URI Master Gardener private garden tours

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Here is the online registration for the 2021 URI Master Gardener Program Gardening with the Masters Tour We are shaking things up this year, and inviting you to visit the private gardens of 26 URI Master Gardener volunteers on two weekends — June 12-13 and September 25-26, 2021! Admission tickets cost $30/each (digital guidebook) and…

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Time to think – Spring?

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Yes! Actually, if you didn’t plant your early spring bulbs already, it maybe be too late for expecting those yellow daffodils and crocuses. But it’s not too late to participate in the annual URI Master Gardener Free Seed Program in coordination with Ocean State Job Lot. Burpee® seed packets are available for the cost of…

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Poinsettia Sale – TODAY. Support URI Master Gardener Program

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Each year, the URI Master Gardener Program participates in the North American poinsettia trials, assisting three breeders (Syngenta, Ball and Dummen) with data collection for multiple varieties of poinsettias. The plants are grown up in our greenhouses at East Farm, and growing notes are reported back to the breeders annually; including information about growth stages,…

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