Hi Wanda, can you please send out this email to all Master Gardeners in Crossville, Chattanooga, and all of East TN using the subject line as is? Many, many thanks, Sue  ……disregard the 2 emails I sent you before this one.

 

What do bicycles, bedsprings, bottles and bald cypress have in common? According to Jason Reeves, curator of the UT Gardens Jackson, they all make exciting additions to your landscape!

 

On Monday, October 26 Jason will share stories of his artful garden concoctions and favorite landscape additions. Whether he's including used appliances or under-used plants...Jason's designs never look like anyone else's! He'll give two talks in Room 125 of the Ellington Plant Sciences Building on the UT Ag Campus (for directions http://www.utk.edu/maps/) beginning at 6:30 p.m. Detailed descriptions of Jason’s talks are as follows:

 

One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure

Jason is known for his use of what many would consider “trash” at the UT Gardens Jackson.  Working with limited funds, he has found inventive ways to bring whimsy into the Gardens which draw thousands of visitors annually.  When used in the right context, old satellite dishes, bicycles, cook stoves and bedsprings can make an unusual but surprisingly tasteful addition to any garden. In 2014 and 2015 Jason included more than 6000 recycled glass bottles in the landscape. Come see how Jason uses “trash” to create gardens filled with imaginative art that sets off the show stopping plant collections in the UT Gardens.  

 

Great Garden Plants – Jason will focus on dependable new and older underutilized great plant performers. Covering annuals, perennial, tropicals, trees and shrubs that will perform in your garden for years to come. Plants like Clematis ‘Roogucchi’, 'Iron Butterfly’ iron weed, Jasmine 'Fiona Sunrise', Phlox 'Minnie Pearl', 'Summer Chocolate' mimosa tree, 'Sun King' Aralia, 'Don Egolf' Chinese redbud, Hydrangea paniculata ‘Baby Lace’ and 'Peve Minaret' bald cypress.

 

 

Jason Reeves

After growing up on a farm in West Tennessee, Jason received his master's degree in ornamental horticulture and landscape design from the University of Tennessee. He has worked at the Opryland Conservatories in Nashville, Missouri Botanical Garden, Longwood Gardens, and as a horticulturist in New Zealand. In 2002, Jason became the research horticulturist and curator of the UT Gardens Jackson where he has developed the grounds using an exciting array of herbaceous and woody ornamentals, both for research and to illustrate adaptable plants and their best use in design. In 2008 he began leading domestic and international garden tours, and in 2010 he became a contributing editor to Fine Gardening magazine.

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Susan L. Hamilton, Ed.D

Director, UT Gardens

Assoc. Professor of Horticulture

252 Ellington Plant Sciences Bldg., 2431 Joe Johnson Dr.

Knoxville, TN, 37996

 

(865) 974-7972 Office

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