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DATE/TIMETITLEPumphouseSpeaker Contact InfoDESCRIPTIONBiographyNeeds
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Sun, Jan 10, 1 - 2pm; Susan   ROSE PRUNING SEMINAR via Zoom. FREE! # registered: 200 # attendees: 106 Sun, Jan 10,NoYesStuart Dalton, studalton@gmail.com; cell/text 650-575-9816 Rose expert, Stuart Dalton, will teach you how to shape your rose bushes to encourage beautiful profuse flowering with winter pruning and winter proper care. Stu is past president of the Peninsula Rose Society, an American Rose Society Consulting Rosarian and A UCCE Master Gardener for San Mateo and San Francisco Counties.  He has provided pruning demonstrations at nurseries and rose societies for 30 years 
Location:  Due to social distancing requirements and space constraints in the Pumphouse, the workshop instruction will be viewed using Zoom.  The Pumphouse will not be open.  Reservations Required:  www.sanmateoarboretum.org/classes--events.html or call 650-579-0536 x3. 
A day before the presentation you will be emailed a link and meeting ID.  You will be able to sign in 15 minutes early to confirm that the audio and video connection is working.
Past presidentresident of the Peninsula Rose Society (PRS peninsularosesociety.org)
American Rose Society (ARS) Consulting Rosarian (rose.org)
UCCE Master Gardener for San Mateo and San Francisco Counties. (smsf-mastergardeners.ucanr.edu)
Stu became an ARS Consulting Rosarian in 1988 and as a Consulting Rosarian and has provided garden visits and education on rose care for decades. He also is a UCCE Master Gardener and has given numerous presentations on rose care appropriate for various times of the year. He covers equipment, safety in the garden and principles of pruning as well as demonstrating rose care techniques. He grows over 200 roses of many types in his Menlo Park home.
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Sat, Jan17, 10am - noon; Susan HELP PRUNE CENTRAL PARK’S ROSE GARDEN. FREE! CANCELLED: COVID 19Susan Carder, suecarder@me.com, H: 574-1677, C: 464-3468 Come to learn or share your expertise on how to prune roses. Heavy rain cancels.  This is a free event in which you will contribute to the beautification of San Mateo’s beloved rose garden.  No experience is necessary.  Volunteers from the San Mateo Arboretum Society will be on hand to instruct beginners.  There will be light refreshments. Dress warmly and bring pruning shears and gloves. Reservations are not required.
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Sunday Feb 14, 1 - 2:30pm; (Feb 7, Super Bowl Sunday) Susan HOW to IMPROVE YOUR SOIL with TERRY LYNGSO via ZOOM. FREE! # registered: 87 # attendees: Sunday Feb 14,NoYesTerry Lyngso tlyngso@lyngsogarden.comSoil is alive! Plants and soil interact together in very interesting ways. Learn about the relationship between plants and the soil and what you can do in your garden to ensure that the relationship is thriving. Presented by Theresa Lyngso. Reservations required: SanMateoArboretum.org/classes--events or call 650-579-0536 x3.
Terry is a lifelong gardener, a Master Composter, and a Master Gardener, a student of the soil food web and a lover of the natural world. Terry is President of Lyngso Garden Materials, a 65-year-old family business located in San Carlos.
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Sunday, March 7, 1 - 2 pm. Susan
Build 25 Initiative: local proactive solutions to the climate crisis and nature deficit disorder. via ZOOM.  FREE! # registered: 52 + 5 # attendees: 28Sunday, March 7NoYesAlrie Middlebrook
Executive Director
The California Native Garden Foundation. info@cngf.org
cngf.org/build-25		Alrie Middlebrook, executive director of the Calfornia Native Garden Foundation, will speak about gardening with native plants to sequester carbon, promote biodiversity, soil health, water conservation, pollination and a host of other ecosystem services that are enhanced by gardening with native plants using the plant community approach to artful ecological gardens. Build 25 Initiative: local proactive solutions to the climate crisis, the agricultural, ecological and social crises facing our youth today.  Over the last 40 years, through for-profit and nonprofit work, we have been implementing solutions that are sparking a revolution in how we use land in cities, how we educate our youth, and how we solve the climate change crisis, simply by harnessing local resources.https://cngf.org. Reservations required: SanMateoArboretum.org/classes--events or call 650-579-0536 x3.
