South Carolina Midlands Master Gardeners Association
18th Annual Spring Symposium -
“How
Green is Your Garden?”
Featured Speakers
Joe Lamp’l Ted Stephens Tamson Yeh
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South Carolina Midlands Master Gardeners Association
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Joe Lamp’l Ted Stephens Tamson Yeh |
Joe Lamp’l is a Master Gardener, Certified Landscape Professional, author, syndicated columnist, speaker/presenter, national television host, and radio personality. He founded The joe gardener Company, an organization that brings smart eco-friendly resources for better gardening to both novices and seasoned veterans. The website joegardener.com was developed as an extension of the company. In 2002 he was tapped to host Fresh from the Garden on the DIY Network. Joe currently hosts GardenSmart on PBS television. Also a prolific writer, Joe pens a weekly syndicated newspaper column, The Gardener Within, and a wide range of informative articles for his website, blogs, and a variety of magazines. His latest book is Over the Fence with joe gardener. Much of the book’s content is the all important “why-do” behind the “how-to” for our outdoor lifestyle today. Joe lives and gardens in North Carolina with his wife and two young daughters, where he is currently writing his next book. The working title is The ‘Green’ Gardener’s Guide: Simple, Significant Actions to Help Protect and Preserve the Planet.
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Ted Stephens founded Nurseries Caroliniana in North Augusta, South Carolina, in 1973. His retail garden center focuses on rare and unusual plant material. (We might add that his nursery is a favorite destination for gardeners throughout the region.) In 1990, a wholesale division was begun in order to offer plants to other nurseries throughout the southeast. Ted travels to Japan and other foreign countries on an annual basis to collect new plant selections for introduction to the American market. He is also introducing a number of his own selections which were developed on site. Ted has recently begun a mail order division, where many of his plants are shipped nationally and globally to reach nurseries in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and England. Ted has served as the past president of the S.C. Nursery and Landscape Association and currently serves on the advisory board for the S.C. Botanical Garden and the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame. Ted received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Ornamental Horticulture from Clemson University.
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Tamson Yeh has worked for Cornell Cooperative Extension for the past eleven years and has a PhD. in Plant Sciences and a M.S. in Animal and Veterinary Science from the University of Rhode Island. She also has a B.A. from Wells College. She recently completed a book entitled Can My Petunia be Saved? Her book lends a light-hearted approach to practical solutions for a happy, healthy garden. She reports that: "In addition to goosing bad politicians with her soil probe, she enjoys the icky, slimy side of life and has never met a bug or a disease she didn’t like. She has two long-suffering children, an out-of-control beagle, four exasperated cats and five very smug parakeets. In her next life she wants to come back as a dandelion because she’ll irritate the heck out of everyone and they’ll never be able to get rid of her. But … she’ll be a bright yellow spot in the lawn and a source of pollen for beneficials. Now that’s karma!" E-mail: tsy3@cornell.edu |
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Speakers for Concurrent Sessions |
| Bill Blackston is a Clemson Extension Agent who specializes in storm water management and education. He also administers the Carolina Clear Program and was instrumental in the founding of the Richland County Master Gardeners Association. His presentation is entitled “The Why & How of Rain Gardens”. |
| Candice Cummings is an Extension Wildlife Associate with the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. She provides educational support to county Extension agents and specialists in related fields as well as the general public in areas ranging from wildlife damage control and wildlife management to backyard wildlife habitats. She has a MS in Agricultural Education and Wildlife Biology from Clemson University. Her presentation is entitled “Wildlife Management for Gardeners”. |
| Millie Headrick has been a Lexington County Master Gardener since 1998. She enjoys experimenting with container gardens, using unusual plant combinations and different design elements. Her presentation is “Creating a Water Feature in a Container Garden”. |
| Paulette Kindler lived in Cleveland, Ohio, until moving to Georgetown, South Carolina, in 1991. She learned about gardening from her grandfather and father. She reports that her northern gardening skills did not serve her well in the south. Completing the Georgetown County Master Gardener program in 1993 was her salvation. She is currently the Education Vice President for the Richland County Master Gardener Volunteers. She is part of the “Composting as You Like It” panel for this year’s Symposium. |
| Amanda McNulty, Clemson Extension Agent for Sumter County, is the popular co-host of ETV’s Making It Grow (Tuesdays at 7:00 on ETV) and Down Home with Tony and Amanda (Thursdays at 8:00 on the SC Channel ETV). She is also a featured writer for Garden Q&A in the Home & Garden section of The State Newspaper. Her presentation is “Roadside Arrangements”. |
| Melinda Parrish became a Master Gardener in1993 and enjoys gardening and using her organizational skills with the Master Gardener and Columbia Green programs. Melinda was recently featured in a topiary article for the Lake Murray Magazine. Her presentation is “Creating a Water Feature in a Container Garden”. |
| Margot Rochester served as president of SCMMGA, symposium chairman, and a field editor for the organization’s newsletter. She writes for The State, the Kershaw County Chronicle-Independent, and Carolina Gardener, and published her first book, Earthly Delights, in 2004. Her second book, Down to Earth, will be published later this year. She will participate in the “Composting as You Like It” panel. |
| Janet Smith took the Master Gardener Class in 1989 and immediately became interested in all the microorganisms that make yard waste and kitchen scraps into something useful for the garden. She composts the 'old fashioned way' and has three compost piles to work with. Janet reports that "It was a labor of love, but after two bouts of cancer, I have had to let my piles compost naturally". She will also participate in the “Composting as You Like It” panel. |
| Rodger Winn is a renowned organic gardener from Newberry whose greenhouses feature heirloom varieties of vegetables. He grows around 30,000 Heirloom vegetables for sale each spring. Rodger also works with preservation societies and seed companies in an effort to ensure the continuation of heirloom vegetables. His presentation will be “Heirloom Tomatoes”. |