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Welcome!
Welcome!
Delaware County Master Gardeners are avid about horticulture and eager learners. This site is one way we share these passions and provide "environmentally sound, research-based gardening practices" with our communities.
Learning opportunities:
Learning opportunities:
Recorded webinars on a wide range of gardening related topics...
Dig into a Book! Master Gardeners review their recent reading
Ask a Master Gardener Volunteer
Ask a Master Gardener Volunteer
Answering the public's questions about gardening using science-based information is an important objective of the Ohio State University Extension Master Gardener Volunteer program. Submit your landscape, yard, and garden questions here.
DCMGA Annual Plant Sale - July 19 and 20
DCMGA Annual Plant Sale - July 19 and 20
The 2025 Plant Sale will be held on Saturday, July 19 (9am to 4pm), and Sunday, July 20 (9am to 3pm), in the Delaware County Fair's Sheep Barn.
The Plant Sale is supported by generous donations of perennials, annuals, vegetables, herbs, trees and shrubs from our local nurseries, as well as our own Master Gardener Volunteers' gardens. We also receive donations from local businesses for our raffle and gently-used gardening items from our Master Gardener Volunteers for our Garden Treasures area.
2025 Wildflower Walk at Shale Hollow a Success!
2025 Wildflower Walk at Shale Hollow a Success!
May 2025
The Master Gardeners’ wildflower walks are held in one of the Preservation Parks In April to celebrate Ohio's Native Plant Month. This is the fifth year we have coordinated with the park system. Shale Hollow was chosen for the park this year. Donna and Steve Reynolds and Nora Hiland organized the event and led the training. In the past 4 years we gave four guided tours; this year we gave five. The walks take about one hour.
Donna researched and organized information about the wildflowers and located free publications for the volunteers. Steve, Donna, Nora and Preservation Park employee Liz Neroni do the first search for the wildflowers and put out the signs. Nora coordinates with Preservation Parks on dates for the tours and contacts SourcePoint. All three organizations advertise the guided tours.
Volunteers who attended this year's training were Gretta Kumph, Trudy Brinley, Sharon Riskedahl, Charlotte Niceswanger, Regina Lach, Mia Shea-Torres, Terri Litchfield, Pam Foster, Kathy and Keven Kelly, Mary Kay Rohrkemper, Sandy Lauer, and Sandy Schaadt. We spent about 1 1/2 hours showing where the wild flowers were and gave written and verbal information on them.
Wildflower walks were given on the following days:
Date time participants volunteer guides
Fri., April 4 1:30pm 10 Regina Lach, Sandy Lauer
Sat., Apr. 5 1:30pm 2 (rain) Sharon Riskedahhl, Gretta Kumpf, Trudy Brinley
Fri., Apr. 18 10am 5 Sandy Lauer, Susan Alexander,Mia Shea-Torres, Kathy and Kevin Kelly
Mon. Apr. 21 10am 10 Charlotte Niceswanger, Mia Shea-Torres, Susan Alexander
7 were homeschoolers (elementary through high school)
Sat., Apr. 26 10am 10 Charlotte Niceswanger, Mia Shea-Torres, Terri Litchfield, Trudy Brinley
Preservation Parks has told us that they like this program because people can self-guide or attend a guided tour. They are willing to make more signs for future Native Plant months.
Charlotte Niceswanger was the photographer.
Therapeutic Gardening
Therapeutic Gardening
April 2025
The Delaware County Master Gardener Therapeutic Gardening team met for the second time with our “Flowers in Bloom” friends at WillowBrook Christian Village. We celebrated our time together painting jars and planting pansies, learning the difference between pansies and violas and enjoying edible pansy topped shortbread cookies. The room was full of energy and lots of smiles. A grand time was had by all! A big Thank you to WillowBrook, Connie and the residents for welcoming all of us.
From Our Friends at Scioto Gardens
From Our Friends at Scioto Gardens
April 2025
Here's a special calendar from Scioto Gardens, which every gardener will want to know about.
Scioto Gardens is located at 2870 Curve Road, Delaware.
Warning about Seeds Sent by Mail
Warning about Seeds Sent by Mail
April 2025
Please read this important article from Buckeye Yard and Garden onLine about a scam that is sending unsolicited seed packets that appear in your mailbox (not your email box):
Therapeutic Gardening
Therapeutic Gardening
April 2025
The Delaware County Master Gardeners met this month at The Avalon of Lewis Center for Spring Flower Trivia and painting pinecone zinnias. We were joined by a group of Seneca County Master Gardeners anxious to learn more about our TH program.
We kicked off our morning celebrating the success of our resident friends who planted spring bulbs in pots back in November. They are absolutely gorgeous. We checked on the progress of our February winter seed sowing milk jug activity. The Alyssum, Bachelor Buttons, Dill, Lettuce and Hyssop to name a few look great. Our Avalon friends ended our time together with a resounding Happy Easter to all of us! We can’t wait to meet again in May when the group will begin planting the raised beds!
Litchfield Garden Tour
Litchfield Garden Tour
April 2025
MGV Terri Litchfield and her husband, Randy, are again opening their lovely native gardens for public tours and are focusing on spring ephemerals. If you haven't been (or haven't been recently), you will be delighted with their gardens, awed by their hard work, and inspired by their love of native perennials.
This special garden tour is to honor April as Ohio Native Plant Month. For more Information, visit their website: https://catchflycommons.org/2025/04/01/open-garden-in-celebration-of-ohio-native-plant-month/
Tour dates and times and sign-up links are:
Saturday 4/26/25: 12, 2, 4, 6pm. 4 /26 sign-up
Sunday 4/27/25: 2, 4, 6pm. 4/27 sign-up
Monday 4/28/25: 10, 12, 2, 4pm. 4/28 sign-up
Tuesday 4/29/25: 10, 12, 2, 4pm. 4/29 sign-up
Wednesday 4/30/25: 12, 2, 4, 6pm 4/30 sign-up
Thursday 5/1/25: 12, 2, 4, 6pm. 5/1 sign-up
Gardening with Lettuce Work
Gardening with Lettuce Work
March 2025
Delaware County Master Gardeners gathered at Lettuce Works on three different dates to kick off the spring planting season by putting together planting baskets. Lettuce Work is a nonprofit that helps High School students and young adults with autism to learn work skills and how to interact with the public before they transition. Lettuce Work is now accepting pre-season Spring orders for ferns, hanging baskets and patio planters -- order now and they'll be ready for pick up on or after April 19th. Click here for more information.
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