COMGA Spring Seminar is just around the corner

On Saturday April 16th, Madras Garden Depot will hold forth with a booth at the Central Oregon Master Gardner's Assoc. (COMGA) Spring Seminar, held in Redmond @ the Deschutes Co. Fairgrounds. You can find out more about the event here: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/deschutes/sites/default/files/comga_seminarpacket11_2.pdf CHS Garden Center has participated in the Market over the past 3 years and we have really enjoy participating as it gave us a wonderful reason to concentrate on getting cool plants & other garden goodies in early in the season. (In 2009 I even taught a class about rock wall gardening, which was a blast despite my first time jitters speaking in front of more than 7 people!) So just who are these COMGA people? They are a non-profit group of certified Master Gardeners who assist in the on-going yearly MG trainings that OSU Deschutes Co. extension conducts. They also support many horticultural events (such as the Deschutes Co. Garden Tour) and trainings throughout the year in all three counties. A great group and another very good reason to take the MG training sometime. This Friday Susan and I will load up our trailer and bring a good representation of what the Garden Depot offers. It's going to be tricky getting the clematis plants there without damaging the gorgeous blooms & buds, but we'll figure it out - they may have to ride in style the cab. So please come down, take a class or two and visit with us and take in some of the other vendors who I know will be there such as: Paulina Creek Books.Gotta say, Brad and his crew do a fabulous job of stocking interesting & worthwhile garden book titles; Whistlestop Farms. We buy many of our veggies and annual starts locally from Holly & Paul who have a greenhouse between Redmond & Bend; and Nichols Garden Nursery, Rose Marie Nichols-McGee is a wealth of gardening knowledge, as she literally grew up living and breathing gardening. Nichols Garden Nursery is an 'heirloom nursery' if there ever was one, as they pioneered everything organic long before the other online seed & nursery companies. .......See ya' at the Spring Seminar!