PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Master Gardeners will present a garden planning calendar in the final Brown Bag series lecture of the season at noon next Thursday.
Amanda Rosenberg, Tanya Unruh, Muriel Nesbitt and Jan Danford will present a year’s growing season from seed start to putting the garden to bed in the county commissioners meeting room — Room 160 — at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
They will share seasonal gardening tips outlined by Master Gardener publications and other published articles.
A calendar will be distributed for home gardeners to plan their 2016 gardening seasons.
Rosenberg will discuss winter dormant and bare root plant care, seed selection and starts, and provide a demonstration of creating seed tapes.
A Master Gardener since 2008, Rosenberg is a member of the education committee. She shares the 2014 Master Gardener of the Year Award with Audreen Williams.
She co-chairs the Master Gardener Youth Enrichment Program and volunteers with the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula garden club.
Unruh will review spring planting tasks, including preparing seedlings for transplanting outdoors. She also will provide tips for growing iris varieties.
A Master Gardener since, 2013, her home was one of seven Sequim gardens featured on the 2015 Petals and Pathways garden tour. She coordinates the speakers for the Soroptimist Garden Gala.
Nesbitt will discuss summer and harvest-time garden maintenance and provide advice about planting times, varieties and conditions for harvest throughout the winter and into spring.
Nesbitt, who earned a doctorate in genetics from the University of Washington, retired from teaching biology at the University of California San Diego.
She directed the Clallam County Master Gardener program from 2009 to 2012, chairs the Master Gardener Education Committee and frequently provides training on gardening on the Olympic Peninsula.
Danford will share fall gardening tips preparing garden beds for the winter. She will highlight bulb planting, both outdoor bulbs that will bloom in spring and indoor forced amaryllis and paper whites that add color for the holidays.
The 2014 Master Gardener Intern of the year, Danford volunteers at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden and Youth Enrichment Program and heads the master gardener effort at the Boys & Girls Clubs.
The 2016 Green Thumb Garden Tips Brown Bag series will begin Jan. 28 with a presentation on orchard pruning by Gordon Clark.
For more information, call 360-417-2279.
