Your Site's a Fright — Let's Plan It Right!

This class takes the do-it-yourself gardener on a step-by-step journey through the basics of developing a successful garden design. Learn the importance of site assessment as well as the basic elements of design. Through observation and site assessment participants will get the tools they need to create a well planned, all-season garden.

Speaker Barbara Darbin is a master gardener and former art teacher for Kingston city schools and a certified landscape and garden designer. She received her training from the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook.

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County's Master Gardener Program will again offer a series of workshops during February and March to help the home gardener get prepared for spring.

Classes will be held Feb. 11, Feb. 25, March 10 and March 25.

All classes will be from 7 to 9 p.m. at Ulster County Board of Cooperative Educational Services, 175 Route 32 in New Paltz.

Participants may choose the class or classes they are most interested in or sign up for the entire series. The fee for individual classes is $15, or $50 for all four. Class sizes are limited. Advance registration is required five days before each class.

Call Dona Crawford at 845-340-3990. Registration forms can be downloaded at www.cceulster.org.

Feb. 25. Get Compliments on Your Complementary Garden

Speaker Kris Perry has been a master gardener for two years and still considers herself an apprentice. Using companion gardening guidelines, she planted her first vegetable garden this year as part of the food pantry at her church.

Complementary or companion planting can be described as a practical approach that matches two or more plants that, when grown together, result in some cultural benefit such as pest control or nutrient uptake. Lecture will guide participants through basic design elements of color, shape and texture, and plant selection with an emphasis on color, fragrance or bloom time.


Call Dona Crawford at 845-340-3990. Registration forms can be downloaded at www.cceulster.org.