New Albany Gardening
 The New Albany Home and Garden Show was a huge success.  Thank you everyone that came, we hope to see you again next year.
Please join us for the 2010 New Albany Home and Garden Show on March 27th, 2010.  We will have plant vendors, exhibitors, lawn and garden furnishing dealers, lawn and garden equipment dealers, educational speakers, and lots of door prizes.  The speakers will include Carol Reese,  Lelia Kelly, Crofton Sloan, Stanley Wise, Judith Ward  and Karen Caveness, John Gruchy, and Rick Griffin.  There will be equipment demos and info booths also available.  Admission is free. 
 

Lelia Scott Kelly is an Associate Extension Professor and the Consumer orticulture Specialist for the MississippiState 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", adn is a regular contributor to "Mississippi Gardener" magazine.  she is a frequent speaker at garden events in the southeast.  She lives and gardens in Corinth, Mississippi with her husband and three sons. 

Please remember our sponsors:

-City of New Albany Tourism

-Unite Foundation

-Union County Fair and Livestock Show

-Mississippi State University

-Union County Extension Service

-New Albany Main Street Association

-BNA Bank

-Bancorp South

-Historic Northside Garden Club

-New Albany Garden Club

-Dogwood Hills Garden Club

-Encore Azaleas

-Southern Living Plants

-Bobbex Deer Repellant

-American Rose Society

-Beatty Fertilizer

-Union County Heritage Museum

-New Albany Saw Shop

 -Niche Gardens

-Union Seed and Feed

- Osmocote

-H.D. Hudson Mfg Co.

-Wildseed Farms

-Bonide

-Bloomington Brands

-Ferry Morse Seeds

-Bradfield Organics

-United Industries

-Ghann Crickets

-Ball's Seed

-Proven Winners

-David & Dewona McMillen
John Gruchy received his B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from Mississippi State University and his M.S. in Wildlife Science from the University of Tennessee.  He worked as a research associate for the University of Tennessee on projects dealing with renovating non-native grasses, managing native grasslands, and integrating native warm-season grass forages into working landscapes.  Currently, John is a Wildlife Biologist for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.  His professional interests include Blackland Prairie restoration, fire ecology of upland hardwood and mixed pine-hardwood forests, and managing bottomland hardwood forests.

Carol Reese is employed by University of Tn Extension  as an Ornamental Horticultural Specialist.  Her job is to keep the horticultural industry up to date, and attuned to the needs of an increasingly savvy gardening clientele.  She writes a weekly gardening and nature column for "The Jackson Sun", is the Q & A columninst for"Horticulture Magazine", and contributes to many other gardening magazines.

Carol's degrees in horticulture (B.S.and M.S.) are from Mississippi State University where she taught courses in plant materials and landscape design.  Her speaking engagements take her all over the nation, camera in hand.  She's given programs for enthusiastic audiences at Winterthur, Longwood, the Raulston Arboretum, Whiteflower Farms, and the Scott Arboretum at Swathmore, to name just a few.  However, she says her favorite place to be is tromping local fields with her many dogs, taking a personal interest in the doings of the birds and the bees.

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."

Jeremiah Dumas completed his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and his Master of Landscape Architecture at Mississippi State University.  Jeremiah is the Director of the Mississipp State University Environmental Collaborative Office and an adjunct professor for the Department of Landscape Architecture.  As the director of MSU ECO, he is responsible for the development and coordination of all campus sustainable activities, policies, and procedures that are in-line with the American College and University President's Climate Commitment.

Prior to becoming a professor at MSU, Jeremiah worked as a project manager for Design Workshop, an international landscape architecture and planning firm, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  At Design Workshop, Jeremiah was responsible for the MSU Design Week, where he designed and facilitated the charrette, and multiple projects such as regional natural resource and park planning, community and neighborhood development, and the design and development of rails-trails, parkways, and urban parks.

Jeremiah was recently elected Alderman for the City of Starkville and is the co-founder and chairperson of the Starkville Community Market.  Jeremiah has served as the chairperson of the Starkville Young Professionals, on the executive board of the Mississippi Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and as the chair of the Sun Herald Design Awards.

Jeremiah is married to Hope Dumas and they have four children.

I conduct horticultural research projects at the North Mississippi Research and Extension Center in Verona, MS.  My primary research projects involve landscape plant evaluations and landscape cultural practice development.  I have developed and maintained the Magnolia Botanical Gardens as a research, education, and demonstration garden for consumers and Green Industry professionals.  For ten years prior to working at Mississippi State University, I worked as production manager of peach orchards in Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina.  I also do a segment on WTVA television known as "The Morning Gardener".  I enjoy fishing, growing peaches, flowers, and MSU sports.  I am married to Camille Sloan and we have six children and one grandchild.  I am a resident of Tupelo, MS.
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.

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.  

Susan Tackett has been a Master Gardener since 2005.  After a 28 year teaching career with Itawamba Community College, she is now retired and has more time to a longtime love--gardening.  Susan is a Grandmother of six and encourages them all to garden, especially in containers.  This year Susan is serving as President of the Northeast Missisippi Master Gardeners, located in Tupelo with membership from six counties.

2010 New Albany Home and Garden Show

Union County Fairgrounds

112 Fairgrounds Circle

New Albany, MS  38652

Saturday - March 27th

SPRING IS IN THE AIR

Ladies Building

8:30 AM - Welcome

9:00 AM - Plants From Grandma's Garden - Dr. Lelia Kelly, MSU Horticulture Specialist                    

10:15 AM - Stretching the Limits in Landscape Design - Rick Griffin, Landscape Architect                 

11:15 AM - Lunch - Visit Exhibits                                                                                                                       

12:15 PM - Creating a Community - Dr. Jeremiah Dumas,Co-founder Starkville Community Market

 1:30 PM -   Artistic Garden for the Wild Side - Carol Reese,UT Horticulture Specialist                          

2:45 PM - Rick's Favorite Plants, Landscape Architect                                                                                

                                                                                

Extension Office

10:00 AM - Cooking with Fresh Vegetables                                                                                                    

Judith Ward, MSU Nutrition Area Agent

Karen Caviness, MSU EFNP Educator

1:00 PM - Container Gardening - Susan Tackett, Lee County Master Gardener                                     

Exhibit Building

11:00 AM - Native Plants - John Gruchy,MS Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks                                             

1:00 PM - Everything You Wanted to Know about Growing Maters                                                            

                       Stanley Wise,MSU Extension Agent, Union County

Free Admission

Door Prizes All Day

Rain or Shine Event

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The day was a little windy, but gardeners are tough folks and we were delighted to have each and every one that was there.  The day was filled with exciting horticultural speakers, vendors selling their wares, exhibitors showcasing their products, and about 150 children were on hand to learn how to make a bio-degradable pot from old newspaper and a plant to go with it.  It was an exciting crowd of 1200 plus that were on hand and everyone had a great time.  There was lots of door prizes and if you stayed late for the last session, nearly everyone there got a prize.