• Ask a Master Gardener!
• March 1, 8:30 – 11:30
  • Durham Farmer’s Market, Central Park, Durham, NC
    • If you have questions that only Master Gardeners can answer come to the Durham Farmer’s Market and look for our booth. Bring your gardening questions.

• Ask a Master Gardener!
• March 8, 8:30 – 11:30
  • Durham Farmer’s Market, Central Park, Durham, NC
    • If you have questions that only Master Gardeners can answer come to the Durham Farmer’s Market and look for our booth. Bring your gardening questions.

• Plant Festival
• March 22, 10:00-noon
  • Cooperative Extension Building at 721 Foster Street, Durham, NC
    • Extension Master Gardeners have teamed up with local community partners to share research-based gardening practices and offer solutions to protect and enhance our environment and community. To see a list of our exhibitors from 2024 go to: https://www.backyardtreasuresplantsale.org/2024-exhibitors

• Master Gardener’s Annual Plant Sale
• April 5, 10:00 – until we sell out!
  • Extension building at 721 Foster Street in Durham.
    • Check out Our Plants to see plants we have sold in the past. Learn more about any of the plants that interest you by searching the North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox.

• Durham Garden Forum Tick Talk: Understanding and minimizing the risks of ticks in a garden
• March 18, 7:00-8:30 pm
  • Zoom talk – become a member and a link will be sent to you.
    • Marcia Hermon-Giddens, adjunct professor at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and consultant on tick- borne infections.
      • You must become a member. To do that email: durhamgardenforum@gmail.com. It’s only 25.00/year and there are so many benefits.

JC Raulston Arboretum

• Prepping Beds for Spring – Greg Paige, Director of Horticulture
• March 5, 2025 – 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
  • Zoom talk Register

Sarah P. Duke Gardens

• African American Legacy in Gardening and Horticulture Symposium
• Saturday, March 29 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.  
  • Location: In-person at the Hayti Heritage Center or virtually through a livestream. The in-person program will conclude with a Symposium Social and Seed Swap. 
  •  Fee: Free; registration required at go.unc.edu/legacy25

Back for a second year, The African American Legacy in Gardening and Horticulture Symposium will explore the unsung historical legacy of African American plants, people, horticulturists, residential gardeners, and gardening clubs.

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Registration is open for the Grafting Workshop and Scion Exchange which will be offered on February 1, 2025. More detailed information on the history, methods and purposes of grafting was provided in a previous post. You can sign up at: https://trianglefruitandnutgrowers.weebly.com/scion-exchange.html

Save the Dates!

Join us for our third annual spring Plant Festival on March 22, 2025 from 10am to noon 721 Foster Street, Durham. Extension Master Gardeners have teamed up with local community partners to share research-based gardening practices and offer solutions to protect and enhance our environment and community. To see a list of our exhibitors from 2024 go to: https://www.backyardtreasuresplantsale.org/2024-exhibitors

The Plant Sale is back on Saturday, April 5, 2025 in the Cooperative Extension building at 721 Foster Street in Durham. Check out Our Plants to see plants we have sold in the past. Learn more about any of the plants by searching the North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox. The sale is from 10am until sold out. Sorry, but plants are not available for online purchase.

Durham Garden Forum

On February 18th at 7pm the Durham Garden Forum will offer a program on Carnivorous Plants of North Carolina: In the Garden of the Wild presented by Chriss Liloia, curator of the Habitat Gardens of the North Carolina Botanical Garden.

NC Botanical Garden

Join Highlands Biological Station executive director Dr. Jim Costa for an illustrated exploration of Darwin’s impact on the world of botany, through the lens of beautiful botanical art on February 12 from 7:00-8:30. This is a free hybrid program but registration is required. https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-ab4c6840c64b4850890e23c35c2b9854

On February 13 from 12:00-1:00pm, Barbara Driscoll, Co-Chair, New Hope Bird Alliance Bird-Friendly Habitat Committee will offer a hybrid presentation on The Birds, Bees, and Butterflies-How to Create Biodiversity in Your Yard. The program is free but registration is required. https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-b9ca2b0272514f30b4cc96ee54bb3d4b

On February 27 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm join Durham-based landscape architect, Preston Montague, for a hybrid presentation on his experience developing Piedmont prairies in a variety of environments in the rapidly developing Triangle. The program is free but registration is required. https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-b440a16a3f5d4910a1b22d49459d3357

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