Meeting Activities: Speaker, Flower Show, Master Gardeners (available for questions). Click here for Flower Show Details.

Guest Speaker: Denise Hodgins

Topic: Prune Away!

 Denise Hodgins O.D.H. of Digging Dirt Designs, is a landscape designer and garden coach. A graduate of Landscape Design from Fanshawe College, she also holds a diploma in horticulture from the University of Guelph.

Denise is a horticulture and floral design judge for the OHA and a certified Rose Judge. She writes a weekly column “Growing Concern” in the London Press and is an associate writer for several Post Media papers.

Her presentation Prune Away! will cover what and when to prune your trees, shrubs and other plants in your garden. If you are afraid to prune and loose the blooms or worried about misshaping shrubs, Denise will be teaching us about how to make basic cuts, how cuts can influence growth, the best tools to prune with and when to stop cutting.