Julie Weisenhorn- Extension Educator and Associate Extension Professor
University of Minnesota Department of Horticultural Science
Twitter: jweisenhorn
https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-garden
Minnesota native Julie Weisenhorn holds master’s degrees in visual communication and horticulture from the University of Minnesota where she taught landscape design and served as state director of the
Extension Master Gardener Program. As an Extension horticulturist, Weisenhorn has statewide responsibility for horticulture teaching, research and outreach with special focus on plant selection and sustainable residential landscape design. Recent research included Flowers for Pollinators(z.umn.edu/flowers) study on annual flowers and Pollinators for food studying annual flowers and pollination of bell peppers. Weisenhorn coordinates and regularly appears on the popular WCCO Radio
Smart Gardens show (Saturdays, 8-9am, AM 830), and released the second version of the Plant Elementsof Design plant selection database (http://www.landscapeplants.extension.umn.edu/). In her own
words, “This is the best job I have ever had.”
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