The Buckeye April 2013 Volume 24 Issue 3

April 2013

The Official Publication of the Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association

Vol. 24, Issue 3

Learn From The

BEST Why Do Americans

Love Their Yards?

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CONTENTS The Buckeye is published 10 times per year by The Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association, Inc. 72 Dorchester Square Westerville, OH 43081 p 614.899.1195 f 614.899.9489 www.onla.org info@onla.org EDITORIAL / ADVERTISING ISSN 1536-7940 Subscriptions: $75/year jennifergray@onla.org, editor THE FINE PRINT The statements and opinions expressed herein are those of individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the association, directors or staff and do not constitute an endorsement of the products or featured services. Likewise, the appearance of advertisers, or their identification as members of the ONLA does not constitute an endorsement of the products or featured services.

STAFF Kevin Thompson, Executive Director Jennifer Gray, Associate Executive Director Amanda Domsitz, Communiciations Assistant Roni Petersen, Membership & Certification Heather Eberline, Accounting

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President’s Perspective Learn From the Best: Get the Gears Turning Toward Success

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ONLA Office Update Ohio Competes Big

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Legislative Hotline Limited Backflow Irrigation Certification Updated Underground Damage Prevention Law

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Design Trend

Low Maintenance & High Impact

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Marketing Today / Management Today What A Jewel!

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Safety First Hazard Communication Standard Changes

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Why Trees Matter Buckeye Yard and Garden Line (BYGL) & Getting Your Green Industry Fix Webinars

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Look to the Future OSU Rebrands Hort Degrees; Transitions to Semesters

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By Design New Trends in Landscape Design - Low Maintenance / High Impact

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Educational Update An Invasive Species Update

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OFFICERS Jim Searcy, President Hyde Park Landscaping, Inc.

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David Richards, President-Elect South Ridge Farm

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On Your Mind ONLA Members Sound Off

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Got Social Media Content?

Bill Mainland, Board Member Klyn Nurseries, Inc.

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U.S. Poll of Consumer Perceptions about Yards, Landscapes, and Landscape Companies

Steve Maddox, Board Member Rice’s Nursery & Landscaping, Inc.

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Ohio Invasive Plants Council Releases New Evaluation Protocol

Dr. Hannah Mathers, Board Member The Ohio State University

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Andy Harding, Immediate Past President Herman Losely & Son, Inc. DIRECTORS Jason Bornhorst, Board Member JB Design Group, LLC

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David Listerman, Board Member Listerman & Associates, Inc.

Mark Reiner, Board Member Oakland Nursery, Inc.

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Mike Satkowiak, Board Member Markman Peat

Love Their Yards?

In the spirit of land stewardship, please consider recycling this publication.

Downey Mildew: New Website Helps Consumers The Greener Consumer The Ohio State University Cultivar Trial: 2012 Season Summary

ANLA Lighthouse Program: Uniting the Green Industry

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2013-2014 Garden Trends Report

Why Do Americans

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front cover: seedling renewal

4 Industry Calendar • 4 On Your Mind • 10 Members on the Grow • 11 New Members • 42 Classified Ads • 42 Advertisers’ Index

Industry Calendar

View www.onla.org for seminars, events, trade shows and more! O designates qualifying OCNT recertification events O April 22, 2013, PLANET Day of Service. Nationwide, www. planetdayofservice.org O April 23, 2013, Safety Seminar on identifying likely employee injuries and developing effective policies to eliminate them. Columbus, Ohio, www. onla.org O April 30, 2013, Safety Seminar on identifying likely employee injuries and developing effective policies to eliminate them. Hamilton, Ohio, www. onla.org May 8, 2013, Get Your Green Industry Fix Webinar, Statewide, www.onla.org O June 6, 2013, Diagnostic Walkabouts for the green industry, Cleveland, OH, www.onla. org June 12, 2013, Get Your Green Industry Fix Webinar, Statewide, www.onla.org O June 27, 2013, Diagnostic Walkabouts for the green industry, Huron, OH, www.onla.org July 10, 2013, Get Your Green Industry Fix Webinar, Statewide, www.onla.org O July 18, 2013, Diagnostic Walkabouts for the green industry, Delaware, OH, www.onla. org O July 31, 2013, OSU Annuals Trials Open House, Columbus, OH, www.onla.org O August 1, 2013, Diagnostic Walkabouts for the green industry, Akron, OH, www.onla.org August 1, 2013, OCNT Test, Hamilton, OH, www.onla.org August 6, 2013, OCNT Test, Columbus, OH, www.onla.org August 7 & 8, 2013, Landscape Industry Certified Technician hands-on and written test, Wooster, OH, www.landscapecertifiedohio.org

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August 13, 2013, OCNT Test , Kirtland, OH, www.onla.org O August 12, 2013 ONLA & NGLCO Summer Bus Tour, Northeastern, OH Sponsored by: ONLA & NGLCO, www.nglco. com O August 13, 2013 NGLCO Summer Field Day, The Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, OH Sponsored by: NGLCO, www. nglco.com August 14, 2013, Get Your Green Industry Fix Webinar, Statewide, www.onla.org O August 15, 2013, Diagnostic Walkabouts for the green industry, Toledo, OH, www.onla.org September 11, 2013, Get Your Green Industry Fix Webinar, Statewide, www.onla.org O September 12, 2013, Diagnostic Walkabouts for the green industry, Westerville, OH, www.onla.org O September 26, 2013, Diagnostic Walkabouts for the green industry, North Olmstead, OH, www.onla.org October 9, 2013, Get Your Green Industry Fix Webinar, Statewide, www.onla.org

On Your Mind Talk About Advocacy “ONLA Crew: I just wanted to say thank you for all you did for Green Industry Advocacy Day at the Statehouse. Being my first time at the event, I was very impressed and excited to continue my career in the green industry!

Thanks again!”

—Andrew Muntz Trupointe Legislative Learning “I am loving the issue briefs. I have had multiple people call me and ask questions. I think this is a GREAT addition to ONLA’s member outreach!”

—Andy Doesburg Thornton Landscape

JOIN THE CONVERSATION Share your thoughts with The Buckeye team by emailing jennifergray@onla.org

QUESTION OF THE MONTH What is the difference between a “good” leader and a “great” leader? Send your answer to jennifergray@onla.org

We Asked.

You Answered.

What motivates and inspires you to be part of the hort industry?

“Making Ohio more beautiful, one house at a time.”

—Karen Fisher “The friendliness of the people in the industry. Especially fellow ONLA members!”

—Ben Trubisky “Our clients, the relationships we build with them and their belief in us, drives us to always deliver our very best!”

—Jason Bornhorst “The people in Ohio’s horticulture industry! Amazed, every year, at the time and energy and expertise so willingly committed to making Ohio’s Landscape Industry Certified Technician test the best in North America!”

—Ohio State ATI Business Training & Educational Services

ONLA’s BuckeyeGardening.com Provides FREE Social Media Content!

O October 24, 2013 PLANET Green Industry Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, www.landcarenetwork.org O January 12, 2014 OSU Nursery Short Course, Columbus, Ohio, www.basicgreen.osu.edu January 13, 2014 CENTS, Columbus Ohio, Attend the Central Environmental Nursery Trade Show (CENTS), with over 225,000 square feet of exhibition space, and soak up the innovation and ideas in an expanded market, www.onla.

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The Buckeye is the nursery and landscape industry’s authoritative voice in Ohio.

Second to none in editorial and graphic quality, The Buckeye publishes a wide range of editorial features on the green industry’s key issues. The Buckeye is another example of how the ONLA leads, promotes, and facilitates the success and growth of green industry businesses.

