Gardening | Caught Up In Color: Expert Offers Gardening GuidancePublished Aug. 14, 2011
By WENDY HOBDAY HAUGH
For Ballston Spa Life
B ALLSTON SPA – Kerry Mendez, owner of Perennially Yours gardening services, is passionate about helping gardeners of all ages and levels create stunning, sustainable, low-maintenance perennial gardens ideally suited to their own unique landscapes.
“I want to help people become better gardeners and smarter, more efficient gardeners,” Mendez said. “I teach people how to save time and money and how to be more organic.”
Self-taught, Mendez has gleaned her impressive body of knowledge through trial and error over 25 years. Since founding Perennially Yours 16 years ago, Mendez has shared her expertise with more than 10,000 gardening enthusiasts via lectures, symposiums, and adult education classes at local schools and colleges. Her newsletter alone reaches 8,000 subscribers monthly. To date, more than 1,000 people have availed themselves of Mendez’s personal gardening coach services, during which she walks a client’s property, addressing gardening concerns and offering solutions.
“I’m all about teaching and encouraging folks to discover the joy of lower-maintenance perennial gardening,” Mendez explained. “I love interacting with people of all ages. I feel I learn as much from them as they do from me.”
Well-known and respected in horticultural circles, Mendez hit the road running this spring with speaking engagements scheduled in 10 states over four months. Her thriving Perennially Yours business has been featured in numerous magazines, including Horticulture, Fine Gardening, and Better Homes and Gardens Ideas and Outdoor Living.
For the past three years, she has written a monthly gardening column for the Times Union Life@Home ; and this year, at the request of Horticulture magazine, she will teach six online webinars.
In her spare time, Mendez has written and self-published two gardening books: “The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Top Ten Lists” (2010), and “Top Ten Lists for Beautiful Shade Gardens” (2011).
In addition to traveling, teaching, writing and coaching, Mendez tends her home gardens at 44 Chapman St.
She opens her gardens to the public, rain-or-shine, one evening each month, May through August.
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