Fences don’t deter gardeners who have for generations found ways over, around and under barriers (both real and figurative) to share plants, tips and recipes — really, bits of ourselves and our cultures, without regard to another gardener’s stripes or background. Since a gardener can’t give or get plants without touching another person, our garden legacies have proven to be real common ground. Now, how about a piece of my grandma’s old rose for your fence…
Speakers Expertise:
Felder Rushing Felder Rushing, columnist, radio and television personality, author, and photographer is an 11
th-generation Southern gardener. Rushing promotes both simple and unconventional gardening through newspaper columns, magazine articles, and even NPR. The author of over twenty books and founder of Slow Gardening, he was named by
Southern Living as one of the "25 people most likely to change the South. Rushing has also recently authored a book titled
Maverick Gardeners: Dr. Dirt and Other Determined Independent Gardeners through the University Press of Mississippi.
