You want your yard to not only look its best but be its best at meeting your family's needs. You just don't know enough about landscape design to create a place that does that.

Cheer up. The University of Georgia has created a one-day program just for you.

The UGA horticulture faculty will present "Landscape Design Basics for the Do-It-Yourself Gardener" Oct. 15 on the Athens campus.

The program will start at 8 a.m. and end at 4:15 p.m. at the Miller Plant Science Building Auditorium. It will cover the basics of designing your home landscape.

Learn how to develop a site plan and lay out different use areas. Find out how to choose the right plant for the right place and get a top-10 list of plants for problem places like shady, wet and dry areas. Grasp the basics of using seasonal color. And see how to use proper planting techniques to ensure a successful landscape.

Get all that and lunch, too, for $20. You have to preregister, though. A brochure with a registration form is online at https://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/landscape-design.htm.

To learn more about the program, call Bob Westerfield at 770-228-7243. Or just mail your name, address and phone number with a $20 check made out to the Georgia 4-H Foundation to Angela Anderson, 205 Hoke Smith Building, Athens, GA 30602-4356.

Dan Rahn