Tickets are on sale for the 2023 Jefferson County Master Gardener Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Yard & Garden Virtual Lecture Series. The lectures are offered in a live webinar format, and will run on six Saturday mornings: February 11 and 25, and March 4, 11, 18, and 25.
The lecture on March 11 is “Plants for a Better Planet with Great Plant Picks”
Del Brummet is head gardener and plant propagation manager at the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle. He has a biology degree from the University of Washington where he worked researching plants and their requirements for seed germination. Del will draw on his experience as a regular observer of Great Plant Pick’s meetings and representative at outreach events to discuss how plants are selected for the program. Del will look at the program through the lens of the theme of “Plants for a Better Planet.”