October Workshops - Landscape Design and Plant Selection

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The Franklin County Master Gardeners offer our “Landscape Design and Plant Selection” series of classes starting on October 5th and running for 7 weeks, Tuesday (and one Wednesday) evenings from 7-9 PM at the Extension Office and Ag Heritage Building, 185 Franklin Farm Lane in Chambersburg.

“Landscape Design” participants will learn how to create their own personal landscape plan. The goal is for students to analyze their site and develop on paper a landscape design for the property, whether a new or existing home site. The series will end with a review of the participant’s design plan with an experienced Master Gardener. the individual classes and schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, October 5: Planning, whether a new property or old: basic tools & principles

Tuesday, October 12: An Artist’s View of the landscape: what your property will look like in ten years.

Tuesday, October 19: Choosing the Right Trees for your landscape

Wednesday, October 27: Using Deciduous and Evergreen Shrubs in the landscape

Saturday, October 30: (9-11 am): Garden Tour: see over 100 different trees and shrubs

Tuesday, November 2: Using Native Plants in your landscape; Avoid Invasive Plants

Tuesday, November 9: Soil and Plant Chemistry – how it affects everything you plant

Tuesday, November 16: Review Your Design with a Master Gardener

You can sign up individually for each class, or for the whole series. Classes cost $10.00 each, or $40.00 for all eight. For more information and to register, call (717) 263-9226. Or you can click on the brochure above, print it, then fill out the information and send it to the Extension Office.

UPDATE 10/8/10 - NOTE:  The Garden Tour date has been changed from Saturday, November 6th to Saturday, October 30th.