Design & Beyond 

Summit County Master Gardeners cordially invite you to attend

DESIGN & BEYOND 2025

When: Saturday, January 25, 2025

Time: Doors open at 8:00am

Keynote Speaker Program begins at 9:00am

program ends at 4:00pm

Where: St. George Orthodox Church

Address: 3204 Ridgewood Road, Fairlawn, Ohio 44333

Cost:

Friends $65

Patrons $100

(Patron level includes Patron Parking, Patron Hospitality Room where you can check in and meet with the speakers, and $10.00 free raffle tickets.)

Artisan Crafts Raffle, Door Prizes & 50/50

Breakfast Bar including Oatmeal, Buffet Lunch – Soup, Salad and Dessert Bar

D&B qualifies for 5 Master Gardener CE hours.

Please note that all sales are final and no refunds will be given except if the event is cancelled.

Joseph Tychonievich – KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Joseph Tychonievich has been gardening since he was a teenager, and has worked in the horticulture industry for nearly two decades. He is the author of six gardening books, contributes regularly to national gardening magazines, and speaks at over a dozen gardening events and conferences each year.

Topics:

Plant Science that will make you a better gardener.

All to often the best research on how to grow plants effectively never leaves the ivory tower and never gets translated into language average gardeners can understand. In this talk we’ll delve into some of the most interesting research from academic horticulture and plant science and explain how you can put it to use in your garden.

Small Spaces, big ideas.

Gardening in small space doesn’t have to be limiting. A small garden can be exciting, creative, beautiful and it takes very little work to maintain. This talk goes through some principles and concepts to help make the most of a garden space and shares some ideas and photos to get you thinking up big, creative ideas for your small garden.

Christine Froehlich

Horticulturist, Landscape designer, Garden writer and speaker.

I help gardeners create and improve their landscape by showing them how to solve the real problems of beginning new gardens or renovating an existing one. Its not hard to create the garden of your dreams. I began freelancing for a variety of gardening magazines; Fine Gardening, American Gardener, Country Gardens, American Nurseryman, The Upstate Gardeners Journal and I also write a monthly blog – “Gardening with What You Have”

Topic:

Loosen up your landscape style: Melding the wild and the tamed with native plants.

You will discover ways to loosen up your style, emulate nature, and incorporate native plants into your landscape. Learn about resilient plant species that foster biodiversity, minimize maintenance, and enrich your outdoor environment, providing habitat for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife.  Believe it or not, it’s not that hard to create the garden of your dreams!

Debra Knapke

Debra Knapke, The Garden Sage. Debra is an avid horticulturalist, teacher, author, and eclectic gardener, who shares her extensive knowledge of sustainable gardening with organizations all across the U.S.  As a writer, Knapke has co-authored five gardening books with Alison Beck.

Topic:

Herbs in the Landscape – Sensual Gardens.
Herbs allow us to experience the world through our senses. Their beauty, smells, tastes, textures and sounds are often subtle, but welcome in a world where we are bombarded by hyperbole and multi-tasking on a daily basis. Explore the concepts of garden design and “gentle living through herbs” in a presentation that may change your ideas about pleasure in the garden.