2025 Home Gardening Webinar Series & Tour
2025 HOME GARDENING WEBINAR SERIES & TOUR
- Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
The 2025 Home Gardening Lecture Series will contain 5 lecture webinars on Tropical Houseplants, Adaptable Plants Under Changing Conditions, Flowering Native Shrubs, Gardening in Small Spaces, and Shade Gardening. Also offered is a private garden tour of Hart's Brook Park and Preserve in Hartsdale, NY. Registration is available for individual or all webinars. Please note that garden tour spots fill quickly!
TROPICAL HOUSEPLANTS - SESSION 1
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
REMOTE ON ZOOM
Speaker: Kathleen Strahan
Kathleen Strahan invites you to join her in escaping the winter months with a talk about tropical plants, especially those popularly kept as houseplants. Learn about the biology, taxonomy and care of tropicals from orchids to palms to philodendrons and more!
Kathleen Strahan is a horticulture educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Westchester. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Wellesley College and has a strong background in commercial horticulture and greenhouse growing, hydroponics and ornamental landscaping.
ADAPTABLE PLANTS UNDER CHANGING CONDITIONS - SESSION 2
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
REMOTE ON ZOOM
Speaker: Jacqui Bergonzi
Jacqui Bergonzi will suggest plant choices we can make to help our landscapes thrive in changing conditions. Gardeners are first-hand observers of the shifts in weather patterns. Bigger storms, warmer winters and floods to extreme droughts impact our landscapes. How do we garden sustainably during these uncertain patterns? There are more questions than answers right now. With what we have learned so far, let’s explore choices for adaptable plants.
Jacqui Bergonzi is a CCE Master Gardener Volunteer with a Horticulture Certificate from NYBG. As a proponent of native plants in the landscape and supporting pollinators of many types, she serves on the Steering Committee of the Native Plant Center in Valhalla. Jacqui is on the board of the 9th District Federated Garden Clubs of NYS.
FLOWERING NATIVE SHRUBS - SESSION 3
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
REMOTE ON ZOOM
Speaker: Cathy Ludden
Cathy Ludden demonstrates how suburban landscapes can display the beauty and diversity of native American flowering shrubs, evergreens, foundation plants, plants with berries and great fall colors. Learn about plants for shade, sun, wet and dry or difficult sites, including those resistant to deer. Native plants support birds, wildlife and pollinators in ways that non-native plants cannot.
Cathy Ludden is a member of the Board of directors of the Greenburgh Native Center, the Board of Directors of Untermeyer Garden Conservancy, and advises the Steering Committee of the Native Plant Center at Westchester Community College. She is a member of the Garden Club of Irvington. Cathy writes an informative and entertaining blog about native plants, “Around the Grounds,” found on
the Greenburgh Nature Center’s website.
GARDENING IN SMALL SPACES - Session 4
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
REMOTE ON ZOOM
Speaker: Judy Rozanski
Judy Rozanski will explore how to maximize usable space, whether suburban or urban. She will explain how to plant in a limited space to garden outdoors whether on a balcony, in a yard, or another small area. Judy offers valuable tips and techniques on choosing appropriate plants, including flowering annuals, perennials, and vegetables.
Judy Rozanski is a CCE Master Gardener Volunteer. She pursued her interest in horticulture after retiring from teaching. She holds certificates from the New York Botanical Garden in Horticultural Therapy and in Gardening. Judy enjoys sharing her horticultural knowledge with others as a Master Gardener Volunteer.
SHADE GARDENING - Session 5
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
REMOTE ON ZOOM
Speaker: Donna Lassiter
Donna Lassiter will showcase many of her favorite native species, their benefits for the environment and cultural needs for growing them with success. Learn the principles of shade gardening and selection of shade tolerant plants. Light intensity, soil conditions, water, and other applicable plant needs are examined, including some design aspects. Donna hopes you will be inspired!
Donna Lassiter is a CCE Master Gardener Volunteer who has designed public demonstration and school gardens with a focus on native plants for birds, pollinators and meadow gardening. She is committed to promoting a healthy environment and grows over 90 species of native plants in her home gardens.
GARDEN TOURS AT HART'S BROOK
Rain or Shine
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Hart’s Brook Park and Preserve, Hartsdale, NY 10530
Guides: Master Gardener Volunteers and Westchester Pollinator Pathway Volunteers.
No-Walk Ins–10:00 AM Arrival OR 11:15 AM Arrival
Carpooling is suggested.
The Garden Tour displays a variety of plants and crops that are well-adapted to local growing conditions. As the season progresses, mature crops are harvested and new crops are planted. Fallow plots contain cover crops and plants that support pollinators, suppress weeds, and improve the soil.
Pollinator pathway gardens include native plant design examples for creating pollinator gardens in your own yard and community.
2025 HOME GARDENING WEBINAR SERIES FLYER
Location
This event is online EXCEPT tour which will be held at Hart's Brook Park and Preserve, Hartsdale, NY
Fee
$5 per session - Tour $20, Full Series $45
Learn More
Register
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/jrebahk/lp/093049cb-8203-4a3b-8fb8-2f45d2f7dd1a
Contact
Hillary Jufer
Horticulture Program Manager
westchester+1@cornell.edu
914-285-4640
Location
This event is online
Last updated October 31, 2024