REMINDER - Winter Houseplant Care Continuing Ed.

Winter Houseplant Care

Thursday, January 9, 5:30-7:00 P.M.

Is your home a lush jungle, or do you just hope for a little fresh greenery to cheer you through the brown months until spring? Do you know a bit about houseplants? Do you have a favorite plant you’d like to share information about with others? Or perhaps you have a plant you’d like to find a new home for. Do you have a problem with one of your plants or a question you’d like answered?

RPMGA’s January education program will be a discussion (rather than a presentation) of what we know about babying our houseplants through the cold months. Light, humidity, watering, fertilizing, pruning, potting up and propagating are all areas we hope to touch on. We’ll have some resources on-hand, but nothing beats experience. The more people who come, the more knowledge we’ll have to share. Please join us! With luck, we’ll have clear skies and dry roads for this event.

If you wish to bring a houseplant with you: Cold weather can quickly damage houseplants. To protect your babies, and get them safely to Hedberg and home again, here are some tips: 1. Warm your car before putting plants in it. 2. Pack your plants in closed paper bags or wrap them in newspaper. (Paper insulates better than plastic, but if you don’t have a paper bag, a plastic bag is better than nothing. We’ll have some tape so you can seal them back up for the trip home.) 3. Take them to the car just before you leave. 4. Place them where they’re unlikely to fall over—braced in the front footwell or strapped in the passenger seat, not in the trunk. 5. Don’t let the leaves touch the windows. 6. Bring them back inside as soon as you get home so they don’t sit in a cold car.

This is an approved continuing education event.  It will award all MGVs 1 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) per hour of participation.    It will be held in the Ground Floor Conference Room at Hedberg Public Library, 316 South Main St., Janesville.  Enter the building from the parking lot at the rear, walk through the Ground Floor coffee shop to the conference room.  The doors will be open until 5:30 pm.