Alrie Middlebrook is a committed advocate and practitioner of the sustainable lifestyle, a landscape professional and California native plant specialist. Her San Jose-based design/build firm, Middlebrook Gardens, has installed over 800 California native gardens and remains on the leading edge of the rising sustainability movement. The California Native Garden Foundation, of which Alrie is a founding member, educates youth, builds curriculum, and has designed ELSEE (The Environmental Lab for Sustainability and Ecological Education), a certified teaching garden for schools embodying 200 benchmarks for the protection of ecosystems services. Alrie is committed to educating the public, especially youth, and promoting sustainability through native gardening and creating urban regenerative agriculture farms. Her workshops and speaking engagements at diverse venues across California have provided key forums to promote ecological thinking that empowers youth to lead in the development of a new urban land use model and ethic.
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Sunday, Apr 11, 1 - 2:30pm; (Apr 4 Easter) Pat P Grasses You'll Love to Grow via Zoom. FREE!    # registered: 29 # attendees: Sun, Apr 11, yesBob Hornback, muchasgrasses@hotmail.comBob Hornback, owner of Muchas Grasses, will be presenting a truly dazzling range of his favorite varieties of grasses. He'll tell you where and how to grow them.
 		2012 Bio: Bob Hornback is the owner of Muchas Grasses, his company that specializes in plant brokerage, consulation and design with ornamental grasses. He teaches botany and horticulture throughout the Bay Area, and is a well-known garden writer and lecturer.

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Sunday, May 2, 1 - 2:30 pm Susan, Linda Camellias: Pruning, Potting, and Planting via ZOOM.  FREE!  # registered: 91 # attendees: Sunday, May 2,outdoors?Gene Fleet; C: 799-1604; bloomings@msn.com; Meg Milani, C: (650) 346-3941, H: 364-5114 ,mmilanissfhs@yahoo.comGene Fleet & Meg MIlani's presentation will be informative for experts and novices alike.  They will discuss how camellias can be part of your garden, either large or small, and will give you tips to successfully grow them  in your garden. www.camelliasfpcs.org Reservations required: SanMateoArboretum.org/classes--events or call 650-579-0536 x3.
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Sunday, June 6, 1 - 2 pm; Susan SEEDING DEMYSTIFIED — How to be Successful in Starting New Plants From Seed via Zoom. FREE! # registered: 99 # attendees: Sunday, June 6preferablyJudith Dean, deancisco@hotmail.com; Virginia Martin, vmartin5@pacbell.netThe basics of growing from seed along with some tips and hacks that make it cheaper and easier to be successful. 2020 Bio: Judith Dean: Trained as a Master Gardener in 2006 by the University of California Cooperative Extension program. Additional training in plant propagation at Foothill College, San Francisco Botanical Garden, and Filoli. Principle vegetable grower for Master Gardener Spring Garden market--over 700 plants annually, all from seed. Virginia Martin: Trained as a Master Gardener in 2006 by the University of California Cooperative Extension program and has been propagating plants for many years.
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Sunday, July 11, 1 - 2:30 pm Susan;Start Now to Grow a Year-Round Food Garden with PAM PEIRCE via Zoom. FREE! # registered: 118 # attendees: 40 Sunday, July 11Pamela Peirce p.k.peirce@att.net Blog: goldengategarden.typepad.com  Need a nudge to get your kitchen garden producing all year? Let Pam Peirce, renowned local author and plantswoman guide you with her talk and inspiring visual presentation as you prepare for bountiful harvests in fall, winter, and spring. July is the perfect time to start. Her website is pampeirce.com. More Detailed info: In our mediterranean climate, we do not need to settle for only a spring to fall garden. The other half of the year has pleasures and treasures aplenty. Let’s grow them! Learn crops, varieties, and timing to do so in our year-round food gardening workshop. Includes information on container gardening, managing pests of cool-season crops, and links to useful handouts.
 		Pam Peirce is a San Francisco-based gardener, author, photographer, and lecturer. The third edition of her classic regional gardening book, Golden Gate Gardening, was released in 2010, with four different planting calendars—for gardeners in microclimates near the coast to far inland. Wildly Successful Plants: Northern California, teaches ornamental gardening in our region through 50 heirloom garden ornamentals. Pam taught horticulture at City College of San Francisco for nearly 30 years, and her columns have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle since 2006. On her blog, goldengategarden.typepad.com, you can read many valuable posts about gardening in our region.
