
Georgia Master Gardener Program Timely Tip of the Week: The rains have made the soil soft and it's a good time to work on removing privet, sweetgum, elm and other unwanted woody plants. The seeds are often deposited by birds and may grow unnoticed in the landscape until they are too large to easily pull. Pliers are helpful for removing very small, 1.../2" or less woody stems, but there are leverage tools available for purchase or rent that will uproot plants up to 2.5 inch diameter.
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Chinese privet is a semi-evergreen shrub or small tree that grows to 20 ft. (6.1 m) in height. Trunks usually occur as multiple stems with many long, leafy branches. Leaves are opposite, oval, pubescent on the underside of the midvein and less than 2 in. ...
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Georgia Master Gardener Program The Georgia Master Gardener Association, Inc. has a new web page. You can renew your membership online and register for the Winter Conference January 22 & 23rd in Hall County.
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Georgia Master Gardener Association is a non-profit association of Georgia Master Gardener Volunteers.

Georgia Master Gardener Program Sadly, our friend and fellow Master Gardener Bill Adams passed away this past weekend in North Augusta, SC. Bill was a Richmond County MG & Horticulture Program Assistant at the Richmond County Extension Office. Sandy Hodson, Augusta Chronicle reporter and Master Gardener will feature Bill on Friday's garden page. If y...ou want to share a rememberance of Bill, you can do that via Sandy's blog "The Garden Gnome." Bill was a kind and wonderful friend and he will surely be missed by all who knew him. He always had a kind word of appreciation and encouragement. If you'd like to send condolences to his family, the addresss is in the GMGA directory.
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Bill Adams was a friend, coach and THE Master Gardener of Georgia and South Carolina. Unfortunately for all of us, he was killed Sunday afternoon while working in his yard.

Lya Sorano The Winter Conference, hosted by Hall County Master Gardeners, now has a Facebook page of its own. Please search “Hall County Master Gardeners”, become a fan, and come to the conference on January 23!

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Your help is needed- You may be able to help track this critter to your local kudzu patch.
For collection info and form visit http://www.caes.uga.edu/?tiny=63K7M5
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Georgia FACES -- News to use about Georgia Family, Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences -- from The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Georgia Master Gardener Program Master Gardener Celebration Article
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Georgia FACES -- News to use about Georgia Family, Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences -- from The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Georgia Master Gardener Program MG Project Workday: We had wonderful weather, great volunteers and support from some very generous donors. If you have the opportunity, visit the GEHC. It's a wonderful environmental education facility. The Blue Planet presentation is really cool.
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The Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center is the area's newest jewel. Located conveniently between I-85 and I-985, near the Mall of Georgia the Center is the ideal location for your next meeting or special event.

Georgia Master Gardener Program Photos of our volunteers working on their project workday.
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Georgia Master Gardener Program Happy 30th Anniversary-- Master Gardeners! Wish you all could be with us tomorrow at the MG Celebration Project at GEHC. We'll share our pictures here and we have photo albums set up so you can post photos of your local celebrations and projects.

Phyllis Wilson Goff Sue Burgess was a major hit at the Southern Garden History Society Conference in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Root House Garden ROCKS!!

Georgia Master Gardener Program Creating album for pictures for Tuesday Sept 29th.

Georgia Master Gardener Program Wow! We have lots of volunteers signed up to work on the Anniversary Celebration Project on Sept. 29th. We aren't taking any more sign-ups but we may have a few of the commemorative t-shirts left. E-mail me at kslagle@uga.edu if you are interested.


























