HortMemo - A University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Newsletter for the Kentucky Nursery/Landscape Industry
by Winston C. Dunwell ***FIX LINK***, Associate Professor - Nursery Crops Development Center
UK Department of Horticulture ***FIX LINK***
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HortMemo 2003
December 23, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
It is with great sadness that I must announce that Charlie Wilson, Wilson Nurseries, Inc., Frankfort, KY was killed in a car accident December 18, 2003. When I first met Charlie I thought who is this wild man, then I learned he might have been a little hyper, "always on", but he was no wild man, he was an intense businessman who was constantly reevaluating his business and his life. He moved his business forward to be better, more profitable, and yes, more fun, more exciting, more rewarding. In recent years he provided leadership for the industry as President of the Kentucky Nursery and Landscape Association and as President of the Kentucky Horticulture Council; he was willing to serve and persistently sought out knowledge that lead to new ideas, projects, and programs that would benefit his business and all in the green industry. After serving as President of KNLA he continued to serve as a mentor and providing his council to Executive Director Betsie Taylor. Betsie knew she could always call on Charlie. I cannot imagine a Kentucky Landscape Industries Winter Conference/Trade Show without Charlie's distinctive voice; his ability to always say the unexpected; a voice that frequently carried a laughing tone to go with his smiling face.
A special thanks to Christi Forsythe for another year of efficiency, catching my mistakes, keeping me focused, producing HortMemo, and maintaining all the mailing lists.
Kentucky Landscape Industries, January 6-8, 2004, has added a Opening Night Reception which will be a great time for networking especially for those just getting started, see you there. KLI's featured speakers include: Kentucky's own Dick Ammon, he always gives a great presentation; Charlie Parkerson, Lancaster Farms, Suffolk, VA; Anna Caroline Ball, President and CEO of Ball Seed Company; Christine Casey an entomologist at North Carolina State University; Rick Crowder, Hawksridge Nursery, NC; Rex Bastian, an arborist and Vice President of Field Education and Development; John Elsley, well-known plantsman and Director of Horticulture for Klehm Companies; Marty Grunder, Founder and President of Grunder Landscaping Co.; Dr. Charlie Hall, Univ. Of Tennessee Ag. Economist, a sharp landscape industries business specialist; Mike Hayman, Kentucky Plantsman Extraordinaire; Gene Kritsky, Cicada specialist from the College of Mount St. Joseph; Bret Korsykoski, Market development Manager for Kichler Landscape Lighting; Karen Murphy, President of Murphy Associates that specialize in occupational Spanish, cross-cultural initiatives, and customer service; Bill Hendricks, President of Klyn Nurseries and noted plantsman; James Urban, Landscape Architect and urban arborist; and numerous Kentuckians. An awesome program!
I have updated the HortMemo meetings web site http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/HMMeetings.html ***FIX LINK*** so now all that is there is 2004 and the future, thereby eliminating the need to page through the whole list of 2003 events to get to what is happening now.
The Best Management Practices Workshop V (5) information has been posted to the web at http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/KHC/BMP Homepage.html ***FIX LINK*** scrolling down slightly will reveal the related publications; Programs in html and pdf files, registration forms, and driving directions to both sites where similar programs will be offered.
The 2004 Theodore Klein Plant Award poster is on web as a PDF file in 8.5 x 11 inch format for those that might like to print a color mini-poster. http://dib.uky.edu/hort/sites/www.uky.edu.hort/files/documents/TKPA04.pdf
Our own UK professor, Dr. Robert "Bob" Geneve, received the honor of being a Fellow in the Eastern Region International Plant Propagator's Society. It is hard to imagine anyone more worthy of such an honor than Bob Geneve, a revision author of Hartman and Keister's Plant Propagation and the author/creator of the accompanying Plant Propagation Glossary CD, member of the UK Seed Biology Group http://www.uky.edu/Projects/SeedBiology/, and long-time propagation researcher. Congratulations Bob!
November 30, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
In Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down & Enjoy the Things That Really Matter by Elaine St James, 1994 is a simplify your life recommendation "Grow a garden". I hope all the horticultural consumers read the book.
Please check out the Upcoming Meetings list for all the great meetings of early 2004.
