publications win top
national prizes
Two gardening publications associated with N.C. State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have won top prizes in a national competition.
Extension’s Successful Gardener, a full-color newsletter published by North Carolina Cooperative Extension, and a special edition of the Friends of the JC Raulston Arboretum newsletter won 2003 Garden Globe Awards of Achievement in the newsletter, bulletin and brochure category. The annual awards are presented by the Garden Writers Association, an international organization of more than 1,800 professional communicators in the lawn and garden industry.
The arboretum was honored for a special edition published in conjunction with its 25th anniversary. Christopher Todd Glenn, the arboretum’s program and education coordinator, edited the newsletter, with contributions from the arboretum’s staff and volunteers. Bob Lyons, the arboretum’s director, contributed to both the arboretum newsletter and to Extension’s Successful Gardener.
Successful Gardener provides timely, research-based horticultural information tailored to North Carolina. Published 10 times per year, it is part of a statewide horticultural program designed to help North Carolinians increase their knowledge of gardening, manage their landscape investment and protect the environment. Garden centers across the state distribute the newsletter, and it is available by subscription. For information, call 704.336.2561 or visit the Web site http://www.successfulgardener.org.
Leah Chester-Davis, an Extension specialist in N.C. State University’s Department of Communication Services, is editor and project coordinator.
Extension professionals in 20 counties contribute: Brunswick, David Barkley; Buncombe, Linda Blue; Burke, Donna Teasley; Cabarrus, David Goforth; Catawba, Fred Miller; Davidson, Amy-Lynn Bartel; Durham, Paul McKenzie; Gaston, Ben Dungan; Guilford, Karen Neill; Henderson, Diane Ashburn; Iredell, Donald Breedlove; Lincoln, Kevin Starr; Mecklenburg, Emily Revels; Nash, Mike Wilder; Northampton, Heather Lifsey; Orange, Royce Hardin; Rowan, Darrell Blackwelder; Union, Willie Earl Wilson; and Wake, Carl Matyac.
— Dee Shore
