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107 Mehrhof Hall PO Box 110675 Gainesville, FL 32611-0675 Phone: (352) 392-1831 ext. 331 Fax: (352) 392-1413 http://mastergardener.ifas.ufl.edu

Form 10

Florida Master Gardener Awards and Recognition Form Awards of Excellence

Each county is allowed ONE ENTRY PER CATEGORY. Although your Master Gardener Coordinator may have been heavily involved in this effort, only the efforts of the Master Gardeners themselves are to be evaluated. Points will be deducted if it is perceived that most of the effort or submission of entry forms came from the Master Gardener Coordinator. Only efforts made since the last awards ceremony will be considered by the judges. Any new or re-certified active Florida Master Gardener(s) are eligible. In the event your entry does not take top honors in this category this year, we would encourage you to improve your submission and resubmit your entry next year should you repeat or continue this project. If your project has won in ANY year, it CANNOT BE RE-ENTERED again, despite any significant changes in format or participants. Judges for the awards shall be appointed by the State Master Gardener Program Leader, University of Florida. Decisions by the judges will be final. ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT SEE BELOW FOR APPLICATION CRITERIA: The correct and completed award application forms including:

A typed application form not to exceed 3 pages in length. Supporting materials (where requested may be additional pages)

o The three pages must include the 150 word project summary. 12 point font No more than 8 photographs in addition to the three pages of text. (Photos no larger than 8 x 10) This form typed and completed including: appropriate category checked Name of MG Coordinator (The coordinator must approve application prior to admission) Application, photos and supporting materials must all be in PDF format and packaged into one

document. Submissions are to be emailed to: twichman@ufl.edu

County: ......................................................................................................................................................................... Name of Project: .......................................................................................................................................................... Project start date: ............................................................... Project end date: ............................................................. Name of person(s) typing application: ......................................................................................................................... Name or names of Master Gardeners preparing application ........................................................................................ ..................................................................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................................................................... Name of Agent: ............................................................................................................................................................

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CATEGORY: Indicate only one category per entry form. You must assign your entry to a specific category to be considered for an award in that category. Entries are limited to the categories indicated below.

___ Form 11 Beautification __ Form 18 Personal Communications ___ Form 12 Demonstration Garden __ Form 19 Service to 4-H and other youth ___ Form 13 Educational Materials Development __ Form 20 Special Audiences ___ Form 14 Extension Awareness __ Form 22 Written or Verbal Mass Comm. ___ Form 15 County Displays/Exhibits __ Form 23 County Master Gardener Newsletter

___ Form 16 General Achievement ___ Form 17 Outstanding Master Gardener Email PDF Applications to: Tom Wichman twichman@ufl.edu TO BE ELIGIBLE ALL ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY AUGUST 19, 2013

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Revised 7/2013

107 Mehrhof Hall

PO Box 110675

Gainesville, FL 32611-0675

Phone: (352) 273-4521

Fax: (352) 392-1413

http://mastergardener.ifas.ufl.edu

Form 12

FLORIDA MASTER GARDENER

DEMONSTRATION/ EDUCATIONAL GARDEN AWARD

Respond to the questions below in a concise manner and return this form along with Form 10.

Remember entrants are limited to the category they indicate on Form 10. If additional space

is needed, use attachments. Photographs, newspaper clippings, newsletters, etc. can also be

included to help describe the demonstration garden efforts, scanned and attached in PDF format.

Forms must be TYPED AND COMPLETED for consideration by the committee.

1. Give a brief explanation of the scope of the demonstration garden. Please describe

educational components of the garden and number of Master Gardeners involved and hours

spent. Please provide a list of all Master Gardeners who participated in this project. (25

points).

2. What was the intended purpose of the demonstration garden and the actual or potential

audience reached? (25 points)

3. How was the site evaluated according to its effectiveness as an educational

demonstration?(20 points)

4. What were the results of this demonstration garden (15 points)?

5. How has this demonstration garden helped the targeted audience (15 points)?

6. A 150 word (or less) summary of your project so that we can let others know of your

accomplishments. Your application will NOT be judged without this summary included.

Please add a few paragraphs describing any problems you encountered or things you might

change if you were to do the project again.

http://mastergardener.ifas.ufl.edu/

Attachment to Form 12

FLORIDA MASTER GARDENER DEMONSTRATION/EDUCTIONAL GARDEN AWARD 1. Give a brief explanation of the scope of the demonstration garden. Please describe educational components of the garden and number of Master Gardeners involved and hours spent. Please provide a list of all Master Gardeners who participated in this project. (25 points.) The gardens include:

State-of-the-art greenhouse: It includes mechanical droop down/roll up slides for air circulation and cold protection, two types of ventilations fans, generous bench spacing for ADA accessibility, misters and drip emitters.

Nursery / shade cloth area: Plants coming out of the greenhouse are placed here to harden off. Plants raised are donated to local community groups or sold at Master Gardener fundraisers.

Vegetable garden: Different types of beds (raised, in-ground) and containers (Earthboxes, salad tables, buckets), tepees and trellises are featured here as well as rare and unusual plant varieties.

Butterfly garden: Larval host and nectar plants abound, attracting giant swallowtails, monarchs, queens, zebra longwings, skippers and yellow sulfurs.

Fountain: This area is a focal point featuring showy annuals. It is located at the south entrance to the greenhouse and is an area paved with donor bricks.

Children’s Garden: We keep little watering cans and kiddy gardening tools in our tool room for visiting children. The area includes of an “”A to Z Garden” with animal-named plants from A to Z and animal statuary. In one corner is a tunnel covered with coral honeysuckle to attract hummingbirds.