-The Kentucky Landscape Industries Conference and Trade Show information should be in your hands, if not call or e-mail Betsie Talyor, 502.848.0055 or 800.735.9791; e-mail knla@mis.net .
-The Purchase Area Master Gardeners Garden Gurus is the Saturday of the week of KLI and this year's featured speaker is Paul James, host of Gardening by the Yard, http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_gby on Home and Garden Network.
On-Line stuff of Interest
State Environmental Laws Affecting Agriculture
Federal Environmental Laws Affecting Agriculture
An interesting plant, Poliothyrsis sinensis D. Oliver, was found in the plants we put into our overwintering structure (covered but not yet sealed). For a long time there was no common name reported but Dr. Chris Briand of Salisbury Arboretum http://www.salisbury.edu/arboretum/Poliothy/PoSi/PoSiHM.html has it listed as chinese pearlbloom tree. It was interesting because I could not identify it at first (OK, it took me a month to figure out what it was. I had to see it at the Eastern Region IPPS silent auction to get an id..) and the fall color in a container was wonderful; it varied from a chartreuse to yellow to yellow with a red blush to dark red, even purple. Fall color for this plant in the landscape has been reported as yellow; Dirr says yellow-burgundy which sounds closer to what we saw, but I never trust bloom or fall color in a container plant as being representative of what one will see in the landscape. The plant was first discovered by the late-great Augustine Henry, whose home the UK Horticulture Club saw next door to Helen Dillon's Dublin garden. E. H. Wilson ("Chinese Wilson") introduced it to Arnold Arboretum, Boston, in 1908. There is a 12-15 foot plant in Bernheim Arboretum that I have seen in flower, white blooms on large inflorescences, in July. Stephen Sponberg reports it blooms in August to September in the Arnold Arboretum, but Mike Dirr has seen it in bloom in July at the Arnold. Sponberg says it is easily propagated by seed or softwood cuttings. I will plant our plant into the garden and see how it does. I believe this plant which lacks the fall red sepals of Heptacodium miconioides, seven-son flower, (I think I am learning why Heptacodium has canker problems; it leafs out too early in the spring and suffers freeze-induced wood damage) will be a good substitute summer-flowering small tree with good foliage, showy white bloom and excellent fall foliage. Every source I have lists it's zone tolerance as limited to zones 6 & 7, a pretty narrow temperate environment, anyone know otherwise?
October 31, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
The West Kentucky Chapter of the Kentucky Nursery and Landscape Association Outreach Meeting with KNLA Officers and members will be November 13, 2003, 6:00 pm at Willow Pond Restaurant, Calvert City (3442 US Highway 62 at I-24 exit ), KY 270.395.7802. Dr. Jim Martin, WKU Professor Emeritus and owner of Redbud Ridge Nursery, will speak on Plants for Kentucky Landscapes. Contact: Dusty 270.527.1884; e-mail, kyflrfmr@VCI.net or Chapter President Jerry Wyatt, Wyatt Farms, 270.527.2855 or Betsie Taylor, KNLA Exec. Dir., 350 Village Drive, Frankfort, KY 40601; 502.848.0055 or 800.735.9791; Fax 502.848.0032; e-mail knla@mis.net ; url, http://www.knla.org
The New Crop Opportunities Conference will be November 15, 2003 at Sheraton Suites Hotel, 2601 Richmond Road, Lexington, KY. Topics include diversification, starting a new enterprise, sorghum syrup, hydroponic tomatoes, wheat straw, bedding plants, hanging baskets, nursery crops, a small fruit growers panel, and more. Contact: Christy Cassady, 859.257.1477; Fax 859.257.2859; e-mail,cgcass0@uky.edu; url, http://www.uky.edu/Ag/NewCrops/poster.pdf
My college-student niece, Desire, sent me this site (sorry for the e-mail forward in a newsletter) that begins with a view of the Milky Way Galaxy as seen from a distance of 10 million light years and zooms towards Earth in powers of ten - of distance 10 million, to one million, to 100,000 light years and so on finally reaching a large oak tree leaf. For a plant geek the fun part is when it zooms into the leaf until it reaches to the level of the quarks viewed at 100 attometers. Ah, the web and the wonderful ways people are using it as an educational tool.
