{"id":73615,"date":"2018-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/creating-a-resilient-garden-is-theme-of-uri-master-gardener-symposium-march-3\/"},"modified":"2018-01-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T00:00:00","slug":"creating-a-resilient-garden-is-theme-of-uri-master-gardener-symposium-march-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/creating-a-resilient-garden-is-theme-of-uri-master-gardener-symposium-march-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Creating a Resilient Garden\u2019 is theme of  溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardener Symposium, March 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 January 22, 2018 \u2013 Those who are already thinking about \u2013 and looking forward to \u2013 the spring gardening season should consider getting a gardening motivation boost by attending the annual gardening symposium presented by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardener Program.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium, open to gardeners of all levels, will feature keynote speakers, Q&amp;A sessions, and a variety of educational displays, all focused on the theme of \u201cCreating a Resilient Garden.\u201d It runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 3 at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences in Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>Those registering by Feb. 9 receive the early-bird price of $65, after which the price rises to $75. A limited number of scholarships to the program are also available to those who apply by Feb. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Featured speakers at the symposium are:<br \/>\n\u2022 C. Colston Burrell, a garden designer, photographer and author of 12 gardening books who gardens on 10 wild acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. He will speak on \u201cBeauty, Integrity, Resilience: Can a Garden Have Everything,\u201d which will focus on garden sustainability, aesthetics and ecosystem functioning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linda Fleming, who has gardened in Connecticut, Oklahoma and Utah, will discuss \u201cBloom Where You are Planted: A Medley of Herbal Ideas.\u201d She will share lessons about herb garden design, seed starting, seed saving, growing, propagation and harvesting, including a hands-on lesson about herbal vinegars.<br \/>\n\u2022 Jeff Gilman, director of the botanical gardens at the University of North Carolina\/Charlotte, who has spent most of his career investigating the techniques people have used to grow plants and control pests. His topic, \u201cThe Truth 溏心vlog免费B站 Garden Remedies,\u201d will examine the most common \u201ccabinet cures\u201d for what ails your garden \u2013 from beer fertilizer to baking soda for plant diseases \u2013 and which work and which do not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about the symposium, visit web.uri.edu\/mastergardener\/symposium or contact 溏心vlog免费B站 Cooperative Extension at 401-874-2900 or coopext@uri.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 January 22, 2018 \u2013 Those who are already thinking about \u2013 and looking forward to \u2013 the spring gardening season should consider getting a gardening motivation boost by attending the annual gardening symposium presented by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardener Program. The symposium, open to gardeners of all levels, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}