FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Shirley Luna – July 12, 2004

Gardening Lecture To Focus on Plants That Like It Hot

A gardener specializing in plants that can survive hot and dry environments will be the featured speaker at the Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. July 15 in Room 110 of the Agriculture Building located on Wilson Drive. The Stephen F. Austin State University Mast Arboretum hosts the series.

George Hull is responsible for new plant introductions at Mountain States Wholesale Nursery in Glendale, Ariz., and will present “Report from Hell: There Really is a Point to Agaves in the Landscape.”

Hull will discuss plants particularly adapted to hot, southern climates as well as new plant discoveries and developments at Mountain States.

Hull graduated cum laude with distinction in horticulture from Ohio State University. He has a Master of Science degree and is a member of Southern Region of the International Plant Propagators Society in Arizona and the nursery industry invasive plant committee. Hull teaches plant care, arid plant identification and landscape design in the night school program at Glendale Community College and in the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University.

The Les Reeves Lecture Series is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. For more information, contact the SFA Department of Agriculture at (936) 468-3705.