Master Gardener Speakers Bureau
Speakers Bureau
Presentations
How to Install a Rain
Garden in Your Home shows how a rain garden
can be incorporated into the landscape in a natural
and attractive design suitable for residential
applications. Rain gardens are
highly effective in removing pollutants from runoff
and in recharging groundwater. A
typical residential-size rain garden can treat and
recharge 25,000 gallons of water per year!
Learn how to plan, from selecting the site
and the design calculations, as well as install and
maintain a home rain garden.
Healthy Happy Houseplants
highlights how to select the best indoor
plants. Step-by-step
instructions, with numerous examples, in how to
obtain healthy plants selected to match the
lighting, humidity, and temperature levels typically
found in homes. Choosing the
right pot and potting mix for the plant. Knowing the
plants needs for water and fertilizer.
Learn how to quickly identify and solve
indoor plant problems.
IP M Strategies for
Wildlife Management guides homeowners in how
to identify the species causing damage and how to
develop a safe (and legal!) management plan
emphasizing the tenets of Integrated Pest
Management. White-tailed deer are
covered in depth with strategies ranging from
fencing and repellent options to resistant plants
for various sites. All of the
critters that sometimes plague homeowners are
covered, from rabbits, squirrels, and skunks to
bats, rats, and Canadian geese.
Learn strategies to prevent and minimize encounters
with wildlife pests.
Household Pests and
Nuisances explains how to identify and
manage pests, those insects and other arthropods
that cause damage or injury to homes, their contents
or inhabitants, and nuisances, those insects and
other arthropods that simply bother people.
From ants to wasps, this presentation shows
homeowners how to prevent or control these home
invaders safely and effectively.