Master Gardeners set Q-and-A in Digging Deeper series

By Sequim Gazette Staff • March 2, 2022 1:30 am
Submitted photo Clallam County Master Gardeners Gordon Clark, Jeanette Stehr-Green and Bob Cain will answer questions from home gardeners about growing ornamental plants, fruit and vegetable crops, lawns and houseplants via Zoom on Saturday, March 5.
Submitted photo Clallam County Master Gardeners Gordon Clark, Jeanette Stehr-Green and Bob Cain will answer questions from home gardeners about growing ornamental plants, fruit and vegetable crops, lawns and houseplants via Zoom on Saturday, March 5.

Sharing the wealth of more than 100 years of combined gardening experience, Clallam County Master Gardeners Gordon Clark, Bob Cain and Jeanette Stehr-Green host a spring garden question-and-answer panel from 10:30 a.m.-noon on Saturday, March 5, as part of Clallam County Master Gardener’s Digging Deeper educational series.

The “Spring Garden Question and Answer Panel” will be held live via Zoom at tinyurl.com/SEQdig. To join by phone, call 253-215-8782 (meeting ID 920 0799 1742, passcode 709395). Link to the presentation through the Clallam County Master Gardener Calendar at extension.wsu.edu/clallam/master-gardener-calendar.

Clark, Cain and Stehr-Green will answer questions from home gardeners about ornamental plants, fruit and vegetable crops, lawns and houseplants. They will recommend what to plant in your garden, when and where to plant it and how to care for it. If they can’t answer your question, they will do research and get back to you.

About the presenters

Clark is a self-employed landscape gardener with a focus on aesthetic pruning. He completed a one-year Environmental Horticultural program at Lake Washington Institute of Technology in 1999. He became a Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association certified horticulturist in 2001 and an International Society of Arboriculture certified arborist in 2004. Clark has lectured on a variety of gardening topics over the years and joined Clallam County Master Gardeners in 2021.

Cain has more than 40 years of gardening experience in Scotland, Ireland, Colorado and Washington. He joined Clallam County Master Gardeners in 2009 and is a frequent contributor to local newspaper gardening columns and radio programs. He was the Manager of the Woodcock Demonstration Garden for 7 years. Cain was the 2009 Master Gardener Intern of the Year, 2011 Master Gardener of the Year and has attained Lifetime Achievement status with Clallam County Master Gardeners.

Stehr-Green has gardened on the east coast, the west coast and points in between. Stehr-Green joined Clallam County Master Gardener in 2003 and enjoys teaching others about gardening. She is a popular speaker and frequent contributor to local newspaper gardening columns and radio programs. She was the 2012 Clallam County Veteran Master Gardener of the Year and has attained Lifetime Achievement status with Clallam County Master Gardeners.

For more

Digging Deeper presentations are free and open to the public. They are held on the first and third Saturdays of most months and cover basic gardening topics relevant to most home gardeners. Sessions are scheduled for 90-minutes to allow for demonstrations (or videos) and questions from viewers.

For more information about the event or the Digging Deeper series, call 360-477-0116. Find more information about other Clallam County Master Gardener events at extension.wsu.edu/clallam/mg/educational-activities.