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Friday, March 28, 2008
White Tent – Robin Lake Beach
Drought conditions, monsoons, windstorms, extremes in temperature – too hot, too cold, late spring freezes, early fall frost. What’s a gardener to do? Walter will arm us with the plants and know-how so whatever nature throws at gardeners we’ll be armed and ready to keep our gardens looking good year ‘round. 8:00 a.m. –
8:45 a.m. | Registration | 9:00 a.m. –
10:00 a.m. | Container Gardening with Mildred Pinnell Fockele | 10:15 a.m. –
10:45 a.m. | Break and Plant Fair | 10:45 a.m. –
11:45 a.m. | Tough Plants for Tough Times with Walter Reeves | 12:00 p.m. –
1:30 p.m. | Lunch and Plant Fair | 1:30 p.m. –
2:30 p.m. | Questions and Answers |
This session will be the experts answering your questions. Come prepared and get those perplexing gardening “challenges” solved!
Fee: $60.00 – three sessions and lunch
Single Session: $20.00
Optional Box Lunch: $15.00
Mildred Pinnell Fockele
Mildred Pinnell Fockele began as the Horticulture Director at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in 1986. She develops and manages outdoor gardens and plant collections for ABG’s thirty acres. She also manages the new 185-acre Smithgall Woodland Garden in Gainesville, Georgia (not yet open to the public). She is a sought-after speaker and writer for local and regional gardening associations, speaking at the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta Southeastern Conference, Georgia Perennial Plant Association and the Native Plants Conference, and writing for various gardening publications. As a Container Garden specialist, Mildred and her horticulture team design elaborate plant displays for the Gardens at ABG – many being featured in Fine Gardening, Horticulture and Carolina Gardener among other publications. For years she also coordinated ABG’s Southeastern Flower Show landscape exhibit.
Walter Reeves
Walter Reeves currently hosts a four-hour weekly gardening show on NewsTalk 750 WSB-AM, which captures the most listeners in Atlanta among all 23 competing radio stations each Saturday morning. Walter writes a weekly column of gardening tips and questions and answers for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Home & Garden section. He is known statewide through his numerous books, newspaper columns and magazine articles. His practical approach to the basics of Gardening makes him a popular and much sought-after lecturer. Walter can also be seen on the nationally syndicated "Ask DIY Gardening" on the DIY Network and on Turner South’s "Southern Home by Design." Visit Walter’s website at www.walterreeves.com to learn more!
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