New show to focus on Georgia plants

Web posted December 4, 1998

From Staff Reports

A new Georgia Public Television gardening show will focus on what others don't -- the vastly different landscapes that exist in the state of Georgia.

The Georgia Gardener, hosted by Walter Reeves, airs 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, on WCES-TV (Channel 20 in Wrens). The show is produced by the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, GPTV and Peachtree Film Co.

``We'll go all over the state to show new and old ways of gardening, discuss the latest research as well as old-time folk knowledge,'' Mr. Reeves said.

He is a horticulture educator with the UGA Extension Service. Mr. Reeves also is a seventh-generation gardener and host of a gardening show on an Atlanta radio station.

The show will feature how-to information from expert gardeners that can be easily explained to viewers. He said the program will be accessible to both beginners and master gardeners.

The show's home garden -- a 3-acre showplace of information culled from the extension service and the people he meets -- is being built at UGA's Griffin, Ga., campus.