{"id":4073,"date":"2019-07-01T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:23:02","slug":"2019-purdue-master-gardener-state-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/2019-purdue-master-gardener-state-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Purdue Master Gardener State Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 21st<\/sup>, Purdue Master Gardeners gathered together in Sellersburg, IN to begin the 2019 Purdue Master Gardener State Tour.\u00a0 This year\u2019s tour was sponsored by Sunnyside Master Gardener Association of Southern Indiana, Purdue Extension Floyd County, and the Purdue Master Gardener State Office.\u00a0 Three different tours were offered, highlighting various gardens in Southern Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Before the tours departed Sellersburg,\u00a0 Matt Bizzell, director of horticulture at Churchill Downs, discussed all the work involved in keeping the grounds beautiful leading up to the Kentucky Derby and after.\u00a0 This includes growing 25,000 plants in the 12,000 square-foot Horticultural Center, and working 90 to 95 hours during Derby Week.<\/p>\n

Stops on Tour 1 included Hidden Hill Sculpture Gardens, Lincliff Gardens, and Falls of the Ohio State Park. \u00a0Tour 2 toured the Sunnyside Master Gardener Gardens at the Georgetown Optimist Club, Turtle Run Winery, and Whitehall Gardens.\u00a0 Tour 3 visited Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, the Avish Gardens, and various community gardens in downtown Albany, Indiana.<\/p>\n

All tours reconvene at the Purdue Technology Center in New Albany, where the Sunnyside Master Gardener Demonstration Gardens were exhibited.\u00a0 Here the volunteers explored the Ornamental Grass Garden, the Sensory Garden, and the Bee Haven Garden.\u00a0 There were information booths about the Bluebird Trails Team, who won second place in the Educational Service Workshop Division in the 2015 Purdue Master Gardener Search for Excellence Awards, and the Pollinator and Beneficial Insect Team, winner of the Educational Service Workshop Division of the 2018 Purdue Master Gardener Search for Excellence Awards.<\/p>\n

The Purdue MG State Office would like to express appreciation to the 2019 State Tour planning committee (https:\/\/www.sunnysidemg.org\/smg-leadership<\/a>), Gina Anderson, Extension Educator, Floyd County, and all of the Sunnyside Master Gardeners for their excellent work on this very successful state tour! Thank you for \u201cHelping Others Grow\u201d!<\/p>\n

For more information about the 2019 Purdue MG Tour, visit .<\/p>\n

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Formal gardens at Lincliff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Water garden at Lincliff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tree lined walkway at Lincliff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shade garden at Lincliff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sculpture at Hidden Hills Nursery<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sculpture at Hidden Hills Nursery<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gardens at Hidden Hills Nursery<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 21st, Purdue Master Gardeners gathered together in Sellersburg, IN to begin the 2019 Purdue Master Gardener State Tour.\u00a0 This year\u2019s tour was sponsored by Sunnyside Master Gardener Association of Southern Indiana, Purdue Extension Floyd County, and the Purdue Master Gardener State Office.\u00a0 Three different tours were offered, highlighting various gardens in Southern Indiana…Read more about 2019 Purdue Master Gardener State Tour<\/span>[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[682],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mg-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13042,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/13042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}