UGA Cooperative Extension

Coweta County Extension Office:
Agriculture & Natural Resources -
Master Gardener Extension Volunteers Only

Upcoming Events and Activities

Backyard Association Meeting
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The Benefits of Gardening w/ Native Plants

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Mr. Jim Rodgers will be the guest speaker at the Backyard Association meeting scheduled for May 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the Coweta County Extension Office. Rodgers has been gardening and propagating native plants for more than 30 years. Although he has some formal training in botany and landscape design, most of his knowledge is self-taught through fieldwork, textbooks, and gardening. He has been involved in many plant rescues and reclamation projects and is very knowledgeable on the subject of native plant identification, species habitat, and propagation.

Jim owns and operates Nearly Native Nursery, a walk-in retail and mail order business in Fayetteville, GA that specializes in native trees, shrubs, palms and perennials for low maintenance landscapes that will attract native wildlife. Nearly Native Nursery supplies native plants to many botanical gardens throughout the U.S. including Mt. Cuba Center in Maryland and the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C.

For more information about Nearly Native, visit: http://www.nearlynativenursery.com/about.cfm

The Backyard Association, sponsored by theCoweta County Master Gardener Extension Volunteers (MGEVs),is a free seminar held on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the Coweta County Extension Office located at 255 Pine Road in Newnan. Please call the Extension Office at (770) 254-2620 for reservations and to register for door prizes.

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For more information about the Master Gardener Extension Volunteer program, contact Lana Jones, Program Assistant, at (770) 254-2620 or lhjones@uga.edu.