The Georgia Master Gardener Association ( GMGA ) Conference will be held on Saturday , Oct. 19 , at the Museum of Aviation Century of Flight Building on Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins , Georgia , from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For the first clip , the conference is open to the worldwide public as well as to GMGA members . This yr ’s conference is titled “ Plants and plane : Our Heritage , Our Future . ”
Conference speakers include University of Georgia Professor Emeritus Michael Dirr , a globally recognized woody plants expert , and UGA Professor Kim Coder , a cosmos - renowned expert on urban trees . Mary Lynne Beckley , executive film director of the Georgia Tree Council , will present Georgia Landmark and Historic Trees . Matt and Tim Nichols , owners of Mr. Maple Nursery , will utter on Japanese maple excerption and their travels in Japan . Mark Maher of Southern Living will divvy up fresh flora intromission .
Master Gardeners and industry professionals can receive educational recognition in the stick to family : three credit for Forestry Category 23 ; three credits for Ornamental / Turf Category 24 ; and two credits for private pesticide .
The conference garden market will be open from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. usable for leverage will be Japanese maples from Mr. Maple Nursery ; aboriginal tree , shrubs and plants from Ernest Koone , possessor of Lazy K Nursery ( the largest cultivator of native azalea in the U.S. ) ; camellias from Massee Lane Gardens ; daylilies from Bell ’s Daylily Garden ; and other industrial plant material from Vincent Gardens and Flat Creek Native Nursery . Linda Fraser , renowned native plant creative person , will show and sell native plant fine art and photographic print .
Registration is $ 115 for GMGA member and $ 125 for non - members . Register online here .
On Friday , Oct. 18 , the Clarence Day before the conference , a free tour of the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences Native Plant Garden will be offered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The garden received the Native Landscape Award at the South Georgia Native Plant and Wildflower Symposium . The museum is located at 4182 Forsyth Road , Macon , Georgia .
Master Gardeners of Central Georgia , including Master Gardeners from Bibb , Houston , Twiggs , and Crawford county , worked tirelessly to lie out , label and map the garden bed , ply informative signage and address the lifelike landscape challenges to cook the hitch , according to Master Gardener Extension Volunteer Program Coordinator Sheri Dorn .
A Friday reception , set for 5 to 7 p.m. at The Farmhouse in Warner Robins , is included in the league adjustment .
The Clarence Day after the group discussion , Sunday , Oct. 20 , group discussion meeter will receive complimentary admission to Massee Lane Gardens in Fort Valley , Georgia . A designate International Camellia Society ’s Garden of Excellence , Massee Lane will be overt from 1 to 4:30 p.m. The garden are located at 100 Massee Lane , Fort Valley , Georgia .
Mary Royal , possessor of Royal Gardens in Elko , Georgia , invites all league attendee to tour the gardens at no price on Sunday . She will be on hand to do interrogative sentence about the garden during ego - take tours between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Royal Gardens is settle at 2541 Elko Rd . in Elko , Georgia .
Source : University of Georgia