The Buckeye is published 10 times each year with a circulation of over 5,000

each issue and an estimated readership of over 10,000. Advertisers benefit from an industryspecific audience, with distribution to professional nursery, landscape and independent garden center businesses and individuals, certified green industry professionals, educators/researchers, and subscribers.

Access Ohio’s $4.9 billion industry. Contact Jennifer to learn how your business can benefit from becoming an advertiser in The Buckeye.

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New Website Helps Consumers Choose Impatiens Alternatives Retail greenhouses and garden centers may direct consumers to a new Michigan State University Extension website for choosing alternatives to impatiens.

As a grower or retailer, you are well aware of downy mildew that became widespread in Michigan landscapes in 2012. Michigan State University Extension has developed Alternatives to Impatiens, a consumer-friendly website that briefly explains the potential problems with impatiens plantings and gives a whole host of alternatives to impatiens.

The website is offered in two formats: a traditional website and a mobileoptimized website. In addition, the mobile-optimized website can be accessed on smartphones by scanning the QR code in Figure 1.

For in-store point of purchase advertising, MSU Extension has also developed a poster (Figure 2) that retailers can print in a size of their choosing.

Retailers are encouraged to promote the website using the QR code and the poster in their own development of impatiens alternatives material. For more information, visit http://www.msue.msu.edu. B Kristin Getter, Michigan State University Extension Department of Horticulture Tom Dudek, Michigan State University Extension Figure 1. A QR code that consumers can scan with their smartphones using any QR Reader application, and will take them to the MSU Extension mobile-optimized impatiens alternatives website.

Figure 2. Poster designed for retailers.

BuckeyeGardening.com recently got a makeover. Did you know that, as an ONLA member, you can cross-post the content from this website to your Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Houzz pages?

It’s a great short-cut to posting top-quality content and serves as another example of how ONLA provides business-growing services to Ohio members.

How? “Share” content directly from any article posted on BuckeyeGardening.com (there’s a widget, just click it!). Or, “share” from posts made by the ONLA Facebook page (www.facebook.com/onlaconnect).

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Learn From the Best

Get the Gears Turning Toward Success

Jim Searcy Hyde Park Landscaping, Inc. ONLA President jim@hydeparklandscaping.com

“I have learned so much from my mistakes, I can’t wait to make a whole bunch more!” This noted axiom was part of several that were expressed around the table of current and former business leaders Tuesday, February 12 at the 2013 ONLA committee meetings. When I realized I was in the company of a dozen successful CEO’s and other leaders of the Nursery and Landscape industry in Ohio, I took the opportunity while sitting with this particular committee to ask those in the room to relate one or two aspects of managing a successful business that they believe have been instrumental in business success. The phrases that were stated all have value and I would like to share them with you this month.

Trust your instincts This is one of many very good thoughts that is valuable and should be revisited often. Most of you, if you are like me, can recall times when your initial reaction to a situation was based on instincts. Then we analyzed, worried, thought of all the possible scenarios of a decision or an action, and acted. When I did not follow my instincts and the results were not desirable, it was often easy to look back and realize the result would

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have been better if I had believed in my instincts. There is no guarantee that your instincts will be right all the time, but they should certainly be a big part of the equation when problem solving.

Be a lifelong learner There was a consensus in the room that reading and learning is not an aspect of life that should stop at the door of the schoolhouse when you graduate. We all know there are valuable lessons learned just living lives, making good on obligations, and being a productive member of a family and a community. Beyond that daily life experience, is an opportunity to read and expand the amount of information available to you as you make business decisions that affect you and others with whom you are associated. There are many good avenues to pursue in finding excellent books on all types of subjects.

Make it a goal to be a lifelong learner.

We have always done it that way The advice that came from my mentors this day was run and hide when someone gives this response. Businesses and organizations often evaluate actions, plans, programs, etc. How many times have you onla.org

heard the question “Why do we do this in this manner or on this schedule?” If the answer is the one leading this paragraph, get on your big boy or girl reevaluating pants. You have work to do. The manner in which you are conducting the program in question may not need to change, but it does need to be evaluated. Do not accept “We have always done this” as an acceptable answer.

Communicate with your team & Stay in touch with the people on the ground These two axioms are interrelated.

It is easy if you are a manager or department head to lose touch with the activities in the field. This is a trap that should be avoided if you want to see your organization or business grow. There are dozens of methods to gain information from the field that should be utilized. You will find the

one that works best if you are open to ideas and suggestions from many different viewpoints. The different ways of looking at situations that can come from many different sources, can be valuable tools to making excellent decisions that will impact your business.

Stress to team members who make financial decisions for the company to treat the company’s resources as if they were theirs.” If you have employees or associates who make purchasing, marketing, or other monetary decisions for the company, evaluate them and remind them often that these resources should be treated as if they were their own resources.

There is no doubt that it is easier to spend someone else’s money than your own hard earned dollars. Be sure the employees trusted with this responsibility understand that their decisions affect the financial health of the company, and subsequently the future of coworkers as well as their own future with the company. Get ahead of it. This aspect of business

philosophy could also be phrased as pro-actively managing the affairs of the business. A leader is not as successful when reacting to today’s problems as he/she is when planning for tomorrow. For example, when we are in the super busy spring season that is upon us, it is very easy to be caught up in day to day issues. Those are the times when leaders are thinking of the slower summer months and how to make those future times as productive as possible.

Utilize a living, breathing document for short term and long term planning It has become more difficult and intense over the last many years to keep up with business strategies and plans. Many of today’s leaders are receiving daily reports from their staff’s showing the current status of predetermined information. Most please see page 8

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Learn From the Best continued from page 7 firms have a production phase and a marketing phase of the operation. These daily (or weekly) reports are designed to give the decision makers in the company up to date information which helps keep them on track if utilized properly. You will find the formula and format that works for you if you look in all the places that affect your business.

Value and pursue involvement in trade organizations There was consensus among the group that the value gained from associations with others in your field, far outweighs the cost. When you and members of your team are learning of ways to improve your operations, there can be no better usage of time and resources. If this seems to be a plug for the ONLA then I plead guilty.

I do not apologize however for the commercial because I know of the value you can realize from this and other professional associations.

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Pursue and continue one-on-one relationship selling This business success tool is one of my favorites. We know businesses depend on sales. The way I like to relate this concept is to remind you of a television commercial that played several years ago. The CEO of the firm in the commercial was telling his sales staff they had been “fired� that morning by their top account. His take on the situation was that they had been emailing, faxing, and in many other ways communicating with their clients, but not getting out for face to face meeting. The commercial was for an airline so he then handed out the plane tickets to the sales force and told them to go see their clients.

The CEO then informed them he was going to see the client who had fired them that day. I remembered that commercial because I believe in the value of relationship selling. The most productive way to grow your business is to know your clients.

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Captions (clockwise, from left): An Owens Community College student competes in Arboriculture Techniques; Teams race against the clock in Hardscape Installation; A student from Cincinnati State attempts to pick a soccer ball off a pylon in the Tractor Loader Backhoe Operation competition.

Kevin Thompson ONLA Executive Director kevinthompson@onla.org

I’m writing this upon my return from PLANET’s Student Career Days, a national collegiate landscape competition, at Auburn University in Alabama. Having witnessed this event for the first time, my confidence in the future workforce for the landscape industry has once again been invigorated.

This is no small competition. More than 800 students from 60 schools across the country competed against one another for three days in a wide range of training and

competitive events, ranging from Sales Presentations and Computer Aided Design, to Skid Steer Operations and Plant Identification.

