New Albany Gardening

New Albany
Home and Garden Show

March 30 & 31, 2012

Union County Fairgrounds

New Albany, Mississippi


 

 

 

Lelia Scott Kelly is an Associate Extension Professor and the Consumer Horticulture Specialist for the Mississippi State University Extension Service.  Her duties also include statewide responsibility for the Master Gardener Program.  She has her M.S. and Ph.D. in horticulture from Mississippi State University and has worked for the Extension for nine years.

Before joining Extension she owned and operated two businesses, a landscape design and consulting business and a wholesale herb growing greenhouse operation.  She also writes a gardening column for her hometown newspaper,"The Daily Corinthian", and is a regular contributor to "Mississippi Gardener" magazine.  she is a frequent speaker at garden events all around the Southeastern United States.  She lives and gardens in Corinth, Mississippi with her husband and sons. 

Gail Barton is a horticulture Instructor, certified International Society of Arboriculture arborist, garden writer and flower fool. In fact, her plant habit was so severe that at one point she was forced to open a nursery to support it. Her nursery, Flowerplace Plant Farm, is long gone.

Now she makes her living teaching 13th and 14th grade and focuses on personal gardening just for fun. Gail lives and gardens in the Deep South.

Gail has just published a book Basic Gardening: A Guide for the Deep South. Gail’s book is a distillation of 22 years of experience. View Books.

I am a "Hydrangea Enthusiast", and enjoy learning and sharing
information about my favorite flower, the hydrangea, which seems to be the hottest shrub of the decade. I am president and co-founder of the Mid-South Hydrangea Society, a group of about 400 hydrangea enthusiasts
from Memphis and the surrounding area. After retiring from 29 years at the FedEx Corporation, I became a Master Gardener (and past president), a
member of the Horticulture Society, Herb Society (past president), and
Hosta Society. I speak frequently to many clubs in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama. I have also spoken at International and State Master Gardener Conferences, county Master Gardening groups, the
Nashville Home and Garden Show, Arkansas Flower and Garden Show, and Garvan Gardens in Hot Springs, AR, and at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens..
I love to travel and visit gardens in the US and England, and especially like to keep up with what's in development by the breeders and at hydrangea nurseries. When home, I garden in Memphis with my husband and
two dogs.
 
T. Lowry Wilson is a native of southwest Virginia but has called Mississippi home since moving to the Tupelo area at the age of four. After living in the central part of the state for many years, he moved to New Albany in 1997. He has been involved in various aspects of the art of photography since the age of fourteen, including owning a full time portrait and wedding studio. His website Old South Images (http://www.oldsouthimages.com) is a showcase of his current work.  
Wilson’s work has been included in juried exhibitions at the Meridian Museum of Art and the Tupelo Gum Tree Museum. In 2008 he won 1st place for photography in the Meridian Peoples’ Choice Competition and placed 2nd in 2009. The Gum Tree Arts Festival awarded his work 1st place in photography in 2011 and 3rd place in 2009. In March 2010, he was awarded 1st place in 2D art at the Jerry Brown Arts Festival in Hamilton, AL and just recently, 3rd place for photography at the People’s Choice Competition at the Meridian Museum of Art in Meridian, MS, where he completed an exhibition of his pieces in February 2011.  Wilson has taught classes in studio lighting, Photoshop, and business practices for photographers and in the past few years has led photographic tour on Route 66 in Kansas and Oklahoma. He travels a couple of times a year to various places across the southern US and has recently began a series of photographs documenting the beauty of the Mississippi Delta. Some of these photos will be on display at the home and garden show.
His photographs have been featured in Mississippi Magazine and selected as cover art for a regional phone directory. One of his toy camera photos was recently chosen as one of 25 images (selected from hundreds) to be published in Light Leaks magazine. His works also hang in personal and corporate collections in Canada and the United States from California to Delaware, including that of a Fortune 500 company.

