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  • HOME
    • About Master Gardener Volunteers
    • 2023 Master Gardener training
    • Demonstration GARDEN
  • Request Our Help
    • Horticulture Help Desk
    • School/Community Garden Consultation
    • Speaker
  • Garden Zone
  • GARDEN CALENDAR
    • January winter
    • February to do list
    • March timely tips
    • April 15th last frost
    • May spring frenzy
    • June garden tasks
    • July summer tasks
    • August hot summer
    • September gardens
    • October fall begins
    • November planting
    • December gardens
  • Our Publications
  • Videos
  • Consider a Donation

Our
​Demonstration Garden

The demonstration garden at Freedom Park was designed in 2006 by a group of Extension Master Gardener volunteers. Since then, we've added more plants, removed others and made more changes, including adding stones in 2022. 

The garden makes good use of undulating berms, providing distinctly different planting strategies with sun or shade exposures.  You'll see a variety of plants that are pollinator magnets. The garden is near the Mahlon Adams Pavilion at 2453 Cumberland Ave., Charlotte.  
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Exciting news for us is, with the Extension office's move to 2415 Lester Street in Charlotte, a team of 20 Master Gardener volunteers identified and installed about 100 plants in front of the Extension office and the Recreation Center that's next door. The buildings were transformed!  The work occurred in late 2022; we can't wait to see how it looks in the spring! 

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The stone was moved from a previous location and installed at the Freedom garden in 2022.  The group also installed stepping stones in part of the garden.

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Some of the team at the Freedom garden during work day in June. It's a hard-working, talented crew!

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Some of the volunteers who installed plants at the new location on Lester Street.

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 ​The Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Program is a part of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service and North Carolina State University
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