Online Plant Reference
Retired Extension Horticulturist, Thomas E. Pope, PhD, and colleague, Neil Odenwald, PhD, retired head of School of Landcape Architure at LSU, spent several years making digital images of plants for the home garden.
These were made over the entire country -- Florida to Washington and Maine to California.
With endless hours of work, this has now evolved into a NATIONAL plant data base launched on the internet April 22, 2008:
There are over 8,000 images online at present and more than 2,000 waiting to be added. Approximately 2800 plant species are represented at this time with extensive cultural information on each. All is FREE
to any person registering on the site
In developing this, Master Gardeners were one of prime audiences targeted. This site is very user friendly and has extensive search features.
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Las Vegas International Master
Gardener Conference
"New Frontiers" in horticulture and gardening
March 22-29, 2009
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West Virginia Master Gardener Conference
May 1-3, 2009
Morgantown, West Virginia
The 2009 Annual Master Gardener Conference brochure and registration information is available at http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/hortcult/master/
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WV Master Gardener Conference Poster Sale
Linoleum block prints which are signed and numbered by the artist, Jon Raedeke. Limited quanitites available.
Click HERE for previews of the prints and for ordering information.
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Kanawha County Library Book Program
In June 1999 a committee formed to select gardening books, videos and CDs to contribute to the Kanawha County and South Charleston public libraries. KCMGA approved, by vote of the membership, spending $1500 for the purchase of these materials and a committee was formed to coordinate the purchase with the library system. Purchases were made in September of 1999, September of 2000 and again in 2001.
A complete article on the history of the book program may be found in our online Winter, 2001Garden Gate. The following list has been updated to include all purchases (books with an * are the most recent additions and are at the bottom of the Kanawha County list).
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Important Fact Sheets & Links to Invasives
from WVDA (WV Dept Agriculture)
Quarterly KCMGA meeting
May 12, 2009, 6:00 at Coonskin Park . It will have a CE component at the meeting.
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Want to become a Master Gardener?
A new Master Gardeners Course will start in March
Anyone wanting to take the class can sign up by calling John Porter at the Extension Service at 768-1202.
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West Virginia Extension Services Named New Agriculture Agent
West Virginia Extension Service would like to announce that we have a new Agriculture Agent. His name is John Porter and he graduated from Marshall University in
2004 with a B.S. in Biology. He continued his education and graduated in 2008 from WVU with a Masters in Science in Horticulture. His professional experience includes being a graduated research assistant and working for the Corporation for National and Community Service. He is from Wayne County and we are really excited to welcome him. John is not a newcomer to the MG program, having completed the Master Gardener
class in Wayne County and then transferring his membership to Monongalia County while he was a
student at WVU.
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Saturday, April 18, 2009, 8:30am - 2:30pm
Workshops and exhibitors to help you with your gardens. http://www.wvculture.org/museum/2009gardenfest.doc
Workshops free to attend
Vendors will have items for sale and lunch will be available for purchase
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This is a newsletter for those interested in orchards and/or growing tree fruits.
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Deadline for all participants in the 2007 MG classes (Spring
and Fall) to turn in hours for certification is 4/15/09.
Contact John Porter (768-1202) if they need assistance in this matter.
