Good morning! Took last week “off” as it is darned near impossible to work on the computer and drive at the same time. There’s a lot to catch up on.
- The September-October UGJ is available to read online.
- Canandaigua’s Miller Nurseries is going out of business. The rumor is it’s been sold to Stark Brothers.
- This is exciting: Buffalo’s Matt Smith of Serene Gardens, a NYSNLA member/newly-minted CNLP, is Young Retailer of the Year & Green Profit cover guy this month!
- Also with props to Ellen Wells over at Green Profit, two more entries in the crazy-gardening-gadgets category (my favorite category!): rootcup and modernsprout.
- I love this article about invasive vs. native plants because it’s not hysterical or judge-y. Thank you! The New Native Gardening.
- “Now you’ve got all these guys like, ‘Hook me up with some of them kale chips!'” Organic Gardening Takes Root In NY Prison System. I include this story because the program is an initiative of Bard College, where I spent a little time.
- From Today’s Garden Center‘s Sara Tambascio: Most Popular Landscape Design Ideas On Pinterest. I love stories like this because they let you see inside your customer’s heads. This stuff is what people want. And by the way, I think Pinterest is HUGELY underused in our industry.
- From the New York Times: Building a Better Mass-Market Tomato, a really interesting read about modern hybridizing. I didn’t know that there’s only ever been one genetically-engineered tomato in grocery stores, and that was way back in the 80s.
- One of the first fruit trees planted in America is still alive and well at age 383. And don’t even think about climbing it.
- My buddy Ted and I had great facebook fun with this! A TCA employee brought in a cutting of this mystery shrub. We had NO idea what is was (we think we have figured it out). Any guesses?
- The Emerald Ash Borer has been linked with a population increase in woodpeckers.
- Love, love, love this idea. Now’s the time! The Forgotten Christmas Flower – Lily of the Valley. Pot some up for the holidays.
- And here’s another one of these:
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