Gardening Symposium
 

LifeLong Learning Society

 

Major corporate underwriting
provided by:

Extra Mile

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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