TYLER, TX (KLTV) –
The smell of flowers, long hours working in the garden and a beautiful landscaped result. No, it’s not spring time, but it is time again for Idea garden to shine.
The Smith County Master Gardeners are hosting “First Tuesday in the Garden” on Tuesday, September 4th, at noon in the Idea Garden at the Tyler Rose Garden. This program is free, open to the public, and about an hour long.
The lectures will be held on the first Tuesday of every month and are designed to help people with landscaping and gardening basics.
The Idea Garden is located in the southeast corner of the Rose Garden with ample parking available outside of the southeast gate. Garden coordinator Sue Adee said the Idea garden is all about educating people and growing their love for gardening.
“The Idea Garden is a multi-purpose educational garden. It’s here to bring ideas and new innovations to the gardeners of East Texas and Smith County,” Adee said.
Sue Adee has been the coordinator for the Idea Garden and a member of the Smith County Master Gardeners since it was founded in 1994.
The master gardeners are a volunteer organization of about 150 people who work every Tuesday in the Idea Garden in the Tyler Rose Garden.
“We work year round. We don’t work a whole lot in December and January, but we work every Tuesday as long as it isn’t raining or sleeting or freezing,” Adee said.
Members of the garden take classes provided by Texas A M University on gardening specific to the East Texas area. They use that knowledge to beautify the Idea Garden and teach other East Texans about local plant life and soil.
“You can get back to nature, it’s relaxing, you get to watch something grow, it’s nature. It just takes you back to your roots,” Adee said.
The group also has educational programs for school children starting as young as four-years-old through their Junior Master Gardeners program.
Also, the East Texas State Fair on September 21 through 30, has an Agriworld building with exhibits from several organizations, including the Smith County Master Gardeners. There are walk through exhibits and the fair hosts school children during the morning hours of the fair for mini learning sessions about gardening, agriculture, beekeeping and other related topics.
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