OUR EDUCATION COMMITTEE CONTINUES TO DELIVER OUTSTANDING PROGRAMMING.

OUR FINAL SPRING LECTURE WILL BE HELD AT NOON AT THE OXFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY. OUR SPEAKER, MATT NIELSON, WILL PRSENT “HOW TO KILL A TREE - STORIES FROM AN ARBORIST”.

LCMGA ladies ready set go!

Volunteers left to right - Suzanne, Fergie, Sharon, Cindy, Pat, Missy & Nancy

TUESDAY APRIL 15TH WAS A LOVELY DAY TO PICK UP TRASH ON SOUTH LAMAR

The Lafayette County Master Gardeners spent the weekend sharing their garden knowledge with participants at the Holiday House Arts & Crafts Fair in the Arena and at the Chamber of Commerce Holiday Open House on the Square. 15 Master Gardeners volunteered 16 hours of their time for these two events and provided assistance to the citizens of Lafayette County. Gift baskets were provided for both events.

We had sunshine and blue skies for our tour of Sherra Owen’s amazing garden. Thank you Sherra for sharing your vast botanical knowledge and beautiful property with us today.

Katherine Webb of Farmstead Florals presented a fun and interesting “Growing and Decorating with Dried Flowers". We learned how to dry flowers, how to make wreath forms using elaegnus shrubs and how to decorate them with dried flowers.

Lafayette County Master Gardeners participated in the 2024 Arbor Day Program. The morning included remarks from several organizations, a 5th grade poster contest, and of course tree planting.

The Lafayette County Master Gardeners recently spent time in the Oxford Community Garden with Girl Scout Troop 13689. The scouts toured the garden, painted signs for The Pantry plots in the garden, and learned about pollinators and bugs. What a great group of young people and leaders!! 

One day Lafayette County Master Gardener Suzan Laney’s husband came home and said “let’s save the world” and so they became beekeepers. Fifteen years later Suzan is still an apiarist “saving the world” one beehive at a time. Suzan will be sharing the three main stages of beekeeping with us. This first step shows checking the hive with reproduction brood cells to ensure they are foraging flowers and sources for nectar and pollen to generate honey. They were “busy as a bee” outside the hives plus caring for the baby brood inside. Stay tuned for step two in July when Suzan will demonstrate harvesting the full honey super bees with capped honey in cells.

Last month the Master Gardeners spent a day in New Albany visiting the William Faulkner Literary Garden and Camp Creek Natives. Docents at the Literary Garden provided an interesting garden tour, telling how Faulkner tied Mississippi grown plants into his prose. At Camp Creek Natives, Robert Ballard spoke about their work in preserving and propagating Mississippi native plants for sale.

Bronwynne Bailey has been a lafayette County Master Gardener for two years. These are pictures of her flowerbeds in Tula that she started from scratch three years ago. You can learn more about gardening by reading her articles in the Local Voice or contacting the MSU Extension Office at 662-234-4451

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The Master Gardner Program was introduced to Mississippi in 1991 and serves to provide research-based educational programs and information to improve the economic, social, and cultural well-being of all Mississippians