This class will provide participants with a basic understanding of the proper techniques for pruning woody plants. Classroom time will focus on pruning techniques, proper tool selection, and timing of pruning for specific plants growing in Indiana. Field time will enable participants to practice their newly learned skills at Taltree. Lake County Master Gardeners will have a booth and display at this home improvement exposition. The Kingwood Center is a 47-acre display garden and cultural center that was once the private estate of industrialist Charles Kelly King.
Lecture is free and open to the public.
Participants will explore the diversity of nature and the complex interactions between species and their environs within the Kankakee River and southern Lake Michigan drainage basins of northwestern Indiana. Classroom sessions will focus on the ecology of bogs, marshes, swamps, rivers, ponds, dunes, lakeshores, prairies, forests, and savannahs. Field sessions will provide participants many opportunities to increase their skills of observation, identification, and application of ecological principles introduced first in the classroom. The Indiana Community Tree Stewards Program of Monroe County is set to begin on March 21st. Classes are held on Wednesday evenings.