Classes for the 2002 WKBG Plant Sale

Education Classes Offered

2002 WKBG Plant Sale

ALL CLASSES FREE!

9:00 a.m. “Perennial Pleasures”

Annette Meyer Heisdorffer Ph.D

Class description: The “Perennial Pleasures” program will introduce you to perennial plants for your garden. The discussion will include plants that will grow in the shade such as hostas, or in full sun, such as purple coneflower. Other growing conditions for the perennials will be described. Come and learn about beautiful perennial plants that will give you pleasure when added to your garden.

10:00 a.m. “ Garden Photography”

Bonnie Nance

11:00 a.m. “How Many Daylilies Are There?”

Lea Ann & Don Williams

12:00 p.m. “English Cottage Gardens”

James Martin Ph.D

Class description: “The program on cottage gardens will include illustrations of cottage gardens I have visited, mainly in Britain. Cottage gardens are not heavy on design; rather they are collectors’ gardens, chock full of exciting plants from around the world. They can serve as inspirations to American gardeners who love plants per se. I will talk about many of the popular perennials that are generally found in these gardens”

Dr. Heisdorffer has been the Daviess County’s award winning Extension Agent for Horticulture for 8 years. Her responsibilities include consumer horticulture and writing a weekly educational gardening column in the Messenger-Inquirer. She also helps with commercial horticulture in the areas of nursery production and vegetable production. Back to top.

Mrs. Nance has been a free lance photographer for 15 years. Her lovely photographs have appeared in or on the cover of many magazines. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art Studio and Art Education at Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1980. She works with many book and calendar publishers on a regular basis. They include Harris publications: Garden Borders & Flower Gardens, Reiman Publications: Birds & Blooms, Farm & Ranch Living, Country, Country Extra and Country Discoveries. Back to top.

Lea Ann & Don operate Lakeside Daylilies in Lynnville, Indiana where they grow over 1200 varieties of daylilies. Lakeside Daylilies became an American Horticulture Society display garden in 1998. Don and Lea Ann are also AHS judges and Senior Exhibition Judges. In 1996, along with Art and Rae Schroeder and Paul and Judi Aucoin, they helped form the Southwest Indiana Daylily Society.

Dr. Martin has a long and rich history in horticulture. He received his Ph.D. in landscape horticulture from Ohio State University. He has traveled extensively the gardens of the United States, Great Britain and continental Europe. He has developed and led educational programs for adults and children in Dayton OH and at the Kingswood Center, a botanical garden in Mansfield OH where he also served as Assistant Director. This Indiana native came to WKU to develop and teach the horticulture program. He has taught 14 different classes, served as manager of the university greenhouses, advised the WKU Horticulture Club and served on many university committees. He received the College’s Outstanding Teacher Award in 1998. Now semi-retired from teaching he has his own herbaceous perennial nursery and is an active member in many plant and nursery associations.