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Participants in Growin’ Crazy will have opportunity to benefit both themselves
and the Sweet Melissa Fund for lung transplant patients and their families. The
fund honors the memory of Melissa Alexander who had cystic fibrosis and died
during her lung transplant attempt.
Growin’ Crazy promises to be the gardener’s event of the year. On April 16 from
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. gardeners will gather at the Barn in Fearrington Village,
Pittsboro, NC. The day will feature world-renowned speakers as well as notable
locals. Chatham nurseries will offer plants for sale. And a silent auction
will benefit the Sweet Melissa Fund.
Offered for auction will be specially selected plants by Chatham’s participating
nurseries. Dr. Michael Dirr will be bringing some releases from his plant
evaluation program at the University of Georgia and some of his books. Plants
have been promised from NC State University’s Urban Tree Evaluation Project at
Fletcher, NC.
Gardeners will also have opportunity to bid for 25 spaces in a guided plant walk
around Camden Park in Fearrington. The walk will be led by the morning speakers
– Michael Dirr, Dick Bir, Rick Crowder, and Ginny Gregory.
Michael Dirr is the author of Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, the only
reference of its kind. Landscapers, nursery operators, and gardeners consider
Dirr the only major source of in-print information about woody plants. He will
be speaking on his plant evaluation programs.
Dick Bir, retired professor at NC State University, has long been associated
with native plants. He helped create the annual Landscaping with Native Plants
Conference at Cullowhee and is the author of Growing and Propagating Showy
Native Woody Plants.
Rick Crowder, general manager of Hawksridge Farm nursery in Hickory, NC, has
traveled worldwide in search of plants for North Carolina Landscapes. He will
share adventures of plant searches in Japan.
Ginny Gregory brought gardening to Fearrington Village. Head Horticulturist
there for 14 years, she created the gardens that have become a village
signature. In her new business Beyond the Pail, she converts tired overgrown
spaces into garden showplaces as well as teaching and lecturing.
Growin’ Crazy is jointly sponsored by Fearrington Village, the Chatham Growers
Association, and Chatham County Center of NC Cooperative Extension Service. For
more information call 919.542.1239 or 919.542.8202 or see the website at
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/chatham/ag/homehort/GrowinCrazy05.htm
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Al Cooke
Extension Agent
Horticulture
North Carolina State University
North Carolina Cooperative Extension, Chatham County Center
P.O. Box 279
Pittsboro, NC 27312
E-mail: al_cooke@ncsu.edu
Home page:
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/chatham/staff/acooke/home.html
Phone: 919.542.8202 FAX: 919.542.8246