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Maple Society coming to Portland

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The North American Branch of the Maple Society will hold its annual meeting in the Portland area this October! The conference will be Friday-Sunday, Oct. 9-11, at the Embassy Suites hotel near Washington Square mall in Tigard, Ore. Among the speakers will be Dick Van der Maat, a grower of Japanese maples from Boskoop, The […]

Hot hot heat

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Not to be alarmist, and you probably already knew it was going to be hot this week, but weather prognosticator Rufus LaLone says it could reach 105 in the western valleys of the Pacific Northwest by next weekend. That’s the kind of weather that’s supposed to happen in Vegas (and stay in Vegas, not make […]

Taking the lead

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The Oregon Association of Nurseries is taking a lead role in the sustainability trend, with introduction of a new sustainaibility initiative. The process will be led by a member task force, which will be working with recognized experts to arrive at an appropriate definition of sustainability for the horticulture industry. The process will lead to […]

One green company

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We mentioned back in April that Jim Gilbert, Northwoods Nursery and One Green World have received a Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Tomorrow award from the city of Portland. Here’s coverage in the Capital Press (Salem, Ore.). Kudos again to Jim and company.

Farwest Show Nursery Tours offer ‘special discoveries’

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Issued today by the Oregon Association of Nurseries: Wilsonville, Ore. – Biodynamic farming techniques, Oregon wine tasting, conifer arboretum, a national award-winning zoo and one of the country’s largest cut flower businesses. These are a few of the discoveries in store for guests at the 2009 Farwest Show Nursery Tours. Most important, the tours include […]

A rakish bunch

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Members of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers are in Portland, starting today, for their national conference.

Horticulture classes this fall

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Chemeketa Community College has announced several classes in horticulture, landscaping and agribusiness on its fall schedule. Among them are classes on growing media, green roofs/green walls, ecological design for water treatment, urban applications in ecological horticulture, and more. Check out the offerings on Chemeketa’s Hort Department Web page (scroll down to see fall classes).

PURS requirements suspended

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The Oregon Department of Agriculture passed along word that the formerly-mandatory Pesticide Use Reporting System (PURS) is on hold due to budget cutbacks: As directed by the State Legislature, the Oregon Department of Agriculture has suspended its Pesticide Use Reporting System (PURS) until January 2013 at the earliest. Those required to report their pesticide use […]

Can they have a volunteer?

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The fine folks in the horticulture department at Oregon State University asked us to share this information with you: Plant pathologists Jennifer Parke and Carrie Lewis, Oregon State University, and Nik Grunwald, USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, are looking for a few nurseries to participate in a one-year Phytophthora study. In earlier work, reported in […]