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Native plants sell quickly at the Yard & Garden Show. These are plants that work well with Southwest Florida’s extremes of rain and dry weather.
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There is a wide variety of plants to choose from, but planting material and garden supplies are at the show as well.
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Master Gardener demonstrations always attract a crowd, and they’re happy to answer individual questions.
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Tropical fruit trees at the Yard & Garden Show include everything from citrus to mangoes and sone interesting fruits you won’t see anywhere else.
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NAPLES — It’s hard to believe the summer is officially over and the Collier County University of Florida Extension Yard & Garden Show is gearing up for its sixth year.
The 2008 Yard & Garden Show, scheduled this year for Oct. 25 and 26, is growing with each year and if you’ve never been there, you’re missing a good deal of fun.
For those readers not familiar with the Yard & Garden Show, the event features a variety of local vendors, as well as vendors from throughout the state, and highlights educational information and programs, as well as “how-to” demonstrations. The event is organized by the Collier County master gardeners (MGs) and they do an equally good job of organizing the annual MG Garden Workshop Lecture Series, slated for January 2009.
For the 2008 Yard & Garden Show, more than 30 vendors will be on hand offering great prices on a large selection of garden-related items including flowering shrubs, orchids, native plants, tropical plants, not-so-common fruit trees, pottery and yard sculptures. The list goes on, but you’ll just have to come and see for yourself. More than 25 door prizes in the form of plants, gift certificates and much more will be given away, thanks to the generosity of the vendors and local businesses.
Aside from good shopping experiences, the Yard & Garden Show offers educational programs and information for visitors as well as seasonal and year-round residents. Come out and ask some questions.
Speaking of questions, the master gardeners will have an information booth to help solve your gardening problems; they will be in the demonstration gardens to answer any questions about the variety of plant material; and they’ll also be doing some demonstrating of their own. This year, the demonstrations will include pruning, rain barrels and container gardening.
Educational programs will be offered throughout the two-day event. On Oct. 25, Bob Cook will no doubt have some excellent advice about vegetable gardening and Billy Hopkins, who has been in the industry for many years in Hopkins Tropical Fruit Nursery, Immokalee, will give an informative program about tropical fruit. John Lucas of Tradewinds Nursery, Hollywood, will also be on hand that day to speak about colorful, easy-care bougainvilleas.
Oct. 26’s program lineup includes Lee Behrhorst, noted orchid specialist and owner of Sundance Orchids in Fort Myers, who will share his expertise on growing and caring for orchids. If you’ve ever had questions about vegetables, tropical fruit, bougainvilleas or orchids, the Yard & Garden Show could be the place to get the answers.
Hours for the sixth annual show will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 25 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oc t. 26 at the Collier County Extension Office, 14700 Immokalee Road, Naples.
To get there, take Immokalee Road and go 11 miles east of Interstate 75. The Extension Office is just in front of the Collier County Fairgrounds, and you can’t miss the tents. Admission is $3 per person; children under 12 years of age are admitted free.
Cathy Feser is the urban horticulture extension agent with the University of Florida Collier County Extension Service. For more information on home gardening, call the Collier County Master Gardener Plant Clinic at 353-2872 or visit the Web site: collier.ifas.ufl.edu. For specimen identification, the Extension Plant Clinic at 14700 Immokalee Road is open 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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