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GARDENING EXPERTS
Gardening
B. Rose Lerner
Extension specialist, consumer/home horticulture
State coordinator, Master Gardener Program
(765) 494-1311; home: (765) 474-9102
[email protected]
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/hort/people/staff/lerner.html
-- Author of the Purdue column "Yard and Garden News," numerous Extension Service gardening publications, and the book "Possum in the Pawpaw Tree: A Seasonal Guide to Midwestern Gardening." The Master Gardener Program provides horticulture education to gardeners who agree to volunteer one hour of service for each hour of training. Indiana's 2,000 Master Gardeners provide services such as staffing information booths, teaching gardening classes, and answering gardening questions on the phone.
Pest Control
Daniel S. Egel
Extension specialist, integrated pest management
(812) 886-0198
[email protected]
-- Is a plant pathologist at Southwest Purdue Ag Center at Vincennes. Deals primarily with diseases of vegetables, especially muskmelons and watermelons. Well acquainted with conditions of crops in southern Indiana. Gives talks to grower groups as well as groups such as Master Gardeners.
Rick E. Foster
Associate professor, entomology
(765) 494-9572; home: (765) 448-9441
[email protected]
-- Expertise in controlling insects in the home garden or orchard. Also has expertise in integrated pest management in commercial fruit and vegetable operations.
Peggy R. Sellers
Director, Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory
(765) 494-8081; home: (765) 385-1120
[email protected]
http://www.btny.purdue.edu/ppdl/
-- Has researched management and/or causes of disease in corn and soybeans. The Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory identifies pests and problems of plants. This fee-based service is provided for Extension personnel, Purdue research faculty and staff, and for private businesses and citizens.
Landscaping
Michael N. Dana
Professor and Extension specialist, landscape horticulture
(765) 494-5923; home: (765) 463-2497
[email protected]
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/hort/people/faculty/dana.html
-- Has expertise in landscape horticulture and native landscape plants. Says using native plants in the developed landscape will maintain biodiversity, but establishment and management methods are needed for their wider acceptance.
Bruno C. Moser
Professor and Extension specialist, horticulture
Director, Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology
(765) 494-1352; home: (765) 463-1224
[email protected]
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/hort/people/faculty/moser.html
-- Has expertise in nursery crop production and landscape horticulture. Researches woody ornamentals, cut branches for the florist trade and borderland plantings such as filter strips, shelter belts and windbreaks. Maintains Web page for nursery and landscape industry at http://www.hort.purdue.edu/hort/ext/plant/
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