Boone County: Advanced Master Gardener Program

Master Gardener volunteers are asked horticulture related questions when serving the community.  To refresh their memory of the material they learned in their Master Gardener Program, re-certified Master Gardener volunteers had the opportunity to enhance their landscape problem- solving skills, review the Kentucky Master Gardener Manual, and presented their landscape design to other Master Gardeners.  

Each week eighteen Master Gardener’s reviewed a couple chapters from the Master Gardener Manual and then they had common landscape issues questions they would then solve using research based information.   All plants that were a part of the common landscape issues, were then used into their landscape design that they need to create.  After six weeks of learning and adding plants into the landscape design, then they presented their landscape design and explained their problems they had to overcome.  Each person had a different common problems and a different house design.   

Participants said this program will help them better understand the clients landscape issues and now know where to find researched based information to supply the client with correct information.  They have more knowledge to suggest the right plants to survive in the right place.  This was the first time the participants took a landscape design class that, they felt it was applicable to the real world.