Sensory Garden: Here are plants that stimulate the senses of touch, smell, see, listen and taste. Students at the Anna Maria Island Elementary School made signage for this garden. The “see” part of this garden consists of a perennial rainbow garden and “what’s bloomin’” annuals that are changed periodically as appropriate for the time of year.

Goldfish pond: Home to a school of goldfish and one algae eater, the pond features figurines to provide shelter to frogs, and birdhouses.

Kids’ Maze/teaching area: Our wooden maze has workstations where different activities, such as treasure hunts, can be conducted. A wide variety of bromeliads sit atop the maze walls to add interest and mystery.

Fruit tree orchard: Pumelo, sapodilla, jaboticaba, lychee, Barbados cherry, mango, pomegranate and jackfruit trees were donated to our orchard by the Manatee Rare Fruit Council.

Sundial: Stand on the correct month in our life-sized sundial and your shadow will tell you the time!

Wetlands: A 1,300-gallon aboveground cistern provides water for the wetlands garden, which was designed by the Manatee County Florida Master

Naturalist class of 2011. It demonstrates the importance of protecting wetlands and offers planting ideas for trouble spots in our home landscapes that may be compacted, low lying or poorly drained.

57 Master Gardeners invested approximately 1,418 hours in developing and maintaining the gardens in the August 2012 – July 2013 period (see attached list of Master Gardener participants.) 2. What was the intended purpose of the demonstration garden and the actual or potential audience reached? (25 points.) The gardens are designed to teach Manatee County residents about Florida-friendly gardening principles, such as right plant/right place, using micro irrigation and to recycle. They showcase the different ways homeowners can be more successful gardeners. On the recycling end, for example, an old fountain has been repurposed as an herb garden and the garden features many different types of compost bins and rainwater capture systems. Among the many teaching events in our gardens are the popular salad table classes for those wanting to save their backs! Our vegetable garden is in full swing in time for our county fair in January, when we open our garden to hundreds of fairgoers, and let them pull up a radish or carrot to sample on the spot. One of our goals was to create a wildlife habitat. Many types of butterflies, bees, birds, frogs and other wildlife are commonly seen in the gardens. 3. How was site evaluated according to its effectiveness as an educational demonstration? (20 points.) The garden site was picked because of its location on the grounds of the Extension Office; this makes it convenient for Master Gardeners who are maintaining it and accessible to members of the public visiting our Plant Clinic. 4. What were the results of this demonstration garden? (15 points.) We have had groups of home-schoolers, children with learning disabilities, school children, and lots of Florida homeowner-gardeners participating in garden tours or demonstrations. Over 1,060 people have toured the gardens since August of 2012. During the Manatee County Fair, over 2,500 members of the public toured the gardens. 5. How has this demonstration garden helped the target audience? (15 points.) The gardens are designed and built so the homeowner can take practical ideas to their own home gardens. We have found that adults love the children’s gardens as much as the kids themselves! In addition to scheduled classes and events in the

gardens, Master Gardeners working in our Plant Clinic regularly use the gardens to demonstrate a horticultural principle or show a particular plant to customers. 6. A 150 word (or less) summary of your project so that we can let others know of your accomplishments. Your application will NOT be judged without this summary included. Please add a few paragraphs describing any problems you encountered or things you

might change if you were to do the project again.

The Manatee County Master Gardeners’ Educational Gardens officially opened to the public on January 31st, 2012, the fruition of years of Master Gardener plant sales and corporate fundraising activity. Construction on the greenhouse and gardens began in 2009; apart from the greenhouse and irrigation installation, all of the work to develop the gardens was carried out by Master Gardeners. The gardens are currently maintained by a group of Master Gardener sub-committees, each of which is devoted to specific areas of the gardens and the greenhouse. A new experience for us was learning to run a greenhouse. We now have a regular schedule of planned maintenance and protocols for scouting, irrigation and other cultural practices. Of special benefit has been our ability to use these facilities to propagate and harden up plants for giveaways, donations and fundraisers.

Manatee County Master Gardeners Educational Garden Participants Alexander, Robert Gould, Liz Moreland, Rebecca

Balestra, Lou Hamlin, Jane Nicholson, Bob

Bondur, Kathy Heideman, Margarita North, Russ

Boos, Roger Henslick, Adria Oliver, Kathy

Bradicich, Steve Johnson, David Oroukin, Paulette

Breyer, Carol Ann Keene, Jean Parish, Connie

Callahan, Christine Kisida, Norma Price, Betty Ann

Charvat, Dan Knoedler, Jo Puckett, Dennis

Chaise, Tom Komyati, Beth Puckett, Kathy

Clerkin, Candie Korniluk, Elnora Reaume, Sherri

Cowdright, Bill Krueger, Sharon Rosas, Betty

Cuthbert, Betty LaBar, Timothy Snyder, Melissa

Davis, Barbara Lestock, Linda Stripe, Amy

Davis, Carol Mann, Mary Thompson, Joe

Dawson, John McVoy, Pat Todd, Geoffrey

Day, Catherine Melanson, Susan Ugarte, Patsy

Derksen, Joy Melton, John Wilder, Norma

Garvin, Dee Miller, Monty Wyatt, George

Goldman, Jody Mitchell, Margie

County: Manatee CountyName of Project: Manatee County Master Gardeners' Educational Gardens and GreenhouseProject start date: 2009Project end date: On-goingName of persons typing application: Amy StripeName or names of Master Gardeners preparing application 1: Amy StripeName or names of Master Gardeners preparing application 2: Name or names of Master Gardeners preparing application 3: Name of Agent: Lisa A. Hickey