On the QT | The Official Newsletter of GWA September - October 2017 | Page 24

NEW&
Noteworthy
Ed Hume’s TV
show ends
BRIEFS
Congratulations go to Carlos A. Balistrieri, who
has been named the new executive director
of Moore Farms Botanical Gardens in Lake City,
South Carolina. He started his new position
June 12.
GWA multi-award winning podcast We Dig
Plants continues its series on USDA Zone
gardening across the United States with a
brand new, longer format for 2017. The show’s
new day and times: 1 to 2 p.m. (Eastern time).
Carmen DeVito and Alice Marcus Krieg will be
focusing on people, plants, gardens and land-
scapes throughout the USA. Their new blog, We
Dig Plants has all the info to tune in. If you have
a great speaker or guest for the podcast please
get in touch with them info@groundworks-
gardens.com.
Toni Gattone is excited to be writing a book
with Timber Press to be published in 2019.
Sharee Solow has written a series of blogs for
The Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia, Pennsylva-
nia, which appear randomly on its website.
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Gardening In America, Ed Hume’s
television show, ends its run on
KONG-TV in late August or early
September. Ed’s show has run for
52 years, making it the longest,
continuous-airing television show
in the five northwest states. It is
arguably the longest, continuous-
running (same host) gardening
show in the world. The northwest
chapter of the National Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences
(the Emmys) honored Hume with
its highest award, induction into
its Gold Circle in 2015. Ed is the
only garden communicator ever
to be inducted into both the Silver
and Gold Circles.
Brian Minter is now writing a weekly garden-
ing column for The Vancouver Sun, the major
newspaper in British Columbia. It’s a wonderful
opportunity to engage those in small space envi-
ronments and the “now gardening” millennials.
Internships at Washington
Gardener
Kathy Jentz, editor of Washington Gardener
Magazine, the publication for the Mid-Atlantic
and greater Washington, D.C. region, is pleased
to announce the addition of two fall 2017
semester interns to the Washington Gardener
Magazine family. They are Maeve Dunigan and
Nicole Reisinger. Both are journalism majors at
the University of Maryland-College Park, and
are receiving class credit for this garden writing
experience.
• • •
Pancost begins new blog
Duane Pancoast has started a blog, The Geriat-
ric Gardener, to share his research and experi-
ence with other aging gardeners who still like
dirt under their nails. The 78-year-old mixes his
aging experiences with his landscape educa-
tion and 47 years of green industry marketing
communications to help readers cope with
their limitations rather than give up gardening.
• • •
Building a pollinator world
National Summer Reading programs for kids
and gardening? Sure! Every year Jacqueline
Soule tailors programs linking gardening and
the annual topic. This year’s topic is “Build a
Better World,” and Jacqueline is offering “Build
a Better World for Pollinators.” The topic has
proved so popular it extended beyond summer
reading and she is giving the programs through
the fall across Arizona. Email Jacqueline Soule
for more information.
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Spencer travels to Sweden
Blogger Tony Spencer of The New Perennialist
travels to Lund, Sweden, in early September to
attend the renowned 2017 Klinta Conference
with the theme Urban Growth: Perennial Plant-
ings Beyond Nature. The conference presents
leading-edge, international speakers pushing
the frontiers of global planting design.
Emmy goes to A Growing
Passion
Nan Sterman is very proud to announce
that in June, her award-winning TV show,
A Growing Passion, added another Emmy to
the trophy shelf. The American Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences awards the
Emmys. Timber Press will publish Nan’s new
book, Hot Colors, Dry Garden, in April, 2018.