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Gardeners' Corner

Check out recommendations that can help your garden in any season. 

Spring Garden Calendar
Container and Raised Bed Gardening

FREE GARDENING PROGRAMS

Our education programs are held in the meeting room at Purdue Extension Lake County [2293 N. Main Street, Crown Point, IN  46307, Phone:  219-755-3240.] A wide variety of speakers offer monthly programs.  All programs are free to the public and publicized through email bulletins, sent from our Constant Contact database.  As word caught on, the database grew, as did our audiences.  They included programs on tree identification, roses, bats, lawns, hibiscus, bees and beekeeping, pollinator gardens…a real wealth of topics.

If you would like to receive notification of our free gardening programs, please add your email address here:     

SPEAKERS’ BUREAU

The Speakers’ Bureau is a list, updated yearly, of Master Gardeners who are available to speak to community groups on specific topics.   Our speakers cover a wide range of topics from butterflies, hummingbirds and pollinators to specific plants to beautiful gardens in beautiful places.  The list is sent by Purdue Extension to a number of local groups, including libraries, to use in planning their programs for the following year, and each year different speakers and different topics are included.   The interested organizations contact the listed speakers directly to arrange the programs.  Speakers cannot accept honoraria for speaking but can accept donations on behalf of LCMGA that are happily accepted by the Treasurer!


If you would like to receive a copy of the Speaker's Bureau list, please request one from Purdue Extension by calling (219) 755-3240.  

Prevention and Diagnosis of Plant Disease

Click here to download the PDF to register.

What’s New for 2025!

Click here to download and view Josh’s PDF presentation

THE ART OF GROWING FOOD WEBINAR

With Ellen Ecker Ogden

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A Webinar with Doug Tallamy

Next Steps for Nature: How to Save Nature in our Yard

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mg favorite things coming soon!

Check out LCMGA Favorite Things Party!

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Permaculture Presentation Part 1

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Permaculture Presentation Part 2

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AFTER A PRESENTATION BY MASTER GARDENER SUSAN RADOVICH, MG’S WERE ABLE TO CREATE THEIR OWN HOLIDAY PORCH POTS.

    LCMGA Field Trip to Hamstra Gardens

    Lake County Master Gardeners Association Inc June education

    Sustainable Garden

    Master Gardeners joined Wayne Gruber at Niemeyer's for a walk-about to learn about eco-conscious choices and combinations for your garden. Wayne showed us how to enhance our gardens/ landscape with plants that take less maintenance and resources. We discovered natives, nativars and sustainable plants and learned to combine cultivated plants with sustainable plants for a low maintenance and beautiful garden!


    Wayne Gruber, 

    B.S. Landscape Management Design; Indiana Master Accredited Horticulturist

    Horticulturist, educator, designer, retailer and national speaker, Wayne Gruber brings an innovative approach to gardening. His enthusiasm and passion for plants is evident through his landscape designs and educational seminars. Gruber holds a B.S. Degree in Landscape Management Design from Purdue University and has over forty years of horticultural work experience. He is also an Indiana Master Accredited Horticulturist, past President and current board member of Northwest Indiana Nursery & Landscape Association, and former instructor at Mittal Steel. Gruber now manages Niemeyer's garden center in Crown Point.  


    previous education presentations

    December Education - Mg Favorite Things (pdf)

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    November Education Program - Permaculture (pdf)

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    October Education Program - All About Bats (pdf)

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    September Education Program - Invasive Species (pdf)

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    Field Trip to Kankakee Sands (pdf)

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    August Education Program - Add a Little Prairie (pdf)

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    July Education Program - Great Lakes Butterflies (jpg)

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    Field trip to Hamstra Gardens (png)

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    May Education Program - Insect Diversity (pdf)

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    April Education Program - Early Spring Flowers (pdf)

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    March Education Program - Attracting Birds (pdf)

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    Power Up Garden Beauty (pdf)

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    Winter Seed Sowing (pdf)

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    Dollys Winter Sowing 2025 (pdf)

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    Porch pots 2023.

      Sustainable Gardening Video

      Check out the LCMGA video of our June Education Program "CREATING A SUSTAINABLE GARDEN" with Wayne Gruber

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      Lake County Master Gardeners Association Inc.

      2293 N. Main St., Crown Point, IN 46307

      (219) 755-3240

      Purdue University is an equal opportunity/equal access/affirmative action institution 


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