Annuals: New Varieties Along with the Tried and True

Sue Amatangelo is the national retail accounts manager at Ball Horticultural Company. She frequently demonstrates at garden centers how to create container gardens, offering new ideas in addition to time honored, foolproof plant combinations. Sue is a Master Gardener and recipient of the Illinois Outstanding Master Gardener Award. She is also the horticulture superintendent of the Kane County Fair in Illinois, plan commissioner for the city of St. Charles, and a board member of Garden Centers of America.

Finding Your Own Garden Style

Elin Haaga is a landscape designer and professor of landscape history at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She also owns a landscape design firm in Bethesda, Maryland, which allows her to combine her experiences of living around the world with her passion for garden design. As the Garden School draws to a close, Elin will guide you through a garden design workshop, bringing together the ideas and knowledge gained through the Garden School with your own personal garden style..

American Plants for American Gardens: A Look at Natives and New Native Selections

Natalia Hamill, a horticulturist with a longstanding interest in native plants, helped establish Grow Native! in Missouri and has been involved with American Beauties in the Northeast, two programs that promote native plants. She is currently a product specialist for Skagit Gardens, a new plant producer offering perennials and annuals to professional growers. The author of 100 Easy Perennials and contributing writer for Sunset Midwest Landscaping Book and The Reader’s Digest Garden Problem Solver, Natalia’s work has also appeared in The American Gardener, Fine Gardening, Organic Gardening, Garden Gate, Gardening How-To, and Flower & Garden.

Notable Woody Plants for the Landscape

Roy Klehm, a fourth-generation nurseryman, is co-owner and vice president of Beaver Creek Nursery, Inc., a wholesale growing operation in Illinois, and Klehm’s Song Sparrow Farm and Nursery, a retail mail-order nursery in southern Wisconsin. Throughout his career, Roy has selected, hybridized, and introduced numerous varieties of herbaceous and woody plants. In 2005, Roy received the American Horticultural Society’s Paul Ecke Jr. Commercial Award, given for the highest standards of excellence in the field of commercial horticulture, and the Illinois Landscape Contractor Association’s Special Recognition Award. Roy is director emeritus and past president of the American Peony Society.

Transatlantic Perennials & New and Unfamiliar Vines for the Garden

Graham Rice, an award-winning garden writer, is the author of more than 20 books on plants and gardening, including the Reader's Digest Book of Perennials, Hardy Perennials, and Discovering Annuals. Graham is also editor-in-chief of the American Horticultural Society’s Encyclopedia of Perennials published last fall, which is the most comprehensive book of its kind in print. A horticulture graduate of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in England, Graham is a transatlantic gardener with homes in Pennsylvania and in Northamptonshire, England.

The Amazing World of Plants - a Field Study of Gardens in the Louisville Area

The Garden School will begin Thursday afternoon with a specially designed field study offering participants a chance to visit outstanding landscapes in the Louisville area. One of these will be Louisville’s historic Cave Hill Cemetery, which opened in the mid-1800s, to offer an up-close look at notable plant material in the landscape. The field study will also include a visit to a private estate to further explore the amazing world of plants.

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