On the QT | The Official Newsletter of GWA December 2016 - January 2017 | Page 11

REGIONAL NEWS & NOTES

REGION IV
BARBARA WISE

Don’t start let winter find you hibernating your
garden brain when there are great horticultural
education opportunities afoot. One big event
in January is the Mid-Atlantic Horticulture Short
Course at the Founder’s Inn & Spa, in Virginia
Beach, Virginia, January 16-20, 2017. Brie Arthur
will be the keynote speaker January 17 with her
“Foodscape Revolution” presentation.
Marie Mims Butler (pictured) will also be at
the Short Course presenting “Edible Flowers…
Really?” during the Home Gardener Day, January
16, which is sponsored by the Virginia Horticultural Foundation. On January18, Marie will
return to the lectern at the Short Course to lead
a “Make and Take Winter Container Garden”
workshop.

REGION V
K E L LY N O R R I S

Jennifer Ebeling, host of the Still Growing
Gardening Podcast is interviewing guests for
episodes for the first quarter of 2017 (January
through March). If you would like to be a guest
on the show, please email Jennifer Ebeling.
Kelly Norris will kick off this year with two
presentations at MGIX (formerly CENTS) in
Columbus, Ohio, January 18: “Gardening with a
Y” and “Life on the Edge: Tough Plants for Tough
Places.” He will give the keynote presentation
“Plants with Style” on January 25 at the 2017
Nebraska Great Plains Conference hosted by the
Nebraska Nursery and Landscape Association
in Omaha. He will also give a keynote, “Planting
for the Future” at MetroHort’s Plant-O-Rama at
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York,
January 30. He will present “Plants with Style”
on February 1 at the Delaware Center for Public
Horticulture in Wilmington.
Bill Johnson will present “Insect Pollinators
—Beyond the Honeybee” January 21 from
1:00-2:30 p.m. at the Tashjian Bee & Pollinator
Center at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
in Chaska.

You’ll also find Pam Beck at Home Gardener
Day, speaking on “Success with Herbs.”
She’ll follow that up within the Short Course’s
Landscape Architecture/Design Track, when
she presents “Moving Through the Landscape.”
Her stints end January 19 with another Landscape Architecture/Design Track lecture titled
“Creating Intimate Spaces.”
Pam will continue her busy lecturing schedule
when she covers “Hanging Out with Shady
Characters” and “Let’s Mix It Up: Mixed Border
Design,” on February 11 at the 16th annual
Symposium of the Greater Greenville Master
Gardener Association of South Carolina.

Judy Nauseef will also be appearing at the
2017 Nebraska Great Plains Conference, January
25, speaking on “Using Native Plants in the
Landscape.” Her recent book, Gardening with
Native Plants in the Upper Midwest: Bringing the
Tallgrass Prairie Home will be for sale.
Pam Penick, award-winning blogger and
author, will present “Hold the Hose! How to
Make Your Garden Water Thrifty and Beautiful,”
February 27 at The Natural Gardener in Austin,
Texas. Pam is the author of Lawn Gone! and
her brand-new book, The Water-Saving Garden.
Her books will be available for sale and signing
after this free talk.

REGION VI
NAN STERMAN

Yvonne Savio will discuss growing vegetables
in Southern California at the University of
California Master Gardeners meeting in San
Bernardino County, California, December 17.
On January 12, Yvonne will be part of a panel
discussing “The 2016 Chelsea Flower Show” for
the Southern California Horticultural Society
at Friendship Hall, 3201 Riverside Drive, Los
Angeles, California.
Debra Prinzing will spend the month of
January speaking to audiences as distant from
each other as possible. She begins the month
giving a presentation on “The Slow Flowers
Movement” to the Boca Grande Garden Club in
Boca Grande, Florida, and she ends the month
making a similar presentation to the 2017 Alaska
Peony Conference in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Nan Sterman is the keynote speaker for the
California Women in Agriculture meeting on
January 7 in Carlsbad, California.
Nancy Buley will speak on “Planting for Diversity
of Species in Urban Forests” January 12 at
the Northern Green Expo in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. On February 3, she will co-present
with Bert Cregg of Michigan State University
at the iLandscape Show in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Their topic, ”Tree Selection for a Changing
Climate,” was featured in the October issue
of Arborist News. Nancy’s article about tree
shortages recently appeared in Nursery
Management magazine.

REGION VII
TO N Y S P E N C E R

Andrea Whitley our member from Australia,
reports that spring is arriving slowly but the
roses are now blooming—just what we want to
hear as most of us sharpen our snow shovels.

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