Hi there! I’ve been on sabbatical from ETTGPro for the past month while focusing on some other work-n-stuff, but I am back. And better than ever. Thank you as always for reading.
- Unless you’ve been living under a manufactured paver, you’ve by now heard that GardenScape, Rochester’s annual landscape and flower show, won’t be held in 2013. This is because the facility that usually hosts it, the Dome Center in Henrietta, has been on the market and therefore not open to for bookings. Now it looks like the Dome will be sold to the Rochester RazorSharks, which I will save you from Googling—it’s a basketball team. A group of landscapers headed by the former Executive Director of the GardenScape Professionals Association (and director of GardenScape), Sarah Burchell, will be mounting its own garden show, entitled (I think) Garden Artistry, in the former Media Play store in Southtown Plaza in Henrietta. That show is not under the jurisdiction of the GardenScape Pros. More information as it becomes available.
- Buffalo OutFront Metalworks LP, a Canadian manufacturer of portable garden center structures, products and merchandise display systems for local, regional and national garden centers, is setting up in Buffalo, a project that is expected to 57 new jobs over the next five years, according to its release on prweb.com. The company plants to invest over $2 million for land acquisition, machinery, etc., and New York State has promised up to $450,000 in Excelsior tax credits in exchange, plus a $61,000 sales tax abatement through the Erie County IDA.
- From the New York Times: “Germinated This Way: New Fern Species Named After Lady Gaga.” Wacky. My instinct is to copy and paste the whole story, but I am pretty sure that’s copyright infringement, so I will simply urge you to read it. It’s short.
- If you liked the zombie gnomes, you’ll love this: “Squirrel gets head stuck in halloween skull. Immediately becomes most horrifying thing man has ever seen.“
- What’s your ecosystem province? Kind of a neat, if dated, map and series of descriptions.
- N.Y. lands on list of top 10 green job-creating states. Here is the list via Environmental Entrepreneurs. Fifty are for the Rochester Genesee Regional Transit Authority.
- Using email marketing? Here are four tips from Greenhouse Management that might help your message get read. (Here’s a 5th: Not doing email marketing yet? Email me.)
- From Garden Center Magazine: American Beauties, National Wildlife Federation team with Groupon for a program that combines holiday gift giving, charitable giving, and…Groupon. I’d love to hear thoughts on this.
- From Today’s Garden Center: Garden Media Group identifies “Top 12 Garden And Lifestyle Trends For 2013-14” and names this the “Year of Bliss.”
- Also from TGC, “Invite Garden Writers To Your Store.” Yes, do!
- There is an ash problem in Europe even worse than ours, and fraud and fungus are in the mix. But the Telegraph offers a partial solution: Wash your children. I wonder if that would work for us. Worth a shot!
EVENTS:
- Through Thursday: NYSTA Expo, Rochester
- Nov 15: Green Drinks Rochester
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