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Deedy Wright will be nominated as our next Vice President Education at the Annual Meeting in Texarkana.
Deedy is a life-long Texas gardener, with interests in native plants, xeriscaping, and wildlife. She has been an active member of the Native Plant Society of Texas since 1993 and helped organize the Guadalupe County Chapter in 2007. She organized the joint NICE! program sponsored by the Lindheimer Chapter and the Guadalupe County Chapter and spearheaded plant sales and day-long workshops on sustainability and gardening for wildlife. She has served as president of both the San Antonio Chapter and the Guadalupe County Chapter.
She suggested the Youth Outreach Committee during the 2013 symposium, and served as the chair of the committee for the past year. She has served on the editorial committee for our member magazine for many years and has written articles for it.
Deedy’s native plant education includes the GoNativeU course on growing and using native plants from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and UT, and several spring symposiums sponsored by the Society and the Wildflower Center. She completed the four-part landscape design program sponsored by the National Garden Clubs and TAMU. She completed the Train-the-Trainer course for the Landscape for Life sustainability program at the Wildflower Center.
In 2001 Deedy became a certified Master Gardener. She is a Master Gardener propagation and vegetable specialist, conducting workshops for both Master Gardeners and the public. She is active in the speakers bureau of the Guadalupe County Master Gardeners and has taught the native plant class for Master Gardener trainees in her chapter for several years.
A retired secondary English and social studies teacher, Deedy has taught adult continuing education classes on xeriscaping, native plants, and deer resistant landscaping for both the Northeast and Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School Districts in the San Antonio area.
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