DALLAS — Dr. Steve George, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service horticulture specialist in Dallas, has received the agency’s Superior Service Award for Distinguished Career.
The award was presented Jan. 8 during the agency’s Centennial Conference in College Station.
George began his career with AgriLife Extension as a county horticulture agent in Bexar County.
He quickly developed a “following” as he worked to introduce and market new bedding plants such as bluebonnets and Floratam St. Augustine grass, according to the citation.
After earning his doctoral degree, George became AgriLife Extension horticulturist at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Dallas in 1988. There he partnered with the research horticulturists and others to work on various landscape issues and test new plants for the possibility of introducing them to the market.
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