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November 28, 2011 Newsletter

In This Issue
Energy Curtains
Wisconsin Gardening Magazine
Light and Shade
Top Plant Picks
Podcasts
National Marketing
2013 Perennial Plant of the Year
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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.

 

On-line registration

Program

Hard Copy Registration

 

 

Registration Fees:

  • Two Day Primary Registrant (including $25 membership fee)     $195.00     $205 after 12/26/11
  • One Day Primary Registrant (including $25 membership fee)     $125.00     $135 after 12/26/11
    • Two Day additional registrants from same company    $145.00     $155 after 12/26/11
    • One Day additional registrants from same company     $ 85.00      $ 95 after 12/26/11 
  • REMEMBER:  All meals are included in the registration

 

Educators and Master Gardeners should email for educator discount. 

 

Additional information at www.gardencentersymposium.com

Energy Curtain Installation 

 Here is an article worth reading about energy curtains in your greenhouse.  http://editiondigital.net/publication/?i=83968&p=42

Wisconsin Gardening Magazine 
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.

Breeders' Top Plant Picks 

 Source: Today's Garden Center

 

25 Plants that were selected by their breeders as the best retail introductions in 2012.

Calibrachoa Superbells
Calibrachoa 'Superbells Cherry Star'

 

 

Including:

 

  •  Coreopsis verticillata 'Sweet Marmalade'
  • Lantana 'Berry Blend'
  • Dahlia Mystic Wonder
  • Coleus Under The Sea 'Hermit Crab'
  • 'Moonlight Lavender' Zonal Geranium
  • Echinacea 'Southern Belle'
Podcasts to learn from 

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 letter to Greenhouse Grower about the need for a national marketing campaign. Also online is a follow-up story to Takao�s letter and a GreenhouseGrower.com poll that 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:

  • Polygonatum odoratum 'Variegatum'
  • Panicum virgatum 'Northwind'
  • Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips'
  • Sedum reflexum 'Angelina'

 

Greater detail here.


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Thanks. 
Eileen Nelson  ([email protected])