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Do family and
friends tease you about your "brown thumb?" Does the labyrinth
of fertilizer, soil amendments and seeds at your local garden center
both confuse and amaze you? Do houseplants shiver at your approach?
Take heart. The Millsaps Community Enrichment Series can help. This
fall, three gardening classes are being offered that can end your
foliage phobia.
Nellie Neal,
aka "The Gardenmama," will teach Container Gardening,
a four-week class aimed at teaching nature lovers how to grow plants
– without all of the tilling and digging associated with gardening.
Course participants will learn how to select the right pot for a
plant, how to combine plants for easier growing and better looks
and how to blend soils to suit different kinds of plants.
Neal, a freelance
garden writer and radio talk show host, is a contributing editor
of Ortho's All About Greenhouses and the author of the upcoming
Questions and Answers for Southern Gardeners. Her columns
appear regularly in the Mississippi Gardner Magazine and
the Clarion-Ledger.
Felder Rushing
will teach Southern Flower Gardening Made Easy, an instructional
class on growing various plants all year long in Mississippi. Rushing,
the author of eight garden books, will explain effective methods
of choosing, planting and growing the very best annual and perennial
flowers, herbs, bulbs, low-maintenance roses and other shrubs.
Rushing, an
esteemed horticulturist, has grown thousands of cuttings, divisions,
and seeds collected from all over the country. His laid-back teaching
style is perfect for beginners as well as veterans.
Rick Griffin
will teach two landscape design classes. Landscape Design I,
Session A offers the fundamental skills necessary in the design
of residential landscapes. Griffin will instruct students on the
use of color, form, texture and pattern in residential gardens.
Landscape Design I, Session B encourages participants to
bring examples from their own garden problems to class for discussion.
The class will work together to present possible design plan solutions.
The final class meeting will include a fieldtrip to Griffin's own
garden.
Griffin received
his bachelor of landscape architecture degree from Mississippi State
University, where he was named the first outstanding alumnus in
the School of Landscape Architecture. His work has been featured
in Southern Living, Mississippi and Family Circle
magazines.
Container
Gardening will meet 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. on Mondays Sept. 23 - Oct.
21, and the cost for the course is $70. Southern Flower Gardening
Made Easy, which also costs $70, will meet 7 - 9 p.m. every
Wednesday Sept. 25 - Oct. 16. Landscape Design I, Session A
will meet from 7 - 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday Sept. 24 - Oct. 15, and
the cost for the course is $75. A demonstration/tour time and date
will be scheduled in class. Landscape Design, Session B is
also $75, and the class will meet 7 - 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday Oct.
22 - Nov. 12.
To enroll in
any of the above classes, contact the Millsaps Community Enrichment
Office at (601) 974-1130.
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