Consumer Horticulture Agent
Milwaukee County University of Wisconsin-Extension

Sharon Morrisey has served as the Consumer Horticulture Agent for the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Milwaukee County since May of 1992. She moved to Wisconsin from Stamford, Connecticut where she had served as the director of the University of Connecticut's Bartlett Arboretum for four years. She is now a tenured faculty member of the UW-System.

A native of Illinois, Morrisey received her bachelor's and master's degrees in ornamental horticulture from the University of Illinois in Urbana. She specialized in woody landscape plants and landscape design. She is the author of a book entitled "Large Flowering Shrubs for the Midwest" which is published by the Illinois Cooperative Extension Service.

As Milwaukee County's Consumer Horticulture Agent, Sharon serves as educator and advisor to the UW-Extension Master Gardener volunteers in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. She is also the director of the Buds 'n Sprouts youth gardening program which provides educational garden-related activities for youth in school and recreation programs.

Sharon is also a well-known gardening expert in Milwaukee, Wisconsin area newspapers, radio and television. She writes the monthly garden calendar in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper, and appears regularly as a featured guest on Milwaukee NBC affiliate, WTMJ-TV.

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