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Master Gardener Lectures

Houseplants 101

Join Master Gardener, Meipo Martin as she covers the basics of keeping healthy, happy houseplants.

Many tropical plants have been raised indoors as houseplants. Learn to assess and select your site. Learn how plants function. Know what plants need so as to take best care of them: light, temperature, humidity and soil requirements, how/when/how much to water and fertilize. Other maintenance needs covered: grooming, trimming, pruning, pinching. Common cultivation problems, common pests and remedies. How to pick a healthy plant suitable for your site.

Speaker bio:
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. 

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