A New Year, New Semester, New Beginnings

Greetings fellow Public Horticulture bloggers and followers!

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and New Year's! Happy 2014. It's a new year full of events and fun things for those of us in the public horticulture program here at AU. Many of us in the program are involved in various educational and fun events that focus on horticulture, naturally.

Here's what's in store for us and for you as you follow us on our journey through the program this spring:

• First up is the Gulf States Expo in Mobile, AL this January 29th-31st, as well as the SRASHS meeting in Dallas, TX January 29th-February 3rd. 
• Next on the list is the fabulous spring FFA Clinic February 18-19, which will be hosted by the university at the AU greenhouse complex. 
• In March we have spring break! Woo! And oh yes, the awesome PLANET Student Career Days March 27th-30th. This years host for Student Career days will be Colorado State University in Denver. Our PLANET club is already gearing up, practicing for competitions, and planning for a fun and successful trip to represent AU horticulture and show off our mad horticulture and landscape skills.
• In May, we have the BIGGIE. Our annual Public Hort ORR trip will be in..... Drum roll, please! England! When we return from our trip, it will be time to show the newbies how this hort thing goes as our new public horticulture students begin their journey as public horties mid-May. 

For those of you interested in the events listed above, such as PLANET, SRASHS and ASHS, and FFA check out their websites. All of these organizations are great sources for horticulture, landscape, and agriculture information. 
 http://www.studentcareerdays.org
http://www.srashs.org/
http://www.ashs.org/
http://www.alabamaffa.org/

Thank you for your interest and support as we continue to progress in our education and experiences in this one-of a kind, crazy, stressful, fun, totally worth it, graduate degree program. Y'all are in for a treat with all of the fun events we have coming up this semester and we are too!

Until next time, take care!

-Hilary H. :)