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Contact: Sylvia Wright

(804) 672-6007, syhwright@msn.com 

Green Industry Eco-Scapes Specialist offers Workshop through County Adult Ed Program

Richmond, VA… January 29, 2008 … Richmond based The Wright – consultant, lecturer, & wordsmith, Sylvia Hoehns Wright a freelance landscape/garden designer and columnist is offering a multi-night workshop, Landscape/Garden Design for the Hands-on Homeowner, through the Henrico County Adult Ed program. For details, see web site special interest 807, www.henrico.k12.va.us/adulteducation . The workshop starts Wednesday March 5th and registration began January 10th.

Whether experienced or a novice, the challenge for a present-day homeowner is to be a naturalist with a “waste not, want not” ecological commitment: a caretaker of the environmental community. Wright’s landscape/garden workshop identifies design strategies that respect an existing vista as well as preserve and enhance its health. She teaches that for any style garden, plants should not be selected simply to provide contrast of structure, texture, and color, but make environmental contributions.

CAREER HISTORY –

Sylvia Hoehns Wright, the ‘from eco-weak to eco-chic’ columnist for www.Richmond.com , is a Virginia Master Gardener, American Horticulture Society member, and graduate of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s landscape design workshops. Featured by VA Home Grown WCVE Richmond PBS TV, VA Woman magazine, the Richmond newspapers and Birds & Blooms magazine for her eco-style woodland gardening strategies, Wright is a contributing writer for VA Gardener and Washington (DC) Gardener magazines, Richmond - the City Magazine, From Home to House, House Trends, the Mid-Atlantic Grower, The Designer, and the Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association newsletter.

A well-known speaker for the Nursery and Landscape Associations, Virginia garden and civic clubs, MC for the VA Garden Festival, www.virginiagardening.com, and workshop presenter for the Green Festival held in DC, Maymont Flower Show, Mid-Atlantic Horticulture Short Course and National Garden Writer’s Association conference, Wright is the recipient of the VA Horticulture Foundation 2005 educator’s award.

For details of Wright’s activities, see www.TheWrightScoop.com  or to schedule a one-on-one coaching session, featured/keynote speech, ½ day or full-day workshop for your professional association or business organization contact The Wright – consultant, lecturer & wordsmith, Sylvia Hoehns Wright, at syhwright@msn.com or 804-672-6007.

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