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15th Annual Gardening Symposium Presenters
Workshop presenters:
Barry Glick has been involved in
the plant world since 1954, when at
age 5, he witnessed Don Herbert
(Mr. Wizard on TV) put a cutting of
a plant in a glass of water that then
sprouted roots a few shows later.
Glick replicated the experiment with
one of his mother’s prized Coleus
plants, and as he watched the roots
grow, he knew he was hooked
for life.
Growing up in Philadelphia in the ‘60s, Glick would hitchhike to
Longwood Gardens before he was
old enough to drive. In 1972 he
realized there was just not enough
room for him and his plants in the
big city environment, so he bought
60 acres on a mountaintop in
Greenbrier County, W. Va., opened
Sunshine Farm & Gardens, started
his plant collection and has
remained there since.
Peter Loewer has written
more than 30 books on gardening
and natural history, including the
award-winning The Wild Gardener and Thoreau's Garden. He is also a
well-known and honored botanical
illustrator. Loewer lives in Asheville
and gardens on the shores of Lake
Kenilworth, working on an acre of
land featuring natural trails and a
formal perennial garden. Many of
the rare and more unusual plants in
his garden are grown from seed,
usually supplied by the American
Rock Garden Society, the Royal
Horticultural Society in London and
from trading with other gardeners.
André Viette is a horticulturist,
author and lecturer. He earned his
biological science certificate at The
State University of New York at
Farmingdale, and he is a graduate of
The School of Floriculture of Cornell
University.He has developed André
Viette Farm and Nursery in
Fishersville, Va., which grows more
than 3,000 varieties of perennials.
For 29 years Viette has taught 10
different horticultural courses at
Blue Ridge Community College and
conducts a radio gardening program
for WSVA in Harrisonburg, Va.
Viette’s national, weekly three-hour
call-in radio program, “In the
Garden,” airs in four states and
Washington, D.C., every Saturday
from 8 to 11 a.m.
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