Re: OK, so I have

Great ideas!!!  I wish I could listen.  I shared them...hope you don't mind
but these would be wonderful for our MG program, especially the
"transplanted gardener"...we have so many people who have moved from North,
South and West that have to adjust their gardening to our heat and
humidity.   Hope you get to the VI...should be inspirational.


> [Original Message]
> From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 6/21/2007 7:05:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] OK, so I have
>
> That's great, Andrea. Especially the teaching part--lots of 
> possibilities.
>
> On Jun 21, 2007, at 6:27 AM, Andrea Hodges wrote:
>
> > some exciting news. I asked about the MG curriculum last week or 
> > whenever it
> > was because I've been given the "go-ahead" by our local technical 
> > college to
> > teach pretty much whatever I want to when it comes to gardening 
> > classes. I
> > just got the word yesterday that my schedule looks great and we're on. 
> > I start
> > in September- this is for continuing education so no credit and much 
> > less
> > formal than any horticulture 101 classes. For fall I'm going to do  a 
> > couple
> > of short classes called the Transplanted Gardener for those new to the 
> > coastal
> > south or just new to gardening. Then a longer version of that called 
> > the
> > Coastal Gardener that will run one night a week for 10 weeks so we can 
> > get
> > more in depth. I'm also going to do a couple of Landscape Plant 
> > Materials
> > classes so I can hopefully get some people to realize that Live Oaks 
> > are NOT
> > parking lot trees and that Crape Myrtles should never be hacked into 
> > stumps.
> > I'm very excited about it. IN the spring I get to use the college's 
> > greenhouse
> > and plan to so a plant propagation class and a few others.
> >
> > Also-it's looking really good that I'll get to go to the British Virgin
> > Islands Oct 3-13 to do a tropical ecology study for my degree (which 
> > means I
> > won't have to take statistics my advisor has informed me, praise the 
> > Lord!)
> > So, I'm just all excited. Oh and the last week of July I get to go to 
> > San
> > Diego and work is actually paying for the whole thing! I can hardly 
> > stand
> > myself. LOL!
> > A
> > Andrea Hodges
> > Beaufort, SC
> >
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