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Thanks to everyone who
participated in and attended Garden
Gurus VIII featuring Holly Shimizu & Michael Weishan on
January 14, 2006.
Special thanks
and congratulations to Annie Broyles & Brenda
Johnson for chairing their second Garden Gurus. Thank you
for sharing your considerable talent with us and with our
community.
Here's a
collection of
moments from this year's daylong
celebration of gardening.
Garden Gurus VIII
 
   
  
| From the top: Michael
Weishan, host of "The Victory Garden," at the Gurus Eve reception with Gurus
co-chair Brenda Johnson; Gurus Sponsor "Garden Gems" from Metropolis
preparing their vendor booth; Dr. Win Dunwell, Brenda Johnson and McCracken County Horticulture Agent/PAMGA Advisor
Dava Hayden finalizing plans for the Live Auction of Specimen Plants; Sally Wilkins, Eileen Duobinis-Gray and Chris Flenner add finishing touches to Silent Auction items; Betty Park, Margaret Heaton and Shirley Bailey prepare for customers at the PAMGA book and tool
booth; Vendor Briarwood Gardens offered a potpourri of herbal
delicacies; featured speakers Michael Weishan and Holly Shimizu under the book
signing pergola constructed by Wahl's Landscape and Garden Shoppe; Holly Shimizu
discussing gardening tools with Master Gardeners Jim Mullen and Mark
Mayfield; Sally Wilkins, Gurus co-chair Annie Broyles, Nova Nuckolls and
PAMGA President Phyllis Petcoff making event plans; Vendor booth of
Wahl's Landscape & Garden Shoppe; Beans to Blossoms from Murray
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A Brief Garden Gurus History
Garden
Gurus began as a lecture series (with a twist) in 1999. The goal was
to bring noted horticulturalists to our community and to give area residents the
opportunity to purchase unusual specimen plants. Speakers have included:
Roger Swain, Felder Rushing, Dr. Paul Cappiello, Rick Weyers, Lin Harris, Dr. R.
William Thomas, Richard Dube, Cole Burrell, Rick Darke, Tracy DiSabato-Aust, Jim
Wilson, Paul James, P. Allen Smith, and most recently Holly Shimizu and Michael
Weishan. In six years we
outgrew three venues. We now fill Paducah's Expo Center and the lecture
series has grown into a daylong celebration of
gardening including workshops, vendors, live and silent auctions,
a plant sale, tool and book sales, and of course our featured speakers.
Proceeds
from Garden Gurus, a spring plant sale and a fall gardening event support
educational programs including the Demonstration & Trial Garden on Coleman Road
here in Paducah. Twice in our brief eight years of existence the National
Garden Club, Inc. has recognized our efforts with the Fisher Award which is
given to the Best Garden Center in the Nation.
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