UPCOMING EVENTS & WEBINARS with MELINDA:

Jan. 28, 2026
FREE WEBINAR: Past, Present & Future of Mitchell Park and its Conservatory, the Domes

6:30 PM CT - The Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, also known as the Domes, is a one-of-a-kind horticultural oasis. It features three dome-like structures housing over 1,800 permanent plant species from around the world and several changing floral exhibits throughout the year. Not to mention it’s a mathematical marvel of mid-century architecture. Join Christa Beall Diefenbach, Chief Executive Officer for the Milwaukee Domes Alliance, for an overview of the conservatory’s past, present and big plans for the future. Horticulturist and author Melinda Myers will follow with some insights and highlights of some of the unique plants and collections. 

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Hosted by:  Milwaukee Public Library

Feb. 13-15, 2026
PBS Wisconsin Garden & Green Living Expo

Feb. 13 at 4PM – Mendota 1-2
Grow Your Best Tomatoes Yet with Melinda Myers
Whether you’re growing tomatoes in the ground or in containers, Melinda will share some new and tried-and-true varieties for better harvest, taste and pest management. She’ll discuss planting, training and care as well as a few tips and tricks to boost your success, whether you’re a new or experienced gardener. Plus, she’ll share ways to avoid, and if needed, manage insect and disease problems that commonly plague tomatoes.

Feb. 14 at 2:15PM – Mendota 1-2
Grow an Attractive and Edible Landscape with Melinda Myers
sponsored by Diggers Hotline
Increase the nutritional value and beauty of your landscape by incorporating attractive fruits and vegetables into the plan. Melinda will share ways to substitute edible plants for more traditional landscapes. Plus she’ll review ornamental plants that also provide edible fruit to use fresh, in jellies and in baked goods.

Feb. 15 at 12:45PM – Mendota 1-2
Indoor Plants for Every Room in Your Home with Melinda Myers
Add greenery throughout your home by matching the plants you select to the growing conditions found throughout your home. Grow moisture and humidity lovers in the bathroom, herbs and greens in the kitchen, floor plants in your living spaces, and colorful houseplants where sunlight and space allow. Use houseplants as living artwork and décor while creating an appealing atmosphere for you and your guests.

Venue:   Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI 

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Feb. 18, 2026
FREE WEBINAR: Plants that Go the Distance

6:30 PM CT - Extreme heat, drought, fluctuating temperatures and wind add challenges to the way we garden. Melinda will discuss plants that tolerate these extremes yet continue to look their best. She’ll include some traditional favorites and new cultivars of plants you will want to add to your gardens and containers. Plus, tips for keeping them healthy and looking their best.

The webinar is free, but registration is required.

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February 25, 2026
Flowering Houseplants

6:30PM CT - Take your indoor garden to the next level with flowering houseplants. Melinda will cover a variety of plants from some of the easiest to those that can be a bit more challenging to grow. We will discuss proper care and strategies to promote flowering.  Plus, she’ll share tips for managing any common insect pests and diseases that may attack these plants.

The webinar is free, but registration is required.

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March 5, 2026
Start New Plants from Seeds, Cuttings and More

Expand your indoor and outdoor plant collection without breaking the budget. Melinda will share several propagation methods suitable for various plants growing indoors or outside. Taking cuttings, layering, and division are just a few of the techniques she’ll cover. Plus, she’ll share tips to help increase your success when expanding your plant collection.

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March 11, 2026
Save Money & Boost Your Growing Success with Bare Root Plants

6:30PM CT - Save money this season by including bare root perennials in your gardening plans. These plants are dormant or just waking up from dormancy and shipped to you without soil and a pot. Melinda will provide tips on caring for bare root perennials from when they arrive at your home, to planting and post planting care. She will cover some of the easiest perennials to start from bare root plants and their preferred growing conditions to help boost your confidence and success.

The webinar is free, but registration is required.

