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| Class ID: 6001 | Title: Ask Bob |
| Details: Bring you questions for Bob Solberg to answer. As usual his answers will be brutally honest, candid, and hopefully entertaining. You never know where the discussion may go in this class. | |
| Instructor: Bob Solberg | Maximum Enrollment: 30 |
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| Class ID: 6002 | Title: Giantland Hybridizing |
| Details: The Ins and Outs of Hybridizing Hostas | |
| Instructor: Jeff Miller | Maximum Enrollment: 31 |
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| Class ID: 6003 | Title: Hostas in Containers |
| Details: Anything you can grow in your garden including trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, bulbs and, yes, HOSTAS may be grown in containers. This program will explore two aspects of hostas in containers. First we will discuss the growing media, fertilization, types of containers, watering techniques and over-wintering hostas grown this way. The second important consideration will be the design impact of containers. We will explore ways in which container hostas can be used to complement your landscape design and provide a special "touch" to the garden. | |
| Instructor: Ralph Heiden | Maximum Enrollment: 100 |
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| Class ID: 6004 | Title: Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener |
| Details: "Plant breeding is often seen as something complex or difficult, but it can actually be pretty simple and a LOT of fun! Basic projects, ideas, and information to get you started creating new plants in your own garden." | |
| Instructor: Joseph Tychenievich | Maximum Enrollment: 24 |
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| Class ID: 6005 | Title: Photography Session 2: Introduction to image processing using Photoshop. |
| Details: Learn a few simple steps to fine tune your images for maximum impact and usefulness. After this class, you’ll be able to take a pretty good image and turn it into a very good one. No previous experience with Photoshop required. The lessons learned will be applicable to other photo processing programs. You may bring your laptop, but will not need a computer in this class. Handouts will be provided. | |
| Instructor: Charles Harper | Maximum Enrollment: 31 |
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| Class ID: 6006 | Title: Hosta Virus X |
| Details: This in depth and well prepared presentation will help you learn the symptoms of Hosta Virus X with hundreds of pictures in various cultivars, showing the vast differences of symptoms in different hostas. Also learn the important steps to prevent getting plants with HVX, prevent spreading it in your garden, plus learn what to do if you already have an HVX infected plant in your garden. | |
| Instructor: Chris Wilson | Maximum Enrollment: 25 |
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| Class ID: 6007 | Title: The Heartbeat of the Garden |
| Details: What makes one garden unique and different from another? If gardener's use the same basic principles of landscape design, why don't they look the same? The answer lies in the heartbeat. We will look at several different gardens in this PowerPoint lecture and discover what the heartbeat of the garden really is. | |
| Instructor: Sandy Wilkins | Maximum Enrollment: 31 FULL |
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| Class ID: 6008 | Title: Perennial Companion Plants for Shady Gardens |
| Details: Choices beyond the normal. | |
| Instructor: Oscar Cross | Maximum Enrollment: 32 |
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| Fees: $2.00 | |
| Class ID: 6009 | Title: BYE BYE BAMBI...THUMPER TOO |
| Details: Bob Balitewicz aka IndianaBob will present a new approach to critter control. | |
| Instructor: Bob Balitewicz | Maximum Enrollment: 30 |
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| Class ID: 6010 | Title: Japanese & Asian Woodland Perennials - CANCELLED |
| Details: A look at some of the choice woodland and shade perennials from Japan and Asia. Many of these interesting plants will work wonderfully in the hosta/shade garden and make wonderful additions. | |
| Instructor: Chris Wilhoite | Maximum Enrollment: 42 FULL |
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| Class ID: 6011 | Title: Tissue Culture for Dummies….Like Me |
| Details: Many of us have heard of tissue culture and may even appreciate that most new hosta cultivars are propagated via TC. But what is tissue culture and how does it work? Rob's background in chemistry and engineering coupled with his interest in hostas kindled a longtime curiosity in tissue culture. Rob's recent retirement from his engineering career has afforded him the opportunity to start-up his own tissue culture lab where he has had to address many of these same questions. The presentation will include a behind scenes at what goes on in a hosta TC lab. | |
| Instructor: Rob Mortko | Maximum Enrollment: 24 |
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| Class ID: 6012 | Title: Ground Covers |
| Details: Let’s take a look at another option for our Hosta beds. Mulch, and we harbor slugs and snails. No mulch and we are always pulling weeds. Ground covers are an option that eliminates the slugs and most weeds. All the plants covered in this class are zone 5 hardy and will thrive in shade. | |
| Instructor: Grey Gitzen | Maximum Enrollment: 32 |
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| Class ID: 6013 | Title: Grow Good Health with an Aeroponic Tower Garden |
| Details: You will be amazed by how easy it is to grow vegetables, herbs, lettuce and flowers using no soil, and yes....no weeding. With the price of fresh food increasing and supermarket shortages of vine-ripened, uncontaminated fruits & vegetables; learn how you can grow organically in about a third of the time of a traditional soil garden. Enjoy continual harvest by using a state-of-the-art Aeroponic vertical growing system. | |
| Instructor: Debi Brown | Maximum Enrollment: 24 |
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