The presenter fronted his personal present for greater than 25 years.
Beloved radio presenter Walter Reeves has died aged 74 (Picture: WalterReeves.Com)
Beloved radio presenter and gardening knowledgeable Walter Reeves has died aged 74. Reeves handed away on Friday (April 10) following a decade-long battle with Parkinson’s illness. The presenter fronted the favored morning present, The Garden and Backyard Present with Walter Reeves, for 26 years on Georgia radio station WSB. He hosted the Saturday morning backyard from 1994 to 2020, till his retirement.
Longtime WSB radio govt Condace Pressley stated: “He was like your favourite bathrobe and slippers you placed on Saturday morning together with your cup of espresso. He offers you concepts about what you need to do together with your garden and your backyard. His present was making objectives attainable.” Reeves graduated from UGA with a level in chemistry and was a College of Georgia Cooperative Extension agent from 1980 till 2005.
From 1998 to 2011, he hosted GPB’s Your Southern Backyard and in addition contributed a weekly column to The Atlanta Journal-Structure from 1991 till the newspaper’s print version ended final yr.
Reeves additionally authored and co-authored 9 books on gardening.
Ashley Frasca, who took over his weekly gardening present in 2020, paid tribute to the late star on Saturday morning.
“Walter had this particular quirkiness and pure curiosity,” she stated. “He was this bigger than life persona. Folks would greet him like he was a rock star.”
Saying his retirement in 2020, Reeves stated: “I began pondering significantly: ‘When and the way and why would I ever need to retire from radio?’ I might must be assured that the listeners to the Garden and Backyard present would proceed to get good, research-based backyard info.
Reeves hosted WSB’s The Garden and Backyard Present with Walter Reeves for 26 years (Picture: WSB)
“Secondly, I might need to be assured that whoever changed me can be gifted, educated and dedicated to being useful.”
He continued: “My two circumstances have been met. The present would proceed to supply good, correct info and my trusted colleague Ashley Frasca can be host. Better of all, it meant I might nonetheless often be within the studio with Ashley.
“It meant I might proceed doing my newspaper column. I might proceed to handle my web site and I can nonetheless reply backyard questions there.
“So after internet hosting the Garden and Backyard present for 26 years, (that’s 1352 reveals, should you’re good at math) I can have my Friday and Saturday nights again. I can journey for greater than a pair weeks at a time. That will likely be nice!”
Reeves added: “I’ve had a beautiful time being on the radio and I’m grateful to WSB for the chance.”
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Tributes have flooded in for Reeves on-line, with one writing: “I had no concept that I beloved gardening till I began listening to Walter in 1993. That present modified my enjoyment of life. 4 or 5 years later I used to be lucky sufficient to show his candy niece who confirmed me a Pike advert in Parade journal with the straightforward assertion, ‘That’s my uncle.’ I screamed, ‘Walter is your uncle?!’ Later that yr she gave me his autograph for Christmas. I nonetheless have it. How fortunate metro Atlanta was to have Walter!”
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One other penned: “Man, I’m solely 35, method out of the reveals ‘demographic’. He was on the radio for many of my life! Beloved listening on Saturday mornings after I was a younger 20 yr previous driving vans and cranes round city. I exploit his web site now that I truly personal a home. RIP Walter! You taught us so much!”
A 3rd shared: “My condolences to the Reed household. I listened to him for many years on the morning backyard present on WSB. He was so educated about agriculture and delivered his information with such a healthful persona. I seemed ahead to catching him often within the spring singing the Poison Ivey music. I did know of his sickness. I do know heaven is slightly greener with him there.”
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