Allen Bush
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Posts by Allen Bush:
- Bless All Parks Big and Small
- When Food is Too Convenient for Our Own Good
- The Run for the Roses is Really About Mint
- Pour Me Another Kentucky Coffeetree
- Bugger Off, Stink Bugs
- Celebrating Winter’s Suckiness
- Pen Pals No More
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Holiday Parties with Non-Gardeners.
You Can Make It If You Try. - An Almighty Will to Propagate
- The Undaunted and Undented Osage Orange
- Wilson Pickett and the Pink Rose
- Horticultural Cowboys
Allen Bush has been with Jelitto Perennial Seeds since 1995 and currently serves as Director of Special Projects. Jelitto offers nearly 3,000 varieties of perennial flower and ornamental grass seeds. The company principally serves wholesale producers but sells over the Internet to home gardeners. Allen provides public relations and searches for potential new varieties around the world.
Allen received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kentucky in 1973 and was an International Trainee at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England 1978-1979.
From 1980 to 1995 Allen was the owner of Holbrook Farm and Nursery, Fletcher, NC, a national mail order nursery that offered perennials, wildflowers and rare trees and shrubs. Allen introduced Stokesia ‘Klaus Jelitto’ and the sweetshrub, Calycanthus ‘Michael Lindsey’ to the U.S. market. The Royal Horticultural Society awarded the Award of Garden Merit (A.G.M.) to Heuchera ‘Molly Bush’ in 2002.
Allen was honored by the Perennial Plant Association with its Award of Merit in 2011. He serves on the board of the Olmsted Parks Conservancy in Louisville, Kentucky and has been a contributor to the Human Flower Project since 2008.
Allen gardens with his wife, Rose Cooper, who is sometimes known as Rose Bush.
Read more by Allen on GardenRant: The Date Palm Spy Thriller, and In Praise of the Humble Catalpa.