Speaker Topics

Listed below are some common garden topics requested of our speakers for recent events.  Please feel free to choose from this list of popular topics and request a Master Gardener speaker for your upcoming event by filling out the Speaker Request form.

Popular topics include:

  • 3D Printing in the Garden

  • Container Gardening

  • Floating Wetlands

  • Floral Arrangement

  • Fruit Pruning Basics

  • Garden in a Straw Bale: The No-Mess, No-Stress Way to Grow!

  • Gardening & Grilling

  • Gardening and Wellness (or Dirt is Fun!)

  • Gardening for Wildlife and Birds

  • Gardening with Mushrooms/Fungi

  • Growing for a Food Pantry (interactive garden tour available depending on season)

  • Hardy Succulents for the Outdoors in Missouri

  • Heirlooms vs Hybrids

  • Herbs

  • Landscape Design, Infrastructure, and Hardscaping (not xeriscaping)

  • Landscape Design, Site Analysis, Research & Development

  • Lavender

  • Monarch Migration

  • Native Alternatives for Common Ornamentals “plant this, not that”

  • Native Plants

  • No space? No problem! Introduction to Container Gardening

  • Nourishing, Relaxing Herbal Teas

  • Past Meets Present: Navigating the Landscape of Hybrids and Heirlooms

  • Plant-related Activities for Adults of All Abilities (interactive, customized to your consumers abilities)

  • Planting for Pollinators

  • Raised Bed Gardening

  • Scented Geraniums

  • Sensory Gardening

  • Sensory Herb Tour at the Demonstration Garden (available depending on season)

  • Starting Seeds

  • Straw Bale Gardening

  • Using Herbs

  • Vegetables for Childrens Groups (interactive garden tour available depending on season)

  • Watering Systems

  • Water Wise Garden (recording)

  • Who are the Pollinators (adults)

  • Who are the Pollinators (kids)

  • Wildflowers for butterflies

  • Winter Sowing