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This is in response to Lon's request for us newcomers to identify and talk about ourselves.
 
My name is Linda Schaffner and I have been monitoring the GWL discussions for a while without saying much--probably because you all seem scarily knowledgeable.  I haven't gotten over the feeling that I am a pseudo expert.  I write a monthly column for a green industry trade publication now, Southwest Trees & Turf.  Readers have begun to e-mail me with horticulture questions which I still research like crazy before I answer, even if I know the answer.
 
We moved to the Las Vegas area about 14 years ago.  It is hot, hot, hot here and dry, dry, dry.  I'd never been all that interested in vegetation before, but it suddenly seemed imperative to make a cool green space in the dust bowl surrounding our new house.  What I learned doing that made me want to know more, so I became a Nevada master gardener, and I began to write horticultural articles for the master gardener newsletter, Mastering the Mojave.  The director of the UNLV Arboretum, Landscape and Grounds and I started collaborating on articles and I also collaborated on an article for a local magazine, Home and Hearth.  In the meantime, my yards won the Southern Nevada Water Authority Landscaping Award in 2000 as well as the Nevada Landscape Association Award.  Then my yard and I were written up in the Las Vegas daily paper a couple of times and I was on T.V. about 5, maybe 6 times last year.  The National Wildlife Federation featured my yard on their web front page and also used it to launch a new web site.
 
I sometimes conduct tours for our local Desert Demonstration Gardens and also the Xeric Garden at the university.  I've also been speaker for the past three years for the Desert Demonstration Gardens' "Evening in a Native Wash."  I've recently become a member of the Southern Nevada Arborist's Group (SNAG), which means I'm a big tree fan, not an arborist.  And I've been nominated for Nevada's Shade Tree Council.  So far, I've only written when I've been invited to, but I am really getting into this!
 
However, now that I've met all these wonderful horticulture people here and learned a thing or two about gardening in the worst dirt and possibly the harshest climate in America, we are moving...to Alabama (where you will have a forest in a year or two if you don't bush hog the pasture).  To my hometown.  Actually, to a suburb of a small town.  What do I do now?  Be a desert-adapted plant guru there?  Do I go on with garden writing under my 100-year-old trees?  Sounds like a puzzle fit for a lawn chair and a glass of lemonade, doesn't it?
 
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