Fall Garden Celebration at Farmingdale State College

Find just the right plants for your home and support the gardens.  The fall is a great time to plant flowers and shrubs and Farmingdale State College is prepared to help you select the right vegetation for your home.

On Sunday, September 18 from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., all are invited to the Ornamental Horticulture Teaching Gardens to learn, enjoy the beauty of the fall and support the maintenance of Farmingdale’s gardens with your purchases.

Admission, tours, advice, and workshops are FREE.

• Take a tour of Farmingdale State’s magnificent Teaching Gardens with horticulture professors

• Take home fall plants and flowers from the plant sale

• Bring your garden and design questions to “Ask the Experts”

• Bring in your soil samples for pH analysis and plants for diagnosis offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension

• Attend free horticultural lectures

The Fall Garden Celebration Horticulture Lecture Series will take place in FSC's Greenhouse:

10:00 a.m. - Trees - Best Trees for Suburban Sites, Julie Seghrouchni, Cornell Cooperative Extension Nassau

11:00 a.m. - Flowering Bulbs - Bringing Back Bulbs in the Landscape, Peter Zangel, Bissett Nursery

12:00 p.m. - Good Bugs, Bad Bugs - Beneficial Insects vs. Pests, Dr. Gary Brown, Farmingdale State College

1:00 p.m. - Fall Lawn Care - The Best Time to Renovate, Cornell Cooperative Extension Nassau & Farmingdale State College

Festival proceeds benefit the non-profit Farmingdale Horticulture Committee of the Farmingdale College Foundation supporting the Department of Ornamental Horticulture at Farmingdale State College. For more information, call 631-420-2075 or 631-420-2113 or visit www.farmingdale.edu/horticulture.

Farmingdale State College prepares students with the education, skills, and critical thinking needed to meet the challenges of tomorrow. As the largest of SUNY’s colleges of technology (with about 7,000 students), Farmingdale equips its students with the resources and knowledge sought by today’s emerging industries. At Farmingdale, students also have abundant opportunities in experiential learning—internships, clinical training, and guided research—that provide practical instruction and personal growth. Small, personalized classes, a new residence hall with suite-style living, a lush 380-acre campus undergoing major renovation, and a highly successful NCAA Division III athletics program with modern facilities make Farmingdale State College one of the fastest-growing colleges in the region. Farmingdale has been named as the 5th safest campus in the nation, based on a statistical analysis conducted by the online publication The Daily Beast, and the College ranks in the top 110 public colleges nationally in terms of the earning power of its graduates, according to payscale.com.  For more information, contact Kathryn Coley at 631-420-2400 or kathryn.coley@farmingdale.edu.