# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Felder Rushing, “Maverick Gardening  - Finding and Following Bliss in Troubling Times”  
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Social hour 6:30 PM
Presentation 7:30 PM
Online streaming/recording available to members.

Felder Rushing is a 10th-generation Southern gardener who travels worldwide in his quest for practical and inspirational home-gardening ideas to share. Widely promoting his belief that too many garden-variety gardeners are put off by strict horticultural rules (“We are daunted, not dumb” he says), Felder’s practical, encouraging approach to teaching gardening earned him a celebration by Southern Living Magazine’s as one of “25 people most likely to change the South.”
 
The retired colors-outside-the-lines Extension Horticulturist, who started the Master Gardener program in his state, continues to write his state-wide syndicated newspaper columns of 44 years and counting, and for 22 years remains the host the weekly live Gestalt Gardener program, one National Public Radio’s most popular gardening programs, broadcast from his travels around the country and world. He is the admin for a 54,000-member Mississippi Gardening Facebook page.
 
He has written or contributed substantially to 33 gardening books, including national award winners such as Passalong Plants, Slow Gardening, Better Homes and Garden’s children’s gardening book, and Maverick Gardeners. He was HGTV’s original online Q&A person, and his garden exploits and philosophy have been featured three times in the New York Times. 
 
The contributing editor at Fine Gardening, Horticulture, and Garden Design magazines has had his articles and photographs published in dozens of other publications including Organic Gardening, Landscape Architecture, Better Homes and Gardens, and the National Geographic; his garden has been featured in many. 
 
Felder served as a distinctly non-stuffy board member of the American Horticulture Society, is a member of the Royal Horticulture Society, British Cottage Garden Society, British Cactus and Succulent Society, national director of the Garden Writers’ Association, and president of several garden organizations including the Mississippi Native Plant Society and the Jackson Men’s Garden Club, and an honorary member of the Garden Clubs of Mississippi. 
 
For the past 15 years he has spent six months a year traveling, lecturing, and reporting from both his celebrated Mississippi cottage garden and a Victorian terrace herb and succulent garden in Lancashire, England from where he lectures abroad.  

Visit www.georgiaperennial.org for more information, to become a member, or to purchase a guest pass for the evening.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/smyrna/felder-rushing-maverick-gardening-finding-and-following-bliss-in-troubling-times/200029806616723
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Smyrna
- **state**: GA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, Atlanta
- **lat**: 33.875168560996
- **long**: -84.426023606011
- **full address**: St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, Atlanta, 4393 Garmon Rd NW,Atlanta,GA,United States, Smyrna

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Felder Rushing, “Maverick Gardening  - Finding and Following Bliss in Troubling Times”   being held?
  - **A:** Felder Rushing, “Maverick Gardening  - Finding and Following Bliss in Troubling Times”   takes place on Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm at St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, Atlanta, 4393 Garmon Rd NW,Atlanta,GA,United States, Smyrna.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Felder Rushing, “Maverick Gardening  - Finding and Following Bliss in Troubling Times”  ?
  - **A:** Felder Rushing, “Maverick Gardening  - Finding and Following Bliss in Troubling Times”   is organized by Georgia Perennial Plant Association (GPPA).
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Felder Rushing, “Maverick Gardening  - Finding and Following Bliss in Troubling Times”   is ideal for learners, working professionals, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Smyrna, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Felder Rushing, “Maverick Gardening  - Finding and Following Bliss in Troubling Times”   sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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