Dean: MacBook laptop and  PowerPoint  slide set for the presentation
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Sunday, Aug 1, 1 - 2:30 pm SusanGardening for Butterflies # registered: 116 # attendees: Sunday, Aug 1Susan Karasoff; bozo@saturn5.org
California Native Plant Society - Yerba Buena (San Francisco) chapter
415-622-6383
cnps-yerbabuena.org,
cnps-yerbabuena.org/biodiversity/biodiversity-resources/ 		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1o3wcZQ8I8&t=409s The bay area is home to many butterflies. Butterfly babies (caterpillars) evolved with and depend on eating local native plant leaves (host plants).  We’ll discuss growing a butterfly buffet for baby and adult butterflies, including plants that thrive in containers.


Susan Karasoff gardens in San Francisco’s clay soil. Susan is the outreach chair for California Native Plant Society - Yerba Buena (San Francisco/Northern San Mateo County), http://cnps-yerbabuena.org/. Susan builds resilient local ecosystems with an “only the easiest plants survive” approach to gardening. Susan grows a buffet of colorful native edible and pollinator plants. http://cnps-yerbabuena.org/biodiversity/biodiversity-resources/. Butterflies and host plant relationships are available for California plants on the Calscape database https://www.calscape.org/ and for butterflies and plants across the United States on the National Wildlife Federation plant database https://www.nwf.org/NativePlantFinder.
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Sunday, Sept 12, 1-2pm PatLET'S GROW HERBS AND RADISHES! via Zoom; CANCELLED - low registration
# registered: # attendees: 		Sunday, Sept 12,yesVirginia SolettiWe will start growing from seeds and will learn about herb and radish growth.
Also we will create animal and flower designs from vegetables and fruit.
Join volunteer Virginia for a creative learning and design experience.
Fee:  SMAS members $10 for members / $15 nonmembers
Children, ages 6 - 10, welcome with accompanying adult. Reservations are required. Register online at: www.sanmateoarboretum.org/classes--events.html or call 650-579-0536 x3.
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Sunday, Oct 3, 1 - 2 pm Susan SUCCULENT TOPPED PUMPKIN WORKSHOP via Zoom. Max # attendees: 30 # registered: 16Start to sort succulents the week of Sept 21. Kit pick up: Thus am 10 - noon, Friday, 3:30 - 5:30 pm and Sat 3:30 - 5:30 pm. yesZana Lugo: zana.lugo@yahoo.com; C: (415) 341-6940)Celebrate the Fall Season by creating a succulent topped pumpkin centerpiece. You purchase a 6-8 inch wide uncarved pumpkin. We will supply you with a variety of succulents and other natural materials, glue and Zana Lugo (www.peaceloveplant.com) will supply the instruction. We recommend your pumpkin have a flat top surface. Fantasy pumpkins also called Cinderella work very well and are usually available at Trader Joes & Sprouts. These types of pumpkins last a lot longer than a traditional carving pumpkin.
Location: To be determined bu August. The program will be held at SMAS or using Zoom
Fee: SMAS members: $25/pumpkin; nonmembers: $35/pumpkin.
Registration: is required. Register online at: www.sanmateoarboretum.org/classes--events.html or call 650-579-0536 x3 and leave a message.

Zoom: Celebrate the Fall Season by creating a succulent topped pumpkin centerpiece.  You purchase a 6-8 inch wide uncarved pumpkin.  We will supply you with a kit containing a variety of succulents and other natural materials, glue and Zana Lugo (www.peaceloveplant.com) will supply the instruction (via Zoom).  You will be emailed dates & times when kits (containing moss, succulents, glue etc) can be picked up at the San Mateo Arboretum Society in San Mateo Central Park.   We recommend your pumpkin have a flat top surface. Fantasy pumpkins also called Cinderella work very well and are usually available at Trader Joes & Sprouts. These types of pumpkins last a lot longer than a traditional carving pumpkin.
