Horticulture

Cornell Cooperative Extension is your local connection to the research, information and expertise of your land-grant university. The Horticulture Program provides research-based ornamental horticulture information for home gardeners and commercial horticulture businesses.

Home Garden:

Home landscape lawns
Flower and vegetable gardens
Trees & shrubs
Plant diseases
Insect pests in and outside the home

Commercial Horticulture:

Lawn care landscape
Sports turf
Garden retail
Ornamental Horticulture Greenhouses
School and municipal ornamental horticulture

Master Gardener Plant Sale at the Lilac Festival

Master Gardener Volunteers of CCE-Monroe County will be featuring a variety of lilacs, trees, shrubs, veggie and herbs starts, and other common and unusual annuals and perennials at the Plant Sale at the Lilac Festival May 12th-21st

Spring Gardening Series

Spring Gardening Series in partnership with the City of Rochester Flower City Feeling Good

Master Gardeners Garage and Plant Sale

Come check out our sale on June 4th from 9am until 2pm! Click photo for more information!

2017 Vegetable Varieties

Check out this list from Cornell's Garden Based Learning Program to see what varieties they recommend as being well-suited to NY State gardens for 2017!

Gardens in the Face of a Changing Climate

This detailed guide will teach you how to have a "climate-friendly" garden. It provides ways to reduce chemical inputs, improve compost, and how to use cover crops to increase soil health.

Diagnostic Lab

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County provides a range of diagnostic services to identify plant diseases/insects, weeds, other insects and soil pH.