I missed last week — busy with magazine stuff — and this week’s will be a quickie. Cathy and I are still busy busy, now working on producing the Greentopia Festival program booklet. If you want to advertise, let me know. Rates are here. Ignore the printed deadline, but space reservations will probably close end of day today (8/30). You can reach me at Greentopia World Headquarters, 585-287-5555 x 25, or on my cell: 585-733-8979. Or reply to this email.
As always, thanks for reading.
- Breaking—Syngenta is buying DuPont’s pest control unit for $125 million.
- In case you don’t get the emails: Here is some news from WNYSNLA including NCCC horticulture offerings for fall, annual golf outing.
- From Today’s Garden Center, Up-and-Coming Varieties for 2013.
- Our pals at Zaretsky Associates get some AP play in Garden water features: Thinking small is less work.
- Three New York Times stories to love:
A Brooklyn Block in Bloom
Saving College Park Prairie, and Planting New Ones
Mean Streets for Staten Island Mountain Mint - Last week three bizarro devices came to my attention. Think these will sell?
Bloombox Amplifies Your Phone Sound and Holds Your Plants
“If you can change the cartridge in your printer, you can grow a tomato without the hassle of remembering when to water or fertilize it.” I’m not sure that the latter is any more difficult than the former. Nonetheless, I present the Click & Grown smart flowerpot.
Last but not least: Mini Kitchen Garden Watered by Draining Dishes. Whoever invented this obviously lives completely alone (or perhaps there is a cat) and never, ever cooks (except for the cat). And hey, wait a minute. Those plants are fake! Gah!
EVENTS:
- Conifer Disease Management, September 6, Scottsville.
- Gathering of Gardeners, Rochester, September 8.
- Fall Garden Fair, Lockwood’s Greenhouses, Hamburg, September 8.
- WNYSNLA golf & dinner outing, September 10.
- Greentopia, September 10-16.
- Cornell Plantations’s Fall Lecture Series kicked off last night, continues September 12.
- GardenScape Pros annual picnic & golf outing, September 14.
- Batavia Turf offers Fall Training September 25 & 27. Detail are here.
- Allan Armitage in Canandaigua, September 29.
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