Featuring education, art, and conservation - Springfest is the place to get answers about how to refresh your garden and support the environment.
With the help of our local Master Gardeners (UC Cooperative Extension) Springfest’s Garden Center returns!
Participating floral societies and gardening organizations include: Sequoia Garden Club, American Gourd Society, California Native Plant Society, and Visalia Succulent Club.
Join Master Gardeners at hourly seminars on a variety of subjects like: Rose Care, Tree Care, Pest Control, Landscape Design, and Pool Maintenance.
In addition there will be a KIDS POTTING ACTIVITY hosted by The Home Depot. They will have essentials for cleaning, maintaining, and some of the latest gardening tools.
The Garden Center is located on the North side of the Convention Center.
This year Hanford Bonsai and Sequoia Riverlands Trust debut.
MASTER GARDENERS (UC Cooperative Extension)
The Primary Role Of A Master Gardener is to Educate!
This year, Master Gardeners will feature Square Foot Gardening, and Container Gardening.
Master Gardeners answer questions, conduct demonstrations, diagnose plant/pest problems, and provide this horticultural assistance by telephone, newspaper, public speaking, and public contact. The primary role of the Master Gardener is to be an educator. Each MG is expected to teach, write, and present information to the general public.
Master Gardeners are members of communities who are trained by Cooperative Extension experts in different aspects of plant science. In exchange for instruction, persons who become Master Gardeners volunteer through their local Cooperative Extension office to extend information to their community.
For more information about Master Gardener Training Programs, visit ucanr.edu.
California Native Plant Society (CNPS)
Preserving and Protecting California Native Plants and Their Habitats
The native plants of California are unlike any other in the world. From the richly colored expanse of spring wildflowers in the desert to groves of Monterey cypress on the coast, California's wild gardens are immensely diverse and awe-inspiring in their beauty.
California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a statewide non-profit organization of amateurs and professionals with a common interest in California's native plants. Through membership in CNPS, Californians of all walks of life are able to learn about gardening and landscaping with native plants. Since 1965, CNPS has worked hard to protect California's native plant heritage and preserve it for future generations.
For more information, visit altapeakcnps.org
Visalia Succulent Society
We're just starting out, the club is small and informal!
The Visalia Succulent Club is a non-profit group created by the locals of Visalia in 2015. Members meet to share, learn, and teach about succulent plants. Our meetings are always eventful; involving anything from guest speakers, workshops, succulent exchanges, sales, field trips, and more.
Sequoia Garden Club
Connect with People Enthusiastic About Making Their Homes Bloom
Sequoia Garden Club I can help you learn about the latest in gardening, and connect you with people also enthusiastic about making their homes bloom? If you want to be part of beautifying and enriching our community through horticultural projects and if you interested in landscape and floral design, cultivation, conservation, garden therapy and crafting…and much more, then come join us!
In addition to garden crafting, maintaining her plantings, and celebrating Earth Day, our Milkweed-for-Monarchs campaign raises awareness about the decline of monarch butterfly habitat, and distributes free milkweed seeds to the public. For more information, visit www.californiagardenclubs.com/sequoiagardenclub