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.
 

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- "Landscaping with Rick" -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. 

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.