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NYSNLA Awards, Party in the Garden, more

July 25, 2014

Hey there and happy Friday! It’s a slow news week, and I’ll be brief. GardenWalk Buffalo is this weekend! Here we go again…you know how I love these gadgets. A User-Friendly Gardening System For The Plant-Challenged via All Tech Considered from NPR. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Proclaims August 3-9 National Farmers Market Week. Eye Heart […]

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NYSNLA NEWS

July 25, 2014

Congratulations to Our 2014 Gold Medal and CNLP of the Year Recipients and Our 2014 Hall of Fame Inductee! We are pleased to announce the names of those receiving NYSNLA’s highest annual honors for 2014. The 2014 George L. Good Gold Medal of Horticulture recipient is Steven Perry, Assistant Principal of Agriculture of John Bowne High […]

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ETTG—The Almost All New York Times Edition

July 19, 2014

Good morning to you. We have lost a few industry people in the past couple of weeks: David Franke, Kirk Personius, and Jerry Drake. Very sad. My pal and longtime UGJ correspondent Michelle Sutton is now editing TAKING ROOT—The Blog of the New York State Urban Forestry Council. Check it out! I’ll be going to […]

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Jobs at Cornell Plantations; Rhododendron forest drama; more

July 3, 2014

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Worm Power gets grant, more

June 12, 2014

Hello! We are working on getting out the July-August UGJ. Give a holler if you want to advertise there (or here). —Jane Our hearts go out to the Dems family of Manlius Shade Tree Nursery as they suffer another loss. Chris Dems died on Monday, June 2. Kurt Bluemel, the “King of Grasses,” died June […]

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Best plant sale commercial ever & more

May 30, 2014

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Slow news week…

May 16, 2014

Happy Friday! Not too much to report this week. I did a lot of driving around and looking at plants. I went on a five-mile-long sweltering humid hike during which my car got rained in, but it was worth it for this sight: The day before that, I visited Linwood Gardens where my daughter was […]

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