Seasoned gardeners, landscapers, and beginners become a part of the popular Food-to-Table movement at your own home. Learn valuable techniques and practical knowledge on how to cleverly incorporate fruits and vegetables that will harmoniously blend into your beautiful containers, gardens, and landscapes.
9:00 a.m. – Denise Schreiber: “Make your Garden Thrive in 2025″ From scrumptious recipes using edible flowers to myth-busting gardening and landscape practice, Denise provides an anthology of horticultural knowledge and experience. Whether you are remodeling your garden, looking for new triumphs or just beginning to garden, you will walk away enriched, entertained, and ready to grow!
Denise Schreiber is the retired horticulturist/grower for Allegheny County Parks in Pittsburgh. She is an All-America Selections Trial judge, a retired arborist, a national speaker, and freelance writer for Green Profit and Nursery Management magazines as well as several consumer magazines including the former Pennsylvania Gardener Magazine as the Ask the Expert. She is the author of Eat Your Roses, Pansies, Lavender and 49 Other Delicious Flowers. Denise is also a 4-H judge, and Mrs. Know it All of The Organic Gardener on KDKA radio.
11:45 a.m. – Melinda Myers: “Beautiful and Flavorful Container Gardens“
Grow beautiful container gardens filled with flowers, herbs, vegetables, and fruit plants. You’ll enjoy colorful flowers and fresh-from-the-garden flavor. New compact vegetable and fruit varieties make it possible for just about anyone, no matter where they live, to grow their favorite food. Growing these in pots allows you to enjoy the beauty and convenience of harvesting fresh produce right outside your door. Melinda will share attractive combinations and provide tips to maximize your harvest while keeping containers looking their best.
Melinda Myers has a master’s degree in horticulture, is a certified arborist, and was a horticulture instructor with tenure. Melinda is also a nationally known gardening expert, TV/radio host, author & columnist with over 30 years of horticulture experience and has written more than 20 gardening books, including, Small Space Gardening, Midwest Gardener’s Handbook, The Garden Book for Wisconsin, and Jackson and Perkins’ Beautiful Roses Made Easy. Melinda hosts the nationally syndicated “Melinda’s Garden Moment” TV and radio program and The Great Courses “How to Grow Anything.” She is a columnist and contributing editor for Birds & Blooms magazine and writes a regular column for The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Melinda hosted “The Plant Doctor” radio show, and the “Great Lakes Gardener” on PBS. She was a contributing editor for Backyard Living magazine, a columnist for Chicagoland Gardening and Wisconsin Gardening, and has written articles for Better Homes and Gardens and Fine Gardening. She has many other accolades to her credit.
Saturday, March 8, 8:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Community Room of the Fred M. Alger Center at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, 32 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe Farms.
Seminar Itinerary:
- 8:15 a.m. Check-in, coffee & pastries, and visit vendors.
- 9:00 a.m. Welcome & Introduction of the first speaker, Denise Schreiber on “Make Your Garden Thrive in 2025″ with follow-up Q & A session.
- 10:30 a.m. Buffet brunch (gluten-free and vegetarian available) and vendor shopping.
- 11:45 a.m. Introduction second speaker, Melinda Myers on Beautiful and Flavorful Container Gardens” followed with a Q & A session.
- 1:30 p.m. Wrap-up and final vendor shopping opportunity.
**Master Gardeners this seminar has been certified for 2 MSUE education hours.
Registration: Admission: Garden Center members, $85, non-members, $95, college students, $45. Payment by check, please download a registration form here. Please note, checks must be received by Wednesday, February 26. Payment online with Eventbrite closes on Wednesday, February 26 at 4:30 p.m. To register online, please click here.