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About
the Author
Fred
Hower, The Ohio Nurseryman
Fred
is an educator, a certified arborist, and has 40 years of experience
as a horticultural consultant and landscape
designer.
The author
of over 400 columns in 90 newspapers, Fred also hosts the radio
show, "Plant
Talk," and
teaches in the horticulture department at Columbus State Community
College. In addition, Fred serves on
a variety of councils and boards for the Ohio Nursery and Landscape
Association, the city of Worthington, Ohio, the Ohio State University
Chadwick Arboretum, Columbus State Community College, and the Columbus
Dispatch Charities Home and Garden Show.
A graduate of Ohio State University, Fred has a B.S. in Ornamental
Horticulture. Fred has received the Meritorious Service Award from
the Agriculture Alumni Association, the first Senior Careerist Award
from the Ohio State University Department of Horticulture and Crop
Science, three Grand Awards for Landscape Design from the Ohio Nursery
and Landscape Association, the Award of Merit from the International
Society of Arboriculture, and a PLAN award for landscape design from
the Junior League of Columbus. Fred has also been active in the Ohio
Nursery and Landscape Association, the Columbus Landscape Association,
the Southwestern Ohio Environmental Horticultural Association, and the
International Society of Arboriculture.
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