This was the 37th annual PLANET Student Career Days. As a neophyte I wasn’t sure what to expect.

But once I found a few familiar faces and settled into my new surroundings, I was better able to get a handle on all that was going on. This was a little difficult at first, because Auburn is a fairly large university and activities

were spread all over campus.

I should add how impressed I was with the campus and its welcoming atmosphere - so much that I even felt comfortable wearing my OSU Buckeyes apparel (ignoring the warnings of my SEC friends!)

Honestly, at first I was a little skeptical about attending. But once I got there, I could easily understand why others had urged me to go.

I could appreciate why so many people make this an annual “must-attend” event. please see page 10

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ONLA Members On The Grow!

The ONLA would like to extend “Congratulations” to the following companies that experienced growth in the last year! They have reported to us on their ONLA membership renewal form that they have moved to a higher dues category (based on the gross dollar volume of all sales for the previous fiscal year.)

New Category 1 Members: Canton Road Garden Center, Inc. Akron, Ohio Davis Tree Farm & Nursery, Inc. Valley City, Ohio

McCullough’s Landscape & Nursery, LLC Johnstown, Ohio Thomson’s Landscaping Marietta, Ohio WinnScapes, Inc. Gahanna, Ohio New Category 2 Members: Best Hoovler McTeague Gahanna, Ohio Green Valley Seed Canfield, Ohio Jenkins Maintenance Co., Inc. Medina, Ohio

DTR Associates, Inc. Aurora, Ohio

Meyer’s Garden Center & Landscaping, Inc. Fairfield, Ohio

John K. Loehner Co. Inc. Carroll, Ohio

My Lawn & Landscape, Inc. Spring Valley, Ohio

Kendrick & O’Dell Landscaping, Inc. Cold Spring, Kentucky

Phillips Land Improvement Center Beavercreek, Ohio

LCN Holdings Inc. Perry, Ohio

New Category 3 Members: Essential Landscaping & Irrigation Miamisburg, Ohio

Paramount Lawn Service, Inc. Loveland, Ohio Penn-Ohio Wholesale Painesville, Ohio Trappers Enterprises, Inc. Upper Arlington, Ohio Wade Gardens Landscaping Mansfield, Ohio West Fairfield, Inc. Amanda, Ohio New Category 4 Members: Benanzer Nursery, Inc. St., Henry, Ohio Bob Meyer Landscape Service Cincinnati, Ohio Builderscape, Inc. Plain City, Ohio D & D Maintenance Medina, Ohio Daniel’s Landscaping Plain City, Ohio Dave Purdy Landscape Services, Inc. Plain City, Ohio

Devore’s Land & Water Gardens Inc. Hamilton, Ohio Cianciolo Designscape, Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio Eagle Ridge Nursery Gambier, Ohio Florimar, Inc. Georgetown, Ohio Galehouse Tree Farms Doylestown, Ohio Huss Nursery and Landscaping LLC Genoa, OH

MPM Landmark Concord, Ohio Northside Tree Farm Zanesville, Ohio Northwood Gardens Landscape Design & Construction, LLC St. Marys, Ohio Oberson’s Nursery & Landscaping Fairfield, Ohio Ohio Landscaping Corporation Caledonia, Ohio P.V.P Industries North Bloomfield, Ohio

Larry Lang Landscaping, Inc. Ravenna, Ohio

Pinnacle Property Maintenance Columbus, Ohio

Len’s Excavating & Landscape Uniontown, Ohio

Sutherland’s Landscaping & Excavating, Inc. Pataskala, Ohio

M & M Land-Design West Chester, Ohio MTC Horticultural Services, LLC Oberlin, Ohio

TD Landscape & Maintenance, LLC Fredericktown, Ohio West Chester Lawn Care, Inc. West Chester, Ohio

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It’s kind of like the Ohio Green Industry Advocacy Day the ONLA hosted in February. Several first-timers told us how much they enjoyed it and look forward to coming back each time. You do it once and you’re hooked! Student Career Days had that same feel.

I went for various reasons, most importantly because there were six teams from Ohio competing. These included Cincinnati State Technical & Community College, Columbus State Community College, Cuyahoga Community College, Ohio State ATI, Owens Community College and Tolles Career & Technical College. The ONLA has great partnerships with all these schools, supports their programs, and provides scholarships to their students.

Furthermore, the ONLA has by far the largest scholarship endowment of any organization invested in PLANET’s

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Academic Excellence Foundation. This endowment will provide scholarships to landscape horticulture students in Ohio for many years to come.

Back to the students and the impression they made upon me. Spring Break had just begun for Auburn students, which helped explain the somewhat bucolic atmosphere. But it was Friday evening, and 800+ students from around the country had converged on this remote college campus. We went to a couple local establishments: “So where are all the students?” I asked.

They were in their rooms preparing for the next day’s competitions, studying the design plans they’d been provided in the day’s briefings. I saw teams practicing, rehearsing, role playing in public spaces. I saw a lot of tension, like students during finals week. They weren’t there to party, they were there

to compete against their peers from other schools. Most had paid their own way.

Saturday, the day for many of the outdoor, hands-on competitions, was electric. Schools cheered on their teams at the Hardscape Installation area. Others cheered at the tree-climbing contest, wood construction, and plant installation. Judges and volunteers and sponsors and industry leaders were everywhere.

Much credit goes to the PLANET staff and many volunteers for organizing such a grand event. Most importantly, though, are the students who bring the industry together at a different college campus every spring. Many of them will one day be leaders in our industry, and the future looks pretty bright! B

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Next Gen Leaders ONLA Next Gen Committee – Who We are and What We Do!

ONLA News to Note At the 2013 ONLA Annual Meeting, the membership of the association approved by affirmative vote a change to the bylaws that combines two existing membership categories into a single category. The proposed change was located under section 3: Membership, which defined Individual Pesticide Applicators (section 3.2) and Individual Members (section 3.3).

The board of directors recommended combining the two membership categories to create the new Professional Individual category. The change in membership categories went into effect on January 16, 2013. The new membership category is defined as follows: 3.2 Professional Individual. (a) Eligibility: Professional Individual membership shall be open to (a) any person currently engaged in plant maintenance and/or turf-grass and is certified by the Division of Plant Industry of the State of Ohio as a “Commercial Applicator” or “Limited Commercial Applicator” as stated in categories 6 and 8 of the Pesticide Regulation Section; or (b) shall be open to any person currently employed by a firm holding active membership in the Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association; or (c) shall be open to any person currently employed full time by a firm/organization not directly engaged in the green goods industry, but employed in a capacity of providing green goods related services, i.e., landscaping, grounds maintenance, etc.

(An applicant meeting the criteria for active membership as defined in Article III, Section A cannot apply for Professional Individual.) (b) Rights of Professional Individual: Professional Individuals shall be entitled to the benefits of membership except the right to vote and to hold elective office within the corporation.

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ONLA’s Next Generation committee was created as an Ad Hoc committee in 2010 and I was honored and excited to be asked by ONLA to serve as the Chairperson for the committee.

Then I was thrilled when the association voted the committee into a permanent committee in 2011! Although most of us would be considered “young” compared to our peers, the Next Gen committee is actually made up of green industry professionals of all ages.

New Members The following firms and individuals have been approved for ONLA membership, pending the completion of the application process, which includes requesting comments from the current ONLA membership regarding the qualifications and/or dues classifications of applicants within three weeks following receipt of this issue of The Buckeye.