The 5th Annual Best Management Practices Workshop for Garden Centers, Landscape Contractors, Nurseries and Arborists program will feature Dr. Dan Potter, University of Kentucky, Dr. Dave Shetlar, Ohio State University, Kentucky Nursery Inspector, and University of Kentucky Specialists. The program will be repeated in Louisville and Princeton, Kentucky on February 17 and February 18, respectively. A flyer with more information has been posted to http://dib.uky.edu/hort/sites/www.uky.edu.hort/files/documents/BMP5flyer.pdf also contact information is in HortMemo's Upcoming Meetings section below or in http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/HMMeetings.html ***FIX LINK***
Bob McNiel has completed the program for the Kentucky Landscape Industries Winter Conference and Trade Show to be held at the Kentucky International Convention Center, Louisville, KY January 6-8, 2004. The program will be mailed shortly. To be sure and get a copy of the registration packet please contact Betsie Taylor, KNLA Exec. Dir., 350 Village Drive, Frankfort, KY 40601; 502.848.0055 or 800.735.9791; Fax 502.848.0032; e-mail knla@mis.net ; homepage http://www.knla.org
September 30, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
The West Kentucky Chapter of the Kentucky Nursery and Landscape Association will meet at Kentucky Dam Village, Gilbertsville, KY, November 6, 2003. Dr. Jim Martin of Western Kentucky University will give a presentation on Plants for Kentucky Landscapes. For more information contact: Dusty Kornbacher, 270.527.1884; e-mail, kyflrfmr@vci.net or Pres. Jerry Wyatt, 270.527.2855
Amy Falder's Nursery Update 17 has been posted at
The IPM Calendar for Deciduous Nursery Production prepared by Amy Fulcher and edited by John Hartman and Lee Townsend is now available on the web by going to http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/IPMCalendar/IPMCalendar2004.html ***FIX LINK*** or by going to my web site and clicking on IPM Calendar. This excellent publication organizes many of the pest management tasks by the month in which they need to be done. Handy! For a printed copy contact: Christi,cforsyth@uky.edu or Amy, afulcher@uky.edu or call 270.365.7541 or Fax 270.365.2667
Frank Cabot, garden designer, founder of the Garden Conservancy, and author of The Greater Perfection: The Story of the Gardens at Les Quatre Vents will be speaking at St. Francis In The Fields Episcopal Church, Wolf Pen Branch Road and US Highway 42, on Saturday, October 18, 2003 at 1100-1200, registration at 1030. Yew Dell Gardens, a Garden Conservancy partnership project, is the sponsor of this great opportunity. Frank Cabot will be available for book signing before and after his hour-long talk on his garden Les Quatre Vents in Quebec.
The 2003 Southern Plant Conference, sponsored by Southern Nursery Association and the South Carolina Nursery and Landscape Association, was awesome. It will be in Louisville at the Brown Hotel in September of 2005. One of the tour sites was Carolina Nursery. While there co-owner Jay Guy responded to the question about what goes in the catalog with "get rid of the losers, try to pick the winners. — and ‘Peanut Butter and Jelly' plants won't go away no matter how hard you try to find new plants."
2004 Theodore Klein Plant Award Winners are:
Cladrastis kentukea - Yellowwood
Helleborus x hybridus - Oriental Lenten Rose
Picea orientalis - Oriental Spruce
Taxodium distichum 'Shawnee Brave' PP3551 - Shawnee Brave Bald Cypress
see http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/TKleinPA.html ***FIX LINK*** for more information
August 30, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
The KNLA SUMMER OUTING is September 4, 2003 at the University of Kentucky Arboretum, Alumni Drive, Lexington, KY. See Upcoming Meetings below for contact info, See you there!
A Pot-in-pot Installation and Production Field Day, September 9, 2003, 6:30 pm, will be held at Bob Blandford's Empire Nursery and Turf Farm on Highway 231 south of Owensboro in Utica, KY. For more information contact: Annette Meyer Heisdorffer, Davies County Extension, 270.685.8480, ameyer@uky.edu, or Amy Fulcher, UKREC, 270.365.7541 x 279, afulcher@uky.edu
The Multi-State Plant Materials Conference, September 24-25, 2003, at the Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum and Holiday Inn, Stillwater, OK will have keynote speakers Dr. Kathryn Kennedy, Center for Plant Conservation, St. Louis, Missouri and Dr. Jason Griffin, John C. Pair Horticultural Center, Haysville, Kansas. Plant conservation, herbaceous perennials, woody plants, Japanese gardens, Sudden Oak Death, roses and a myriad of other topics will be addressed. Contact Mike Schnelle at Oklahoma State University, 405.744.7361; Fax, 405.744.9709; e-mail, mas@okstate.edu, for more information.
