{"id":2,"date":"2010-09-07T15:36:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T15:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:55:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Hugh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/hugh-personal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13570\" width=\"150\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/hugh-personal.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/hugh-personal-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a gardener, one who actually enjoys his addiction for plants.&nbsp; I have been a horticultural educator for 40+ years.&nbsp; Beginning my retirement years provides me with more time in my garden and more time to share my profession with those whose company I enjoy the most&#8212;you who till the soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Once Upon a Time\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past 33 years, I have worked as the University Extension Area Horticulturalist in east Tennessee and in southwest Iowa. Over the past 23 years I have organized hundreds of educational meeting for commercial nursery and greenhouse growers, landscapers and garden center employees. I continue to teach training classes for the University of Tennessee Master Gardener program. &nbsp;From 1974 to 1977, I served as Home Ground Extension specialist at the University of Rhode Island and taught plant identification courses at Michigan State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I continue to write garden features and articles for magazines and newspapers. I am a frequent contributor to various landscape and nursery trade newsletters as well as to the Southern Appalachian Plant Society newsletter. I have written over 40 Extension garden fact sheets under the \u201cTennessee Great Gardens\u201d logo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have organized over 25 commercial industry and home gardening tours throughout the Southeastern and Northeastern U.S. I continue to lecture at commercial, horticultural and gardening events. &nbsp;In 1994 I organized the first UT Master Gardener class in the Tri-Cities region of Tennessee, and I continue to play an active role in the Master Gardener program today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, I pursued a PhD degree in Ornamental Horticulture for five years at Michigan State University. I earned a BS degree (Pomology) from Cornell University in 1967 and a MS degree (Plant Sciences) from the University of Delaware in 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife Jane and I are proud parents of four children. Hobbies include photography, writing and traveling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professional Memberships include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perennial Plant Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garden Writers Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American Conifer Society<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southern Appalachian Plant Society<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tennessee Nursery and Landscape Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a gardener, one who actually enjoys his addiction for plants.&nbsp; I have been a horticultural educator for 40+ years.&nbsp; Beginning my retirement years provides me with more time in my garden and more time to share my profession with those whose company I enjoy the most&#8212;you who till the soil. Once Upon a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13590,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/13590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}