Garden Center Symposium announcements have been mailed to 522 garden centers/greenhouses throughout Wisconsin and Illinois. Now is the time to get your registration in for this 47th annual gathering, January 11-12, 2012, featuring Ian Baldwin, Bob Negen and Chris Beytes as primary speakers.
Launching in January 2012! Wisconsin Gardening magazine features expert writers from all across Wisconsin. Our writers include Allen Centennial Gardens' Edward Lyon, Northwind Perennial Farm's Roy Diblik, Green Bay Botanical Garden's Mark Konlock, Patrice Peltier, Kate Jerome, author and radio/TV personality Melinda Myers and U of W Extension experts Sharon Morrisey, Lisa Johnson and Erin LaFaive. Visit www.statebystategardening.com to subscribe today.
Using Light and Shade in Plant Growing
Source: Greenhouse Product News On-line
A summary of research being done by the Floriculture Research Alliance providing standards for lighting or shading in different parts of the country during different stages of plant production.
Some of Greenhouse Grower's recent podcasts include:
Making Cents of Cost Analysis
Biological Control of Aphids
How to Use Controlled-Release Fertilizers
National Marketing Campaign?
OFA is taking reactionary steps to the enthusiastic conversation taking place on GreenhouseGrower.com over the last few weeks regarding a national marketing campaign for greenhouse floriculture.
If you missed the initial dialogue,read Danny Takao�'s original letterto Greenhouse Grower about the need for a national marketing campaign. Also online is afollow-up story to Takao�s letterand aGreenhouseGrower.com pollthat currently shows more than 70 percent of readers would be willing to contribute $200 to $1,000 (depending on sales volume) per year as an assessment to fund a national marketing campaign directly through OFA.
In the meantime, Michael Geary, the CEO of OFA writes Greenhouse Grower to share the next national marketing campaign steps the association will be taking. Geary writes:
2013 Perennial Plant of the Year
Here are the nominees that the Perennial Plant Association is voting on: