In this issue:
- Sold Out is Good News and Bad News
- No Flower, No Problem: Boosting Grass Sales at IGCs
- Ornamental Grasses for Golf Courses
- Equally Excellent: More Cools for Spring Sales
- Native Plants Help Build a Better Green Infrastructure
- Promoting the Benefits
- The Kempton Garden in PA
- 2020 Landscape Architecture Awards
- Upcoming Events: PPA's 2021 Hybrid National Symposium
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Supply and Demand in 2021 |
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Sold Out is good new and bad news
Yes, we know. Our availability is a little sparse right now. Many crops aren't available until later in 2021 or even next year. We thought a little Q&A was in order. Find out why plants sell out and what you can do if the plant you want isn't there.
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No flower, no problem: Boosting grass sales at IGCs
Garden Center Magazine talked with our Marketing Director Shannon Currey and with IGCs about ornamental grass sales. Versatility is the buzzword. IGCs can position grasses as the Swiss Army knife of the horticulture world.
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Ornamental Grasses for the Golf Course |
Sure, when you think of golf courses, you think of turfgrass. But the grasses we grow and supply to golf courses play an important role. They add ecological value.
In this post, we highlighted several grasses that are great performers for golf courses. These grasses don’t need lots of inputs to look good. They’re adapted to poor soils and don’t require supplemental irrigation and fertilization once established. Their branching, fibrous roots systems slow runoff, which helps reduce erosion, improves water quality, and increases infiltration. They all tolerate drought, and several can also withstand soggy conditions.
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Equally Excellent: More Cools for Spring Sales
Blue Sheep's Fescue and Feather Reed Grass get a lot of attention. But with cool-season grasses, try looking beyond the superstars. A group of equally excellent grasses give spring sales and early season plantings a boost.
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Native Plants Help Build a Better Green Infrastructure
Cities across the U.S. are implementing green infrastructure to help manage stormwater. Native plants are often recommended. Greenhouse Grower talked to Marketing Director Shannon Currey to discuss how native plants fit into these developments.
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How do we encourage more people to connect with plants and the horticulture industry? Make the message clear, appealing, and memorable.
That's what the National Initiative for Consumer Horticulture (NICH) continues to do for the industry. Their resources highlight the benefits of gardening and consumer horticulture to all areas of life: the environment, workplace, schools, homes, and cities. industry provides. They connect people and plants in ways we can all understand.
Their "Benefits of Consumer Horticulture" series summarizes research from multiple sources (listed in the fine print). This series is fun, reader-friendly, and visually appealing. You can give them directly to your customers or use them as the basis for your own sales and marketing materials.
And NICH has infographics for posting to social media, for printing on stickers, for just about any communication you have with customers and clients.
Dig in and share what we know plants can do! Find more resources at NICH.
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As we move into 2021, it's worth looking back at some of the amazing landscape projects that were honored in 2020. In spite of an outright ugly year, there were beautifully designed landscapes making us happy, and exciting ideas to inspire and encourage us. Enjoy! |
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We've admired the way Donald Pell Gardens uses grasses in the landscape. The Pennsylvania-based design firm won a 2020 Gold Award for Design from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers' (APLD). According to the press release, "the garden, located in Kempton, Pennsylvania, received high marks from the judges for its beautiful plantings with wonderful sweeps of color and nice blending of plant materials...The use of native plants provides a timely and individual approach to current planting design.”
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Tour the Kempton Garden, an APLD 2020 Gold Award winner |
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2020 Landscape Architecture Awards
We love seeing the ideas and creativity behind the projects recognized in the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) awards. Explore 2020's innovative projects, which are featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine.
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With in-person events still dicey, how do you get your best perennial friends and colleagues together? Virtually AND in small groups, of course. 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 and allow us to connect safely and learn with colleagues from around the country and world. The speaker lineup is fantastic (we've got the inside scoop), and we're truly excited to help support this valuable industry event. See the preliminary 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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Hoffman Nursery will be closed Friday, April 2nd in observance of Good Friday. We will resume normal business hours on Monday, April 5th.
We hope you have a safe and happy Easter holiday!
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