Name this tool; Award for Eames-Sheavly; Native American plants policy

Hi there! Busy yet? Good. Been busy here too, getting the latest UGJ put to bed. You can read it here.

• A friend sent me this picture of a garden tool wanting to know if I know what it is. I have no idea. You?

• Are you a grower with brown marmorated stink bug? Help out with this survey for Northeast IPM.

• Nice piece on Fruition Seeds in the Rochester Business Journal this week.
• We had these cute little mugs made. I gave one to a friend and he brought it back like this.

• Congrats to Luminated Landscapes for their NYSNLA Environmental Beautification Award in lighting! Pix here!

• From the Times: Plants That Practice Genetic Engineering. “A gene that allowed ferns to thrive in shady forests came from another plant, called hornwort, which grows in mats on damp banks or on trees.” Really interesting stuff.

• Nice! Cornell’s Marcia Eames-Sheavly wins major American Horticultural Society award.

• And we’ll finish with this interesting little tidbit: Seneca Nation Implements Native Plant Policy. (American chestnut maybe not the best choice for the lead image here.)

Tagged as: American chestnut, american horticultural society, BMSB, brown marmorated stink bug, Fruition Seeds, ipm, native plants, New York Times, northeast IPM center, rbj