The Horticulture Assistant Program offers
answers to clients who seek information on home insect and rodent
control; orchard, fruit and vegetable garden care; urban windbreak,
landscape and lawn maintenance; horticultural related animal damage;
soil improvement; and insect, disease and plant identification.
Amy started her career as Horticulture Assistant in July of
1980. Originally from Tulsa Oklahoma (and educated there), she
quickly had to "re-learn" local horticulture.The biggest
challenges were the short growing season and alkaline soils,
as well as all the different insects. It is these issues she
also finds most common in her day to day work contacts.