The following companies are applying for ACTIVE membership: BioSource 869 U.S. Route 68 South, Xenia, OH 45385 Nathan Anderson, Category 4 Black Rock Landscape Construction LLC 3407 Piatt Road, Delaware, OH 43015 Phil Mark Walder, Category 5

We consider the “Next Generation,” anyone who is new to the industry. In the past two years our committee has successfully helped the ONLA staff develop the Green Industry Career Exploration Conference and the Young Professional Leadership Summit at CENTS. Our committee is the communication point between elementary school age, college age, and professionals just starting out in the industry.

Execu-Lawn 1696 Stonewall Drive, Newark, OH 43055 Bob Yost, Category 5

We focus on how to present the green industry as a viable career choice to all. If you know someone who just entered the industry, or if you have an interest to help serve this demographic, the ONLA’s Next Gen committee is the right spot for you! Please contact an ONLA staff member today for more information.

Landscapes by Terra, Inc. 7485 Hyland Croy Road, Plain City, OH 43064 Jeff Stroupe, Category 5

If you aren’t ready to join the committee, but are looking for some ways to connect with other “Next Gen” green industry professionals, ONLA’s Facebook page is also a great place to go. For more information, go to www.onla.org or www.facebook.com/onlaconnect. B Emily Showalter ONLA Next Gen Committee Chair emilys@willowaynurseries.com

Go Natural Landscaping 1225 Baker St, Toledo, OH 43608 Walter Mattox, Category 1 Highpoint Lawn Service 1337 Commerce Drive Unit 4, Stow, OH 44224 John Prusa, Category 5

Lilly Lawn and Landscape LLC 7742 Windy Hill Drive, Kent, OH 44240 Scott Lilly, Category 4 SunnyScapes Cuts and Lawn Care 7128 Nevis Drive, Columbus, OH 43235 Corey Vaughn, Category 5 The David Vogel Landscape Co. 4637 Tealtown Road, Batavia, OH 45103 Lisa Vogel, Category 5 The following people are applying for Professional Individual membership: Robert W. Carey, Society of Transfiguration Joe Cochran, Secrest Arboretum Karlyn Green, Fairlawn Country Club Mary E. Visco, Toledo Botanical Gardens The following people are applying for Affiliate membership: Susan Eble Trusty, University of Cincinnati Jen Emerick, The Ohio State University Deb Holdren, The Ohio State University Michele Stanton, University of Cincinnati Lori Swihart, C-TEC Career & Tech Center Adult Ed The following person is applying for Student membership: Gary Mildenstein, Hocking College

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Consumer profiles are constantly changing. A few years ago we focused on customer profiles based on age.

The focus was on Gen Y, Gen X, Jones Generation, Baby Boomers and Greying Tigers. These demographic groups are still important, but we also need to consider how we market to new and emerging consumer segments, including those who may be mobile, multicultural, or Ecofriendly.

One of the fastest growing is the Eco-Friendly segment. These consumers are still looking for value, but are prepared to put sustainability above price.

One of the big issues urban communities will challenge over the coming months and years is Biodiversity. This is being recognized with legislation coming in around the world to stop agricultural land and natural areas being used for urban development. This will change the way cities look and will make consumers more aware of the possible changes. For example, Paris, France plans to double the amount of green roof space by 2020.

Not all consumers are interested in sustainability and saving the planet, but it continues to be a growing segment of the community and a sector we all need to be aware of.

Over recent years we have seen major growth in farmers markets and ethical retailing. It is predicted that we continue to see this pattern over the next few years.

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Having said that, we have seen growth in organic food retailing, while the sales of organic food has stagnated and I believe this has occurred for a number of reasons.

One is that the consumer is more price conscious and organic food is perceived as expensive. Organic advocates have continued to buy, but many consumers cannot justify the extra cost. Secondly, in my experience consumers are confused by the term “organic”. In my own community a lot of consumers do not know the difference between “organic” and “local.”

LOCAL IS IMPORTANT Consumers are starting to search for products made in their own country and preferably within their own communities. This means there is an opportunity for the promotion of local products. An example of this is “Good Eggs” a website in San Francisco that promotes local growers. The consumer can search out a local farmer and find where their produce is sold.

You cannot get more local than manufacturing and growing in your own community. Community Gardens are appearing around the world and some supermarkets are considering growing some produce at the store. This is easy with produce such as lettuce.

This means you have to be “clicks and bricks” savvy (a business model integrating online and offline marketing) when communicating with the new age local consumer. onla.org

NO WASTE IS IMPORTANT

NOSTALGIA IS IMPORANT

Apart from being local, the consumer is looking for less waste. This includes packaging and recycling of so called “waste product”.

On the grand scale we are seeing this theme coming through with sculpture parks being created in Nepal from scrap brought down from Mount Everest and recycling of washing machines being used to create art at the 2012 Olympic Park in London. At a more local level, recyclable garden containers are starting to replace the traditional plastic pot around the world.

The “Green” consumer often wants to reflect back to earlier days when they feel they lived in a happier more harmonious society when life was more harmonious and “values” were more important. Whether they were or not is not the role of this article. The fact is that nostalgia sells at present.

The very successful adverts from John Lewis department store in the UK at the end of 2012 focused on nostalgia and old fashioned values.

This is a marketing opportunity for any retailer. What products do you sell that reflect on nostalgia and how can you use them to generate sales. Even your sales team could get involved and play the nostalgia game and provide “good old fashioned service” Something most customers now think is lacking. B

TELLING THE STORY IS IMPORTANT One of the most important issues is telling the story.

Suppliers and retailers need to combine forces to tell the story from start to finish. The “Green” consumer wants to know the story and expects the retailer to tell it. This can be explained in numerous ways. It can be on packaging, via links to YouTube or a mural in the store that explains the process. onla.org

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One of the stores we visited, while in Georgetown was “Appalachian Spring.” It is an amazing store with lots of things, including jewelry. Lynn bought a wonderful necklace, along with earrings that matched. While looking at the jewelry, she saw another necklace she really liked, but didn’t buy it. I saw an opportunity for an upcoming birthday gift! When we returned home, I called the Appalachian Springs store, and ordered it. Lynn was very excited when she opened her present a couple of months later.

I decided to try Appalachian Springs again for a Christmas present. This time, I was able to make a connection with Dawn Hill, the jewelry buyer for Appalachian Springs. I was looking for a necklace with matching earrings and bracelet. Dawn made a couple of suggestions, and I chose one. Once again, Lynn was thrilled with the set.

Unfortunately, the bracelet had a piece that broke. I called the store and asked what could be done. The woman that I talked to was very helpful, and sent me an e-mail with a return label, postage paid by Appalachian Spring.

She promised me a replacement as soon as she received the broken bracelet. To my surprise, a short time later, I received a copy of an e-mail that Dawn sent to someone at Appalachian Springs.

She explained in the e-mail that the bracelet was for a loyal customer and she would like to send a new one right away, instead of waiting for the broken bracelet to return to the warehouse.

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Dawn really delivered a “Shazzam.” Instead of having to wait until the broken bracelet arrived back in their warehouse, she was proactive and took that extra step to make me feel very special!

Needless to say, I have ordered other items from Appalachian Spring. Dawn went out of her way to make me feel important, and earned my loyalty for many birthdays to come.

I would like to challenge your business to take the “Shazzam Challenge.” What has your team done to make your customers feel extra special lately? B Mark Mayberry www.markmayberry.com (815) 209-1381

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SAFETY FIRST The United States has worked with a number of other countries to develop a better system to communicate the handling instructions for hazardous chemicals. Currently each country has a separate system and this has caused a great deal of confusion about the degree of hazard that chemicals can possess.

