subject: Andre Viette - Incredible Nurseryman [print this page] Andre Viette - Incredible Nurseryman Andre Viette - Incredible Nurseryman
Andre Viette is the creator and operator of the Andre Viette Farm and Nursery operating in Fisherville, VA. His property is approximately 210 acres and features one of the premier collections of perennials in america. With the aid of his spouse Claire and boy Mark, he cultivates numerous perennials such as peonies, coneflowers, rudbeckia, and Andre Viette's personal favorites, daylilies. All these are offered to garden centers, landscape designers, landscape installers and catalog shopping providers to users all around the Usa, along with direct with the community through their plantation.
Andre's History
Viette was born 1935 to Martin Viette, a Switzerland immigrant who reached america in 1920 and who was employed as head gardener at a larger sized properties in Long Island. The parent Viette speedily mastered the horticultural industry and was soon hybridizing hemerocallis, phlox and lilacs. In 1929, the parent Viette founded the Viette Nurseries , which in turn provided perennial plants to several of the Long Island properties.
Since a child, Andre Viette worked well with his papa in the farm. Although he wished to become an artist (and had undertook studies in drawing and painting in school), he adopted his father's wishes and undertook studies in commercial horticulture at Cornell . In 1962, Andre took over the business which had developed into a popular suburbia gardening center. In 1976, Andre Viette, his wife Claire and their loved ones relocated to their current spot within the Shenandoah Valley, in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Andre Viette's Business
Coming from a modest, family-run company, Viette Farm and Nursery has grown to become a major venture with in excess of 60 employees taking part in growing and maintaining, 'cropping' and shipping in excess of 3000 types of hardy perennials all over the United states.
Andre personally manages the 6-acre returning landscapes that are opened to viewers for touring or walking around during the season. The majority of of the nursery's crops are shown in the gardens, and Andre's pizzazz and background in art and design means that every plant is demonstrated in a way that the elegance and characteristics of every plant seems easily noticeable.
Claire, assists Andre handle the administrative component of the Viette business as well as their radio broadcast enterprise (Viette Communications), which provides Viette's three-hour garden talk show, "In the Garden with Andre Viette." This program is currently broadcast over fifty-seven stations in eight states together with Washington DC. His boy Mark is often on the highway, broadly promoting and advertising Viette perennials, as well as teaching horticultural lessons at a local Community College.
Andre also instructs at the College, making substantial utilization of his assortment of more than 50,000 slides of plants and seddlings captured at the nursery and throughout his widespread journeys round the planet. He employs the equivalent sources for the nursery's catalog, as well as for speaking engagements with horticulture groups all around the country. You can also find reports written by him on perennials or the nursery procedures.
Viette's Feats
Viette is truly a green thumbed gardener. Much more than a nurseryman and hybridizer, or even a school teacher and talk show host, he has also maintained numerous roles in state and national gardening societies (including stints as President of the American Horticultural Society) and Fellow member of the Board of the 1200 member PPA. In 1999 he was granted the GCA's esteemed "Medal of Honor;" in the same yr, the PPA awarded him with "The Garden Media Promotion Award," which pays tribute to people that skillfully use the media to heighten consumer awareness of the significance of work by the perennial growers and garden centers.
