Riverhead Middle School, was the location for the first of three dates of Cornell's annual Spring Gardening School. A good time was had by all attendees,volunteers and Master Gardeners.
Cornell volunteers prepare the registration area at Ward Mellville High School.
Attendees wait in line to pick up thier register packets.
Alice, teaches floral design brings in her fresh flowers.
Vince (on left)teaches Dahlias A-Z and Jay (on the right)teaches Your Guide to Container Gardening pose for the camera.
Attendees bring in their soil samples for testing.Cornell tests the soil durning the day and attendees get results after lunch.
Grover nursery starts to unload plants for the plant sale. Cheryl on the left lends a hand.
A group of ladies create floral designs.
Plants are set up for the plant sale.
Jay Wolstoff & Laurie Donnelly create a container that will be raffeled. A specimen varigated Holly is used as a thriller and perennial phlox will act as a filler and a spiller.
Breakfeast in the cafateria,at Riverhead High School, first classes starts at 9am.
Volunteers set - up plant sale in the gym.
Spring is in the air!
Carole Kiang center talks with the plant sale volunteers while classes are being held.
Master Gardeners pose for the camera.
Laurie Donnelly, prepares a container that will be raffled off to raise money for Cornell. Laurie is a Master Gardener volunteer and will be teaching a class on Container Gardening with Master GardenerJay Wolstoff.
Lunch is served.
Cafateria fills up fast.
The finished container is on view at the lunch line, and raffles are $5.oo each.
Jay standing on the left offers raffles to attendees.
Anita, MAster Gardener volunteer helps find the right plant for a customer.
Master Gardener Volunteers pose for the camera.
Jim & Eileen Prezorski are the caretakers at the plant nursery.They
watch over plants,while their owners are attending classes.
Alice, standing behind her lap top, starts teaching her class on orchids. Alice also taught a class in the morning on Floral Arranging. Alice is the plant horticuluralist who answers the publics plant questions and inquiries at Cornell Extension Center in Riverhead and at Bayard arboridum in Islip. If you need help with a plant call Alice!
Caroline Kiang, Cornell Cooperative Extension Educator, and organizor of The Spring Gardening School takes a lunch break..
Students attend a class.
Classes fill up quickly.
Betty Baron, Master Gardener volunteer teaches her class.
Plant sale volunteers take a break.
Cheryl, from Beds and Borders (seated on the floor) takes a well deserved rest,as her plant crew looks on. Cheryl organized the plant sale.
Students wait in the hallway for Container Gardening Class being taught by Master Gardeners Jay Wolstoff and Loretta Donnelly.
The container, to be raffled off, waits in the hallway, it will be used as a teaching tool in the Container Gardening class. Harry Laurder in bloom(walking stick plant) is the thriller in the container.
Container Gardening class gets settled.
Afternoon raffle begins.
Plants are raffled as a fund raiser to benefit Cornell Coperative Extension Educational programs.
Caroline Kiang congratulates the winner of the container raffle who, displays her winning ticket.It just so happens she drove her husbands truck today, so she will have no problem getting her prize home! The winner is also a Master Gardener who volunteered her help for the day.
Registration at Bellport High School.
Volunteers get plants ready for plant sale.
Registration is a busy time.
Container Plant that will be raffled waits to be taken inside.
Volunteers set up plants for the plant sale.
Attendees have breakfast before their first class.
Volunterrs take a coffee break.
Laurie Donnelly put the finishing touch on a container that will be raffled later today.
Sharon, who teaches a class on children's garden pets prepare for her next class.
Betty Baron is the Master Soil Tester, test soil samples that were brought in from attendee gardens.The first step to beautiful gardens is to know your soil pH. You can get your soil tested at Cornell Cooperative extension in Islip and Riverhead for a small fee.There are two test available, basic pH and a more eloborate test for your soils nutrients. Basic pH should be done every year.
Master Gardener volunteers take a coffe break while students attend classes.
Caroline Kiang hands out lunch voluchers to volunteers.
Jay Wolstoff, Master Gardener attends to a final desgn detail of a container that will be raffled off at the end of the day.
Laurie Donnelly, Master Gardener, makes sure the plant tags are attached to each plant in the container. Reading your plant label is very important to sustain a eco friendly container planting.
Master Gardener volunteers display the plants that will be offered for sale. Their attention to detail is makes a outstanding spring garden display!
Dr. Tamseng Yeh teaches turf management.
A floral design class was well attended.
Steve a Master Gardener volunteer, takes a break with his daughter.
Betty Baron shows a children plant project to a interested passer-bye. The green grass is planted into a nylon stocking and the grass becomes the hair of a childrens creature.
At the e nd of the day all attendees gather in the cafateria for the raffle. If you hand in a class evaluation you get a free raffle ticket.Two large container planters were designed by Laurie Donnelly and Jay Wolstoff and will be raffled off. The containers were used as a teaching tool in their Container Gardening Class.
Betty Baron begins call winning raffle numbers. The raffle included; gift certificates to various garden nurseries, garden tools,plants and the two large container plants.
First raffle winner poses with her container, which is planted with a japanese blue pine(thriller), winter heather(pink) filler, and silver licorese plant(spiller) and green scot broom (spiller).
Raffle winner,Gioia smiles for the camera. Her container has a dwarf buttercup winter hazel(yellow) as the thriller,pansy drizzel sizell (as a filler),Heuchera citronelle(filler) and varigated Ilex, crenata (spiller).
Sister of raffle winner waits for her sister to bring the car around.
Caroline Kiang (on Left) congratulates one of the raffle winners.
Cornell volunteers prepare the registration area at Ward Mellville High School.
Attendees wait in line to pick up thier register packets. 
Alice, teaches floral design brings in her fresh flowers.
Vince (on left)teaches Dahlias A-Z and Jay (on the right)teaches Your Guide to Container Gardening pose for the camera. 
Attendees bring in their soil samples for testing.Cornell tests the soil durning the day and attendees get results after lunch. 
Grover nursery starts to unload plants for the plant sale. Cheryl on the left lends a hand. 
A group of ladies create floral designs.
Plants are set up for the plant sale.
Jay Wolstoff & Laurie Donnelly create a container that will be raffeled. A specimen varigated Holly is used as a thriller and perennial phlox will act as a filler and a spiller.
Breakfeast in the cafateria,at Riverhead High School, first classes starts at 9am.
Volunteers set - up plant sale in the gym. 
Spring is in the air!
Carole Kiang center talks with the plant sale volunteers while classes are being held.
Master Gardeners pose for the camera.
Laurie Donnelly, prepares a container that will be raffled off to raise money for Cornell. Laurie is a Master Gardener volunteer and will be teaching a class on Container Gardening with Master GardenerJay Wolstoff.
Lunch is served.
Cafateria fills up fast.
The finished container is on view at the lunch line, and raffles are $5.oo each.
Jay standing on the left offers raffles to attendees.
Anita, MAster Gardener volunteer helps find the right plant for a customer.
Master Gardener Volunteers pose for the camera. 
Jim & Eileen Prezorski are the caretakers at the plant nursery.They
Alice, standing behind her lap top, starts teaching her class on orchids. Alice also taught a class in the morning on Floral Arranging. Alice is the plant horticuluralist who answers the publics plant questions and inquiries at Cornell Extension Center in Riverhead and at Bayard arboridum in Islip. If you need help with a plant call Alice!
Caroline Kiang, Cornell Cooperative Extension Educator, and organizor of The Spring Gardening School takes a lunch break.. 
Students attend a class.
Classes fill up quickly.
Betty Baron, Master Gardener volunteer teaches her class.
Plant sale volunteers take a break.
Cheryl, from Beds and Borders (seated on the floor) takes a well deserved rest,as her plant crew looks on. Cheryl organized the plant sale. 
Students wait in the hallway for Container Gardening Class being taught by Master Gardeners Jay Wolstoff and Loretta Donnelly.
The container, to be raffled off, waits in the hallway, it will be used as a teaching tool in the Container Gardening class. Harry Laurder in bloom(walking stick plant) is the thriller in the container.
Container Gardening class gets settled.
Afternoon raffle begins.
Plants are raffled as a fund raiser to benefit Cornell Coperative Extension Educational programs.
Caroline Kiang congratulates the winner of the container raffle who, displays her winning ticket.It just so happens she drove her husbands truck today, so she will have no problem getting her prize home! The winner is also a Master Gardener who volunteered her help for the day.
Registration at Bellport High School.
Volunteers get plants ready for plant sale.
Registration is a busy time.
Container Plant that will be raffled waits to be taken inside.
Volunteers set up plants for the plant sale.
Attendees have breakfast before their first class.
Volunterrs take a coffee break.
Laurie Donnelly put the finishing touch on a container that will be raffled later today. 
Sharon, who teaches a class on children's garden pets prepare for her next class.
Betty Baron is the Master Soil Tester, test soil samples that were brought in from attendee gardens.The first step to beautiful gardens is to know your soil pH. You can get your soil tested at Cornell Cooperative extension in Islip and Riverhead for a small fee.There are two test available, basic pH and a more eloborate test for your soils nutrients. Basic pH should be done every year. 
Master Gardener volunteers take a coffe break while students attend classes.
Caroline Kiang hands out lunch voluchers to volunteers.
Jay Wolstoff, Master Gardener attends to a final desgn detail of a container that will be raffled off at the end of the day.
Laurie Donnelly, Master Gardener, makes sure the plant tags are attached to each plant in the container. Reading your plant label is very important to sustain a eco friendly container planting. 
Master Gardener volunteers display the plants that will be offered for sale. Their attention to detail is makes a outstanding spring garden display!
Dr. Tamseng Yeh teaches turf management. 
A floral design class was well attended.
Steve a Master Gardener volunteer, takes a break with his daughter.
Betty Baron shows a children plant project to a interested passer-bye. The green grass is planted into a nylon stocking and the grass becomes the hair of a childrens creature.
At the e nd of the day all attendees gather in the cafateria for the raffle. If you hand in a class evaluation you get a free raffle ticket.Two large container planters were designed by Laurie Donnelly and Jay Wolstoff and will be raffled off. The containers were used as a teaching tool in their Container Gardening Class.
Betty Baron begins call winning raffle numbers. The raffle included; gift certificates to various garden nurseries, garden tools,plants and the two large container plants.
First raffle winner poses with her container, which is planted with a japanese blue pine(thriller), winter heather(pink) filler, and silver licorese plant(spiller) and green scot broom (spiller).
Raffle winner,Gioia smiles for the camera. Her container has a dwarf buttercup winter hazel(yellow) as the thriller,pansy drizzel sizell (as a filler),Heuchera citronelle(filler) and varigated Ilex, crenata (spiller).
Sister of raffle winner waits for her sister to bring the car around.
Caroline Kiang (on Left) congratulates one of the raffle winners.
