People and Events

Company Announcements

Plants Nouveau has launched its mobile website (www.planstnouveau.com). The site was designed for both consumers and growers, offering plenty of photos, and a page for each plant in the Plants Nouveau lineup that contains general facts and information for gardeners, as well as technical information for growers. Plants Nouveau also has a QR code on the back of every plant tag, so a consumer or grower can be taken straight to the page about that specific plant.
 

Rough Brothers Greenhouses bought the assets of XS Smith Inc. The XS Smith-purchased assets include all manufacturing equipment and inventory, trade names, and all greenhouse structure and systems’ products and designs. As part of the transaction, Rough Brothers intends to use the existing XS Smith production facility in North Carolina as an additional manufacturing facility. The additional space in Washington, N.C., allows Rough Brothers to expand its production capability and simultaneously reduce shipping costs for customers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southern markets. Rough Brothers plans on retaining the current key employees at XS Smith.
 

SePRO Corp. announced that its Preferal biological insecticide has received California registration for use in the greenhouse, nursery and landscape markets. Preferal is a biological insecticide containing blastospores of a naturally-occurring strain of the fungus Isaria fumosoroseus which controls whitefly, aphid, thrips and spider mites.

Events

October
10-13, IPPS Eastern Region, Brandywine Valley, PA;
www.ippseastern.com.

13-16, IPPS Southern Region,  Auburn, AL;
www.ipps-srna.org.

18, Tree Canopy Symposium, Washington, D.C.;
www.caseytrees.org

25, Invasive Plant Symposium, Storrs, Conn.,
www.hort.uconn.edu/cipwg

25, Nursery/Floriculture Disease Management Symposium, Watsonville, Calif.,
bit.ly/NiPsci

29-Nov. 2, HortiWeek, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;
www.hortiweek.com

30-Nov. 2, International Horti Fair, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;
www.hortifair.com

November
7-8, Northeast Greenhouse Conference and Expo, Worcester, Maine,
www.negreenhouse.org

8-9, OFA Grow & Sell for Profit Conference,  Huntersville, N.C.,
www.ofa.org/gsp

14, Growers Supply Hydroponics Workshop, Dyersville, Iowa,
bit.ly/QulNrd

15-16, Green Industry Show and Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;
www.greenindustryshow.com

17-18, Landscape Ontario Expo 2012, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
www.loexpo.ca

January
6-7, National Green Centre, St. Louis, MO;
www.nationalgreencentre.org

9-11, MANTS (Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show), Baltimore, MD;
www.mants.com

9-11, Northern Green Expo 2013, Minneapolis, MN;
www.northerngreenexpo.org

13-16, OSU Nursery Short Course (in conjunction with CENTS),  Columbus, OH;
www.onla.org.

14-18, Green and Growin’ Trade Show Greensboro, NC;
www.ncnla.com

16-18 Gulf States Horticultural Expo,  Mobile, AL;
www.gshe.org.

16-18, Mid-Am (Mid America Horticultural Trade Show), Chicago, IL;
www.midam.org

21-23, Central Environmental Nursery Trade Show (CENTS), Columbus, OH;
www.onla.org

22-25, IPM Essen, Essen, Germany;
www.ipm-messe.de.

23-24, Midwest Perennial Conference/Garden Center Symposium, Waukesha, WI;
www.gardencentersymposium.com

31-Feb. 2, Next Level, Nashville, Tenn.,
bit.ly/PexumY


February 
6-8, New England Grows, Boston, MA;
www.newenglandgrows.org


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