The new system is called the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) and it is intended to ensure that the handling instructions are clear and easily understood worldwide. Many countries are already using the system or the system is in the process of being phased in.

The new system will result in a change in our current labeling and Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) formats. It will create a universal system and to allow for a smoother transition, the United States is rolling out the new system over several years. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has established several action dates:

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December 1, 2013 – By this date all employers must train employees in the new label elements and new MSDS format.

June 1, 2015 – By this date all chemical manufacturers, importers, distributors and employers must comply with all GHS based changes to the OSHA standard.

December 1, 2015 – By this date all manufacturers and distributers must discontinue shipping any chemical products that do not have the new GHS label.

June 1, 2016 – By this date employers must update alternative workplace labeling and hazard communication programs as necessary and provide additional employee training for newly identified physical and health hazards.

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The GHS standardizes two critical areas of Hazard Communication: 1. How hazardous chemicals are classified 2. Methods used to communicate those hazards There will now be 3 types of hazards: physical, health and environmental. There are 16 physical hazards, ten health hazards and two environmental. The GHS system will now standardize container labels. Currently there are several different labeling methods used to communicate a chemical’s hazard. The new labels will contain the following: • Symbols – This will also be called a hazard pictogram. This is a graphic representation of the types of hazards present. There will be nine different pictograms. These will include: Oxidizers, flammables, explosives, acute toxicity, corrosives, gases under pressure, carcinogen, environmental toxicity, and irritant.

• Signal Words – These are the second element on a GHS label, and are used to indicate a hazard’s relative level of severity. Signal words are either “danger” or “warning”. Danger is used for more severe hazards. Some lower level hazards do not use any signal words.

• Hazard Statements – The purpose of these are to briefly describe the nature and degree of the hazard.

In addition to the above three standardized elements the following are also included: • Precautionary Statement – Recommended measures that should be taken to minimize or prevent adverse effects from the hazardous chemical.

Precautionary Statements cover four areas: Prevention, response (in case of an accidental spillage or exposure), storage and disposal • Product identifier – It is the chemical’s identity and proper shipping name. This should match the product identifier found on the Safety Data Sheet Supplier Identification. This is the name, address and telephone number of the manufacturer or supplier of the substance or mixture.

• Supplemental Information – This information is not specified or required by the GHS. It could include safety procedures and safe handling.

MSDS will now become Safety Data Sheets (SDS).

This will require all manufacturers to incorporate one standardized format. Currently there are many different formats and different levels of information provided. The new SDS will have 16 sections which will be universal.

These will include the following: 1. Identification of substance and supplier 2. Hazard Identification 3. Composition/information on ingredients 4. First Aid onla.org

5. Firefighting Measures 6. Accidental Release 7. Handling and Storage 8. Exposure Control/Personal Protection 9. Physical and Chemical Properties 10. Stability and Reactivity 11. Toxicological Information 12. Ecological Information 13. Disposal Considerations 14. Transport Information 15. Regulatory Information 16. Other Information The changes in the SDS will be beneficial and will eliminate a lot of confusion. The change in the labels will be more difficult as the current labeling system will still be in place during the transition period. Employees will need to understand the differences.

Remember December 1, 2013 is the date employees will need to be trained.

For help with your employee training, please contact Gary Hanson at 330-854-4577. B Gary Hanson ONLA Safety Consultant American Safety & Health Management Consultants ashmci@aol.com

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regulatory file Understanding regulatory compliance issues can be a difficult exercise for many business owners. This article provides a useful synopsis of two current regulatory issues that impact Ohio green industry companies.

Limited Backflow Certification for Irrigation Contractors The latest regulatory news for Ohio’s green industry focuses on contractors providing lawn irrigation services.

A change from the Ohio Department of Commerce raises the level of service lawn irrigation contractors can provide their clients. After seven years of dialogue, ODOC is allowing limited backflow certification for irrigation contractors.

What does this mean for the green industry?

Simply stated, green industry contractors, upon completion of the certification process, can provide backflow testing for lawn irrigation systems. To become certified, contractors must: • file an application with the Ohio Department of Commerce, • sign a codicil specifying they will adhere to only providing backflow testing for lawn irrigation systems, • submit a $100 application and testing fee, • successfully complete a three-day State-approved backflow certification course, • pass the backflow certification exam, • and submit a $75 “three-year certification fee” to the Ohio Department of Commerce.

Recertification requirements include obtaining appropriate education credits.

“This is great news for Ohio Irrigation Contractors,” said ONLA member J. C. Wheaton, Centerville Landscaping, Inc., and President of the Ohio Irrigation Association. “This gives contractors a brand new revenue source, the opportunity to obtain a professional certification, and increases awareness of irrigation contractor skills and professionalism.”

Kevin Thompson, ONLA Executive Director, adds, “No longer will contractors have to refer clients to plumbers to complete a task that is an integral component of quality irrigation system installation and maintenance.”

Questions about the program may be directed to: Ralph Reeb, Backflow Administrator for the State of Ohio (614) 644-3153. Download the application and information

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about State-approved, on-going training opportunities from the ONLA website’s “News & Events” page at www.onla.org.

Updated Underground Damage Prevention Law On December 20, 2012, during the “lame duck” session, Gov. Kasich signed House Bill 458 into law.

The new legislation, which becomes effective March 27, 2013, was influenced by the recommendations of the Ohio Underground Damage Prevention Coalition (OUDPC), of which ONLA was an active participant.

The new legislation makes changes to Ohio Revised Code 3781.25-32 and 153.64.

What does this mean for the green industry?

While the full text of the law can be downloaded and reviewed at www.onla.org, there are five primary areas that may impact green industry businesses in Ohio.

1. Pre-Marking in White: The excavator is required to pre-mark the approximate excavation location in WHITE. (Excavators should pre-mark sites prior to contacting a protection service.) There are four exemptions to this rule.

• If the utility can determine the precise excavation site (location, size, etc.) by referring to the notification provided by the protection service.

• If the excavator and the affected utility have had an on-site, preconstruction meeting for the purpose of pre-marking the site.

• If the excavation replaces a pole that is within five feet of the location of an existing pole.

• If pre-marking by the excavator interferes with pedestrian or vehicle traffic control.

2. Universal Marking Standards: Previously, not all underground facilities were marked in consistent manners or colors and variations existed from municipality to municipality. Moving forward, all underground facilities must be marked in accordance to the Ohio universal marking standards on record with the Ohio utilities protection service.

3. Positive Response: To close a communications gap, the new legislation implements an automated system by which a utility communicates to the excavator the presence or absence of conflict between the existing underground facilities and the proposed excavation site. (The utility must respond to the one-call center; the excavator can request an update or check status online.)

4. Limited Basis Participants: Previously, Ohio’s one-call system was not truly “one-call.” The center would contact each “fully-participatory utility,” and give a list of the “limited basis utility participants” to the excavator to contact directly. onla.org

Beginning July 1, 2013, each protection service shall notify limited basis participants, rather than refer their info to the excavator.

5. Excavator Training: Excavators are required to obtain training in the protection of underground utility facilities. (This requirement is vague and the State acknowledges it is working on language to better define parameters.)

“Preventing unintentional damage to underground utilities should be top-of-mind to green industry contractors engaged in excavation,” states Jennifer Gray, associate director for the Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association.

“The changes to the law were sought to simplify and make uniform the processes involved with underground utility markings, create a true state-wide ‘one-call’ system, and facilitate better communication and cooperation between contractors, utilities, and property owners.”

