Monthly MCMGA Meeting
Monday, September 12, 2022
Evening Meeting: 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Riviera Club
5640 N. Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN
The September 12th meeting of the Marion County Master Gardeners’ Association will be held at the Riviera Club, at 5640 N. Illinois Street, Indianapolis, with a special program featuring a presentation by Michael Homoya.
A noted botanist and plant ecologist, Mike has authored numerous scientific papers and books about Indiana’s natural landscape, flowers and trees. At our meeting he will speak on “Shifting Baselines: Indiana’s Natural Landscape of 1816 and Today”.
In addition to Mike’s presentation, our evening will include a tour of the gardens at the Riviera Club, maintained by the Riviera Garden Club, including several Master Gardeners, and a delicious dinner prepared by the Rivi’s chef and kitchen brigade. Vegetarian dishes will be available. A bar offering wine and beer will also be open. Payment will only be by credit or debit cards, but cash tips will surely be welcome.
Our program will begin at 5:30, with a garden tour and social hour. At 6:30 the buffet will open, and at 7:30 Mike will begin his presentation. The evening will end by 9 pm.
Cost for the dinner meeting will be $25 per person, inclusive of tax and gratuity. A small fee will be charged by Eventbrite for reservations. You are welcome to bring guests; just purchase their tickets in your name, and provide us with their names, please. Please remember to wear your nametag to help identify yourself to others attendees.
Please Note: the Rivi meeting area on the 2nd floor is handicap (including wheel chair) accessible via the elevator to left of the main entry door under the outside awning – cars can pull right up to the side walk there to drop off guests etc.
You can register for the event on Eventbrite:
Sign up here ==> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/383153842457
Please respond by September 4, at the latest. Look forward to seeing you on September 12, for our first in-person evening meeting since 2019!
Events Calendar – Check it out !
Looking to see what events are going on around us. Looking for a garden class to attend. This is the place to check.
Please check with the event organizer if their event has been cancelled, postponed, or modified before you go to an event.
To see what was talked about, watch and listen to the
June 13, 2022 MG Member Meeting.
New 2022 updated Garden Centers listing for MCMGA Master Gardeners
22 garden centers offering 10% discount for your garden projects and purchases. See the list here.
MCMGA Photos
Photos from the State Fair, Demo Garden, and Aug MCMGA Members are in our Photo Gallery. Click on link below.
See the winning photos and all photos submitted for the 2021 MCMGA Photos Contest
Also see photos submitted by our members for our MCMGA Photo Gallery
2022 MCMGA membership dues
We are now collecting 2022 MCMGA membership dues. For membership form, payment
options, or to check to see if you have already paid, click here. There is also a form on the last page of the Greenery that you can print and mail in. If you have questions, please contact me at memb@indymcmga.org.
MCMGA Garden Grants for 2022
If you wish to submit an application for your organization to receive a MCMGA Garden Grant for 2022; visit our MCMGA Grants page for application request details and form. Grant requests are due by March 1st. Organizations that were awarded grants for their projects for this year and prior years can also be found here.
Purdue University Diversity Statement
The MCMGA is under the auspices of Purdue University; thus we follow the PU Diversity Statement: See the link here: https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/ea_eou_statement.php
In addition, on behalf of the Board of the Marion County Master Gardener Association, we see and acknowledge the tremendous pain and suffering happening right now in our country. It is heartbreaking. We want to be clear that we welcome all people to this association because we are all an integral part of our natural world. We welcome everyone and do not discriminate against anyone because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, disabilities, age or national origin. We know we cannot solve racial inequality and injustice here. We value the dignity of every person and we strive to foster tolerance, sensitivity, understanding, and mutual respect among our members.
From Steve Mayer:
PE-MC Demonstration Garden Wins 1st Place in AAS Landscape Design Challenge 2021
I am pleased to announce that the Purdue Extension Marion County (PEMC) Demonstration Garden won 1st place this year among All-America Selections (AAS) Display Gardens in the 10,000-100,000-visitor category in the AAS Display Gardens Design Challenge theme on Diversity in the Garden using AAS winners. This is the fifth year in a row that the garden has placed first or second in the Design Challenge nationally (2017-1st, 2018-1st, 2019-1st, 2020-2nd, & 2021-1st). A special thank you goes out to the over 3 dozen dedicated Extension Master Gardeners that planned, planted, harvested and/or maintained this award-winning garden for another year! The garden would not be possible without you.
This year the relativity small Purdue Extension Marion County Demonstration Garden received the first-place award over these often-larger gardens in the 10,000-100,000-visitor category: Powell Gardens, Kingsville, Missouri (second place), Domaine Joly-De Lotbinière, Sainte-Croix, Quebec (third place), West Coast Seeds, Delta, BC (honorable mention), Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, Cincinnati, OH (honorable mention), Royal Botanical Gardens (Hendrie Garden), Burlington, ON (honorable mention), Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC (honorable mention), Monk Botanical Gardens, Wausau, WI (honorable mention), McCrory Gardens, Brookings, SD (honorable mention), Krohn Conservatory, Cincinnati, OH (honorable mention), and Clark Botanic Garden, Albertson, NY (honorable mention). It appears that we were the only AAS Display Garden in Indiana to receive national recognition this year.
More information and photos of the different gardens that entered the 2021 contest are on the AAS website at:
https://all-americaselections.org/landscape-design-contest-winners-2020/
The PEMC Demonstration Garden page on the AAS website is at:
https://all-americaselections.org/project/first-place-winner-purdue-extension-marion-county-demonstration-garden-indianapolis-indiana-2/
AAS describes our garden as follows this year:
“Extension Master Gardener volunteers worked with the local Purdue University Extension
office to plan, plant, maintain and harvest the Purdue Extension Marion County Demonstration Garden. In planning the Diversity in the Garden theme, they focused on using a variety of plants and cultivars as well as using a greater mix of colors. To help promote plant diversity this year, they also used AAS Winners from several of the National Garden Bureau’s 2021 “Year Of The” plants in the garden. They also used AAS cultivars of three native plant species (Echinacea, 11 November 2021 Rudbeckia & Gaillardia). The largest event for the garden is the Indiana State Fair when they had almost 12,000 visitors during the 18-day event.
Information on the PEMC demonstration garden is back on the Purdue Extension Marion County website at:
https://extension.purdue.edu/news/county/marion/2020/11/Purdue-Extension-Marion-County-Demonstration-Garden.html
Many thanks and congratulations to each of you who helped make the PEMC Demonstration Garden another success this year!
Steve Mayer
PEMC Demonstration Garden volunteer
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