Plants, plants, plants and more plants. While at SNA 2003... The World's Showcase of Horticulture®...I learned of several plants that have or will be entering the market. I have not evaluated any at this point. One of unknown hardiness that might fill a vacancy in Kentucky is Briggs Nurseries' yellow Rhododendron ‘Capistrano'; a "hardy" cultivar bred by David Leach. A Tom Ranney introduction Calycanthus ‘Venus' was seen in a publication at Don Shadow's booth. The awesome large white "magnolia-like" flower is stunning if the photo does it any justice (see at http://www.goldenleaf.org/Venusflyer.pdf), and here I was all excited about relatively large burgundy blooms of the Raulston allspice xSinocalycalycanthus raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine' that are puny compared to ‘Venus'. We have both plants in evaluation at the UK Nursery Crops Development Center, Princeton, KY. Another Tom Ranney plant that you may be aware of is Betulus ‘Summer Cascade', a vigorous easily trained birch for which Tom has prepared production protocols, http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/specialty_crops/pubs/ranney.html While in Don Shadow's booth I saw Chionanthus retusus ‘China Snow' (good name for a plant I really like). Don collected it years ago and his Japanese nurserymen friends really like it. It is a southern form with glossy foliage. And how about the awesome foliage of Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Lady in Red' on display in Mark Griffith's Propagation Nursery booth, . I have been infatuated with the late summer-fall foliage of ‘Pink Beauty' but ‘Lady in Red' seems to have a nice lacecap bloom and better colored fall foliage. While we're discussing the Michael Dirr hydrangea breeding program we had better mention Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Endless Summer' and the ‘Penny-Mac' hydrangea from the Atlanta garden of Penny McHenry. And from the US National Arboretum, Prunus ‘First Lady' a cross of Prunus okame x P. campanulata. Wow, more next issue of HortMemo.
August 11, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: HortMemo 7 additions
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I have a suspicion of what I did that ended up with the KNLA Summer Outing missing from HortMemo 7 but I'll keep it to myself. Please note the following additions to HortMemo 7.
The KNLA SUMMER OUTING, September 4, 2003, at the University of Kentucky Arboretum, Alumni Drive, Lexington, KY will be an excellent event. Dan Heims, an owner of Terra Nova Nurseries, http://www.terranovanurseries.com will be the featured speaker. The Terra Nova web site describes his duties there as "Dan is our plantsman, speaker, collector, new plant namer, and dreamer. He oversees our breeding department, the website, and the catalog.". Tours of the gardens and plantings will be available: Walk Across Kentucky plantings guided by the curator of native plants Jim Lempke, discussion on roses by Tim Phillips, a ground cover tour by Rick Durham and All-American Annuals by Sharon Bale. Contact: Betsie Taylor, KNLA Exec. Dir., 350 Village Drive, Frankfort, KY 40601; 502.848.0055 or 800.735.9791; Fax 502.848.0032; e-mail knla@mis.net ; url, http://www.knla.org for more information.
The West Kentucky Chapter of the KNLA meeting. November 13, 2003. Location TBA. Contact Chapter President Jerry Wyatt, Wyatt Farms, 270.527.2855 or Betsie Taylor, KNLA Exec. Dir., 350 Village Drive, Frankfort, KY 40601; 502.848.0055 or 800.735.9791; Fax 502.848.0032; e-mail knla@mis.net ; url, http://www.knla.org
The Kentucky Arborists' Association, Dino Kent; 606.663.8180; e-mail, kyarborists@hotmail.com
is a sponsor or co-sponsor of the following events:
- Kentucky Urban and Community Forestry Conference. September 29-30, 2003. Holiday Inn North, Lexington
- Kentucky Tree Climbing Championship and Junior Arbor Day: October 4, 2003. Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.
- Junior Arbor Day. November 1, 2003. Somerset/London area.