Myriad issues and concerns from all key stakeholders in the OUDPC may not have created a plan that satisfied all parties. However, contractors, utilities, and property owners might all agree that better collaboration negating the need to determine who is responsible for what damage is a worthy goal.

Download FAQs, factsheets, and more information about this issue from the ONLA website’s “News & Events” page at www.onla.org. Questions about OUPS may be directed to www.oups.org. B

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Buckeye Yard and Garden Line (BYGL) and Getting Your Green Industry Fix Webinars Now that April is here, as the fatigue, the bone-weariness, the utter exhaustion of a thirtyone day March is behind us, and the growing season hits its big-time stride, it is time for the BYGL newsletter. Furthermore, if April comes, can May be far behind, as in May shall come the monthly ONLA-OSU Green Industry Fix Webinar series.

BYGL enters its third decade in 2013. This weekly electronic newsletter (bygl.osu.edu) is a timely update of plant and plant problem updates developed by the Ohio State University Extension Nursery Landscape and Turf Team with support from the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association. Each Tuesday from April through October we convene by phone and webinar to discuss the latest beetles, blights and botany for nurseries and landscapes. By Thursday of that week our discussions are distilled into short updates, published on the web (bygl.osu.edu) with accompanying photos and links, or if you would like text only, subscribe by contacting fischnich.1@osu.edu.

We compile a quite extensive BYGL Survey each year. Highlights of the 2012 survey (the complete report is available upon request) include: a.) 355,419 People receive all or parts of BYGL weekly b.) 2,552,070 People receive BYGL-generated information weekly c.) $455, 345 is saved by BYGL recipients from BYGL information d.) $623,654 increased profits from BYGL information e.) 65% of respondents reduced pesticide use due to BYGL information

Green Industry Fix Webinars These Webinars were started in 2012 and will occur on the second Wednesday of the month from May-October in 2013. In addition to attending in-time on-line (when you can ask questions), the webinars are also available for team and crew education sessions at your convenience from the ONLA website. Ohio State

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University Extension Nursery Landscape and Turf Team members will conduct the 50 minute sessions on pest and disease updates, plant material and selection issues, answering current questions from the industry and discussing business-oriented issues.

So what does a typical BYGL entry look like? Here is an example from late 2012 regarding downy mildew of impatiens, a serious pest which really emerged as a significant problem in Ohio last year and promises to remain in our planning this year.

From the September 13, 2012 BYGL: As noted in previous BYGLs, downy mildew of impatiens has reared its ugly head this year in Ohio and Midwest greenhouses and landscapes. Impatiens downy mildew is caused by the plant pathogen, Plasmopara obducens, and causes bedding plant Impatiens walleriana plants to defoliate, leaving bare stems which eventually collapse leading to plants that may be unmarketable for the producer and unacceptable for the landscape owner. New Guinea impatiens (Impatiens x hawkeri) and SunPatiens hybrids have not been affected, nor are other ornamental onla.org

pathogen focus on a different type of spore. As Dr. Mary Hausbeck of Michigan State University notes, “Another type of spore [of Impatiens obducens] that is especially long-lasting may form in the stems of infected impatiens. These long-lasting spores are not readily visible without the aid of a microscope. If the impatiens plants with this long-lasting spore are not promptly removed from the garden and disposed of, the garden soil may become contaminated with the downy mildew pathogen. Once the garden soil is contaminated with these long lasting downy mildew spores, it may become difficult to successfully grow impatiens in the same location in another year.”

As noted in a web site of the American Floral Endowment, “If a landscape planting of impatiens

has had downy mildew either the previous year or earlier the same season, it is prudent to replant with appropriate alternatives. New Guinea impatiens can be used successfully in beds where Impatiens walleriana previously developed downy mildew; also consider begonias, coleus or other alternative plants.”

For the latest and regularly updated information on downy mildew of impatiens, including information on preventive (there is no cure) fungicide programs in greenhouses for next year’s crop, check out downy mildew of impatiens and www.endowment.org.

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or vegetable plants, by this downy mildew pathogen.

One update is that we are also now concerned that the pathogen will be able to survive over the winter as resistant oospores in plant debris in the landscape. Looking at the biology of this pathogen, Plasmopara obducens and other downy mildew organisms are Oomycetes and have zoospores that thrive in wet conditions and move readily in water. Spore-bearing sporangia are tree-like structures that are full of swimming zoospores that emerge through pores on the undersides of impatiens leaves. This is the downy growth that you see en masse, and spores spread easily in a planting.

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Don’t forget Arbor Day for the OSU Wooster Campus is at the OARDC, Secrest Arboretum, ATI, and OSU Extension on April 20 from 9:00 – 12:00 with the Tale of Five Oaks plantings, tree walk and announcement of OSU’s second Tree Campus USA certification (check out the program on the secrest.osu.edu website or contact Jim Chatfield.

An Arbor Day program will also be held on the Oval at the OSU Main Campus at 10:00 on April 26, 2013. Main Campus was OSU’s First Tree Campus USA site. As landscaper and OSU and Baltimore Raven football player Justin Boren noted, “OSU obtaining Tree Campus USA status is like the football team winning the national championship!”

For more details on Main Campus Arbor Day festivities Contact Mary Maloney at Maloney.23@osu.edu. B Jim Chatfield, Curtis Young and Joe Boggs Chatfield.1@osu.edu Ohio State University Extension Nursery Landscape and Turf Team

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(all photos by Jim Chatfield unless otherwise stated) Previous page: Crablandia trial planting at Secrest Arboretum.

This page: 1 Sign of the downy mildew impatiens pathogen on underside of leaf. Rogue plant immediately 2 Cedar apple rust fungal gall on juniper in March 3 Cedar apple rust fungal gall in juniper in late April once spores emerge 4 Ambrosia beetle frass toothpicks that are tell-tale for this pest (Photo by Joe Boggs) 5 The tiny size of ambrosia beetles (Photo by Joe Boggs) 6 Even recipes are in BYGL: Mike Lee’s Nearly World Famous Crabapple Butter as interpreted by Laura Chatfield 7 Bottlebrush buckeye is a great spreading shrub with great June flowers for Ohio landscapes 8 Wildlife damage and control including this deer damage is also discussed in BYGL 9 Meatballs with corneliancherry dogwood glaze and Dolgo crabapple butter barbeque sauce 10 If maple sap flows in February and March at Secrest can the growing season for maples be far behind?

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Join the Nursery Growers of Lake County Ohio and the Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association for the 2013 Ohio Grower Bus Tour, Monday, August 12, 2013. Here are some key reasons why you should attend this event: AgriBUSiness – As an agribusiness professional, your mission-critical knowledge encompasses more than just business acumen. Attending this bus tour gives you the opportunity to find out new methods to conquer those issues that give you heartburn.

RoBUSt – Whether it’s marketing, technology, or human resources, you’re bound to find common ground with your peers on this tour. Increase your effectiveness as a leader by brainstorming with top performers.

OverBUSy – In a business culture that thrives on a narrow window of opportunity, we know your time is limited. Take advantage of the networking opportunities you’ll have with fellow bus tourists!

BlockBUSter – A full schedule of stops at a mix of facilities: greenhouses, garden centers, and nurseries.

Different products, different styles, different scale, different marketing, means you’ll drive away from this tour with new ideas and new enthusiasm.

Late Registration: $25/person after July 26 Last day to register: August 2

This is THE tour for owners, managers, crew leaders, garden center managers, garden center staff, production managers, growers., greenhouse managers...

