On Saturday, November 7, Dr. Lelia Scott Kelly will present a program at the North Mississippi Fish Hatchery and Visitor Education Center on using Native Plants in home landscapes.

The program begins at 2 o’clock in the event room at Visitor Education Center and will cover the benefits of native plants and how to incorporate them into home landscaping. Design suggestions as well as descriptions and cultural requirements of the top native trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants recommended for Mississippi landscapes will also be included.

Weather permitting, there will be a tour of the native habitat area at the Visitor Education Center to look firsthand at some native plants and how they are used in the landscape.

Lelia Scott Kelly is an Associate Extension Professor and the Consumer Horticulture Specialist for the Mississippi State University Extension Service. Her duties also include statewide responsibility for the Master Gardener Program. She has her M.S. and Ph.D. in horticulture from Mississippi State and has worked for Extension for nine years.

Before joining Extension she owned and operated two businesses, a landscape design and consulting business and a wholesale herb growing greenhouse operation. She also writes a gardening column for her hometown newspaper, the Daily Corinthian, and is a regular contributor to Mississippi Gardener magazine. She is a frequent speaker at garden events in the Southeast. She lives and gardens in Corinth, Mississippi with her three sons and husband.