New Albany Home and Garden Show

Spring is in Bloom

March 30th, 31st, 2012



Ladies Building

March 30th, 2012

 

11:45 AM – Welcome–Sherra Owen (Union County Master Gardener)

12:00 Noon – “Southern Entertaining with Ease and Style" -Patty Roper

{Tickets for Patty Roper presentation must be purchased in advance and seating will be limited (Includes Lunch)}

2:00 PM–“Charlie on Safari” – Margaret Gratz

3:00 PM–Visit with our Vendors

4:00 PM–"How to Make Your Landscape  the Talk of the Town"

                  Dr.Lelia Kelly

5:15 PM–Hamburger Supper ($5.00 per plate)

6:00 PM–Mississippi Master Gardener Show and Tell

                 “Get Connected – Share Ideas and Brag a Little”

                 Northeast District Meeting

 

Exhibit Building

 

11:00 AM – "Gardening With Woody Ornamentals"

                    Dr. Jeff Wilson

12:00 Noon – "Weeds Be Gone in Southern Lawns"

                       Dr. John Byrd

1:00 PM – "Plant Disease Prevention and Control in the

                   Landscape and Garden" – Dr. Alan Henn

2:00 PM – "Battle Plan for Attacking the Fire Ants"

                  Dr. Blake Layton

3:00 PM – A Farmers Market in Your Backyard: The Vegetable

                 Garden- Dr. David Nagel

4:00 PM – "How to Have the Best Lawn on the Block"

                  Dr. Wayne Wells

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Ladies Building 

March 31st, 2012

 

8:30 AM–Welcome–Tim Burress (Garden Show Chairman)

                                      Pat Campbell (UCMG President)

8:40 AM– “Bringing the University to the People” -

                 Dr. Gary Jackson

9:00 AM– “Hydrangeas For Sun to Shade” – Linda Lanier

10:15 AM- "Plant Propagation-Adding More plants Without the

                   Cost" - Gail Barton

11:15 AM – Lunch and Visit with Our Vendors

12:15 PM- “Capturing the Garden Through the Camera Lens” –                   Lowery Wilson

1:30 PM- "Frugal Landscaping" -Rick Griffin

2:45 PM- “Slow Gardening-All Sense, All Seasons-

                 Regardles of Skill or Style" -Felder Rushing  

 

Pavilion Room

 

9:00 AM – "Gardening for Profit" -Stanley Wise               

10:15 AM – "Rootin, Tootin, No Till Sustainable Vegetable

                     Gardening" - Carl Wayne Hardeman

12:15 PM- "Gardening by the Signs" - Charles Wood

 

Exhibit Building

 

9:00 AM – "Old Garden Roses" -Bill Fisher

10:15 AM - "Put Wow in Your Containers" -Jaryd Brewer 

12:15 PM - "Building a Bird Feeder Using Treasures From

                    the Thrift Store" -Judy George 

 

Extension Office

 

10:15 AM – “It Doesn’t Have to Taste Bad to be Healthy” – The Cooking Divas (Karen Caviness & Judith Ward)

Free admission to Fairgrounds and all presentations with the exception of Patty Roper. Seating for Patty Roper is limited to 150 people.  Door prizes will be given away both days throughout the day.  There will be plant, yard art, birdhouses, exhibition booths, and food vendors.

There will also be a drop off point for non-perishable food items to be donated to the food pantry

Judith W. Ward, Nutrition & Food Safety Area Agent, has been employed by the Mississippi State University Extension Service for 28 years.  She has received a B.S. degree in Home Economic Education from Alcorn State University and M.S.degree in Master of education from University of Mississippi.  She is married to Neville Ward Jr and is now retired and one of the most active volunteers in our community.

Karen Caviness is the Youth Nutrition Educator for the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program at the MSU Union County Extension Office.  Karen's primary goal is to promote sound nutrition and health principles through education.  Children involved in this program receive activity based learning experiences, that will enable them to influence the habits and practices of their parents.  Karen teaches nutrition education in all county schools, K through 3rd and Union County Headstart.  She has worked for the Union County Extension Office for 3 years.

She and her husband, Doyle have been married for 11 years.  Together they have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.  Karen is a native of Union County and is a graduate of Myrtle High School

Patty, a native Jacksonian, received her degree from the University of Mississippi.  She taught in the Jackson Public Schools for nine years.  She is a member of First Presbyterian Church where she has served on the decorations committee, the flower committee, the missions conference, and the receptions committee.  She has served on other committees with First Presbyterian Day School, Jackson Preparatory School, Art for Heart, the Gallery Guild of the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Symphony League, several garden clubs, Bible studies, and various volunteer organizations.

