I’m not even sure where to begin. It’s been a full week. I have been remiss in picture-taking, and for that I apologize. Feel free to send any along you might have. Well, not any.
- The Plantasia Show opened in Hamburg Wednesday night and it looks great! There is a coupon on the website and lots of pictures on the facebook page. Here is a link to the list of award winners and also the Western New York Nursery & Landscape Association’s Landscape Awards. Congratulations to all.
- More WNYSNLA news: Buffalo landscapers got lots of attention last week for planting over one hundred trees around the traffic circle at McKinley and Dorrance. The effort was a part of the National Garden Festival‘s “Leaf a Legacy” project. How they did this while at the same time getting ready for the show is beyond me.
- The National Garden Festival won an International Garden Tourism Award for Promotion of the Year, and Jim Charlier won an Ad Club of Buffalo award for his work with Garden Walk Buffalo and the NGF—very well deserved, as his marketing of those events has truly been masterful.
- Last night the Genesee-Finger Lakes Nursery & Landscape Association, aka the GardenScape Professionals, gathered to honor a giant in the industry, Mr. Ted Collins, founder of Ted Collins Associates, whose current owners generously underwrote the celebration. Here he is getting his award from Northern’s Jeff Hathorn, association president.
With some former employees…
And here he is with his family. Thanks to Ken Estes for these great pictures.
Ted was roasted and did some roasting of his own, and lots and lots of friends and former employees showed up, maybe a few enemies. I was a little shocked and hurt to find out that I wasn’t the first person in the room whom Ted had invited to picnic with him inside “Ted’s Beech,” the iconic behemoth located in Riverside Cemetery, where he grew up. I may possibly be, however, the only one with photographic evidence.
- More Association news: Regions 5 and 6 have a batch of new CNLPs! Congrats.
- Craig Yunker of Batavia Turf and CY Farms will receive the bi-annual LEAD NY Outstanding Alumni Award. More congratulations! The full story, via NYSTA, is here.
- There was a nice story in the D&C about Waterford Tilling & Zaretsky Associates’ Project Scion: “Garden to Sprout in Empty Lot on Dewey.”
- Bergmann Associates‘ landscape architect Sue Steele is featured in this week’s Rochester Business Journal (behind a paywall, unfortunately).
- Bankrupt Commerce Corp. is selling its inventory to Big Lots in order to satisfy its lenders. Commerce accounts are now being handled by BFG.
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