FAMILY FEATURES AND NATIONAL GARDENING ASSOCIATION LAUNCH GARDENING COLUMN

MISSION, KS (March 1, 2006) - Family Features Editorial Syndicate, Inc. and the National Gardening Association (NGA) announce the launch of a new column, Gardening With Charlie. The monthly syndicated column is now available free-of-charge to newspapers, magazines and Web sites. The new column appeals to readers with its insightful horticultural information and practical gardening tips.

Gardening With Charlie features Charlie Nardozzi, Senior Horticulturist and spokesperson for the National Gardening Association. Nardozzi is a nationally recognized garden writer, book author, speaker and radio and television personality.

In his first two columns (now available for downloading), Charlie talks about this year’s award winning plants and provides tips for simple container gardening. The columns will cover a variety of garden topics throughout the year from pest controls, to shrubs, to fall planting and composting. 

“The National Gardening Association is recognized as an authority on America’s consumer lawn and garden market.  Family Features is pleased to partner with NGA, “said Dena Strum Klein, president of Family Features Editorial Syndicate, Inc.“ The new gardening column by Charlie Nardozzi allows Family Features to provide an even wider range of free quality editorial content to print and online publications and their readers.”

Gardening with Charlie is also available to Web sites through Family Features’ Web feed, eSyndicate, which delivers lifestyle content to more than 600 Web sites. Editors interested in more information about running Gardening With Charlie can visit www.FamilyFeatures.com/columns or contact Wendy MacDonald, Media Communications Manager at wmacdonald@familyfeatures.com.   

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