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REGISTRANTS: Complete the following information and return this form, to the NGLCO office (address below).

Company Name: ______________________________________________ Names of Attendees: __________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Address:_____________________________________________________

Here’s a tentative schedule of the day: 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (bus departs at 9!)

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Art Form Nursery tour

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For those out-of-town tourists attending the NGLCO Field Day on August 13th, special rates are available at two hotels on Rt 306 in Willoughby: Red Roof Inn (866-356-6852) and Days Inn (440-946-0500).

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PAYMENT INFORMATION: Number of Attendees ______ x $_____ (either $20 or $25) = ___________ Return this form, along with check payable to NGLCO, P.O. Box 555, Perry, OH 44081. Ph: (440) 241-7969.

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OSU Rebrands Hort Degrees; Transitions to Semesters “Time and change will surely show how firm they friendship…OHIO!” The path from quarters to semesters at The Ohio State University (OSU) began several years ago and was no easy path. In June of 2009, the University Senate approved the semester calendar with its intending transfer to semesters scheduled to begin in autumn 2012. After a comprehensive review of the calendar, the decision was made to begin semesters in summer 2012. (It would have been quite challenging to have summer graduation happen after the start of autumn semester, and so a minor adjustment was made.) It was also during this time that the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science began planning to officially integrate the idea of “sustainability” into our majors. The result was the introduction of a new

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Left and Center: Dr. Jourdan instructs plant ID classes.

Right: Dr. Pasian reviews student landscape designs.

Each of the four specializations (Agronomy, Horticulture, Landscape Design and Management and Turfgrass Science) within Sustainable Plant Systems plays a special role in providing the world with plants for food, pleasure and recreation, and environmental improvement.

Agronomy is the application of plant, soil and environmental principles to crops and cropping systems to increase their efficiency in converting light and supplemental resources into food, feed, fiber or fuel. Horticulture professionals grow vegetables, fruits, and ornamental plants. They must know the characteristics of many plant species and how they grow, develop, reproduce, and adapt to different environments. Landscape Design and Management involves creating as well as managing the landscapes for commercial, civic, and residential use.

Turfgrass Science students study the performance of various grass species for sports and amenity turf.

The transition to semesters has gone smoothly for the students and faculty. The entire university made the following pledge to undergraduate students: While planning and implementing its conversion from quarters to semesters, The Ohio State University was committed to protecting the academic progress of students.

6. Multiple hours have been devoted by dedicated advisors to ensure the best possible outcomes.

Faculty and students are adjusting to the schedule change. The adjustment of the major to SPS has been embraced by all the students – a unifying major that allows identification with their specialization.

To find out more about The Ohio State University, College of Food Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, visit www.cfaes.osu.edu. B Regina Vann Hickok ONLA Scholarship & Student Activities Committee Academic Program and Internship Coordinator The Ohio State University vann.5@osu.edu

How Ohio State Protects Students’ Academic Progress: 1. Students completing a quarter-plus-semester degree program will receive approximately the same amount of instruction as under a quarter calendar.

2. Full-time tuition for an academic year under semesters will not cost more than it would have cost under quarters.

3. The change should not adversely affect students’ financial aid.

4. Academic units will continue to provide intentional, purposeful advising.

5. Good planning around a student’s major will be particularly important, and the university will provide that support to students who begin their academic career under quarters and complete it under semesters. onla.org

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The Ohio State University Cultivar Trial: The trial gardens at the Ohio State University have wrapped up the largest of any trial season to date: 750 plant entries representing 25 companies. The theme this summer was undoubtedly dictated by the weather, which was hot and dry. The 2012 trial season saw a significant decrease in field (or in-ground) entries, along with a drastic increase in container entries. The hanging basket trial was the newest addition in 2012, which was introduced on a small scale, with 30 entries.

The OSU Cultivar Trial offers four trial categories: the Field Trial, which includes plants that are planted directly into the ground; Container and Shade Trials, which include plants that are grown in plastic containers in full sun or shade; and the Hanging Basket Trial, which includes plants that are grown in plastic baskets. Details on growing conditions for each trial category can be found below.

The Ohio Industry Open House, held annually to promote the trials, takes place in August. Traditionally, this event is attended by local growers, but was expanded in 2012 to include landscaper contractors as

well. The trial plants are also promoted through press releases, articles in trade publications, and presentations to interested groups.

Trial Plants Seeded entries were received in January and sown by Darby Creek Growers in Orient, Ohio; scheduled to finish on week 14, as plug size 288. Vegetative entries were received as rooted cuttings on week 14. All young plants were transplanted into Dillen 4” square plastic pots. Transplanting was completed by week 17, and plants were grown on in the departmental greenhouses (on-site). All plants were treated once with PlantShield, and grown according to commercial production standards.

Field Trial Planting Planting of cool-tolerant crops (Petunia, Osteospermum, Argyranthemum, Lobelia) took place on May 1 (week 18). The remainder of field entry plants was planted between May 15 and May 22 (weeks 19-20).

Nine plants per cultivar were planted with adequate space for growth.

2012 Season Summary Plants were watered until establishment, and then provided with minimum 0.25” of irrigation per week.

Plants were fertilized with 200ppm N, from a 20-10-20 water soluble fertilizer, on weeks 21, 26, and 31.

Beds were mulched with doubleprocessed hardwood to a depth of 2”, and hand-weeded as necessary.

Container & Shade Trial Planting Planting took place between May 17 and May 24 (weeks 20-21) into 12” plastic pots, with one plant per container. Plants were grown in MetroMix 380 Mix (with the exception of Begonia and Calibrachoa, which were grown in Sunshine #1/LC1 Mix). Plants were hand-watered until establishment, and then placed on automatic drip irrigation. Osmocote Plus 15-9-12 was incorporated at the time of planting. A combination of 14 grams (0.5 ounces) 5-6 month and 7 grams (0.25 ounces) 8-9 month formulations were used in each container. Plants received a supplemental feeding of 200ppm N, from a 20-10-20 water soluble fertilizer, on week 28.

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(0.25 ounces) 8-9 month formulations were used in each basket. Plants received a supplemental feeding of 200ppm N, from a 20-10-20 water soluble fertilizer, on week 28.

Weather Summer weather conditions in central Ohio are typically highly variable, and 2012 was no different. High temperatures were slightly higher than normal, with frequent stretches of higher than normal overnight temperatures. Rainfall was significantly lower than normal through August.

Monthly Averages: Precipitation (in inches)

Evaluations All trial plants were evaluated four times throughout the summer. Evaluations took place weeks 26, 30, 34, and 38. During each of the four evaluation periods, two different types of evaluations were administered: the Grower Eval-

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uation and the Consumer Preference Evaluation. In each type of evaluation, the same rating system was utilized, consisting of a rating scale of 1 through 5, in which 1 is the lowest (or least desirable) score, and 5 is the highest (or most desirable) score.

OSU’s Annual Trial Garden is where YOU can get info on annuals to include in your sales plans. Growers, independent garden center buyers, landscape designers and installers are encouraged to visit and take note of the new varieties being grown and to observe and study the different growth habits, tolerances and visual characteristics of the many different varieties that have been put on display. In addition, 2013’s trial celebrates the Year of the Coreopsis, and attendees will have access to the Ornamental Plant Germplasm Center’s coreopsis displays and research.

A wide variety of annual plant material will be presented so industry professionals can evaluate and note those that have commercial application in Ohio.

