October Friends First Friday Container Gardening and More

As the curator of seasonal color, Sheldon Jones is responsible for the Visitor Center patio water feature, multiple containers around the gardens, multiple annual and permanent beds, native grass plantings on the entrance drive, and the maintenance and care of the conifer collection at the Callaway administrative building.  Additionally, he cares for the orchid collection housed in the horticulture complex greenhouse. 

Sheldon has a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture with a major in Horticulture from the University of Georgia (1992). He worked as the greenhouse manager at the State Botanical Garden (1993–1994) before accepting a position that evolved into the head horticulturist at Vines Botanical Garden in Loganville, Georgia (1994–1997). His interest in plant propagation led him to pursue a position in the private sector, managing the nursery at PS Landscapes and Nursery and growing and selling unique and hard-to-find plant material (1997–2008). He then decided to establish his own business of a similar nature and called it Dogtrot Plant Nursery (2008-2011). Within that time, an opportunity to return to the State Botanical Garden of Georgia was offered as a part-time assistant with seasonal color, which eventually became the curator of seasonal color position, which he has enjoyed from 2011 to the present.

The registration deadline is noon on Sept. 27.