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IPPS Eastern Region Newsletter 

May 2010
In This Issue
Warwick Program Premiere
July Area Meetings
Composting at Longwood
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Warwick Spouse Tour 


A fabulous spouse tour has been planned to include a narrated 90-minute tour of scenic Newport, lunch along the cobblestone shopping wharves downtown and a tour of the Vanderbilt family's 70-room 'summer cottage' called The Breakers.
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60th Annual Meeting

Mark Sellew
Mark Sellew

  Warwick Program Premiere!

Check out the fantastic line-up of speakers in place for the IPPS Eastern Region conference this fall.  Come hear industry professionals tell you how to plan for the future in uncertain times.  Discover plant production innovations and growing techniques.  Learn about new plant development and marketing.  Come gather ideas that can directly benefit you and your business.  Keynote speaker Mark Sellew will show you how Prides Corner Farms has been "Thinking Outside the Box for Production and Marketing."  Come to Warwick, Rhode Island for the 60th Annual Meeting of the IPPS Eastern Region from September 29 - October 2, 2010. Click here for the full program!

Two Area Meetings in July:  find one near you!

IPPS Area Meetings are planned for July 7th in Riverhead, NY (east end of Long Island) and for July 12th in Hebron, IL.  Different states, different formats but same great high quality one-day meetings!  The Long Island meeting will be held at Cornell's Horticultural Research & Extension Center.  It is a "Back to Basics" Summer Workshop that will include tours of the Annual Trial Garden, the Perennial Trial Garden, the Native-Friendly Garden, and other LIHREC display gardens.  The Chicago Area Meeting will be held at Intrinsic Perennial Gardens and have a focused herbaceous perennial theme and tour of Intrinsic.  Click here for meeting details. 

Windrow at Longwood
Longwood Compost
Composting at
Longwood Gardens

The powers of compost - fact or fiction?  Matt Taylor, Research Horticulturist at Longwood Gardens reviews the good, the bad and the green facets of compost production and use.  Click here for the full article. 



2010 Annual Meeting
September 29-October 2, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Warwick/Providence, Rhode Island

The mission of the IPPS Eastern Region is to provide a forum for education and
information exchange among plant professionals. 

Contact Info
IPPS Eastern Region, Margot Bridgen, Executive Secretary/Treasurer
Tel: 631-765-963; Fax: 631-765-9648; E-mail: ippser@gmail.com