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Ralph Snodsmith, a specialist in gardening who tilled the mediums of radio, television and publishing to help homeowners in New York and across the country to care for their plants and to help them to thrive, died Saturday in Fredericksburg, Va. He was 70.
He died from complications of a broken hip, said Mary Snodsmith, his wife of 47 years. "He was just a gentle man. He cared about people. And he liked people," she said.
Joe Bartlett, the news director of WOR-AM where her husband was host of "Garden Hotline," called Ralph Snodsmith "the foremost authority on gardening."
"He's helped millions of people with their gardening questions, whether it's their indoor plants, gardens or trees," he said.
Snodsmith for eight years served as a gardening expert on "Good Morning America," wrote several popular books on gardening, including "The Tri-State Gardener's Guide" and "Fundamentals of Gardening," and lectured at the New York Botanical Garden.
With degrees in floriculture and ornamental horticulture, he approached his subject with a scientist's tenor and a gardener's love for the earthiness of the art.
"Planting the right plant in the right environment means more than just knowing the amount of sun or shade it will receive," he writes in "New York Gardener's Guide." ''Consider exposure to cold and wind."
Source: http://wjz.com/wireapnewsva/Ralph.Snodsmith.longtime.2.1639825.html
