Registration Opens December 2nd!
Join us on January 18, 2025 for Garden Visions 2025.
Time:
8:30am - 3:30pm
Sessions:
"Creating a Pollinator Paradise", Melinda Myers
Whether planting a garden, enjoying the beauty of your landscape or sitting down to a delicious meal, you have bees, butterflies, and other pollinators to thank. These essential members of our ecosystem are responsible for much of the food and beauty we enjoy each day. Create the right habitat and you can fill your landscape with bees, butterflies, birds, and other pollinators. We’ll discuss plant selection, design strategies and plant care to help attract and support pollinators. Soon you’ll be enjoying their beauty and increased productivity in your garden!
"Garden Renovations for Any Size Landscape", Melinda Myers
Small changes can make a big difference in the health and beauty of your landscape. Melinda will cover common landscape mistakes and challenges and provide affordable and attractive solutions you can put to work in your garden. She will cover everything from plant maintenance, garden accents, planting strategies and of course a few structures and hardscape options.
Nationally known gardening expert, TV/radio host, author & columnist Melinda Myers has 35+ years of horticulture experience and has written 20+ gardening books, including Midwest Gardener's Handbook. She hosts the “Melinda’s Garden Moment” radio program and “How to Grow Anything” instant video/DVD series. Myers is a columnist and contributing editor for Birds & Blooms and hosted “The Plant Doctor” radio show on WTMJ for 20+ years and 7 seasons of PBS’s “Great Lakes Gardener.” www.MelindaMyers.com
"Integrated Pest Management", Allen Pyle
Learn to reduce pest damage in home gardens and landscapes with Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques. IPM is a science-based approach focused on understanding pest life cycles and using a combination of targeted control measures to reduce damage from pests including insects, mites, diseases, weeds, and critters. The presentation includes information on some of Wisconsin’s most common garden pests as well as invasive exotic pest threatening the state. Attendees will learn useful control techniques regardless of their gardening experience.
Allen R. Pyle is a statewide Extension Horticulture Outreach Specialist for UW-Madison, housed in Green Bay. Allen has degrees in horticulture and entomology. His expertise includes vegetables, herbaceous ornamentals, plant propagation, native plants, and Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
"Presley Pointers for Busy Gardeners", Leigh and Erin Presley
For sisters Leigh and Erin Presley, many hours laboring in their parents’ gardens as children sparked appreciation for the dedication and hard work gardening requires… and shortcuts and time-savers too! Leigh (also the mother of two small boys) owns Clearview Garden Center in Weston, Wisconsin, and Erin has worked as a horticulturist at Olbrich Gardens and beyond for more than 20 years. Their practical tips for spring and fall cleanup, weeding and watering, at home propagation, upcycling, container planting and more will have you spending, working, and stressing less and playing more in your gardens this summer!
Erin Presley earned her bachelor’s degree in Horticulture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked in private garden care for nearly a decade before joining the staff at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre free admission public garden in Madison, where she cares for the Herb, Woodland, Gravel and Pond Gardens. She loves to share the joy of gardening, with appearances on the nationally syndicated podcast Cultivating Place and The Plantastic Podcast with Dr. Jared Barnes, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Garden Talk and contributions to print and online horticulture publications. Follow Erin on Instagram @presleyspreferredplants.
Attend Your Way
Attend in person all day OR Attend virtually via Zoom
Registration Fees
Regular Registration - $69
62+ Registration - $59
Virtual Registration (full day) - $40
Walk-In Day of Registration - $79
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