Nellie Neal
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Overview
P.O. Box 55425 Jackson, Mississippi 39296Nellie Neal learned to garden from her grandfather in Monroe, LA, and went on to major in English and Horticulture at LSU in Baton Rouge (B.S., 1974). She has never met a plant she didn’t want to propagate, tries most of them, and often succeeds.
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Additional Information
New in Summer 2010 from B. B. Mackey Books
Description
Known as ‘The Garden Mama’ to her radio audiences, Nellie Neal writes and speaks from a solid educational background coupled with a lifetime of gardening successes and failures. She learned to garden from her grandfather in Monroe, LA, and went on to major in English and Horticulture at LSU in Baton Rouge (B.S., 1975). Neal has grown plants, bought and sold plants, tested new varieties and helped sustain old ones. She has planted and maintained landscapes and movie sets, mowed lawns, watered greenhouses, waited on customers in garden retail, and taught gardening to students of every age. More than anything else, she loves to grow plants and encourage others to grow, too.
Neal began writing about gardening from her home office in 1990 so she could be home when the school bus arrived, and began her radio programs in 1994. Such longevity in onair media depends on loyal listeners and they seek out GardenMama because of her passion and articulate, friendly presence. Her favorite calls come from gardeners who use her advice and find that it works.
You’ll find Neal’s regular columns online at www.nationalgardening.com, www.msdigitaldaily.com, in the Clarion Ledger newspaper, State-by-State gardening magazines, and at her website, www.gardenmama.com. The owner of GardenMama, Inc., Neal is a member of the Garden Writers Association. She is the author of several books including Questions and Answers for Deep South Gardeners, 1st and 2nd Editions, Getting Started in Southern Gardening, Ortho’s All About Greenhouses, All About Houseplants, and Organic Gardening Down South.
Nellie and her husband, Dave Ingram, tend one beautiful acre in the Historic Fondren neighborhood of Jackson, MS, that includes vegetables, fruits, ornamental trees and shrubs, a host of bulbs and perennials, and a greenhouse full of oddball container plants. She also devotes time to a courtyard garden in New Orleans and a container collection in Baton Rouge, LA. Her favorite vegetable is anything but rutabagas, and her favorite flower is whatever is in bloom today.
Topics
Plant Propagation Programs
- Growing from Seed. Patience is rewarded with unusual and unavailable plants when you grow from seed. Learn why and how to grow from seed with examples from Mother Nature and GardenMama.
- Vegetative Propagation. All you need is a sharp knife and a sense of adventure to learn how to propagate plants from their vegetative parts. Nellie rooted her first begonia at age 8 and is still at it 50+ years later.
Organic Gardening Programs
- Southern Organic: Wise Ways. The traditions of organic gardening fit right in with Southern gardeners. Nellie teaches the principles and shows you how to begin to use them in the South.
- Organic Practices in the Deep South. Yes, you can garden organically in the South and Nellie will show you how she does it. Get deep into how-to with one whose life has been spent gardening against the tide of skepticism.
Locations
USA
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