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March 18, 2026
Patio, Deck and Balcony Gardens

6:30PM CT - Learn how to combine plants, furnishings and accessories to create an entertainment space, retreat or area for relaxation on your patio, deck or balcony. Melinda will cover specific plants suited to growing in containers and these small spaces. Plus, she’ll share ways to use plants to create privacy, screen bad views, provide shade and attract pollinators.  Strategies for dealing with mosquitoes so you can better enjoy these outdoor spaces will also be discussed.

The webinar is free, but registration is required.

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March 26, 2026
Getting Started Growing Vegetable and Flower Gardens

6:30PM CT - Starting your first or even your second garden can be overwhelming. Melinda will cover the basics to help you get off to a great start this garden season. There will be tips on designing the garden, preparing the soil, as well as planting seeds and plants. As always, there will be time at the end of the webinar to answer your questions.

The webinar is free, but registration is required.

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Fall Landscape Planting & Care

Keep pollinators in mind as you manage fall leaves, prune shrubs, and clean up and prepare your landscape for winter.  Fall is also a great time to add trees, shrubs, and perennials to your landscape. Melinda will share tips for taking care of your new and established native and non-native plants, flowerbeds, rain gardens, and lawns. She’ll cover proper watering, fertilization, winterization, and protection from wildlife to get them through our challenging winters and ready for an eye-catching spring display!

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Attracting Hummingbirds

Invite these beautiful pollinators to your landscape by growing a few of their favorite flowers. Add one or more feeders and don’t forget the water.  Gardening expert and author Melinda Myers will cover a variety of hummingbird-favorite shrubs and flowers to include in your gardens and containers. Plus, we’ll discuss tips for filling, cleaning, and placing feeders in the landscape to support and keep them safe.
 

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7 Steps to Managing Water on Your Property

Put the water that falls in your yard to work, supporting the plants in your landscape while helping to reduce the risk of sewer backups, basement flooding, and sewer overflows. Develop a water management strategy that works for you by implementing some or all seven steps we’ll discuss. These include improving the soil, maintaining a healthy landscape, installing rain barrels, creating rain gardens, planting trees, adding native plants to your gardens, and growing a water-friendly lawn.

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Please note: This webinar does not include the option of receiving a free rain barrel. To find out about the next rain barrel workshop and other ways you can protect our waterways sign up for the Fresh Coast Newsletter.

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Vertical Gardening

Save space, screen bad views, and create privacy by growing vertically. We’ll discuss fun, affordable, and attractive ways to use this gardening technique to incorporate flowers and edibles into your landscape and container gardens. Gardening expert and author Melinda Myers will share ways vertical gardening can help reduce energy use by shading air conditioners, walls, and outdoor seating. 

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Reinvigorate Your Rain Garden

Keeping up any garden, including low-maintenance rain gardens requires some effort. Weeds move in, plants outgrow their space and some desirable plants die.  Add to this the challenge of maintaining the area around the garden and keeping the water flowing from the roof, walks, and lawn to the garden. Melinda will share ways to manage these challenges to help you create an attractive garden that helps manage the water that falls in your yard.

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Additional Information - Thanks for joining us for Reinvigorating Your Rain Garden. I promised to follow up with some more information. Here are a couple links you may find helpful for attracting bats to your landscape:

• How to Attract Bats to Your Backyard
• Not Just the Birds and Bees:  6 Fast Facts About Pollinating Bats

I mentioned the Oudolf Garden on Belle Isle in Detroit, MI.  They have virtual lectures, so even if you can’t visit the garden, you can enjoy their beauty and learn more.

Lastly, here is some information on using trees and shrubs in rain gardens.

The webinar is underwritten MMSD and Fresh Coast Guardians and
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Container Gardens for Sun and Shade

Container gardens add color and seasonal interest to balconies, patios, decks, and even your front entrance. No matter where they’re placed, matching the plants to the available sunlight will help boost success.  Gardening expert and author Melinda Myers will share container plant combinations for both sun-filled and shady locations. Plus, she’ll provide tips on the proper care to keep them looking good all season long.

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Rain Garden Q & A

Whether you’re a new or an experienced gardener, every growing season and gardening endeavor generates questions. If you’ve planted a rain garden, you are likely to have questions you encountered along the way. If you’ll be planting your first rain garden, you’re bound to have some general and specific questions as you get started. Join me and others to tackle some of the common questions and concerns. 

