Want to make your backyard more beautiful? Check out the 17th
annual Southern
Appalachian Landscape Seminar on April 30 in Blairsville,
Ga. You’ll find plenty of
information there to help you do it.

This year’s theme, “My Own Backyard,” focuses on how you
can easily enhance
your private yard area without a lot of fuss or expense.

“The biggest landscaping problem people have is selecting
the right plants,”
said Kathryn Litton of the Blairsville Garden Club, one of
the seminar sponsors.

“You have to choose plants for where in your yard you
want to put them, but also
for the correct climate zone,” she said. “In north Georgia,
we’re in zone 6. But
many stores here feature plants for zone 7 that won’t
survive our cold winters.”

The program will feature four speakers.

Eddie Rhoades, a Cobb County Master Gardener, will show
how to personalize your garden
with Southern yard art.

Walter
Reeves, DeKalb County Extension
agent and host of the No. 1-rated talk show in Atlanta, will
show how to make a shade
garden.

Tara Dillard of the Atlanta Botanical Garden will discuss
landscaping in small spaces
and container gardening.

And Barbara Allen, landscape and perennial garden
designer of the Spruill Center for
the Arts, will show how to create an elegant landscape with
just a few steps.

Registration begins at 9 a.m., the program will begin at
10 a.m. A $15 registration fee
includes lunch, refreshments, educational materials and door
prizes.

Other seminar sponsors are the Ge
orgia Mountain Experiment
Station and Union County Extension Service.

Call the Georgia Mountain Experiment Station at (706) 745-
2655 for more information or
to register in advance.