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• 7th Annual Symposium •

Saturday,September 28, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Sts. Peter & PaulMacedonian Banquet Hall

9660 Broadway, Crown Point, IN

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# of Lunch Choices: ______ Chicken Marsala (GF)

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Includes continental breakfast, coffee/tea, or juice,and a plated lunch with dessert.

• VENDOR SHOPPING •If you need reasonable accommodations to participate,

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Dolly Foster, Horticulturist"Flight Of The Bumble Bee" The Art of Seed

Collecting... Grow Your Need, Your Need For Seed

Dolly Foster, Landscape Horticulturist for the Oak Lawn Park District, has been a Master Gardener for 19 years, an Indiana Accredited Horticulturist for 17 and a Certified Arborist since 2008. For the past 19 years, Dolly

has presented lectures on many gardening topics. She spent four years as an adjunct faculty member of the Joliet Junior College Agriculture/ Horticulture Department. She has been butterfly gardening from the very beginning of her gardening career. Her passion has led her to raising monarch and swallowtail butterflies for eleven years. Dolly has been on many committees at the LCMGA and recently is the co chair of the butterfly garden and a member of the Advisory Board.

Bob Dixon, Owner Dixon's Florist"Color My World"

Travelling Blooms, How To KeepFlowers At Their Best

Bob and his wife Gail have owned Dixon's Florist for 26 years. Dixon's started in Highland with 3 employees and moved to Munster 14 years ago. They now have 10 employees. They are the parents of two children and five

grandchildren. Dixon's specializes in fresh arrangements, tropicals, dish gardens, flowers for weddings and funerals, gift times, and calligraphy. The have been rated #1 florist in Lake County several times over the past 10 years. Dixon's is also rated in the top 10% by Telafloral. Bob and Gail somehow find time to have a beautiful home garden.

Featured Speakers & TopicsCarol Michel, Keynote Speaker

"Jazz Up Your Garden" Tips and Tricks To Make Your Garden Sing

Carol Michel is the author of Potted & Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, which received the 2018 Garden Media Gold Award for Best Overall Book from GWA: The Association of Garden Communicators, Homegrown and Handpicked: A

Year in a Gardening Life, Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, and The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages. She is a lifelong gardener with a bachelor’s degree in horticulture production from Purdue University, an avid collector of old gardening books and claims to have the largest hoe collection in the world. A popular speaker, Carol has written for Indiana Gardening and Horticulture magazines and regularly writes for her award-winning garden blog, www.maydreamsgardens.com.

Nikky Witkowski,Purdue Extension Coordinator

"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head"Rainscapes For The Soggy Areas

Nikky Witkowski is the Purdue Extension-Porter County Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Educator. She has been with Extension for 12 years as she started in Lake County. Her background is in

Horticulture Science and has been a writer for the Indiana Gardening Magazine since 2013. The presentation focuses on why to install a rain garden and some of the how-to’s regarding them. They can really benefit wet areas in your lawn or provide for a more natural way to disperse water from gutters or impermeable surfaces around the home. They are a way to use certain native plants to better our water systems.