CCMG: Beauties and the Beasts of Our Garden
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The Champaign County Master Gardeners invite you to join our program, "Beauties and the Beasts of Our Garden."
Date: April 22, 2025
Time: 7 pm
Location: Extension Auditorium, 801 N Country Fair Dr, Champaign, IL
Speaker: Dan Billman
This is an interactive presentation in which we will take a look at various situations we run into in most of our gardens/landscapes that contribute to success or failure. Dan Billman's presentation will cover living and non-living situations that may influence the beauty of our plants and overall gardens. What might seem like a good thing – a beauty – might actually cause more harm than good, or vice versa! We will "vote" on whether they are a beauty, a beast, or both! After working with plants for almost 40 years, Dan will discuss one of the most enormous beasts in our area. One that most folks would not guess! Join Dan Billman to learn how to manage environmental factors, pests, plant selection, and more this spring. He has been educating and presenting for 27 years and loves to get people excited about ornamental plants and the environment they live in.
- Learn how a plant might be a beauty but also a beast.
- Become more familiar with the environment plants love to dwell in.
- Find out precisely what ornamental horticulture is all about.
Dan has been in the field of ornamental horticulture for 40 years. Right out of high school, with the help of a teacher who taught horticulture, he got his first job in the green industry. After earning both bachelor's and master's degrees in Plant and Soil Science at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, he joined Home Nursery Inc., one of the Midwest's largest wholesale producers of ornamental plants, building & running their Research and Development Program. After 5 years, he had the opportunity to teach at St Louis Community College Meramec in the Biology & Horticulture departments, focusing on woody plants, pest management, and propagation. After 19 years of teaching, he started DB Horticultural Services, which he uses to promote plant knowledge through presentations, consulting, workshops, and "in-field" educational Walkabouts, which he has hosted for more than 25 years
If you have any questions or need a reasonable accommodation to participate, contact Valerie Nicolini at vln3@illinois.edu