2010 Symposium
Symposium Speakers
Bryce H. Lane is a Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator with the Department of Horticultural Science at the North Carolina State University. Bryce earned his B.S. from the University of Massachusetts in 1979 in the Plant and Soil Science discipline. Lane earned his M.S. from the Ohio State University in 1981 in Ornamental Horticulture. Lane is currently responsible for the day to day operations of 2 and 4-year undergraduate program in the Department of Horticultural Science. Bryce was the Interim Director of the JC Raulston Arboretum from January 1997 through January 1999. Bryce is also the host of “In the Garden” television program on UNC TV on Saturday’s at noon. It is an introductory gardening show for the home gardener. Lane currently teaches HS 100, Home Horticulture every semester and at night; HS 201, Principles of Horticulture; HS 371, Interior Plantscapes; HS 290, Perspectives in Horticulture; and HS 495E Garden Center Operations. His professional organizations include ASHS; Southern Region, ASHS, Committees; Education Section Chair, 1998/99; National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture; President 1998/99, Vice President, 1997/98; Committees; Teaching Award Committee, Southern Region Director, 1989-92; and Pi Alpha Xi. Lanes Honors and Awards are Named NCSU Outstanding Teacher in 1984,1988, and again in 1996; NC State Alumni Distinguished Professor Award in 1989; National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Teacher; Fellow Award in 1988, NACTA Teaching Award of Merit in 1991, the Southern Region NACTA Outstanding Teacher Award in 1993 and the Ensminger-Interstate Outstanding Teacher Award in 1994; and American Society for Horticultural Science Distinguished Undergraduate Educator Award in 1994 and ASHS (Southern Region) Outstanding Teacher Award, 1992.
Augustus Jenkins Farmer, III, is currently the curator and designer of the Moore Farms, one the most horticulturally sophisticated private gardens in the state - a 25 acre garden with a staff of 9 horticulturists. Farmer manages the staff, botanical collections and plants databases, forestry and long-term planning. Additionally he is the curator and designer of the owner’s Victorian era garden and cycad collection in Charleston. Lushlife Nursery is a small family operated nursery owned by Jenks, his partner, Tom Hall, and two nephews. He operates the connoisseurs’ nursery specializing in sub-tropic genus of the amaryllis family - Crinum which provides proven varieties to horticulturist, botanical gardens through out the US and also ships crinum boxed gifts. Jenks lectures all over for groups as diverse as The Smithsonian Institute, Wave Hill Gardens to the Antique Rose Emporium and the Allendale Ladies Afternoon Social Club. His articles appear regularly in Carolina Gardener and in the past in Fine Gardening, Organic Gardening, Horticulture, American Nurseryman and several scientific journals. Farmer also managed the construction, design and curation policies for Riverbanks Botanical Garden, SC. He was the curator of Arcadia, a 1930’s camellia garden and has designed gardens from Seattle to Managua. Jenks was the Public Outreach Manager for the Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle and established a 100 year planting plan for Columbia College. Jenks earned his MS, Public Garden Management and Forestry, University of Washington. BS, Horticulture, Clemson. He and his partner live in a 1930’s house in Columbia and a 1750's house in Beech Island, SC. He loves to read about very old plant books, science fiction, history and ethnographies. He has traveled extensively through Central America collecting plants. A seventh-generation South Carolinian, he grew up on a Beech Island family farm.
Concurrent Speakers
Andy Cabe is the Botanical Garden Director at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden. Andy received a degree in Ornamental Horticulture from Clemson University in 1997. While at Clemson, Andy began working with a professor doing growth regulator experiments on various flower bulbs. This research culminated with publication in a small greenhouse trade journal (If you looked in the very, very fine print, you could see Andy’s name). Following graduation and after a couple of years of searching for his calling, he began a part time job in the summer of 2000 as a greenhouse employee at the Riverbanks Botanical Garden. Over his near 10 years at Riverbanks, Andy has worn many different hats in the Botanical Garden. Since 2008 he has served as Botanical Garden Director, overseeing the daily operations of the Botanical Garden. While he is fond of many different plants, bulbs are his primary passion. Andy regularly contributes to The State newspaper and Carolina Gardener magazine. He resides in Columbia, SC with his wife and is expecting a baby boy in June.
Monticello Gardens & Nursery
4537 State Highway 215 S.
Jenkinsville, SC 29065
Phone (803) 345-0967
Richard Hager retired from public education after 30 years of teaching in 2003. He moved from Forest Drive in Columbia to 40 acres in western Fairfield County. There he has pursued his passion for plants. This passion stemmed from a childhood of collecting ferns, wild irises, foam flowers and trilliums in the woods and bringing them home to establish them in the wild flower garden in the back yard at the family farm in the piedmont of NC.
In 2005, he opened Monticello Gardens & Nursery where his goal has been to encourage the use of native plants and unusual exotics in the Midlands landscapes. He caters to gardeners rather than landscapers. Although there are a few landscapers who have begun to embrace our native plants, they are generally stuck on little green meatballs and a few other over used landscape plants.
William Patterson - Gardening has always been a part of Patterson’s life. He started growing roses (Jean Bach Sisley) obtained from his great-grandmother’s garden while in grammar school and continued to add different classes of roses to his parents’ garden while in school. By high school graduation, he was enjoying over 1000 rose bushes. Bill continued to grow roses while in college where he obtained a BS in Biology at Presbyterian College (1975) with graduate work at Clemson University (1976) in Ornamental Horticulture. Bill worked with the family owned business during school and until 1996, (mined and processed vermiculite) thus manufacturing a potting soil for the nursery industry. Patterson joined Laurens Rose Society in the mid-1970’s later joining the American Rose Society with a life membership. Through Clemson University Bill became a Master Gardener and because of dedicated rose growers became an ARS consulting rosarian, an accredited ARS horticulture judge (1998) and then an ARS arrangement judge (2000). He Joined the Greenville Rose Society in 1995, served as president for 3 years and was presented the ARS Bronze Medal in 2000. The love of roses turned from a hobby into a real business adventure in 1988 with the creation of Roses Unlimited. The first year Bill and his partner, Pat Henry, offered 21 “Best of the Best” own-root rose varieties to the rose growing world. From one greenhouse to nine they have continued to expand each year, offering more and more varieties. In 2009, Roses Unlimited offered over 1200 different rose varieties and shipped one-gallon own-root plants to all fifty states. At Roses Unlimited Patterson offers two annual seminars on roses with many other programs given to local groups (garden clubs, rose societies, master gardeners) throughout the year. Patterson is one of those truly talented volunteers who have been awarded many outstanding honors not only for his roses but also his generosity.
