Gardening Seminars
See our Events Calendar for dates and locations of upcoming gardening seminars. You can also call our hotline, 408-282-3105, M-F from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., for details on upcoming workshops, classes or talks.
Palo Alto Demonstration Garden
- Free, one-hour workshops
- First Saturday of the month, 10 a.m.
- Followed by Open Garden and tours and Q&A with Master Gardeners
Past and upcoming workshops include:
- Easy Drip Irrigation
- Cool Season Gardening Tips
- Saving Seeds From Your Garden and Propagating Plants
- Fall Garden Maintenance Tasks
Sunnyvale Teaching and Demonstration Garden
- Free, two-hour workshops
- Second Saturday of the month, 1 p.m.
- Followed by Grand Rounds in the Community Garden, with tours and Q&A with Master Gardeners
- Please note: some workshops may be on weekday evenings in the Sunnyvale library from 7-9 p.m. Check the Events Calendar for this month's workshop.
Past and upcoming workshops include
- When to Harvest that Great Produce
- Less Work, More Food: A Cool Season Edible Garden
- Design and Plan the Water-wise Garden of Your Dreams
- Let a Cover Crop Do the Work!
- Free, two-hour workshops and classes
- Second Saturday of the month, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
- Please note: workshops are not held in December and January.
Past and upcoming seminars include:
- Walk-in Plant Clinic
- Sustainable Organic Roses
- Keeping Native Oak Trees Healthy
- All You Ever Wanted to Know About Lavender!
- Free; 1 or 2 hours long
- Libraries include: Evergreen Library, San Jose; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose; Bibliotecha Latinoamericana, San Jose; Los Altos Main Library, Los Altos and many more.
- Each month there are several library talks scheduled. Check the Events Calendar for this month's talks.
Past and upcoming talks include:
- Gardening in Small Places
- Critters in Your Garden
- Year-Round Flowers in Your Garden
- Winter Greens: Now is a Perfect Time to Start
Free mini-seminars, 30 minutes long
Seminars include:
- How to Grow Great Tomatoes
- Got Plants - Now What?
- Garden Tool Care
- Easy Garden Irrigation
- Sustainable Gardening
Other organizations invite us to teach gardening seminars at their festivals and garden markets. These include:
Guadalupe River Park and Gardens
MetroEd/Erikson Adult Ed Center
Santa Clara County school districts and local governments
You might also be interested in classes and events at these organizations:
Master Gardeners of San Mateo and San Francisco Counties
Master Gardeners of Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties
California Rare Fruit Growers (Santa Clara Chapter newsletter)
California Native Plant Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
Canopy, Trees of Palo Alto and the Bay Area, Palo Alto
Common Ground, Palo Alto
Emma Prusch Farm Park and Orchards, San Jose
Evergreen Valley Garden Club, San Jose
Gamble Garden, Palo Alto
Guadalupe River Park and Gardens, San Jose
Heritage Rose Garden, San Jose
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society,
Western Horticulture, Los Altos