Re: now Horticulture

I find that is a problem for me, more and more.  Also, I have found that after
about four years a magazine begins to repeat topics.  I can understand this
more now that I have been writing a newsletter for my club for the last 16
years and find it harder and harder to find a new topic.  I think our  
problem may be that we have already read and studied so many things
that what appeals to the "average" person seems elementary to us.
In the Horticulture Schools I have run, I frequently find people who have
absolutely no knowledge of basic plant structure and function - and these
are  people who are at least interested enough to take the courses.  I say
"that's just high-school biology," and they look at me blankly.  Don't 
schools teach botany any more?  I know, I took all the "boy" courses in
high school - geometry, chemistry, biology, etc. - rather than home ec., 
because that's what interested me (boys, too, of course), but surely some     
                    of these things are so basic.
Auralie

In a message dated 11/16/2006 6:36:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
andreah@hargray.com writes:
I like the regional writings sometimes, but I agree that mainly they are too 
"elementary" (can't think of a better word this early) for me. I want to 
know things I don't already know about. They seem to always say things that 
should be obvious to serious gardeners. Or is that just my bias?

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