Patty entertains family and friends with a simple approach to beauty and elegance and prepares classic Southern recipes.  She shares her innovative decorating and entertaining ideas in the Easy Does It and Design Lesson departments of Mississippi Magazine.  She is the author of 4 entertaining and recipe books: Easy Hospitality, Easy Does It Entertaining, At the Table, and Easy Parties and Wedding Celebrations.

She is currently the editorial director for Mississippi Magazine and lives in Flowood, Mississippi, with her husband Richard and has one daughter Beth. 

Tupelo, MS native, class of 1956, college at the “other” MSU, Accounting Major.  Married to the former Ms. Edwina Williams, of Bells, TN, met at the “other” college.  Father of two children, graduates of Tupelo High, and “the” MSU, both married and 3 precious grandchildren.  Retired from active paid employment since 1998. 

Served as a member of the Lee County Master Gardener association, volunteer of the MS State Extension Service since 2003, where have served as Treasurer for the past 6 years.  Was elected to the MS State Master Gardener Board of Directors in 1996, and served one year term as State President in 1999.  Active in the MG’s and volunteer hours approximately 150 per year. 

Member since elementary school age of the United Methodist Church, St. Mark being my home church in early years, and also since return to Tupelo in the early 1980’s.  Active in Outreach Ministry with an organization called Discover God’s Call, a program of the Foundation For Evangelism.  Affiliated with that organization for approximately 12 years, presently serving first two year term as the MS Chapter President, also a member of the DGC National Council, with state affiliated chapters is several other southern states. 

Special interest, outside of family, church and outreach, is gardening in all categories, major love is growing roses, and vegetable gardening.  Special joy in the study and sharing of the “old time folklore ways” of garden by the Almanac.  Also enjoy traveling in the western states with a special hobby of photography in the beautiful rock and mountain formations created by our Creator of the Universe.

Stanley Wise, Jr. 

Stanley has been working with the MSU Extension Service for 23 years. He has severed three counties with various positions in MSUES including 4-H Agent and County Agriculture Agent. He is past president of the MS Association of County Agriculture Agents and received that organizations Distinguished Service Award in 2003. He currently serves as County Extension Director in Union County and lives on the family farm in Pontotoc County where he was raised. The small 80 acre farm was purchased by his grandfather in 1926.  

Stanley is responsible for the direction of educational programs in Agriculture & Natural Resources and Enterprise & Community Resource Development. He is coordinator of the Union County Master Gardener Program and is responsible for coordinating activities at the Union County Fair and Livestock Show which has a yearly attendance of over 15,000. He organized the Union County Farmers Market in 2004. 

Stanley has works with landowners, farmers, market gardeners and home owners to help them improve their agriculture and horticulture interests. He organizes and facilitates educational programs to help people become better managers of their agriculture and horticulture resources. He teaches classes on gardening, market farming and agritourism on the local and state-wide level.  

In his “spare” time, Stanley manages Wise Family Farm, working with his brothers, sisters and kin folk to grow and sell tomatoes, sweet corn, purple hull peas, watermelons, corn, soybeans and hay on a small scale. Wise Family Farm also has an agritourism enterprise in October of each year, where they have a corn maze and pumpkin patch. They also plant plots of many Mississippi grown crops to educate students, families and other groups on the importance of Agriculture. Stanley helped organize the MS Agritourism Association in 2006 and is currently serving as President.  

Stanley is an innovator and has developed growing techniques through experimentation on his own farm. One such innovation is growing tomatoes in bales of hay. He began this experiment in 2003. This method of gardening lead to his publishing a local information sheet called “No Stoop Gardening” and co-authoring an extension publication called “Growing in the Bale”.  Growing tomatoes in hay bales has spread throughout Mississippi and the U.S. 

