Houseplants 101 and Plant Swap with Master Gardeners

at Gaithersburg Library

For beginners to experts, come learn about the aspects of successfully choosing and raising healthy houseplants, followed by a plant swap!

Join Meipo Martin from the Master Gardeners of Montgomery County Cooperative Extension Service as she teaches us about how to choose and raise houseplants that are right for you space.

Since many tropical plants have been raised indoors as houseplants, they have a range of needs. Meipo's talk will cover: 

• How to assess and select your site,
• Plant needs: light, temperature, humidity and soil requirements, 
• When to water and fertilize,
• When to groom, trim, prune and/or pinch your plants,
• Common cultivation problems, pests and remedies,
• How to pick a healthy plant suitable for your site.

Plant Swap Details:

Feel free to bring a house plant cutting to swap. Don't have plants to share yet? The library will have a limited supply of Spider Plants to give away.

About Meipo Martin

Meipo Martin was born in Hong Kong, where she started growing houseplants and herbs on the apartment windowsill. In 1998, she moved to the United States.  In her new garden, her love for plants came into full bloom and she became a Montgomery County Master Gardener in 2015. Meipo believes gardening should be accessible to all, and it does not have to be expensive or hard. To share her knowledge, Meipo gives a variety of presentations on gardening methods for the master gardener organization. When she is not gardening, Meipo is a wife, an Aikido instructor, a woodcarver, a blogger and a sewist.

Questions about this program? Contact the Gaithersburg Library at 240-773-9490.

By joining this MCPL program, you agree to abide by our rules of conduct. Library staff has the authority to remove you from this program if we deem your behavior to be inappropriate, to ensure the safety of staff and customers.

Library Program Attendance (both virtual and in the branch) is limited to participants within the suggested age range of the program. Adults attending a program intended for children must have an accompanying child.

Accommodation Requests

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

cm 1.1 01/03/2023

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