Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association
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VNLA Field Day

Wednesday, August 19

at Merrifield Garden Center at their new location
Gainesville, VA
Gainesville
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VNLA Summer Tour 
Behind the Scenes tours of the gardens at Mount Vernon and the American Horticulture Society's Headquarters at the River Farm
Thursday, August 20 

Register TODAY for the VNLA Field Day and Summer Tour
 and save $10 per person!
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Gainesville 
Advanced Virginia Certified Horticulturist Exam
 
Friday, September 11, 2009
1-5 p.m.
at Strange's Garden Center
West Broad St
Richmond
 
Contact VCH@vnla.org 
for registration
 
Order a study manual online at www.shop.vnla.org

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Basic Virginia Certified Horticulturist Exam
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Charlottesville
 
 CLASSES: Monday and Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00 pm,
                October 26, 28,  November 2, 4, 9, & 11  Registration deadline: October 12, 2009
Class Registration Form
 
Windridge Landscaping, in Afton, VA will be hosting the Review Sessions.  Instructors will be from PVCC, UVA, and the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service.   We will need at least six people to sign up for the review sessions, in order to pay for the instructors.
Monday and Wednesdays,
6:00-9:00 pm, 
October 26, 28, 
November 2, 4, 9, & 11  Registration deadline:
October 12, 2009
Windridge Landscaping, in Afton, VA will be hosting the Review Sessions.  Instructors will be from PVCC, UVA, and the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service.   We will need at least six people to sign up for the review sessions, in order to pay for the instructors.
 
Order a study manual online at www.shop.vnla.org

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34th annual Nursery, Landscape and Arboricultural Field Day
 
of Virginia Tech's Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center (HRAREC) will be held on Wednesday,
September 9, 2009.
This year's Field Day will focus on educating attendees about current issues in the landscape, nursery, and arboricultural industries. The Hampton Roads Nursery and Landscape Association will again run their silent auction.
 
Two sessions with concurrent topics will run from 8:30 a.m. until noon when lunch will be served. Among the topics to be covered are invasive insect, disease, and weed pests, ergonomic tools, development of a sustainable garden, and phytoremediation work using plants to clean storm water runoff. After lunch there will be a tour of the turf plots and research.
 
 Pre-registration will be $25, and on-site registration will be $30. This is a commercial, not a consumer or homeowner field day.
 
Contact: 757-363-3906; bapple@vt.edu
www.vaes.vt.edu/hampton
Improve your business with tips from one of Virginia's premier state-of-the-art garden center and landscape contractor and network with your peers!
 
VNLA Field Day Pre-Registration
Deadline extended to
Friday, August 7!
(There was a problem with our fax line last week, it has been fixed) 
 
You can register onsite at Field Day,
but registration will be an additional $10/person


 Register for the VNLA Field Day and Summer Tour, TODAY, and save $10 per person! VNLA Field Day/Summer Tour Info/Registration
 
 Field Day Benefits:
 
Tips on:
  • Designing with Perennials
  • Fallscaping
  • Grow and Design with Boxwood
  • Landscape Operation Tips from manager of 30 Designers
  • State-of-the-art Garden Center Ops
  • Green Roof and Rain Garden Tours
  • Congressman Connolly on current issues
  • Over 25 exhibitors
  • Includes lunch
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    Hotel Reservations, at reduced rates, has also been extended to Friday, August 7
 
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There are still a few seats left on the Summer Tour Bus!
Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association
383 Coal Hollow Rd
Christiansburg, Virginia 24073
540-382-0943
800-476-0055
fax: 540-382-2716
info@vnla.org
www.vnla.org
 
 
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7/29/09