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Succession Planting & Crop Rotation

Maximize your harvest and reduce the risk of insect pests and disease by rotating plantings and making multiple plantings throughout the growing season. Melinda will share recommendations for spring through fall vegetable selections, planting dates, and seasonal care. In addition, she’ll discuss ways to adapt your garden layout from season to season and year to year to help minimize pest problems and boost growing success.

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Be a Waterwise Gardener

Too much or not enough water and never at the right time. This seems to be the complaint of every gardener. We’ll take an in-depth look at ways to minimize water use, keep water where it falls, and efficient ways to water plants when needed. Gardening expert and author Melinda Myers will provide an in-depth look at many of the drought-tolerant plants and ways to manage those that need a bit more moisture. Melinda will share the benefits of incorporating rain barrels and rain gardens into your landscape and using drip and clay pot irrigation and other water-efficient devices. You'll learn how to manage this precious resource as you grow a beautiful landscape.

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Grow Pollinator-friendly Spring and Summer Flowering Bulbs

Spring flowering bulbs like grape hyacinths, crocus, daffodils, hyacinths and alliums provide welcome color and food for pollinators in our late winter and spring gardens. Keep the beauty going throughout the summer and into fall with summer bloomers like gladiolas, hardy lilies, cannas and dahlias.  We’ll discuss the best bulbs for your growing conditions, tips on keeping them looking their best, and methods for overwintering those that are not hardy in your area.

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How to Select Rain Garden Plants

Selecting the right plant for the growing conditions is always an important step when planning and planting a garden. It is even more critical when it comes to raingardens. Melinda Myers will cover a variety of native rain garden plants from short to tall, those for the sun, a few for the shade, and some non-native plants you may want to include. She will help you plan a garden filled with color and interest throughout the year as well as suggest plants that attract pollinators and support songbirds. 

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Create a Beautiful Shade Garden

Don’t let limited sunlight stop you from growing a beautiful garden. Melinda will share a variety of shade-tolerant annuals, perennials, and shrubs to brighten those shady spots with color, texture, seasonal interest, and pollinator appeal. Learn about new introductions and traditional shade garden favorites.  

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Strategies for Managing Invasive Plants

Managing invasive plants on your property can be overwhelming. We will discuss various strategies to help you manage these unwanted plants. Preventing their introduction into your landscape is the best place to start. Then slow the spread of those present by cutting back the plants or mowing at key times to prevent reseeding. Removing unwanted plants through manual, mechanical, and if needed chemical means and proper disposal will also be covered.  

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Organic Insect Pest Management for Vegetable and Flower Gardens

Grow beautiful and productive gardens with your health, pollinators, wildlife, and the environment in mind. Melinda will cover strategies for helping you reduce the risk of insect problems by working with nature, selecting the right plants for your garden, and providing proper care. Then she’ll cover organic strategies to help you manage problems when they arise.

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Fall Landscape Planting and Care

 Fall is a great time to add trees, shrubs, and perennials to your landscape and prepare it for the winter and spring ahead. Keep pollinators in mind as you manage fall leaves, prune shrubs, and clean up your landscape for winter.  Melinda will share tips for taking care of your new and established native and non-native plants, flowerbeds, rain gardens, and lawns. She’ll cover proper watering, fertilization, winterization, and protection from wildlife to get them through our challenging winters and ready for an eye-catching spring display!

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Underappreciated Pollinators

The plight of honeybees and monarchs fill the news but many more pollinators are often overlooked yet critical to the production of food, fiber and other raw materials we depend upon. Native bees, moths, bats, beetles, flies, and birds are also important. We will look at a variety of pollinators, their role in the environment, and their impact on people. Plus, we will discuss ways to co-exist with these often overlooked and sometimes feared or dreaded animals. 

