 – 7 p.m.

Greater Montgomery County Master Gardener Association

Quarterly General Membership Meeting

Location: Carousel Room

Unavoidable delays, due to OSUE staff illnesses and scheduled business commitments, prevented earlier distribution of this newsletter. Please accept our apologies.

Submit information for “News You Can Use” to Gail Carone: getcarone@hotmail.com

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION

News You Can Use For Montgomery County Master Gardener Volunteers September 2017

We are Ohio State University Extension trained volunteers empowered to educate others with timely research-based gardening information.

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Continuing Education in Review

August 9, 2017, MGVs spent the evening touring one of Ohio’s earliest prairie land restoration projects, The Brother Don Geiger Prairie at Mount St. John. Seeded in 1986 on a highway construction borrow pit, today the prairie is a thriving community of prairie forbs and grasses that support diverse populations of pollinators. The tour focused on plant identification skills and how to use drought-tolerant prairie plants in ecologically-beneficial landscaping projects. (2.0 CEUs for MGVs)

Above and Right Photos: Learning plant identification skills while walking in the prairie at Brother Don Geiger Prairie

Photos courtesy of Gail Carone

Bottom Photos: Tree Hazard Identification at Woodland

Cemetery and Arboretum

“Basics of Tree Hazard Identification” program was conducted by Mark Webber, Board-Certified Master Arborist at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum on August 17

th. His presentation explains how tree defects can create dangerous

conditions that are foreseeable and preventable. (1.5 CEUs for MGVs)

Founded in 1841, Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum is one of the nation’s oldest rural garden cemeteries and a unique cultural, botanical and educational resource in the heart of Dayton. There are over 3,000 trees and 165

specimens of native Midwest woody plants on 200 acres.

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“News You Can Use” Committee Reports

Nominating Committee

Hello Fellow Master Gardener Volunteers,

The nominating committee is working to fill our slate of nominees for open board positions and we need your help! In order to stabilize the board, our four officers have chosen to serve an additional year in their current positions. This includes Janet Hickey as President, Donna Zobrist as Vice President, Carol Williams as Secretary, and Joyce Zech as Treasurer. We would also like to add the position of Assistant Treasurer and, hopefully, fill this position with someone who has a financial background. This means that we will be electing committee chairpersons this year. We have found that most committees function best with co-chairs, allowing two people to share ideas and responsibilities. We have a smaller organization than we did a few years ago and we are struggling to fill these spots.

Would you think about helping us?

Our leadership for the program committee is covered, but the committee welcomes new members to work alongside the experienced members who sit on this committee. We really want those excellent continuing education programs to continue! We also have an open position for Historian. This spot has been vacant for a couple of years and would be ideal for someone who wants to remain an active volunteer, but is no longer able to participate physically at the same level they once did.

Please contact one of us if you have questions or if you want to say “Yes!”, but need a little

encouragement.

Donna Zobrist donna45425@yahoo.com (937) 233-3481

Joan Lumpkin joan.lumpkin@gmail.com

Bob Neff mneff1@woh.rr.com

Recent photos of project site gardens maintained by Montgomery County MGVs

Above and Left Photos: Montgomery County Fairgrounds, Dayton, Ohio Bottom Photos: McEwen Road (left) and Paragon Road (right), Washington Township, Ohio

Photos courtesy of Gail Carone

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Montgomery Co. Master Gardener Volunteer Program

2 p.m. Executive Committee mtg. Director's Room

2 p.m. Program Committee mtg. Carousel Room

1:30 p.m. Volunteer Support Committee mtg.TBA

CONT.EDUC.

Jenny Rose Carey - Shade

Gardening & Xeriscaping Gardening

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Walnut Grove Country Club Dayton, Ohio

9:00-12:00 noon - VA Grotto

9:00-12:00 noon - VA Grotto

9:00-12:00 noon - VA Grotto

9:00-12:00 noon - VA Grotto

GMCMGA Quarterly

Gen. Mem. Meeting 7 p.m.

Carousel Room

CONT.EDUC.

Solomon Gamboa - Creating

Ecologically Productive &

Edible Landscapes w/ Native Plants

10 a.m. Cox Arboretum

Autumn Begins

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION

OSUE Office closed

2017 Ohio MGV

Conference

OSU Campus

Columbus,

Ohio

Ohio 4H Center