Online Herbaceous Perennials course

The winning auction bidder will receive free access to Dr. Perry's online UVM course on Herbaceous Perennials. This completely online version of this course combines lecture notes and specific details on about 200 herbaceous garden plants. The 32 lectures are grouped into modules on botany, design, culture, and pests and problems as they relate to flower and foliage garden plants. Extensive descriptions, cultural information, and lists of species and cultivars are given for annuals, perennials, and other groups such as aquatic plants, alpines, ornamental grasses, roses, even tender tropical "perennials". Quizzes, plant identification quizzes, and exercises to help reinforce and provide additional information, are taken on-line also and at the student's own pace. They are open book, designed to test and reinforce your familiarity with the extensive content, and to reinforce key plants, plant features and topics. Email contact between professor and students will be used as needed and to share information, and to provide course website login details. Course notes are also available streaming and by MP3 on the internet, and for additional cost on CD-rom, audio CDs, and printed binder. Upon successful completion within a year of beginning, a Certificate of Completion and letter will be sent. More on the course can be found at: http://pss.uvm.edu/pss123/index.html.

Dr. Perry is the Greenhouse and Nursery Extension Specialist for the University of Vermont. In this role Dr. Perry provides information and programming to the industry of Vermont, region, and North America. Home gardeners in Vermont and surrounding areas know him from his frequent television appearances on Across the Fence. As a Professor Dr. Perry, along with graduate students, has an active research program on all aspects of perennial production and overwintering. Students know him from his courses at UVM on Garden Plants and Indoor Flowers, with the Herbaceous Garden Plants course now available to anyone totally online. Dr. Perry is becoming known across North America for his internet web site -- Perry's Perennial Pages -- at which he features information, links, news articles, research and more on herbaceous perennials.