Stanley is a believer in “leaving the tiller in the shed.” He loves no-till farming. In 2010, Wise Family Farm received an NRCS grant to build a High-Tunnel where Stanley grew tomatoes using the hay bale method without ever disturbing the soil. This helps to retain soil structure, biological processes, conserves water and nutrients, and negates soil loss. He also promotes using other no-till methods for backyard gardens and small scale horticulture production. 

Stanley likes to refer to himself as an Educated Tractor Driver and Philosopher of the No-Tellin. No tellin what might come out of his mouth. 

Carl Wayne Hardeman is a Master Gardener whose interests lie in eating well and doing so from his own sustainable gardens with as little work and expense as possible.  Carl is the leader of the 4500 square foot Victory Garden in Collierville, TN, which donated 3,566 pounds of fresh produce to the local food pantry for the needy this year.  Carl works in the information technology department for FedEx and also teaches classes in the local universities around Memphis, TN.  Carl's dream is to promote a large network of small entreprenurial farms in North Mississippi growing fresh produce and selling it in a large regional Farmer's Market specializing in local sustainable produce including some organics and heirloom varieties.  Carl and his wife and her pom-a-poo "Belle" live in Collierville, TN, but call the Pontotoc County community of Hurricane, MS home.  Carl has also been dubbed as our own "Redneck Poet Laureate" for his witty sense of humor and his regular contribution of poems on southern humor.  You can follow this humor on his facebook page and also on the facebook page "Southren Livin". 
Rushing Book
Felder Rushing 

Does my currently having over half a million frequent flier miles tell you what my life is like? “

Felder Rushing is a 10th-generation American gardener whose pioneer ancestors settled across the Southeast, bringing many plants with them. Rushing's overstuffed, quirky cottage garden has been featured in many TV programs and magazines (including a cover of Southern Living), and includes a huge variety of weather-hardy plants along with a collection of folk art. There is no turfgrass, just plants, yard art, and people places.

The author or co-author of 16 gardening books (including several national award winners) and former Extension Service urban horticulture specialist (fully retired, at an early age) has written thousands of gardening columns in syndicated newspapers, and has had hundreds of articles and photographs published in regional and national garden magazines.  Felder hosts a popular weekly call-in garden program on NPR affiliate stations called The Gestalt Gardener.

Felder gives many dozens of lectures and workshops every year, coast to coast and overseas, at flower shows, horticultural and plant society meetings, and Master Gardener conferences.

Believing that too many would-be gardeners are intimidated by a crush of "how-to" experts ("We are daunted, not dumb," he says), Felder uses an offbeat, "down home" approach rife with humorous anecdotes and garden-irreverent metaphors, zany observations, and stunning photography and to help gardeners get past the "stinkin' rules" of horticulture.

Rick Griffin is a Lanscape Architect in private practice in Jackson,MS. He received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Design from Mississippi State University in 1971.

His first job after graduation was as Jackson's first Landscape Architect. After five years he left the city to begin his private practice and for the past 33 years he has practiced his profession in Mississippi and surrounding states.

In 1986 he was presented the first outstanding alumni award. Since he began his practice, over 100 articles have been written on his work, most of which were in "Southern Living Magazine". His business partner for the past 20 years is Clifton Egger. Rick and Clifton along with his daughter, Amy Schrock, also own Latitudes, an interior design firm. This part of the business started 15 years ago. Rick teaches continuing education classes at Millsaps College and speaks around the south. He is often a guest on the Felder Rushing radio program. Rick and his wife's hobby is their house and garden. He is also proud to be a member of Ascension Lutheran Church.

Steve Bender of "Southern Living Magazine" had this to say about Rick Griffin. "One of the few landscape architects out there who actually knows and loves plants---so his designs are alot more interesting."

Felder Rushing is quoted as saying: "Rick is the most creative landscape architect in the state and if it wasn't for Rick's design, my garden would never have made the cover of "Southern Living."

Bill has been a part of the master gardener program for the past 9 years.  He has served 2 terms as president of Lee county MGs.  Bill is also part of the team that has made Lee County master gardeners "Hort line" a success.  Bill has been  Chairman of Hortline project for the past 5 years.  He is also chairman of Learning Series project 2 years.  Bill was selected  Mississippi MG of year for 2011 fo his outstanding contribution in the teaching and educational programs in and around Lee County.