Avid Gardener and Nationally Recognized Authority

In 1995, the Board of Governors of the University of Minnesota elected Bashioum to serve as a Trustee for the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. While on the Board, his innovative thinking produced an award winning web site for the Arboretum. He also conceived and created "Northern Lights Gardening", a weekly live call-in radio magazine to promote the Arboretum and gardening in northern climes. The radio show can be heard each Saturday morning on a local radio station, KLBB, 1400 AM and WLOL, 1470 AM.

Dr. Bashioum is himself an avid gardener and he is also a nationally recognized gardening authority as a regular guest expert on HGTV's "Grow It"!