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What do Plant Clinics Offer?  Ask a Master Gardener

They are places where you can bring your garden questions, plant materials or mystery insects for advice. There are now TEN Montgomery County Plant Clinics. The list is below.  Plant clinics are staffed by University of Maryland Master Gardeners, trained to advise private residents. The central Master Gardener phone number is 301-590-9650. Ask for directions to a location near you and how to prepare a good sample of a plant or insect to be identified, and the dimensions  and sun and shade position of your garden

If you wish to bring a plant sample to one of our plant clinics, please read this page, which contains directions for taking a plant sample.

What can Master Gardeners do for you?

• Help you select and care for annual and perennial plants, shrubs and trees.
• Determine if you need to test your soil.
• Provide you with information on lawn care.
• Identify weeds, beneficial and noxious insects, and plant diseases and remedies.
• Teach you how to use pesticides, mulch and compost.
• Guide you in pruning trees and shrubs.
• Provide you with options for managing wildlife.
• Teach you how to search the Internet to get reliable sources to answer your questions.
• Provide you with gardening fact sheets.
• Help you submit a plant sample for diagnosis.

Plant Clinic locations and the dates/times of operation:

Bethesda FRESHFARM Market
Norfolk Ave, between Fairmont & St.Elmo Aves.
Bethesda, MD
July  - Oct., Sat. 10 am - 1 pm,
Every third Saturday of the month

Brookside Gardens
1800 Glenallan Ave
Wheaton, MD 20902-1369                   
All Year: Saturday, 10 am - 2 pm and Sunday,
1 pm - 4 pm
April-October: Wednesday and Thursday
1 pm - 4 pm

Gaithersburg Library
18330 Montgomery Village Ave.
Gaithersburg, Md.
CLOSED for construction.  Will reopen when construction is complete.

Quince Orchard Library
15831 Quince Orchard Rd.
Gaithersburg, Md.
May-September: Saturday, 10 am – 1 pm

Poolesville Library
18633 Fisher Avenue
Poolesville, Md 20837
May-September: Wednesdays, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Germantown Library
19840 Century Blvd.
Germantown, Md
May-September: Wednesday, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm    

Derwood Office
Univeristy of Maryland Extension
18410 Muncaster Rd
Derwood, Md. 20855
March-November: Monday-Friday, 9 am - 1 pm
Jan-Feb: Monday-Wednesday, 10 am - 1 pm
Closed December through Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday

Twinbrook Library
202 Meadow Hall Drive
Rockville, Md 20851
May-September: Third Saturday of each month, 10 am - 1 pm

Audubon Naturalist Society 
8940 Jones Mill Rd.
Chevy Chase, Md. 
April-September: Saturday, 10 am - 12 pm

Davis Library
6400 Democracy Blvd.
Bethesda, Md.
April-September: Saturday, 10 am - 1 pm

Silver Spring Farmers Market
Ellsworth Drive between Fenton Street and Georgia Ave.
Silver Spring, Md
April-September: Fourth Saturday of the month,
9 am - 1 pm

For further information call 301-590-9650