Master Gardener to talk about holiday plants as gifts

PORT ANGELES — The final seminar of the 2010 Green Thumbs Garden Tips brown bag series sponsored by the Clallam County Master Gardeners will focus on holiday gift plant ideas.

Jeanette Stehr-Green, a Master Gardener certified by Washington State University, will present the lecture at noon Tuesday, Dec. 14, at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.

Stehr-Green will give advice about selecting quality plants for the holidays, providing care to keep them beautiful through the holidays and proving long-term care so that plants will be beautiful for many holiday seasons to come.

She will talk about poinsettias, amaryllis, Christmas cactus, cyclamen and paperwhites.

A Master Gardener since 2003, Stehr-Green has several years of experience growing holiday plants and has raised amaryllis and cyclamen from seed.

She is an experienced plant clinician, writes articles on gardening for the Master Gardener newsletter and other local publications, and is a regular guest on the KONP Todd Ortloff and KSQM gardening shows.

This is the last presentation of the year in the brown bag series.

The series will resume Jan. 27, held from noon to 1 p.m. every second and fourth Thursday of each month at the county courthouse.

For more information, phone 360-417-2279.

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