Horticulture

Amy’s UK Nursery Winter Workshop is February 11, 2010 at Lyndon City Hall, Louisville, KY. The Program included the opportunity to gain Landscape Architecture CEUs thanks to Virginia Russell, BSLA, MSLA, LEED AP, from the University of Cincinnati presenting “Green Rooftops: An Overview of Green Rooftops Including the Green Rooftop Market as an Opportunity for Nurseries and Landscapers”; other presentations for Pesticide CEUs include noted nursery crop production authority Craig Adkins and Stanton Gill, coauthor of Pests and Diseases of Herbaceous Perennials and other books. Some of the other topics include "Successful Summer Digging and Transplanting Tips to Meet Today's 'Just-in-Time' Customer” and "Recession Survival 101: Creating Efficiencies and Positioning for Emerging Market Trends". The full program and registration form are at http://tinyurl.com/ycmfhgj

I posted the Louisville Nursery Association 2010 Meeting Schedule to my web site. It is at: http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/LNASchedule2010.pdf

Brian Jackson wrote an article for Greenhouse Product News Pine Tree Substrates for Greenhouse Crops. At the end of the article was a link to Brian’s site which led me to the NCSU Horticulture Substrates Lab publications site maintained by Bill Fonteno.

Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Vistors’ Center designers won EPA's Lifecycle Building Challenge which recognizes innovative green building ideas to reduce environmental and energy impacts of buildings and assists the building industry in reducing more than 88 million tons of building-related construction and demolition debris sent to landfills in the United States each year. The Professional Building category was won byKira Gould, William McDonough + Partners, Charlottesville, VA for their design of Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Visitors' Center. The visitors' center design roots the building firmly in its woodland context by blurring distinctions between the indoors and outdoors, and by incorporating the surrounding forest into the building's lifecycle analysis. Construction emphasized safe, closed material loops of biological nutrients, which break down to safely return to forest soil; and technical nutrients, which can be remanufactured into new objects. The mechanical connections and reconfigurable modules allow for building alterations. The project performs 51% better than the ASHRAE-compliant base case used to measure the greenhouse gas reduction. Kira Gould, William McDonough + Partners, Charlottesville, VA also won the Best Greenhouse Gas Reduction award sponsored by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (COTE) for Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Visitors' Centervisitor center. William McDonough is the co-author of Cradle to Cradle. Bernheim Facebook Page contained this information and lead to: http://www.epa.gov/greenbuilding/pubs/lbc3.html#winners

Aesculus species plants import banned. “The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is issuing a Federal Order (attached) to prohibit the importation from all countries, except Canada, of Aesculus spp. plants for planting (excluding seed) because they are hosts of Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi. To prevent the introduction and dissemination of this harmful plant pathogen into the United States, this Federal Order is effective beginning January 25, 2010.” http://www.sepdn.org/DesktopModules/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=3231

Have I already mentioned the case for sustainable landscapes? See http://www.sustainablesites.org/report/The Case for Sustainable Landscapes_2009.pdf

And The Sustainable Sites Initiative: Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks 2009 by American Society of Landscape Architects, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and United States Botanic Garden.
http://www.sustainablesites.org/report/Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks_2009.pdf