Randall Arendt will present a practical, easy-to-use technique that enables developers and local officials to work together to accomplish their different objectives, namely the construction of full-density residential subdivisions (developers' goal) in such a way that helps to build a community-wide network of permanent conservation land (officials' goal). He will illustrate numerous financially successful examples of "conservation subdivision design", together with a straight-forward four-step methodology of laying out residential developments around the central organizing principle of open space conservation. The meeting will be Tuesday, August 19th Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 p.m. Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest (Exit 112 off I-65) Contact: Angie Woodward, Bullitt County Chamber, 502.543.6727
July 31, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
Dr. Robert "Bob" McNiel will give a presentation on weed control at the IPM for Nursery Production Workshop Series, Thursday, August 7, 2003, 8:00 am at the Ky. West Nursery Cooperative office, highway 1824 (Radio Road), Almo, KY. An in-the-field part of the program will also be held. The IPM for Nursery Production Workshop is organized by Amy Fulcher, Extension Associate - Nursery Crops, UKREC, 1205 Hopkinsville Street, P.O. Box 469, Princeton, Ky 42445; 270.365.7541 x 279; Fax, 270.365.2667; e-mail, afulcher@uky.edu
Nursery Updates 15 and 16 by Amy Fulcher have been posted at http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/KHC/NurseryUpdate.html ***FIX LINK***
The 2003 Tennessee Green Industry Field Day will be a great learning experience for those in the nursery business. It will be Tuesday, August 12 at the TSU-Nursery Crop Research Station, 427 Cadillac Lane, McMinnville, TN, 37110. Call 931.668.3233; Fax: 931.668.3134 for more info.
Kentucky Master Gardeners are in Paducah, September 12-13, 2003, at the Executive Inn for their annual conference. For information contact: Rick Durham, 859.257.3249; Fax, 859.257.2859; e-mail, rdurham@uky.edu
Tony Avent's new book So You Want to Start a Nursery (Timber Press, 2003) includes lessons Tony has learned and his opinions on what it takes to operate a successful nursery. The topics covered are those that all nursery operators must address; the sooner, the better. I have always recommended new people learn all they can through study, visiting other nurseries, and building a network of resources over one or more growing seasons before putting a plant in the ground or in a container. Now I will add, and strongly recommend, that they read Tony's book as part of that learning investment. See my site Ornamental and Environmental Horticulture Books http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/oehbooks.html ***FIX LINK*** for a more thorough review and please note I have added it to the "Must Haves" list.
Oregon State University Master Gardeners have created an interesting on-line plant identification site http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/ that includes descriptions and images of a number of ornamental plants. Thanks to Paul Bachi UK Plant Diagnostician for making me aware of the site.
Hope Crain, Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA) Nursery Crops Marketing Specialist, has announced the September 12, 2003 deadline for submitting information for the 2004 Kentucky Grown Landscape Plant Availability Guide. The guide is published as a printed hardcopy book and a searchable CD and is on-line. Hope distributes guides at "green industry" trade shows. Submit your entries to Hope Crain, KDA, 100 Fair Oaks Lane, 5th Floor, Frankfort, KY 4060; 502.564.0290 x 253; e-mail, hope.crain@kyagr.com. Previous Guides and related information can be found at the KDA web site, http://www.kyagr.com
Hope also wants one and all to know of three KDA programs: 1.) The Trade Show Booth Cost-Share Program. KDA pays the cost of one 10x10 booth at the Kentucky Landscape Industries Trade Show in Louisville, The Mid-Am in Chicago, and the CENTS show in Ohio. This program is "first come, first served"; 2.) The Fall Retail Display Contest Using "KY Fresh" logo. Prizes are $1500 for 1st place, $1000 for 2nd place, and $500 for 3rd place; 3.) The Kentucky Growers/Buyers Reception the 1st night of the KLI Trade Show.
June 30, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
Amy Fulcher, Extension Associate for Nursery Crops, produced two Nursery Updates in June see the bottom of her page http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/KHC/NurseryUpdate.html ***FIX LINK*** to select the June 3 and June 10 editions.
