This clause appeared in the September / October progeny ofNorthern Gardener , the fifth in a series of profiles of individuals who have influenced MSHS over its 150 twelvemonth chronicle .
Perhaps you remember him as “ Freddie the Gardener , ” hosting the Home and Garden Show on KSTP talk radio . perchance you went with a parent to the Minneapolis Home and Garden Show and try him entertain — and inspire — Minnesota gardeners in February . If you ’re a longtime reader ofNorthern Gardener , you may recollect his column “ Garden Tips from Fred . ”
CurrentNorthern Gardenercolumnist Lynn M. Steiner credits Glasoe with exalt her gardening life history and recruiting her into MSHS rank . After his demise in 2008 , she write of Glasoe :
Freddie the Gardener (Frederick Glassoe) in 1992.
Through his legion garden presentations , his radio show and his pillar , he may well be responsible for bringing in more newfangled [ MSHS ] members than anyone else !
Glasoe served as the MSHS prexy ( 1984 - 85 ) and also belonged to theMen ’s Garden Club of Minneapolis , theDahlia Society , the Minnesota Orchid Society , 4H and theHobby Greenhouse Club .
A multi - media mien , in addition to his column and radio set show , he appeared on KSTP - TV , the Home and Garden web and PBS . As Steiner write in 2008 :
If Fred said it was time to prune rose President Bush , gardeners all around the Upper Midwest strive for their pruning shears and attack the rose President George W. Bush . When he suggest plantingCoreopsis‘Moonbeam ’ , sale all around the Twin Cities boomed .
Glasoe was born in 1928 in Minneapolis . He graduated from Breck School and St. Olaf College and received a teaching degree from Macalester College . After beginning his instruction life history at Breck School , he teach in Germany , Japan , Faribault and then settled in at the St. Paul Public Schools for 40 years .
After he retired from didactics , Glasoe was a horticultural adviser at Bachman ’s Inc. and hosted photographer , tour groups and fellow gardener at the garden he and his wife of 40 years , Elizabeth , tend . The couple also nurtured two daughter and five surrogate children .
In Steiner ’s 2008 editorial , she described Glasoe ’s appeal :
I do n’t think it was so much Fred ’s vast pool of garden noesis that made people bonk him so much as his folksy , over - the - garden - fencing style of giving advice . He was never condescending , and he always conduct the fourth dimension to give even the “ greenest ” new nurseryman thorough , well thought - out solvent to their questions .
— Julie Jensen