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES related to questions addressed during the Q&A session:

• Insight into Mosquito Repelling Plants plus more mosquito-repelling plant info:
  • Plants that Repel Mosquitoes
  • Mosquito Control: Separating Fact From Fiction
• PJ Lesch's insight on the impact of using mosquito sprays in the yard:
  • Do mosquito yard sprays harm other insects?
  • Do Mosquito Control Treatments Also Impact Birds, Bees and Waterways?
• Cicadas, Black Flies, Mosquitoes and More: Wisconsin's Summer Bug Forecast
• Insights from the National Wildlife Federation:
  • What You Need to Know Before Spraying for Mosquitoes
• Information about Mosquito Beater
  • It is an organic product with the same active ingredient as Mosquito Dunks that only kills the larvae of mosquitoes, black flies, and fungus gnats. Therefore, it is not harmful to other insects or wildlife. It is used in water to kill mosquito larvae but does not kill the existing adult mosquitoes.
• Making and Caring for a Bee House Video 
• Making and Caring for a Bee House Activity Sheet 

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How to Plant Your Rain Garden  

You’ve selected the location, purchased your plants and now you are ready to start planting. We’ll take a step-by-step approach to make this process as easy as possible. We’ll discuss finetuning the garden design, preparing the planting bed, and setting the plants in place for an attractive display. Melinda will cover the care your new plants will need during their first summer, ensuring they establish a deep, drought-tolerant root system that will serve them well in the seasons ahead.  Fortunately, a properly planned and planted rain garden provides many benefits with minimal maintenance.

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Ornamental Fruits and Vegetables

Increase the nutritional value and beauty of your landscape by incorporating attractive fruits and vegetables into your landscape, garden beds, and containers.  Growing varieties that are both ornamental and productive increases the opportunities for creating a beautiful space right outside your door. We will look at new and proven fruit and vegetable varieties suited to both gardens and containers.  

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Seven Steps to Managing Water Where It Falls in Your Yard 

Learn how to manage water in your backyard to support the plants in your landscape and help reduce the risk of sewer backups, basement flooding, and sewer overflows. Develop a strategy that works best for you by implementing some or all of these seven steps. These include improving the soil, maintaining a healthy landscape, installing rain barrels, creating rain gardens, planting trees, adding native plants to the landscape, and growing a water-friendly lawn.

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Container Gardening Throughout the Year 

Use container gardens to boost the color and seasonal interest in any size landscape, garden, balcony, or deck.  With your budget in mind, we will explore attractive combinations of trees, shrubs, flowers, edible plants, and those that attract pollinators. Plus, you’ll learn strategies for extending your enjoyment year-round by transforming all or a portion of the container planting with the changing seasons. 

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How to Start a Garden for Beginners

Starting a new garden or renovating one you inherited can be overwhelming. Breaking down the planning and implementation into smaller steps can help reduce the anxiety and get you started. We will look at evaluating the site, preparing the soil, and selecting plants to create the garden you desire.

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Maximize the Beauty and Your Enjoyment in Any Small Space 

Learn how to combine plants, furnishings, and accessories to create an entertainment space, retreat, or area for relaxation within your landscape. We’ll explore strategies for maximizing the beauty and enjoyment no matter the size and location of the space. All to help you when dealing with small outdoor spaces, dressing up a patio, deck or balcony or trying to create a garden room within your landscape.

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How to Select Rain Garden Plants

Selecting the right plant for the growing conditions is always an important step when planning and planting a garden. It is even more critical when it comes to rain gardens. Melinda will cover a variety of native rain garden plants from short to tall, those for the sun, a few for the shade, and a few non-native plants you may want to include. She will help you plan for color and interest throughout the year as well as suggest plants that will attract pollinators and support songbirds. 

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Hydrangea Selection, Pruning & Care

So many choices and not enough space.  Fortunately, there is a hydrangea for every garden and even containers. Melinda will help you find the best hydrangea for your growing conditions, landscape design, and growing goals. Plus, she’ll cover planting, ongoing care, and pruning for each type of hydrangea.

