Want to learn some basic landscaping principles for your yard? Want to turn your barren yard into a garden sanctuary? Want to know how to identify common mushrooms and where and when to find them?
You can at Christian County Master Gardener’s free public seminar 1-4 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Nixa Community Center.
Register by noon Feb. 6 for the seminar at the Missouri Extension office in Ozark at (417) 581-3558.
Tom Lakowske of Springfield will present “Creating a Garden Sanctuary,” using his own garden to illustrate basic landscape principles. Among the topics he will cover are building pathways, rooms, beds and borders, tricks to make a garden appear larger, six gazebo tips and adding WOW factor finishing touches.
Lakowske is a board member of Friends of the Garden, member of Master Gardeners of Greene County and president of the Greater Ozarks Hosta Society and contributing writer to Ozarks Living (formerly Greene Magazine) since its start. He designed and coordinated the renovation of the popular hosta garden at the Springfield Botanical Gardens in 2011. His website, www.swmogardens.com, is full of gardening tips and ideas, landscape designs, articles and games, a complete gardening calendar and a how-to series.
Dan Liles of Springfield will present “Common Edible Mushrooms and Their Poisonous Look-a-likes.” He will exam some of Missouri’s typical edible mushrooms and identify their poisonous cousins.
Liles is president of the Springfield chapter of the Missouri Mycological Society. When he’s not chasing mushrooms, he can be found birding with the Greater Ozarks Audubon Society.
For more information on the Christian County Master Gardeners, its demonstration garden at the OC in Ozark and its free public seminars, contact Jennifer Ailor at (417)581-4018. To become a Master Gardener, contact Dr. Gordon Carriker, University of Missouri Extension advisor to CCMG, at (417) 581-3558 to add your name to the list for the 2015 class in the fall.
Follow CCMG on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ChristianCountyMasterGardeners and visit the website at www.extension.missouri.edu/christian.
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