In this issue:
- Plant for Success: Grass Best Practices
- U.S. Ornamental Grass Sales Up 13%
- Roadside Realm: the Unseen World of Little Bluestem Grasslands
- True Grit: Planting a Gravel Garden with Students
- Wildscaping: the Home Edition
- Resilient Planting Design: Changing Old Habits
- Upcoming Events
- Grey to Green Conference
- PPA Hybrid National Symposium
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Plant for Success: Grass Best Practices |
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Grasses add texture, movement, color, and year-round interest to the landscape. Whether you are new to the world of grasses or just want a refresher on the basics, this post gives you a few best practices for growing, planting, and managing your grasses.
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U.S. Ornamental Grass Sales up 13% |
The 2019 USDA Census of Horticulture Specialties is complete, and the figures for ornamental grasses show continued growth in sales. Check out the numbers on Grass Talk, the ornamental and natives grasses site curated by Dr. Mary Meyers.
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Little Bluestem for Green Infrastructure |
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The Unseen World of Little Bluestem Grasslands
Roadsides are a tough place. They're never free of human disturbance. The soils are often compacted, dry and infertile, and polluted from salt and runoff. Managing Little Bluestem as grassland on these common spaces delivers powerhouse benefits.
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The increased popularity of grasses has been fueled, in part, by the rise of planting design that emphasizes perennials, plant communities, and biodiversity. These design approaches—the New Perennial Movement, the Dutch Wave, ecological planting, naturalistic planting, Wildscaping, and others—use grasses and sedges as foundational plants. The grasses and sedges form a matrix that literally underpins the design.
This month, we highlight three articles about projects that take this approach. We get a look at their planning, planting, and thought processes. And we learn what grasses they use!
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True Grit: Planting a Gravel Garden with Students |
In East Texas, horticulture professor Dr. Jared Barnes is exploring naturalistic planting design with his students. They're seeing how principles applied to projects cooler climates translate to their climate and plant palette.
Their latest project is a gravel garden. Rather than enriching soils and providing an ideal growing environment, a gravel garden stresses plants. That stress can reduce weed pressure and management resources. Find out what plants and techniques they used and what Dr. Barnes and his students hope to learn from their gravel garden.
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Wildscaping: The Home Edition
Tony Spencer, known as The New Perennialist, is applying "Wildscaping" on his property in Canada. He's been learning from master designer Piet Oudolf, and Tony's design journey is fascinating and beautifully written.
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Resilient Plant Design: Changing Old Habits
Two landscape architects write about their experiences adapting their planting design, implementation, and post-construction plant management to new realities. Using a plant community approach includes understanding what could go wrong.
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Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC), the industry association for professionals in the green roof and wall industry, and the Green Infrastructure Foundation are hosting a the virtual conference, Designing For Tomorrow: Green Infrastructure and the Post-COVID-19 Recovery. Through videos, panels, expert speakers, and networking sessions, the conference will highlight a wide range of best practices in designing and implementing green infrastructure and other nature-based solutions for addressing public health concerns exacerbated by the pandemic while building community resilience.
The content at Grey to Green is specifically curated to inspire and elevate the work of engineers, architects, designers, landscape architects, policymakers, city planners, advocates, researchers, manufacturers, students, business professionals, water management and green infrastructure experts, and all those interested in sustainable development! Grey to Green will offer CEUs to design professionals at an affordable price. Hoffman Nursery is a corporate member of GRHC, and we're proud to support and promote this upcoming event.
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The Perennial Plant Association (PPA) is using a new format for its 2021 national symposium. They're hosting a Hybrid National Symposium, which combines a virtual national education event with small, in-person regional gatherings. Hoffman Nursery is pleased to serve as a year-round partner with PPA, and we're thrilled they're planning a hybrid event for 2021.
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Virtual National Symposium
A virtual national education event July 27-29, 2021 will showcase world-renowned speakers. The lineup includes several new faces, along with well-known favorites.
There will be a fun tea tasting, mindfulness breaks to rest our eyes and minds, and networking opportunities. Register by June 18 to receive a gift box with all kinds of cool goodies! See the schedule and register.
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PPA Pop-Ups
The virtual education event will be paired with short, small, outdoor, regional PPA pop-up gatherings held at locations around the U.S. The pop-ups will let colleagues connect and network while allowing the flexibility to adapt to local, state, and regional guidelines and recommendations for safe gatherings. And there's even more exciting news! We will be hosting a pop-up event at the nursery on Thursday, September 16! We're still working out the details, so keep an eye out for those.
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Virtual is the current event mode. We'll be posting events we're involved in or are related to what we do. Keep an eye out for details as they become available. Check the full calendar on our Upcoming Events page for the most up-to-date info. |
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