Learn spring gardening tips for ornamental plants from Master Gardener Dennis Brown. Get your garden ready to grow. Learn steps that you can take now to ensure that your ornamental trees, shrubs and perennials will look their best this summer and all year round. This talk will provide tips for pruning woody ornamentals, with an emphasis on flowering and fruiting shrubs, and for dividing and transplanting your perennials. Presenter will share examples from his yard, which combines ornamental and edible plants for a landscape that is both attractive and tasty.   

Dennis Brown, PhD, has had a lifelong interest in gardening and has been a Master Gardener since 2010. He currently gardens at his home and at a community garden in Northeast Portland. As an OSU Master Gardener, he provides research-based information on sustainable gardening practices to the public in metropolitan Portland via the Master Gardener phone line, farmers’ market plant clinics and other venues. He is on the Advisory Council for SolvePestProblems.org, a project of the Oregon State University Extension Service, which is developing an accessible tool for Oregonians to obtain information about safely managing pests in their gardens and homes. Dennis has degrees in Horticulture (BS, MS) and Plant Biology (PhD).

This program is part of GHCL's Garden Home Green Thumbs, which hosts quarterly events to inspire gardeners. We host an annual spring seed swap and other special events. If you’d like to be on the email list for future events, please contact Heather W.