Union County Master Gardeners

06/26/2024

Pretty good description of a Master Gardener!

06/20/2024

Union County Master Gardeners enjoyed our June monthly meeting at the home of Sandra Ford on Tuesday evening. Sandra graciously allowed the members to tour her beautiful lawns and her wooded, backyard gardens with shaded areas, beautiful walkways, tranquil seating areas and abundance of colorful plants. A picnic style meal with grilled hamburgers and hotdogs with all the fixins was provided by Sandra, her family, and friends. Thank you, Sandra for an enjoyable and educational evening.

05/22/2024

Union County Master Gardeners enjoyed our monthly meeting Tuesday evening, May 21st. Our speaker for the evening was Donna Kovach from Marshall County Master Gardeners. Donna did an excellent job speaking on “Creating a Pollinator Garden”. We learned the importance of pollinators, who are the pollinators, and the ways they move from plant to plant. She also showed pictures of a pollinator garden, via slide show, which she and her group of Master Gardeners had built in her county. Her words were very inspiring and our Master Gardeners are making plans to incorporate Pollinators into our future projects. If you are interested in becoming a Master Gardener and enjoy working together to create beautiful gardens, please contact our Union County Extension Office. 662-534-1916

05/22/2024

05/07/2024

Four members of the Union County Master Gardeners group attended the 24th Annual Mississippi Master Gardener State Conference last week. Sherra Owen was acknowledged for her 20 years of Master Gardener service and received her commemorative pin during the awards banquet. This year’s conference was held at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Ms, and the floral displays in the facility were stunning. Speakers included Felder Rushing, Dr Gary Bauchman, Dr Eddie Smith and Dr Jeff Wilson. The keynote speaker was Doug Tallamy, who provided great insight into how each person can make a difference with their own backyard conservation efforts. Other educational sessions covered floral arrangements, farm to florists efforts, community gardens, mushroom cultivation, victory gardens and monarch butterflies. Attendees were able to gather new information to bring back into their home counties to share with others and implement ideas to better their communities. The time spent interacting with Master Gardeners from all areas of Mississippi is a valuable part of the conference and strengthens our statewide gardening community. Our group looks forward to applying what they learned to projects in the area during the coming months.

05/07/2024

Congratulations to Sandy Shaddinger, winner of the raffle for the Driftwood Fairy Garden at the UCMG Plant Sale on 5/4/24.
Congratulations to Angie Whiteside, winner of the raffle for the Wooden Church at the UCMG Plant Sale on 5/4/24.

05/04/2024

Union County Master Gardeners are set up and ready to go this morning!!! Come on out and browse our many plants, vegetables, herbs, ornamentals, shrubs, house plants, yard and porch decorations, fairy gardens, we have a Huge variety!! We look forward to seeing you today at the Beautiful Union County Heritage Museum, New Albany, Ms.

05/03/2024

Just got these pics, wouldn’t they be great on a deck! Come on out to the Master Gardeners sale tomorrow at Union County Heritage Museum 8-1:00. New Albany, Ms.

05/03/2024

Just take a look at these adorable yard/porch ornaments, hand made by our Union County Master Gardeners!!! They are for sale Saturday 8am-1pm. Come by tomorrow at the Union County Heritage Museum and look at all the great plants and ornaments

05/03/2024

Tomorrow is the Day!! Union County Master Gardeners annual PLANT SALE. Our tables are filling up! Starts at 8:00 am- 1:00 pm, at the Union County Heritage Museum. Here’s a peak at some of the plants we’ll have available. We hope to see you bright and early.

05/02/2024

Union County Master Gardeners plant sale in 2 days!!! Master Gardeners are working really hard to have a great supply of plants 🪴. Here are a few more Beautiful options. It’s going to be a great day to shop for plants!!!

04/30/2024

Union county Master Gardeners Plant sale Saturday May 4, 8-1. Come, shop early. There will be Porch and Yard decorations, flowering plants and shrubs, vegetables plants, herbs, fairy gardens. We look forward to seeing you!