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Growing Summer Bulbs in Containers

Add unexpected beauty to your patio, deck, or balcony with summer-blooming bulbs. Elephant ears, lilies, dahlias, gladiolus, and caladiums make great additions to container gardens. Some summer bulbs grow even better in pots than they do in the garden. These include the exotic-looking flowers of Abyssinian gladiolus, calla lilies, pineapple lilies, and spider lilies. We will cover tips for growing these summer flowering bulbs in containers, ways to display them, attractive combinations and needed maintenance.

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How to Plan Your Rain Garden

Like any gardening endeavor, planting a rain garden starts with a plan.  Gardening expert Melinda Myers walks you through the step-by-step process of planning your rain garden. It starts with selecting the best location and then determining the shape and size. Tips for maximizing beauty and pollinator appeal as well as minimizing short- and long-term maintenance will be part of the planning process.

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Create a Beautiful Landscape Free of Invasive Plants

Melinda will discuss key invasive plants in Wisconsin, share tips on identification, provide ways to control some of the more common problem plants, and suggest alternative plants for your landscape.  We hope you can join Melinda to learn more about this important issue.  The webinar is free but registration is required.

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Winter Pest Management

Insect pests spend their winters in different locations and in different stages of development. Some may overwinter as adults, others in their immature stage as grubs, caterpillars, or nymphs or in the pupal stage like a chrysalis or cocoon. Understanding their lifecycle and location can help us support beneficial insects while managing problem insect pests. We will explore ways to work with nature and how we can intercede now, when needed, to manage these pests.  

Sponsored by Summit Responsible Solutions makers of Year-Round Spray Oil (YRSO). When it is used as a dormant treatment once it is dry it won’t cause damage if the temperatures drop below 40 degrees F after treatment. It is a lighter weight, more highly refined oil, unlike true dormant oils that require the temperatures to remain above 40 degrees for 24 to 48 hours after application. As always read and follow label directions of any product you decide to use.

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Tips & Strategies for Helping Gardeners Create a Landscape Free of Invasive Plants

Attention Master Gardeners, Master Naturalists, Garden Club Members and others advising home gardeners; this webinar is for you!  Join Melinda Myers and representatives from UWMADEXT and DNR to talk about current invasive species concerns, available resources, and ways we can all work together to manage invasive plants in Wisconsin. The webinar is free but registration is required.

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Fall Garden & Landscape Care

Fall is a great time to prepare your gardens and lawn for the winter and ready for an eye-catching spring display. Melinda will share eco-friendly tips for taking care of new and established native and non-native plants, flowerbeds, mixed borders, rain gardens and lawns. She will cover fall watering and fertilization as well as tips for protecting plants from challenging winter weather and wildlife damage.  This approach to sustainable fall landscape care also includes tips for attracting and supporting songbirds and providing homes for overwintering pollinators and other beneficial insects.

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Fall is for Planning and Planting an Energy-Saving Landscape

Beauty and energy savings can go hand in hand. Select the right plants and place them in the best location to help reduce energy use. We will explore strategies for small space lots and larger properties so you can start implementing your own energy-saving landscape design.

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Gardening in a Changing Climate

Extreme heat, drought, floods, fluctuating temperatures and wind add challenges to the way we garden. Let’s talk about plants better suited to our changing climate and strategies for helping our gardens thrive in these changing times.

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Growing a Bountiful Harvest even when Time, Space & Budget are Limited

Learn some tips and strategies that will help you harvest the most produce out of your garden. Whether you have a dedicated garden or squeeze fruits, vegetables, and herbs in your landscape wherever space allows, we will help you grow lots of produce no matter your limitations. We will explore products and plant varieties as well as planting and harvesting techniques to help increase your vegetable gardening success!

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What’s New – Discover New & Unique Plants!

Ebert’s Greenhouse Village is known for offering new and unique plants. Get a sneak peek into this year’s new offerings. Melinda will provide selection and care information on some of these new plants plus provide ways you can include them in your garden and landscape this season.

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Understanding Gardening Basics to Boost Your Gardening Success

Gardening is a wonderful way to grow your own food and a beautiful landscape. But the thought of purchasing and growing plants during the first few years can be daunting. We will review terminology and provide tips on selecting the right type of plant for your growing conditions and gardening goals. Then we will look for low-maintenance ways to keep your garden healthy, productive, and beautiful.

