By Tom Knight

Author  Bio Since 2005 have been building my retirement dream house in the hills of east Tennessee including my dream outdoor large scale train layout. Both probably lifetime projects.

• Professor Emeritus: Landscape Horticulture; Eastern Kentucky University

• Retired 2005

• Since 2005 have been building my retirement dream house in the hills of east Tennessee including my dream outdoor large scale train layout. Both probably lifetime projects.

• Have too many hobbies including model trains (started HO and graduated to large scale); photography; woodworking; hiking; kayaking; and most of all spoiling the grandkids.

• Member of the Knoxville (TN) Area Model Railroaders.

• Love steam era modeling particularly logging and mining.

• Hope to combine my love for plants and woodworking into a top notch outdoor large scale layout.

UT Garden display

Tom, I would like to exchange e-mails regarding your experience with the public at this display. Our club has a display at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.

Ray Turner - 12/16/2009 - 09:49

UT Garden RR

Just an amazing railway and lovely article on it. Merry Christmas to you and yours!! Gary

Gary Condry - 12/17/2009 - 10:19

Tom Knight's landscaping articles

Over the last 3-4 weeks these articles have covered many excellent plants and groundcovers that are recommended for Zones 4-8. Would these also be viable in Zone 9? Thank you.

William Manley - 07/15/2011 - 13:22

hardiness zones

At our last Master Gardener meeting this month, our IN SERVICE portion was specifically on zones. This has been somewhat confusing to some because there is the " general " growing zone but many of us also dont realize that we might be in a "micro-climate" which is lightly warmer than what your general zone is. For example, northern NY is supposedly zone 4 - but our area closer to Lake Champlain makes it 4b -- and according to the newest findings, this IMMEDIATE area can be zone 5. So while some plants are earmarked zone _ , that is a very generic idea and you might contact your Cooperative Extension office for the latest on where you are. I hope this helps understand why catalogues cannt be too specific on the zone recommendations . Carl Kokes- Peru, NY

carl kokes - 02/11/2012 - 17:03

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