By Pamela Keene* Hall County Master Gardeners will host two events on Saturday, August 22, to help residents of all ages learn about and participate in this year’s Great Southeast Pollinator Count. No experience is needed, and children as young as five may take part. Participation only takes 15 minutes and one plant. You’ll be providing vital information to protect the bees and insects that help produce more than 75 percent of the food we eat. Photo by Jenny Burdette Through

By Wanda Fuller, Hall County Master Gardener As next year’s president of Hall County Master Gardeners, Julie Auten feels the need to know as many aspects of this nonprofit as possible. Taking the lead responsibility for organizing the Fall Garden Expo was the logical next step toward her goal. Working with her are twenty-three experienced chairs, each with a co-chair, over different aspects of the event: Technology, Garden Carts, Traffic Control, Arena Setup, Hospitality, Tic

By Julie Auten, Hall County Master Gardener and Chair of the 2026 Fall Garden Expo "Patience is a virtue." Without a doubt, we have all heard this said. It pertains to so many areas of our lives, including our careers, parenting, and even gardening. While it is all gardeners' dream to have the perfect garden immediately upon planting, this is simply not realistic. Gardening, especially when growing perennials, is an exercise in patience. As with all gardens, site preparatio

By Lesa Hartley, Hall County Master Gardener Summer Storytime, presented at Gardens on Green, has been a great success this year, with 80+ children present on our busiest Wednesday morning. Please bring your children or grandchildren and join us! We meet on Wednesday mornings from 10:00 -11:45 am, June 3rd through July 29th. The activities are designed for preschool to second grade, but older siblings are welcome to attend. Hall County Media Specialists present our story of

By Wanda Fuller, Hall County Master Gardener Photo credit: Giacomo Davanzo Called many things, this rotund rodent lives only 2 to 3 years but ensures the longevity of her species by producing an annual litter of up to 9 kits, pups, or chucklings. Even naming this creature is problematic. Try evicting her from your garden! Think of an appetite big enough to devour a pound of vegetation a day when you weigh no more than nine pounds! No, cubby. Find your salad elsewhere! I don

by Wanda Fuller, Hall County Master Gardener Image from Carole Knight's "Tomato Troubleshooting" At four to five inches in length, the hornworm caterpillar can strip a plant’s foliage overnight and leave holes in ripening tomatoes. Less active during the day, it clings, camouflaged, under leaves. At night, with a black or ultraviolet light, it’s easily found glowing in the dark! You can recognize the hornworm by white diagonal markings over its body an

As part of the Hall County Master Gardeners program this year, Garrett Hibbs (Hall County Extension Coordinator) and Bridget Tuckey (Hall County Master Gardener Coordinator) offered trainees the opportunity to design and plant a 7’x7’ competition garden. This assignment was a hands-on way to meet program learning goals and produce mini-demonstration gardens for the organization. Alternatively, trainees could collaborate on renewing one of several existing gardens on the groun

Wilshire Park Pollinator Garden Gardens can be magical places, full of life, color, and sensory delight. Hall County Master Gardeners’ Garden Walk “In Our Own Back Yards” – May 16th, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm – offers visitors a chance to amble through some of the loveliest gardens in Hall County and experience that magic. For the $20 cost of a ticket ($15 if purchased before April 15th!) visitors are welcomed into five personal gardens of Hall County Master Gardeners and a public g

It’s almost that time again! On April 3rd and 4th, Hall County Master Gardeners and vendors from Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina will gather, as they have for the past 23 years, for the 2026 Spring Garden Expo, offering native and non-native plants, gardening tools, outdoor decor, honey, and more. At $2 per ticket, the Expo will be open to the public at Chicopee Woods Agricultural Center on Friday 8:30-5:00 and Saturday 8:30-4:00. Attendees will have access to food truck