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In a Pot, You Can Grow A lot!

It’s true; you can grow just about any plant or combination of plants in a container. Whether it’s fruits and vegetables, herbs, flowers, or trees and shrubs, we will look at ways to combine them into attractive gardens. Melinda will provide tips on plant selection and combinations that work. Plus, she’ll share tips for keeping them looking their best and producing the most flowers and fruit.

In the webinar, you will see I like to mix ornamental non-edible plants with herbs, vegetables, and fruit to increase the beauty of containers. In this webinar, you will see examples of non-edibles like coleus, cuphea, pennisetum, ornamental grasses, dusty miller, euphorbia, and angelonia…mixed with edible plants. If in doubt, always check before eating anything in question. The same goes for those with curious pets and children. The ASPCA and the North Carolina State Extension are excellent resources.

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Planning, Planting, and Caring for Your Rain Garden

Rain Gardens are a beautiful way to reduce the risk of basement flooding, sewer overflows and water pollution. Melinda will provide tips on planning a rain garden, help you select the best plants and how to provide needed care.  This is just in time for you to create your plant list and order your rain garden plants at up to a 50% discount through the Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District rain garden plant sale.

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Create an Oasis on a Deck, Patio, or Balcony

Create an outdoor oasis on your patio, deck, or balcony. Whether it’s a space to escape, share with others, or entertain, we will look at ways to make it your space. We will look at plantings, container gardens, and other ways to screen unwanted views and create a sense of privacy. Then, we’ll fill your oasis with sounds, fragrant plants, and beauty to create the space of your dreams.

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Grow Your Own Flowers for Bouquets in Containers, Raised Beds, and Gardens

Picking flowers from your gardens and containers extends your enjoyment indoors. Whether looking for a few flowers to enjoy in a vase, share with friends, or as a centerpiece for parties, you can grow your own.  We will look at starting plants from seeds, bulbs, and transplants as well as exploring opportunities that may already be growing in your yard.

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Learn the Basics on How and When to Prune Shrubs

Pruning paranoia is common among gardeners, but once you understand the basics you will make better pruning decisions in less time and with much less stress. We will cover a variety of shrubs commonly found in the landscape. Melinda will also share information on what and when to prune shrubs for their health and maximum beauty. 

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Grow Beautiful Water Gardens Free of Invasive Plants 

Don’t let their beauty fool you. Aquatic invasive plants escape our gardens and landscapes invading natural spaces, disrupting habitats, and diminishing water quality. Some of these plants were added in the past before we became aware of their invasive nature and negative impact on the environment. Others are being sold illegally online and purchased by unsuspecting gardeners. Learn to identify the top aquatic invasive plants and ways to manage the problem in your garden and nearby natural spaces.

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10 Tips for Growing Better Dahlias

Take the mystery out of growing dahlias with these ten tips. Increasing growing success and flowering starts with proper planting. Follow this with staking, pinching, pruning and routine flower care for beautiful blooms to enjoy in the garden and bouquets. Dahlias require a little more time and attention than many other flowering plants but your efforts will be rewarded with a bounty of beautiful blooms and a sense of accomplishment. 

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Indoor Container Garden Design and Display Ideas

Elevate your indoor garden with striking and seasonal indoor container combinations. We plan and plant outdoor containers to maximize their beauty and often overlook the opportunity to do the same with our houseplants. Designing and care of terrariums, dish gardens and other container combinations will be covered. Then we’ll explore ways to display them to maximize their visual appeal and longevity.

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Webinar:  How to Plant a Rain Garden

You’ve selected the location, purchased your plants and now you are ready to start planting. We’ll take a step-by-step approach to make this process as easy as possible. We’ll discuss fine-tuning the garden design, preparing the planting bed, and setting the plants in place for an attractive display. Once in the ground, you’ll need to provide your plants a bit of TLC the first few years as they develop a deep, drought-tolerant root system. Once established, you’ll enjoy the many benefits with minimal maintenance.

