Programs & Events
October 19, 2010 Meeting at Cheekwood Botanic Hall
12/12/2009 -
Speaker: Ruth Baumgardner
Mouse Creek Nursery Perennial Farms
"Put Oooos and Ahhhs Outdoors"
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Refreshments & Plant Swap: 6:30 pm
Location: Massey Auditorium in Botanic Hall
Cheekwood Botanic Garden and Museum of Art
1200 Forest Park Drive
Nashville, TN 37205
FREE and open to the public.
Ruth Baum
gardner and her husband, Erbin, are owners of Mouse Creek (Nursery) .jpg)
Perennial Farm located at Riceville, Tennessee. In business since 1983, the nursery specializes in growing more than 800 varieties of hardy herbaceous perennials, and a large selection of herbs and unusual annuals. She is past president of the Perennial Plant Association, having served as Southeastern Director and chairman of the Education Committee. She has served on the Education Committee of the Tennessee Nursery and Landscape Association and as East Tennessee Director for the Tennessee Flower Growers’ Association.
In 2004 the Tennessee Master Gardeners named Ruth Honorary Master Gardener for her 10 years of service, teaching perennial classes to aspiring gardeners in four Tennessee counties.
During the 2005 national Perennial Plant Association Symposium, the fall-blooming yellow aster Heterotheca Villosa ‘Ruth Baumgardner’ was introduced in her honor.
She has been the featured speaker to numerous horticultural organizations, including the Chautauqua (New York) Bird, Tree and Garden Club, Tennessee Nursery and Landscape Association, Southeast Greenhouse Conference, Tennessee Flower Growers’ Association, Florida Nursery Growers’ Conference, the International Plant Propagators’ Society, the Georgia Perennial Plant Association, and the Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs. She is also a regular contributor to the Tennessee Gardener magazine.
www.mousecreekperennialfarm.com
Mouse Creek Nursery Perennial Farm 276 County Road 67 Riceville, Tennessee 37370 423-462-2666
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