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Fall Conference-October 18th- Outstanding and entertaining speakers Great Vendor shopping and door prizes.
Tony Avent is an international plant explorer, hosta hybridizer and freelance garden writer. He is owner of Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Gardens in Raleigh, North Carolina. Since 1991, his nursery has operated a successful international mail-order business selling perennials through a coveted “wild and crazy” print catalog. He has been featured in Southern Living, House Beautiful, Horticulture, American Gardener and Fine Gardening magazines. On television, he has appeared on Martha Stewart Living, Rebecca’s Garden, Gardeners Diary. Tony says, “I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself. . .at least three times.”
Dan Benarcik is a horticulturist at Chanticleer, an innovative public botanical garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania. There he oversees the courtyard garden concentrating on tropical, sub-tropical and tender perennials for seasonal display. He is nationally known for his stunning container arrangements emphasizing plants with striking foliage, color, form, pattern, texture and size. He has authored articles for Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Martha Stewart Living and Rodale gardening books. He is an instructor at Longwood Gardens where he teaches a course on groundcovers.
Lucinda Hutson is a popular food, garden and lifestyle writer and lecturer. She also designs gardens, creates festive events and consults on recipes and menus. She is author of The Herb Garden Cookbook and Tequila! Cooking with the Spirit of Mexico. Her articles and photographs have been featured in Fine Gardening, Food Arts, The Herb Companion, Chocolatier and Kitchen Garden. She has appeared on nationally broadcasted radio and public television programs including Southern Living Presents and HGTV. With her lively personality and attention to presentation, she turns every meal into a celebration and every party into a fiesta!
Lee Anne White is an award-winning garden photographer specializing in garden design, landscape architecture, horticulture and landscape photography. She lives near Atlanta, but has a penchant for travel to photograph public and private gardens and the work of talented garden designers. Ms. White is a former chief editor for Fine Gardening magazine and author of a number of books including: Outdoor Living Idea Book, Front Yard and Backyard Idea Book, Outdoor Kitchens that Work, Designing with Plants and Exploring Garden Design.
San Francisco State University have just launched The Great Sunflower Project, a community science project with the goal of increasing our understanding of where bees are doing poorly and how the pollination of our garden and wild plants are being affected. We're hoping you will join us by planting sunflowers in your garden. Community, demonstration, and school gardens are invited to participate.
We'll send you some free native sunflower (Helianthus annuus) seed and twice a month, we'd like you to time how long it takes for 5 bees to visit one flower on that sunflower. This information will give us an index of pollination that we can compare across the United States. Once we know where bees are in trouble, we can start developing a plan to help them.
SUPPORT LOCAL GEORGIA PRODUCE GROWERS
You can see the details about the project and register at