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Food Gardening in Containers

Bring the garden to your back door, balcony or deck. Whether gardening in a small or large lot, keep your favorite herbs and vegetables close by. You’ll benefit from the easy access when cooking and your guests will enjoy harvesting a few of their own herbs to spice up their meals and drinks. Melinda will share some of her favorite edibles to grow in containers. Plus, she’ll cover planting and care tips to maximize your harvest.

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Jump Start Your Season and Protect Your Plants

Shopping early ensures the greatest selection of plants, but it isn’t always the best time to plant. Learn what flowers and vegetables you can plant in the cooler, often unpredictable spring weather. Then keep those warm weather favorites like tomatoes, impatiens, and coleus safe until the conditions are right for them to stand on their own in the garden. Melinda will cover tips for protecting plants from the cold and helping them transition into the garden or planter.

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Fragrant Plants Sure to Elevate Your Mood & Garden Enjoyment

Plant a bit of aromatherapy to elevate your mood and bring back fond memories from your past. Look for opportunities to include fragrant plants in all areas of the landscape. Include a variety of trees, shrubs and flowers that provide fragrance throughout the year.

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Managing Water on Your Property

Reduce maintenance and improve the health and beauty of your lawn and landscape by implementing stormwater-friendly strategies. We’ll cover steps to help capture rainwater by improving the soil, utilizing rain barrels and planting rain gardens. Adding trees, growing more native plants, and improving the health of your lawn also help keep water on your property and out of storm sewers. All these strategies put rainwater to work for your plants while helping reduce the risk of basement flooding and overflow of storm sewers.

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Growing Nutritious Herbs & Vegetables in a Garden or Container

Add nutrition and beauty to your landscape by incorporating attractive and tasty fruits and vegetables. Tips on creating a kitchen garden, containers filled with edible plants or mixing fruits and vegetables into your more traditional plantings will be discussed. Melinda will also provide design, planting, and care tips for popular vegetables. Plus, she’ll feature new varieties with extra ornamental appeal!

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All About Houseplants

Add a bit of greenery and color to your home’s décor while improving your indoor air quality and elevating your mood. Whether you’re new to indoor gardening or considering giving it another try, Melinda will help you select the right plants for your indoor growing conditions, interior design, and busy schedule. She’ll provide tips on watering, fertilizing, transplanting and more to keep your indoor plants looking their best. 

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Gardening to Attract Birds

Create a beautiful garden to attract birds and for you to enjoy. Incorporate trees, shrubs and flowers that provide color, form and texture throughout the year and support our winged friends. Provide water and increase the diversity of visitors by adding feeders and bird houses. You'll enjoy their songs and colorful plumage and appreciate their help managing garden pests. 

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How to Select Rain Garden Plants

Selecting the right plant for the growing conditions is always an important step when planning and planting a garden. It is even more critical when it comes to rain gardens. Melinda will cover a variety of raingarden plants from short to tall, for sun and a few for the shade. She will help you plan for color and interest throughout the year as well as select plants that attract pollinators and support songbirds. 

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Taking Your Veggie Garden to the Next Level

Your vegetable gardening efforts have been rewarding but you are ready to employ new strategies to boost your harvest and enjoyment. Melinda will cover various strategies, share new productive varieties, and provide space saving tips that will take your vegetable garden to the next level. Tips on how you can plant earlier, harvest later and maximize the harvest throughout the season will also be discussed. 

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How to Plan Your Rain Garden

Like any gardening endeavor, planting a rain garden starts with a plan. Melinda will walk you through the step-by-step process of planning your rain garden. It starts with selecting the best location then determining the shape and size. Tips for maximizing beauty and pollinator appeal as well as minimizing short- and long-term maintenance will be part of the planning process.  

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Dahlias - Proven Performers!

Dahlias are versatile plants that fill summer and fall gardens with an abundance of flowers. But the many colors, sizes and shapes available can make it difficult to select the best ones for your garden and bouquets. We’ll discuss some of the easiest varieties to grow and enjoy as cut flowers. Plus, Melinda will cover new and traditional ways to include them in any size landscape, garden or container.

