The Garden Walk Horticultural

05/18/2023

🔵 It's official. Signed at 10:33. It's even passed on TV. Facebook will start charging this summer. If you copy this to your wall, your icon will turn blue and your Facebook will be free for you. Please pass this message; if not, your icon will be deleted.

P.S.:
Mine really turned blue. Don’t forget tomorrow starts the new Facebook (aka...new name, META) rule where they can use your photos. Don't forget the deadline is today!!! I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The violation of privacy can be punished by law. NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this.

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02/13/2018

Good late winter, all you gardeners, and 'The Garden Walk' friends. As you know from past posts, I don't really get much out there to the "network of the social", being as I don't have much to say, unless I am teaching one of the many (14, now) non-credit courses that I do for UT. But, I actually have some news to pass along concerning my business. As of 2018, I am only going to be assisting folks with their landscapes in the planning phase, by continuing with consultation service, and landscape design. An opportunity has presented itself, which will allow me to step away from residential landscape installation, while allowing me to flex my horticultural skills in the reconstruction of a property completely burned through during the Gatlinburg fire. You can come and check on the progress, if you'd like, but it will be a slow process, as 70 acres are involved. I'll leave you wondering where, right now, but will likely be documenting the progress here, in the future. Thank you for your support of The Garden Walk, in spirit, or otherwise, through the years. David Montgomery

09/01/2017

Good day, gardeners. It is exactly one week before the UT Non-credit fall catalog (http://noncredit.utk.edu/personal/) landscape classes start. You will have 8 courses to choose from, this fall. Please consider taking a class, or two, to amp up your working knowledge of landscaping, specifically, and horticulture, in general. All Saturday classes are scheduled for away games, and are over by noon, if you bleed orange, and wondered. Shoot me a message, if you have any questions. David E. Montgomery, or The Garden Walk Horticultural

03/28/2017

A house built in the 50's, and long overdue for a freshening up. So, what do I do? Add more brick!

03/02/2017

Happy Spring! all you gardeners, landscapers, and wanna-be's. Spring fever is going around due to the weather, but I contend that there is some therapy for that. Starting tomorrow, March 2nd, I am teaching the "Landscape Plant Selection for East Tennessee" class for the UT non-credit programs. If you haven't signed up, but would like to come, call the UT Conferences and Non-credit Programs office at 974-0150, or go to their website at http://noncredit.utk.edu/Personal/. Drop down to the Landscape & Garden Design Certificate section, click on 'register for a class', and click on a class (There are 10 to choose from, currently) to see what each one is about. I guarantee that you will be informed and amused. I have gathered many a story to pass along, emphasize a point, or just amuse myself in the decades that I have been in the business. If you are not sure where to start, give me a call (607-9514) for my personal recommendations. Hope to see you there. -David

05/09/2016

There are three more classes in the UT Non Credit Spring-Summer Catalog available. Pruning: Art and Science, is this Saturday (that's different than what the catalog says, but it's true). Home Hardscapes: Construction Tips andTechniques, is coming up on the following Saturday, the 21st. And, to finish it off for the summer, Advanced Landscape Design will be offered on the 18th of June. Then, in September, it will all start back up again.
Tell your garden-enthusiast friends about it; I believe that the non-credit courses remain a well kept secret, around here. I'd love to change that: lots of help to be given, information to be clarified, and inspiration to be had, by coming to any one of the twelve different topic landscaping classes.

05/09/2016

Wanting to create a craftsman style house, and landscape, the Trusleys wanted nothing typical. That was inspiration for creating the 'story' for this 1920's inspired landscape, finished in 2014.

05/05/2016

Hello, everyone. I finally had a rainy day on which I thought about doing a little updating to the page. And to give a heads up about the St. Andrews Episcopal Garden Day, at which I will be one of the guest speakers. I will start at 9:00, and be giving my tongue-in-cheek presentation of "A Farner's Gide to Plaints": A short summary of some of the East Tennessee-isms regarding plant names that I have encountered in my 25 years in the horticultural sales arena. I may have time do do a double feature, and show "The Beauty (and humor) of Creation": A ridiculous look at some of nature's dopelgangers (sp.?), and other natural world observations. It's free entry, and for a good cause, if you bid in the silent auction or purchase anything else. Give me a nudge, if you come.

08/24/2012

I just got the newest edition of the University of Tennessee Professional and Personal Development Fall Catalog in the mail. It's always good to see, in print, that I still have a job with UT. Also interesting that for about five years, now, the description of my credentials says that I have 16 years years experience. It's probably my fault for not correcting the wording, but I only remember when I see it, which is about once a year.
I am teaching 6 classes this fall; that's as many as I have in any one catalog. To check what's on the menu, check out the PPD page at www.outreach.utk.edu, and follow the Personal Development link to Landscaping classes. See you in class.

Conferences and Non-Credit Programs.

05/24/2012