Myers Park and Event Center in McKinney will be a gardener's Mecca this weekend with shopping opportunities and educational events at The Garden Show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 24 and from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 25.
Presented by the Collin County Master Gardeners, The Garden Show is an indoor event featuring activities for all ages, including hands-on seminars and demos from respected experts.
The event focuses on sustainability and Earth-King living in North Texas. Among the speakers are Dr. Greg Church,Texas AgriLife Extension agent for horticulture in Collin County; Steve Huddleston, senior horticulturist for the Fort Worth Botanic Garden; Dr. Kevin Ong, plant pathologist at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Dotty Woodson, rainwater harvesting guru at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Urban Solutions Center in Dallas.
More than 50 vendors will offer everything from interior and exterior plants, natural products for the home, foods and wines, and outdoor living merchandise. Admission is $2 per auto or two cans of food to support the Allen Food Bank. (See the daily presentation schedule below.)
Saturday's Schedule:
9 a.m. - Butterfly Gardening
Vegetable Gardening
Earth-Kind Stewardship & Challenge
10 a.m. - Vermicomposting
Designing for Birds, Butterflies & Bees
Earth-Kind Landscaping Principals
11 a.m. - Surviving Stage 4 Water Restrictions
Container Gardening
Myers Park Tour
Noon - Saving Your Turf During Droughts
Drought Proofing Your Landscape
Earth-Kind Composting
1 p.m. - FireWise Landscaping
Square Foot Gardening
Don't Let the Bugs Bug You
2 p.m. - Plants that Conserve Water
Plant Propagation
Earth-Kind Rainwater Harvesting
3 p.m. - Soil Ecology
Texas Superstars
Myers Park Tour
4 a.m. - Connemara Conservatory
Colorful Annuals for Every Season
Earth-Kind Efficient Irrigation
Sunday's Schedule
11 a.m. - Cost of Emerging Plant Diseases
Trees That Like it Here
Earth-Kind Landscape Principals
Noon - Prerennials that Love Collin County
Landscaping for Collin County
Earth-Kind Roses
1 p.m. - Earth-Kind, What & Why
Herb Gardening
Earth-Kind Natives & Tx Superstars
2 p.m. - Successful Pruning
Designing for Birds, Butterflies & Bees
Myers Park Tour
3 p.m. - Color in the Landscape - Neil Sperry
Raised Bed Gardening
Earth-Kind Rainwater Harvesting
Myers Park is located at 7117 County Rd, 166 in McKinney.
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