Change Your Landscape from Boring to Brilliant
Posted: Saturday, January 10, 2009
From the Master Gardener
ISU Extension, Woodbury County
By Dr. Eldon Everhart, Horticulture Specialist
Iowa State University, serving Woodbury County ISU Extension
If you want to learn how to take your yard from boring to brilliant, then you need to attend the 2009 Siouxland Garden Show and listen to one of Susan Appleget Hurst's presentations. She will give you many great design ideas that can do just that.
Hurst has been known to let her interest in gardening get her into big trouble. In fact, it got her grounded in third grade when she chose gardening over doing homework.
Hurst has gardened in the Midwest, the South, and on the West Coast, but is pleased to be planted again in Iowa and has no plans to leave. A practical gardener from the beginning, growing vegetables and herbs, she has branched out (pun intended) to grow beds of flowers, trees and shrubs all over her yard.
She was the editor and publisher of IowaGardener.com, the editor of Garden Shed and Gardener's Almanac, and associate editor of Country Gardens magazine. Currently she is senior associate editor for garden and outdoor living at Better Homes and Gardens magazine in Des Moines.
During her colorful presentation, Hurst will show you how to use garden design principles in real life. You will learn how to create the landscape you've always wanted.
"Garden design, like interior design, can seem difficult to do well, but it doesn't have to be," Hurst says. "I can help you create a yard and garden that is pleasing to the eye and pocketbook, and that feels like an extension of your home."
She will come armed with information on new products, the latest gardening techniques, time-saving tips, and garden design ideas. Many of her tips are practical and somewhat mundane, others are unusual, but all of them will allow all of us to get more out of our gardens.
Hurst will show you some simple but effective garden design ideas. This includes how to use curves in a small garden to create the illusion of more space.
She will give you garden ideas that will work well in a small square or rectangular area, and much more. She will include design ideas for gardeners who suffer from a lack of space and time.
This year, the Siouxland Garden Show will be March 20 and 21 at the Marina Center, E. Fifth and B sts. in South Sioux City, Neb. For more information contact Woodbury County Extension at (712) 276-2157 or visit www.extension.iastate.edu/woodbury.
ISU Extension, Woodbury County
By Dr. Eldon Everhart, Horticulture Specialist
Iowa State University, serving Woodbury County ISU Extension
If you want to learn how to take your yard from boring to brilliant, then you need to attend the 2009 Siouxland Garden Show and listen to one of Susan Appleget Hurst's presentations. She will give you many great design ideas that can do just that.
Hurst has been known to let her interest in gardening get her into big trouble. In fact, it got her grounded in third grade when she chose gardening over doing homework.
Hurst has gardened in the Midwest, the South, and on the West Coast, but is pleased to be planted again in Iowa and has no plans to leave. A practical gardener from the beginning, growing vegetables and herbs, she has branched out (pun intended) to grow beds of flowers, trees and shrubs all over her yard.
She was the editor and publisher of IowaGardener.com, the editor of Garden Shed and Gardener's Almanac, and associate editor of Country Gardens magazine. Currently she is senior associate editor for garden and outdoor living at Better Homes and Gardens magazine in Des Moines.
During her colorful presentation, Hurst will show you how to use garden design principles in real life. You will learn how to create the landscape you've always wanted.
"Garden design, like interior design, can seem difficult to do well, but it doesn't have to be," Hurst says. "I can help you create a yard and garden that is pleasing to the eye and pocketbook, and that feels like an extension of your home."
She will come armed with information on new products, the latest gardening techniques, time-saving tips, and garden design ideas. Many of her tips are practical and somewhat mundane, others are unusual, but all of them will allow all of us to get more out of our gardens.
Hurst will show you some simple but effective garden design ideas. This includes how to use curves in a small garden to create the illusion of more space.
She will give you garden ideas that will work well in a small square or rectangular area, and much more. She will include design ideas for gardeners who suffer from a lack of space and time.
This year, the Siouxland Garden Show will be March 20 and 21 at the Marina Center, E. Fifth and B sts. in South Sioux City, Neb. For more information contact Woodbury County Extension at (712) 276-2157 or visit www.extension.iastate.edu/woodbury.
