- Greenhouse Grower mag: (Cornell’s) Seeley’s Run Of 26 Straight Conferences Halted: “The annual Seeley Conference has been postponed until 2013 so the board of directors can discuss possible changes to the venue and format of floriculture’s think tank.”
- Looks like there’s a new GARDEN CHIC mag out. You can read the highlights here. (I haven’t read it all yet—waiting for the print edition.)
- Davey Tree has launched a new app that helps customers figure the value of their existing trees. Via Lawn & Landscape.
- Lockwood Lavender Farm, Skaneateles, is looking for speakers for its Lavender festival 7/14 & 15. Contact Karen through her blog if you are interested.
- Confirmed: Dr. Armitage will be in upstate New York 9/28-30. Mark those calendars. Plans include speaking engagements at Sonnenberg & FLCC—stay tuned for updates.
- OFA and ANLA have announced a new joint venture. You can read about it here, and get further analysis from Green Profit‘s Ellen Wells here.
- It’s not online, but if you have the latest Horticulture magazine handy, check out Bill Cullina’s piece “Gardener’s Challenge: Cold Challenged,” in which he discusses how different communities of the same plant species can exhibit differing cold tolerance. Example: Magnolia virginiana Cape Ann strain, studied by Arnold Arboretum for its remarkable cold hardiness being that it is a “southern” tree. (I must have one, because my sweetbay is rock solid!) Sounds dry the way I describe it but a great read.
- Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ Perennial Plant of the Year™ for 2012. This should be an easy one to promote—a great plant!
- One heck of an ambitious project: The Plant Encyclopedia, a wiki that is attempting to catalog EVERY PLANT ON EARTH. I did not have time to look them all up, but every plant I checked for was indeed there. Also found this interesting Aden plant hardiness zone system/map I had not seen before.
- Here’s another ambitious, tech-y project: an on-line, GIS-based all-taxa invasive species mapping tool: iMapInvasives.
- In Cayuga County, citizens can trade their Christmas trees for a free, live replacements. (Via syracuse.com and spotted by @CornellCALS.)
- The Upstate Gardeners’ Journal 3rd Annual Winter Photo Contest begins!
- Via Greenhouse Management: National Plant Trials database to launch in 2012.
- More goofy fun from Mary Gray: Top Ten New Gardening Show Ideas.
EVENT REMINDERS:
- Green Drinks Rochester, January 26 at Rochester Civic Garden Center sponsored by Batavia Turf. Free; Reservations are appreciated; email [email protected].
- WNYSNLA Ed Days, Feb. 3 & 4, features Don Leopold and others. You can register here. (Nice new site, by the way.)
- GardenScape Pros Ed Day featuring Perennial Diva Stephanie Cohen and many more speakers, Feb. 8. (This link will take you to a PDF registration form.)
- The 4th Annual Designing with Native Plants Symposium in Ithaca Feb. 10 & 11.
- There are a few Greenhouse IPM Workshops in the works: check them out here. (Featuring our very own Brian Eshenaur.)
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