Re: now Horticulture

I went to an agricultural high school. We didn't have "botany," but we did have "plant science." :) Took botany in junior college on the G.I. Bill. We spent much of the year assembling an herbarium for the school of plants found on campus--kinda fun, as I recall. 

On Nov 16, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:


I too have a hard time finding garden articles that I really like. Most
of the magazine articles deal with plants and situations I can't have -
too hot or too dry. Almost everything written for southern California
assumes no freezing weather. But occasionally I find something
worthwhile. We have a once a week column in our local paper by a local
guy, but he writes for the non-gardener. And after reading it for about
15 years now I'm pretty sure he just dusts off the column for the
appropriate week and resubmits. I can't blame him either - if that's
what the paper wants, how many times can you write about fertilizing a
lawn or pruning rosebushes and make it fresh?
My high school didn't have botany, and that was...well we don't want to
say how many years ago that was...of course there was biology. Pretty
sure my university didn't have botany either because I would have taken
it - I took every other 101 level course in life sciences.

Cyndi

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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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