Dr. Bob McNiel lead a group of students, yours truly and other faculty on a grand adventure to the United Kingdom and Ireland in mid-May. As far as gardens go, Stoarhead and Bodnant were fantastic. We were surprised to learn that Irish nursery managers call the central leader training method of producing quality shade trees the American-form of pruning/training. We visited Pentland Plants http://www.pentlandplants.co.uk/index.htm a greenhouse operation that uses a transplanting machine, not remarkable in this day and age, but they had a replanter set up and operating. It was neat, it removed the media from cells that had no seedling and transplanted plants from a tray, resulting in a full tray of plants all done mechanically. I knew such machines existed, but this was the first one I had seen operating.
A GAO document The Invasive Species: Federal Efforts and State Perspectives on Challenges and National Leadership; Statement of Barry T. Hill, Director Natural Resources and Environment has been posted to the web at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03916t.pdf
A one page summary GAO Highlights of the previous document is at
A great turf field day will be held July 10, 2003 at the Turf Research Center at Spindletop Farm, Lexington, KY. The flyer describes the program highlights as Entomology, Pathology/Bentgrass, Warm Season Grasses, and Herbicides/Cool Season Grasses. For more information contact A. J. Powell, 859.257.5606, or by e-mail ajpowell@uky.edu
The UK College of Agriculture Robinson Station All-Commodity Field Day is July 17, 2003 in Quicksand, KY. Tours include: Horticulture, Agronomy, Wood Utilization and Robinson Forest. There will be workshops on the following topics: Fruit-New Crop Opportunities, Beef and Forage, Athletic Turf Management, Agri-Tourism and Goat Production. Additional programs include Youth Activities and Pride of The Mountains Goat Show. For more information contact Field Day Chairman Terry Jones, 30 Robinson Road, Jackson, KY 41339-9081; 859.257.9511 x 234, Fax 606.666.2215; e-mail, tjones@uky.edu or see http://fp1.ca.uky.edu/robinsonstation
May 31, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
A Nursery Field Day featuring pot-in-pot and field production will be at the Mitchell and Jana Paschall farm, 1207 Billy Paschall Road, Murray, KY on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 at 6:00 pm. For more information contact Lloyd Weatherly, Calloway County Extension, 270.753.1452 or Amy Fulcher, UKREC, 270.365.7541 x 279. To get there follow 641 south through Murray. South of Murray turn right on Hwy 1828/Midway Road. Turn right on HWY 783/Crossland Road. Turn right on Billy Paschall Road. The Paschall farm is on the right.
Whoops, I left off the web site for the Kentucky Pest News in HortMemo 4. It is http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/kpn/kpnhome.htm In this weeks edition Mike Potter writes: Four serious pests of landscape trees: dogwood borer, bronze birch borer, flatheaded appletree borer, and honeylocust borer are beginning to emerge. The dogwood borer is the most serious pest of ornamental dogwoods, especially stressed trees in full sun. The bronze birch borer is a severe pest of white or paper birch, especially cultivated trees under stress. Flatheaded appletree borers are major pests of red maples, hawthorns, flowering crabapple, and several other hardwoods, especially those which are newly transplanted or under stress. Honeylocust borers are serious pests of transplanted and established urban trees with limited root zones. See http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/kpn/kpn_03/current.htm for borer management and additional pest descriptions and management recommendations.
Christy Cassady in the Department of Horticulture is maintaining Department of Horticulture events links, check the home page http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Horticulture/ or see the New Crops website events at http://www.uky.edu/Ag/NewCrops/events.html
Yew Dell Gardens is having an Open House, Saturday, June 14, 2003 from 1:00 to 5:00 pm. There will be tours, lectures and a plant auction. To get to Yew Dell (5800 North Camden Lane, Crestwood, Oldham Co. see Mapquest.com or other for a map) from I-71, take exit 14 (Crestwood/Peewee Valley, Route 329) follow th Bypass to Crestwood. At the light on route 146 (LaGrange Road) proceed through the light and turn left immediately beyond the overpass (Old LaGrange Road); turn right at the first stop sign (N. Camden Lane): The drive is the first on the right.
In the local area June 28, 2003, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon, Carolyn Roof , garden writer/master gardener/past President Kentucky Garden Clubs, will speak on Jefferson's Vegetable Garden at the annual Hopkins County Master Gardener's Garden Clinic at the Hopkins Co. Extension Office, 75 Cornwall Drive, Madisonville.
