Join Dr. Michael Dirr (and only 99 of your colleagues) for his 3rd biennial colloquium.
Monday, January 10th; 1:00 P.M.
Dr. Michael Dirr will join Ellen Barredo of Bowood Farms, June Hutson of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and others at the 2011 National Green Centre for his 3rd biennial colloquium. Mike will be leading a discussion on promoting new plants in an ultra-competitive market as well as marketing and selling new designs and installations. This informative and always entertaining colloquium will be limited to 100 participants. Watch for registration information in the coming months.
Michael A. Dirr
is a legend in the horticultural world. His teaching, lectures, seminars, garden study tours, and plant introduction programs have contributed enormously to greater horticultural awareness. Today he travels widely to lecture, teach, and form new opinions of plants. In 2007 Michael Dirr together with Mark Griffith and Jeff Beasley established Plant Introductions, Inc (www.plantintroductions.com). They converted an abandoned hog farm into a facility to breed, select, evaluate, and develop new ornamental plants. They are currently breeding and evaluating thousands of seedings and selections in dozens of genera.
Ellen Barredo, Bowood Farms
Ellen is the horticulture manager with Bowood Farms, a garden center in the Central West End of St. Louis, MO. Originally a wholesale supplier of containerized plants, Bowood Farms rehabilitated the buildings now housing the garden center and Cafe Osage, located within the garden center, in 2005. The garden center also sells naturally raised Bowood Bison, raised on their farm in Pike County, MO. They are one of the few locally family owned garden centers located in the City of St. Louis. Bowood Farms was recently featured in Midwest Living.
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Ms. June Hutson, Missouri Botanical Garden
June Hutson with the Missouri botanical Garden is supervisor of the eight-acre Kemper Home Demonstration Garden complex featuring 23 different types of gardens scaled to a size that makes them practical for individual home owners. She was named the Aurelia Schlapp Curator of Perennials, the only horticulture curatorship awarded in the history of the Missouri Botanical Garden. She is the author of Annual Gardening for the American Garden Guide series and numerous articles in such magazines as Fine Gardening, Midwest Living and Better Homes and Gardens. In addition she is featured in a new book Container Gardening published by Fine Gardening magazine.
