Contact: Helen Benso
Vice President for Marketing
Mail:
Fax: 843-235-6039
E-mail:
hbenso@brookgreen.org
Phone: 843-235-6000
For Immediate Release
March 26, 2009
Outstanding Gardening Speakers and Amazing Plant
Exceptional, hard to find plants for sale at Diggin’ It the spring garden
festival is only surpassed by the line-up of guest lecturers on Saturday and
Sunday, April 25 -26 at Brookgreen Gardens!
Saturday, Pam Baggett, author
and photographer of !Tropicalismo! Spice up
Your Garden with Cannas, Bananas, and 93 Other Eye-Catching Tropical Plants,
will talk about Sizzling Plants for
Sultry Climates. Bobby Mottern, former Director of Horticulture at
Brookgreen and now a landscape architect in
Sunday, guest speaker Felder
Rushing, author of several national award winning gardening books and featured
articles in Garden Design, Horticulture,
Landscape Architecture, Better Homes and Gardens, Fine Gardening, Organic
Gardening, and National Geographic.
He has hosted a television program that was shown across the South, and
currently co-hosts a call-in garden program over public radio. Felder uses
an offbeat, "down home" approach rife with humorous anecdotes
and garden-irreverent metaphors, zany observations, and stunning photography.
Bob Polomski, well known Clemson Extension Horticulturist, speaker and garden
writer, will inform gardeners on how to survive southern gardening.
Saturday and Sunday there will be gardening
demonstrations including Brookgreen’s senior horticulturalist, Kandace Cavins
who will give tips on how to make and maintain beautiful hanging plants. Plus
for Buddin’ Gardeners there will be activities such as Plant a Seed and Paint a
Pot.
During the Plantacular
Sale Brookgreen’s professional horticulture staff will
be on hand to answer questions, give advice, and assist in plant selections.