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ASK THE EXPERTS

April 2025

Ask a question. Get a Free Plant!

Resident Bloom & Grow Member Experts

                            Katy Moss Warner – Professional Horticulturist and former                                                        Director of Disney Horticulture.

                            Van Donnan – Avid plantsman and plant tissue

                                                      culture pioneer.

Ask the Experts is located in front of the Garden Theatre

in Zone 10

Nurseries Donating Plants

 Agri-Starts Apopka,

Moss Hill Foliage Apopka

Russell's Bromelaids Clermont

Sunshine Horiculture Apopka

Experts

Saturday, April 5th, 2025

 

9:00 am - 11:00 am  ,

Melissa Shepherd: Bedding plant expert and avid gardener;  Disney’s Horticulture cast member.

Brooke Moffis: IFAS Lake County Extension Agent, avid gardener and author.

11:00 am - 1:00pm 1

Tom MacCubbin: Author, TV and Radio personality and for Orange County Extension Agent.

Wes Parrish: Palm and Tree expert and avid gardener; former owner of Parrish Nursery in Parkland FL.

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Kyle Kroeplin: Foliage plant expert; Owner of BWH Plant Co and Jungle Room, Orlando.

Janice Crawford: Avid Gardener; UF Master Gardener, UF Master Naturalist for Coastal Systems.

 

3:00 - 5:00 pm

Kathrein Markle: Wekiwa Gardens owner and foliage plant expert. 

Alan Shapiro: Bird Expert and Plant expert, former owner of Grandflora nursery.  

Sunday, April 6th, 2025

 

10:00 am - 12:00 am   

Patrice Ragusa: Landscape Architect and avid gardener.

Robert Bowden: Vegetable expert and avid gardener; author, former Executive Director of Leu Gardens.

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm  

Billy Butterfield: Ameriscapes owner and avid gardener.

Andy Kittsley: Tree expert; former Urban Forester for the City of Orlando.

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm  

Kelly Baumier: Avid Gardener; Director of Eco-Education Center at Magnolia Park. Maureen Henderson: President of Ground Effects Landscape Maintenance, Inc..

 

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