April 30, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
Since we last spoke Amy Fulcher has posted two Nursery Updates for 2003. As with past editions it tells you what is happening in west Kentucky nurseries and what you should be doing in the nursery now. http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/KHC/NurseryUpdate10_2003.html ***FIX LINK*** and http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/KHC/NurseryUpdate11_2003.html ***FIX LINK***
Other newsletters with valuable information for the nursery/landscape professional are: Kentucky Pest News, published weekly during the peak growing season and bi-weekly the remainder of the year and posted to http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/kpn/kpnhome.htm. The opening to the page states "The articles contained in the KY Pest News newsletter are submitted by the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science Cooperative Extension Specialists for a variety of pests including insects, diseases and weeds." and UK Inspector Findings in Kentucky by nursery inspectors Joe Collins and Carl Harper at http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/NurseryInspection/frame.htm like Amy they provide excellent images of what they are seeing out in the field and they have archived their newsletters so you can peruse previous years editions for an idea of potential problems you might encounter this season. Both are worthy
When Orson K. Miller, Jr. says in his Mushrooms of North America that the morel mushroom is common, I didn't expect to find the "choice edible" mushroom growing in our landscape mulch near the Rattlesnake Master I got from Richard Wolford several years ago. Richard, thank you!
The latest book I am reading is The Undaunted Garden: Planting for Weather-Resilient Beauty by Lauren Springer (Fulcrum Publishing 1994, I have the 2000 paperback). While I will always believe there is not enough compost on the face of the earth to make the soils near the building more that "backfill" of a most obnoxious kind, I do agree with her assessment that "a group of stalward plants" can make the difference between success and failure. Actually after 20 years of mulching the beds I believe most of our plants live in the "mulch media" on the soil surface. I will complete reviews of this book and Rick Darke's The American Woodland Garden in the next few weeks and post to the Ornamental and Environmental Horticulture Books web site http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/oehbooks.html ***FIX LINK***. The draft review of Rick Darke's book is there already.
March 31, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
Amy Fulcher has posted her first Nursery Update for 2003 to the web. As with past editions it tells you what you should be doing in the nursery now. http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/KHC/NurseryUpdate9_2003.html ***FIX LINK***
Mark Halcomb and Amy Fulcher wrote an publication "Sweating Nursery Stock to Break Dormancy". This concept greatly increases the success in transplanting certain plants to the field or container. We have seen some plants in the field that seem severely stunted. The missed growth opportunity is costly. The document is on-line at http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/lnrsweat.html ***FIX LINK*** or Christi can mail out a hard copy if contacted by e-mail, cforsyth@uky.edu or phone, 270.365.7541 x 221 or Fax, 270.365.2667.
The next Louisville Nursery Association meeting is a joint venture with the Kentucky Nursery and Landscape Association. They have invited candidates for Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture to attend the April 16, 2003 LNA meeting at Landscape Lighting, 13050 Middletown Industrial Blvd, Suite A, Louisville. Contact: LNA's Bonnie Ried, 502.245.6097 or Jeff Perry, 502.267.5017 or KNLA's Mike Ray, 502.266.5333, carlrayln@aol.com for more information.
What about Yew Dell Gardens! They have been mentioned in The Newsletter of The Garden Conservancy Winter 2003 (14 [1]:3, a nice description) and the Garden Conservancy's 2003 Open Days Directory: 21-22 as a New Preservation Project along with Nancy Goodwin's Montrose Garden, Hillsborough, NC and Greenwood Gardens, Short Hills, NJ. Pretty awesome. While updating my Plant Study Site http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/gardenslib.html ***FIX LINK*** to include Yew Dell I learned they have a web site that features information about Yew Dell and a great picture of Executive Director Paul Cappiello and the late Theodore Klein riding in Theodore's golf cart. Check it out at http://www.yewdellgardens.org/
The 2003 OSU Extension Agents' Handbook of Insect, Plant Disease, and Weed Control arrived late last month. I am constantly amazed that Oklahoma State University puts it all in one useful book, ANNUALLY! To get a copy contact OSU University Mailing Services, Publishing and Printing East, OSU, Stillwater, OK 74078, there is a fee. AND ALWAYS READ THE LABEL!
