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Linda Cobb
Garden Writer and National Lecturer

Lecture Appearances

• Featured speaker, National Rose Society Convention, Shreveport, LA, April 2005
• Featured speaker, Philadelphia Flower Show, March 2005
• Featured speaker, Charleston Spring Garden Festival, March 2005
• Featured speaker at the Northwest Flower Show in Seattle, WA, February 2005
• Speaker, Greater Greenville Master Gardener Symposium, February 2005
• Featured speaker, Chicago Botanic Garden, January 2005
• Speaker, Philadelphia Flower Show, March 2004, "Growing English Roses in a Cottage garden in America."
  Reference: Ms. Marilyn Reynolds: Speaker Series Lecture Coordinator, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (215) 988-8872. email mreynolds@Pennhort.org
• Speaker, International Master Gardener Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 2003 (Standing room only!)

Featured Articles

Linda Cobb and her garden have been featured in several national and regional magazines:

• Perennials featured in a 12 page story in ‘Perennials,’ Summer 2001 ( a Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publication).
• Her back porch featured in Better Homes and Gardens magazine, June 2001 issue.
• Roses featured in the National Rose Magazine November 2001.
• Garden featured in a regional magazine, “Carolina Gardener” magazine January 2001.
• Garden featured in Garden Shed magazine in June 2003 issue. Also featured in : Roses and other Romantic Garden Flowers Spring 2004.
• Garden featured in Veranda Magazine in the May June issue 2004.

Publications

• My Gardener's Guide: Easy Steps to a Better Garden, 2002.
• Writes a garden column for the Spartan burg Herald Journal, a New York Times newspaper.
• Writes a regular garden feature for South Carolina Magazine: 'People, Places, Legend, Lure'
• Writes regular garden column twice monthly for WSPA-TV internet web page at http://www.newschannel7online.com/inthegarden.

Other Media

Host Producer of The Rookie Gardener, a gardening TV news segment aired Saturday and Sunday mornings on WSPA-TV (the 34th market size), 1999-2001.

The Rookie Gardener was fed out nationally to all the CBS affiliates in the country by CBS Newspath, New York weekly on the 15th National Feed, CBS
2000-2001

Memberships & Affiliations

• Certified Master Gardener
• American Boxwood Society
• American Horticultural Society
• American Rose Society
• Gardens Writers Association
• Royal Horticultural Association