16th Annual PCMGA Gardening Show

Valparaiso, IN. Jan. 25th, 2020 – The 16th Annual Gardening Show sponsored by Purdue University Cooperative Extension and its Porter County Master Gardeners will be held Saturday, Jan. 25th, 2020 at the newly renovated Porter County Expo Center, 215 E. Division Road, Valparaiso, IN, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. CST (Chicago time). Our Award-winning event will feature nationally-known gardening experts including the award winning newspaper and magazine journalist Jo Ellen Myers Sharp, She will be presenting “Annuals: A Lot of Color For the Coin”, gardening author and presenter Janet Macunovich will be presenting “Best Foot Forward: Ideas for Entrance Gardens” and “Plant it Well, Even When the Roots aren’t Right”, and the head of landscape horticulture at Morton arboretum Todd Jacobson, will be presenting “Intriguing Woody Bones for the Perennial Border”. Others will speak and demonstrate on many gardening topics. We have one of the largest seed & bulb exchanges in the country, a garden photography contest, children’s activity corner, food service, and more than 120 exhibitors of products and services for and about gardens and gardening. This year’s theme is “2020 Vision for Your Garden.” To focus in on 20/20 vision, we’re partnering with Valparaiso Lions Club whose Recycle for Sight program helps improve the vision of people in need. Bring prescription or over-the-counter reading glasses (no sunglasses or cases) to the Show. The Lions Club will collect them for later distribution.
Special lodging available. Admission: $10 cash or check, children under 12 free; free parking, seed and bulb exchange tickets and door prizes. For more info visit http://www.pcgarden.info