What We Are Up To

The Merritt College Propagation Club is a loose group of landscape horticulture students and volunteers who work at the propagation tables sowing seed, transplanting stock from one size pot to another, or making cuttings for the mist house. And of course there is the sharing of information. The group among its members often has an answer for most questions. What seed mix should I use? How strong should the rooting hormone be? Is this the right time to make a cutting or to plant the seed? Is this a seed? (This one makes for interesting answers.)

The group's purpose is to be a learning laboratory for the landscape horticulture deparment as well as to create plants for twice yearly plant sales. There are 3 greenhouses with automatic watering and temperature controls.

Call Molly Sealund, Landscape Horticulture Dept, Merritt College at 510-436-2418 for more information.

Schedule The group meets on Tuesdays and Fridays 1-5 generally year round

What we grow The group grows plants that interest them. There are many South African plants being grown, ferns from spore, plants from various collecting trips, California natives, plants in the protea family, palms and salvias. Recently several people have started specializing in edibles.