February 28, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
RESCHEDULED Best Management Practices Workshop IV, for Garden Center Operators, Landscape Contractors, and Ornamental Plant Growers: Weed Control with Dr. Larry Kuhns, Penn State will be March 4, 2003, Jefferson County Extension Office, Louisville, KY. Same program March 5, 2003. UK Caldwell County Extension Office, Highway 62 west, Princeton, KY. Contact: Donna Michael, 502.425.4482, dmichael@uky.edu, Amy Fulcher, 270.821.3650, afulcher@uky.edu or Win Dunwell 270.365.7541 x 209, wdunwell@uky.edu
Integrated Pest Management for Nursery Production Workshop Series begins March 6, 2003 and will meet the first Thursday of every month to August 7, 2003. Contact Amy for more information, 270.365.7541 x 279, afulcher@uky.edu Note: Information from this workshop will be displayed in poster form at Louisville Nursery Association Meetings and be posted on-line (the site will be announced in HortMemo).
Lawn and Landscape Maintenance Workshop sponsored by the City of Paducah and the UK Cooperative Extension Service will be March 13-14, 2003. The Paducah Information Age Park, 2000 McCracken Boulevard, Paducah, KY 2 day workshop will cover tree pruning, irrigation, lawn maintenance, proper planting, tool care and plant diversity on the first day and water quality, integrated pest management, and tree and turf pests, common diseases of landscapes and lawns, worker safety, and pesticide applicator testing on the second day. Contact: Kathy Keeney, 270.554.9520; Fax270.554.8283; kkeeney@uky.edu
The Cary Award winners for 2003 are Paperbark Maple, Acer griseum and Little Leaf Laurels, Kalmia latifolia v. myrtifolia ‘Elf', ‘Minuet', ‘Tiddlywinks', ‘Tinkerbell' and ‘Little Linda' see http://www.caryaward.org for more information.
January 31, 2003
TO: Horticulturists interested in Ornamental Horticulture
FROM: Win Dunwell, Extension Horticulturist
SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Information and Announcements.
Amy Fulcher, Extension Associate - Nursery Crops, will be back from maternity leave Friday, February 14, 2003. Her son, Joey, will miss her, I am sure, but we will be glad to have her back to manage the many programs she has planned. First up Best Management Practices Workshop IV, for Garden Center Operators, Landscape Contractors, and Ornamental Plant Growers: Weed Control organized with Donna Michael will be at the Jefferson County Extension Office in Louisville, February 17, 2003 and repeated at the UKREC in Princeton, February 18, 2003. Then the Integrated Pest Management for Nursery Production Workshop Series begins March 6, 2003 and will meet the first Thursday of every month to August 7, 2003. Contact Amy for more information, 270.365.7541 x 279, afulcher@uky.edu
Joyce Bender, Branch Manager for Nature Preserves and Natural Areas, Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission gave an excellent talk, Invasive Plant Impacts on Natural Areas, at the CKOTA Winter Conference in Lexington. She handed out the Kentucky Exotic Pest Plant Council Invasive Exotic Plant List. A majority of the plants listed are not grown or planted by the nursery/landscape industry, but a few that are include: KY31 fescue, English ivy, lesser
periwinkle, burning bush, privet, Hemerocallis fulva "ditch lily" daylily, Japanese spiraea and common St. John's Wort. The list is on-line at http://www.exoticpestplantcouncil.org/ky/list.htm or you can get a copy mailed to you by contacting Christi, 270.365.7541 or cforsyth@uky.edu
International Master Gardeners will converge on Covington Kentucky June 18-21, 2003 for the 2003 International Master Gardeners' Conference. See upcoming meetings or http://mastergardener.osu.edu/imgc2003/
Last year the first edition of HortMemo for 2002 mentioned periodic cicadas were coming, well, not this year. Well, maybe Pike County says EntFact 446, Periodical Cicadas in Kentucky, by D. W. Johnson and L. H. Townsend. Be on the lookout for a potential problem with the 17 year brood for 2004. EntFact 446 is available at local County Extension Offices or on-line at http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/trees/ef446.htm
The Perennial Plant Association has publicly promoted it's 2003 Perennial Plant of the Year, Leucanthemum ‘Becky' http://www.perennialplant.org/ppy/03ppy.htm Also, their 21st Perennial Plant Symposium will be in Sacramento & San Francisco, California, July 27 - August 3, 2003 see http://www.perennialplant.org/sym/sym03.html
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