Location:  Due to social distancing requirements and space constraints in the Pumphouse, the workshop instruction will be viewed using Zoom.  The Pumphouse will not be open.  Zoom is a free, easy-to-use, video conferencing system, www.zoom.us.    
Fee:  SMAS members: $25/pumpkin; nonmembers: $35/pumpkin.  
Registration:  is required.  Register online at: www.sanmateoarboretum.org/classes--events.html or call 650-579-0536 x3 and leave a message.  
A day before the presentation you will be emailed a link and meeting ID.  You will be able to sign in 15 minutes early to confirm that the audio and video connection is working
Conf 3/31 (Zana Lugo, owner of Peace, Love, Plants (https://peaceloveplant.com ) has a passion for sustainable, beautiful living decor.
Succulents and air plants make perfect gifts and are a low maintenance way to bring life and greenery into your home or office. What not to love? Come see her at the Burlingame Farmers Market on Sundays and the College of San Mateo Farmers Market on Saturdays. We consistently bring the highest quality plants from our local growers, all sourced directly from family-owned farms in Santa Cruz, Half Moon Bay, and across Northern California.     
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Saturday October  9 & Sunday October 10. Drop in to SMAS between 11am - 1:30pm

AUTUMN DESIGN for Children. FREE!Virginia SolettiFor children ages 5 and older with accompanying adult.
Decorate one of our small jade plants any way you wish.  We will have some supplies but please bring your own too. Be creative - ideas include ribbons, other plants, sewing items, decorative items, small pictures, etc. Take home your plant with its own award ribbon.Enter Central Park at Ninth Ave. & Palm Ave. To get to the North Gate entrance, follow the sidewalk toward the far end of the Rose Garden and take the first sidewalk on the left.
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Sunday, Nov 7, 1 - 2:30 pm Pat Paquette ABC's OF SETTING UP DRIP IRRIGATION with Frank Niccoli. FREE! Via Zoom # registered: 83 # attendees: 25 Sunday, Nov 7,Frank Niccoli; BAWSCA: Christiane. 349-3000, cbarth@bawsca.org, bawsca.org; bawsca.org/conserve/programs/classesDrip Irrigation: Drip systems can only be sustainable if they save water, irrigate correctly, and are only installed once.  So many times I come across gardens that have a drip system and the garden has dying and diseased plants, it leaks, and it cannot be calibrated.  Join Frank Niccoli to understand what you need to purchase, how do you install it, and how do you calibrate your new forever drip system.  You owe it to your plants to do it right.Frank Niccoli has been a gardener for over 50 years. He was seven when his grandmother taught him the magic in seeds. Frank has a degree in horticulture having studied at the Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and at the College of San Mateo. Frank also has a degree in Business Psychology and is an instructor in the Environmental Horticulture Dept at Foothill College. He is the past president of the founding chapter of the California Landscape Contractors Association and served on the Board for the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.
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Sunday, Dec 5; 11 am - noon; Susan WREATH MAKING WORKSHOP via ZOOM. # registered: # attendees: Sat, Dec 5, Set up; Sunday, Dec 6, till 2 pm; Bring your imagination, pruning shears & light weight gloves. Using fresh colorful greens from San Mateo Central Park, you will be able to create a one-of-a-kind beautiful wreath. This is a family activity, children ages 5 - 12 with accompanying adult are welcome. All material provided including seasonal embellishments such as ribbon, cones and more! Please feel free to bring any treasures from your garden that you may wish to share and personalize your design. Fee: SMAS members: $30/wreath; nonmembers: $40/wreath. Reservations are required. Register online at: www.sanmateoarboretum.org/classes--events.html or call 650-579-0536x3
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 Mar 14? (Mar 7), Apr 11, May 2, June 6, July 11, Aug 1, Sept 5 (Sept 12), Oct 3, Nov 7 SusanMASTER GARDENER PLANT CLINICSusan Kromfeld: (408) 497-6966, susan@natperspective.com program director: Kathy Stamm,(k_stamm@hotmail.com)FREE! Come anytime between 11am - 2pm for this walk-in plant clinic. The Master Gardeners will be available to answer your questions from general information to advice about specific problems. Bring samples of your problem plants for better diagnosis. If you suspect insect damage, try to include some of the insects so they can be correctly identified. http://ucanr.org/sites/MGsSMSF/
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