As garden club events go, it can hardly get any better than the
Southern Appalachian Landscape Seminar. Growing more popular
every year since its 1982 start, the event this year is expected
to pack the Haralson Memorial Civic Center in Blairsville April
26.

University of Georgia professor and author Alan Armitage, an
expert on perennials, will be one of the guest speakers. Others
will include George Schmidt, author of “Genus Hosta”; and Penny
McHenry, founder of the Georgia Hydrangea Society.

The Blairsville Garden Club sponsors the event, along with the
UGA Mountain Branch Experiment Station, the UGA Extension Service
and the Southern Appalachian Growers Association.

Exhibits, Door Prizes

Landscape firms, plant societies and others will have exhibits. A
number of plants and other garden items will be given as door
prizes. And the garden club members will again have a plant
sale.

A $20 preregistration fee (or $25 at the door) will cover a boxed
lunch and other costs. Seating is limited. For reservations, call
the Mountain Branch Station at (706) 745-2655.