Conference Speaker Bios
CAROL REESE: “Express Yourself: Gardens as Art Form”
Carol Reese is employed by the UT Extension as an Ornamental Horticulture Specialist. Her job is to keep the horticulture industry up to date and attuned to the needs of an increasingly savvy gardening clientele. She writes a weekly gardening and nature column for the Jackson Sun, is the Q & A columnist for Horticulture Magazine, and contributes to many other gardening magazines. Carol’s degrees in horticulture (B.S. and M.S.) are from Mississippi State University where she taught courses in plant materials and landscape design. Her speaking engagements take her all over the nation, camera in hand. She’s given programs for enthusiastic audiences at Winterthur, Longwood, the Raulston Arboretum, Whiteflower Farms, the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, and Callaway Gardens to name just a few. She says her favorite place to be is tromping local fields with her many dogs, taking a personal interest in the doings of the birds and bees.
PAMELA CRAWFORD: “Easy Gardening in the South – Both in Containers and in the Ground”
Pamela Crawford, author of eight gardening books, has lived and gardened in the southeast for most of her life (in Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia her current location). In addition to designing gardens for over 1500 residences, her work has been featured on the cover of Better Homes and Gardens publications as well as in Southern Living, HGTV Magazine, Fine Gardening, Country Gardens, Country Almanac, Small Gardens, and over fifty newspapers. As an expert in her field, she has appeared on the Fine Living Network, Fox News affiliates and numerous local TV shows. Pamela has an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and a masters degree in landscape architecture from Florida International University, where she received the prestigious “Torch Award” as an outstanding alumnus from the school of architecture. Pamela has been heavily involved in trial gardens both on a university and private level. Her goal is to find plants that give the most color for the least amount of care. Learn about Pamela from her Web site, www.easygardencolor.com.
GEORGE SANKO: “Ferns for the Shade and Sun Garden”
Mr. Sanko has been with Georgia Perimeter College for the past 40 years where he taught Botany, Biology, and Plant ID. While at the college he started the College Herbarium which eventually housed more than 5000 species of native plants collected throughout the United States. As a teacher, he received 12 outstanding teacher awards while at Georgia Perimeter College. In 1990 he started the GPC Botanical Garden which has more than 2000 native plants, making it one of the largest native plant collections in the Southeastern United States. The garden also houses some 75 rare and endangered plants. In 2003 he developed the Ferns of the World Garden which has more than 448 taxa of hardy ferns making it one of the top zone 7 collections in the world. The fern collection continues to grow and should reach an astronomical 700 taxa in the next two years. He is currently researching growing xeric ferns in full sun rock gardens.
WALTER REEVES: “The Georgia Gardener”
Walter Reeves is a native Georgian. He grew up on a farm in rural Fayette County, where he gained lots of practical knowledge about plants. His horticulture career began with the University of Georgia Extension, where he served for 29 years. Best known to Atlanta-area listeners as the radio host of The Lawn and Garden Show with Walter Reeves, he also reaches gardeners through his weekly columns in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Walter helps gardeners throughout the state as the host of Gardening in Georgia, shown weekly on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Walter is the coauthor of the Georgia Gardener’s Guide, Month by Month Gardening in Georgia, The Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Book and Georgia Gardeners’ Q & A: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. His Web site, www.walterreeves.com contains thousands of hints, tips, and answers for gardeners in the Southeast.
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