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Small Space Gardening

Whether gardening in a small space or on a large lot, Melinda will cover simple ideas for packing a lot of garden into the available space. She’ll provide strategies on creating an intimate outdoor garden room.  Melinda will also share tips and techniques for designing and maintaining gardens with year-round interest in every layer from the ground to the roofline.

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Gardening for Wildlife

Create a garden you, birds, toads, frogs, and other wildlife can enjoy. We’ll discuss design and management strategies that will help you support and enjoy wildlife, care for your landscape, and improve your quality of life. Finding ways to coexist is critical for wildlife struggling to survive and our enjoyment of nature and our landscapes.

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Colorful Houseplants 

Brighten your indoor garden with colorful foliage and flowers. Whether it’s the colorful splashes, stripes or spots of these beauties, you’ll enjoy the year round beauty colorful houseplants provide. Supplement these with flowering houseplants for some seasonal delight. Melinda will share some of her favorite varieties and provide tips for selection and care to keep them looking their best.

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Top Plants for Rain Gardens, Water Gardens, Shoreline Gardens & Those to Avoid

Selecting the right plant for the growing conditions is just as important when planning your rain gardens, shoreline plantings and water gardens. We’ll cover the top plants to include in these types of gardens. Plus, a look at aggressive and invasive plants to avoid and tips on properly disposing of those found in existing gardens. You’ll save yourself a lot of work growing the right plant for these types of plantings as you create beautiful gardens and help protect our lakes and waterways.

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Kid & Pet-friendly Houseplants

You love them all; kids, pets and houseplants. Discover ways to enjoy them all under one roof. Melinda will cover plants that are safe to grow when kids and pets are in the house. She will also share tips on safely displaying them out of the reach of most pets and children. Then finish off the discussion with ideas for keeping your plants safe from curious, playful, and destructive pets. 

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Helpful Ideas for New Plant Parents

Just like any new adventure, gardening success is all about getting started. To ease some of your apprehension, Melinda will cover the basics to help you be successful growing plants in Wisconsin. She’ll provide pointers for selecting and planting annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs.  Practical soil preparation tips will help you create a healthy foundation for your plants. Then she’ll discuss how to keep them healthy with proper watering, fertilizing and care. And as always, there will be time for Melinda to answer your gardening questions.

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Tomatoes: Tips & Tricks to Maximize Your Harvest & Minimize Insect & Disease Problems

Whether your tomatoes are already in the ground or you are waiting to plant, we’ll help you grow your best harvest yet. Gardening expert Melinda Myers will share tips and tricks on planting, training and care so you maximize your harvest whether you’re growing tomatoes in gardens or containers. Plus, she’ll share ways to avoid, and if needed, manage insect and disease problems that plague tomatoes.

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How to Plan a Vegetable Garden

Plan now for your best garden yet. Whether its yourfirst, second or tenth garden Melinda will share strategies to help increase success and maximize your garden’s productivity. She’ll discuss everything from soil preparation, plant selection, planting, care and harvesting techniques toensure the best flavor and biggest harvest. Space saving techniques like succession plantings, interplanting and growing vertical will also be included.

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Getting Started Growing Vegetable & Flower Gardens

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Healthful Gardening: Grow Flavorful and Nutritional Herbs Indoors

Fight the winter blues and boost your winter meals flavor and nutrition with homegrown herbs. Plant a windowsill herb garden filled with your favorites.  Melinda will tell you how to start your garden from seeds or transplants. She’ll also share tips on proper care, harvesting and more.

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Healthful Gardening: Growing Nutritious and Flavorful Edibles Indoors

Bring your edible garden indoors for fresh, flavorful, and nutritious additions to your winter meals. Learn how to grow microgreens on the counter, herbs on your windowsill, and how about a few fresh limes and lemons?  These are all fun homegrown projects that will add flavor and nutrition to your meals, cocktails, and desserts. Melinda will also tell you how to convert kitchen scraps such as pineapple tops, avocado seeds, ginger root, and other edibles from kitchen scraps into indoor plants. Then once you have your list of edibles to grow indoors, she will share tips on how to successfully care for them and keep them producing. 

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