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The Ohio State University Department of Horticulture & Crop Science 2001 Fyffe Court Columbus, OH 43210 Schedule of Events 10:00 a.m.: Trials Presentation 10:30 a.m.: Trials Tour (Annuals in ground beds and in containers) 12:00 p.m.: Box Lunch (included with registration) 1:00 - 3:30 p.m.: Classes* *three sessions to be announced; 1 OCNT credit, 1 HSW credit, Landscape Industry Certified credit available; pesticide certification credits pending

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The objective of this evaluation was to assess the performance of each entry, from an aesthetic standpoint. Each entry received a rating in five different categories: flower quantity, flower quality, vegetative vigor, uniformity among the sample, and an overall score. When possible, entries were rated in comparison to like crops (i.e. single-flowered petunias).

Consumer Preference Evaluation The objective of this evaluation was to assess the preference of each entry by consumers in the central Ohio area. Our pool of evaluators consisted of Franklin County Master Gardeners, Chadwick Arboretum volunteers, and Chadwick Arboretum student staff. During each of the four evaluation periods, between 17 and 26 evaluators participated. Evaluators were instructed to give each entry a score of 1 through 5 to indicate their preference for the cultivar (a rating of 1 indicated they did not like the plant at all, while 5 indicated they liked the plant a lot).

Responses were averaged for each evaluation period. Standard deviation was also calculated to indicate whether evaluators generally agreed or disagreed upon the average score.

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Consumer Preference Evaluation Results: Top-Performing Plants Crop Chili Pepper Petunia Petunia Begonia Begonia Caladium Petunia Petunia Caladium Begonia Impatiens (NG) Petunia Petunia Impatiens (NG) Petunia Petunia Chili Pepper Caladium Impatiens (NG) Petunia Impatiens (NG) Salvia Petunia Petunia Petunia Heuchera Zinnia Petunia Petunia Calibrachoa Petunia Coleus

Series Surfinia® Whopper Whopper Surfinia®

Magnum Cascadias Supertunia® Magnum Supertunia® Vista Surfinia®

Magnum Surfinia® Magnum Littletunia Supertunia® Kira UpTown Supertunia® Surfinia® Million Bells® Whispers™

Cultivar Loco Baby Deep Purple White Ray Rose Green Leaf Rose Bronze Leaf White Diamond Wild Plum Purple Vein Ray White Dynasty Gryphon Pink White Bordeaux Hot Pink Fuchsia

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Deep Red Basket of Fire Heart’s Delight Purple Rose Veined Dark Red Amistad™ Merlot Sangria Charm Purple Ray Black Forest Orange Blossom Raspberry Blast Bouquet Denim Trailing Yellow Star Rose Chocolate Covered Cherry

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Note: In lieu of a 1-5 rating, sometimes another number was used: 1000 indicated that all plants in the sample were dead or otherwise unfit for evaluation In the Grower Evaluation, 99 indicated that the category was not applicable. For example, a foliage crop such as caladium would have been given a 99 in the flower quantity and flower quality categories. A 99 would have been given in the uniformity category if all but one plant in a sample was dead.

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We hope to increase the size of our trial once again next year, and continue to include common crops

that are proven performers, as well as lesser-known, unusual crops, so that our trial can benefit a wide variety of users. We plan on expanding the hanging basket trial, as the plants performed exceptionally well and the trial was well-received by visitors. We hope to increase the number of containerized vegetable entries, and plan on adapting the evaluation criteria to better assess the utilitarian benefit of these crops. We plan on continuing our participation in the National Trials Database, so that our data can remain as accessible as possible.

Thank you to all who participated in the 2012 trials and contributed to our largest trial season yet – we are very glad to have completed another successful season, full of strong performers, unusual crops, and all-around beautiful plants. Thank you to our donors who helped to make the trials possible. Thank you to our dedicated and hard-working volunteers, with whom we could not do this without. Special thanks to Dave Snodgrass, Jim Vent, Colleen Brown, and Shan Lin for their outstanding efforts.

For more information and to view all evaluation results, please visit our website: ohiofloriculture.osu. edu, or contact Dr. Claudio Pasian, trial director via pasian.1@osu.edu or Lindsay Pangborn, trial manager via pangborn.9@osu.edu. B onla.org

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New Trends in Landscape Design– Low Maintenance/High Impact In a previous article, I discussed sustainability as an ongoing trend and its many aspects. Here are some other new trends in landscape design..

Low Maintenance But High Impact This trend adds a new twist to the continuing interest in low maintenance landscapes. That new twist focuses on creating high impact in these gardens. How, you may ask, is this being done?

One way is the use of a more diverse plant palette. The English have been designing mixed borders for years but plant hybridizers are making it easier for us by creating dwarf flowering shrubs and disease-resistant roses that can be integrated into perennial gardens or into containers. For instance, the Buddleia Lo and Behold® series that includes ‘Blue Chip’ and the Flutterby Petite™ series only grows twenty-four to thirty inches high and wide. We can also use dwarf shrubs such as Weigela florida ‘Midnight Wine’ or Euonymus fortunei ‘Goldsplash’™ to add foliage color that will last longer than color from most blooms. Dwarf rugosa roses, the Pavement series, the Oso Easy® series, and the Drift® series are long-blooming, diseaseresistant dwarfs, easily incorporated into perennial gardens and the landscape. Be aware, however, that once these roses are

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established, they will need annual pruning to keep them short.

Any of these shrubs can be used as a frame on either side of a path that meanders through a perennial garden.

In the mixed border, I also see more emphasis on the use of architectural conifers and shrubs as well as deciduous trees to provide winter interest along with seedheads and inflorescences of perennials and ornamental grasses.

Vegetables and herbs are also being integrated into gardens, partially as homage to the environment but especially for their beauty. Purple cabbage makes a lovely background for the steel blue stems and bracts of Eryngium planum ‘Blaukappe’ while curly parsley acts as both a textural and color foil for dark foliaged plants like Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’. This fall I visited the garden of Rosalind Creasy, an early proponent of edible landscaping and the author of Edible Landscaping. Her front yard is an amazing sight. She uses vegetables the way most of us use perennials and grasses – for color, texture, and form. New dwarf fruiting shrubs are becoming hot items in the edibles movement. Some of the new introductions are thornless blackberries, very short eighteen to twenty-four inch) blueberries with excellent fall color, and a thornless raspberry called BrazelBerries™ Raspberry Shortcake™.

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Another but opposite aspect of the low maintenance/high impact trend is the minimalist approach, usually favored by landscape architects. It makes sense that the amount of maintenance will be lower when fewer types of plants are used. An example of this type of garden would be a rectangular “room” with walls of hedge.

In front of the hedge walls masses of Acanthus are planted that are then interspersed with tepees of runner beans. As a bonus, growing some of one’s own food contributes to the health of the environment and ensures that the food is being grown organically.

An unusual example of the minimalist approach is the use of Boltonia asteroides as a wall. This four foot tall perennial requires little maintenance but has high impact with its slightly blue foliage and then with its hundreds of tiny white flowers in the fall.

Both approaches highlight the use of plants and art that offer year round interest. A good example is Geranium macrorrhizum. Its blossoms are lovely in May; its seedheads are colorful in June and July; its foliage takes on reddish hues in the fall and winter, and the stems become red during the winter. Assuming that art in the perennial garden is sited so as to be viewed from inside, it too can provide winter interest. The choices vary enormously and are really contingent on the taste of the owner but anything with color, such as a painted or glazed pot, or a metal sculpture that has been painted, are bound to cheer up gray, wintry days.

Designers are continuing to create high impact gardens with colorful foliage plus interesting shapes and textures. Most cutting edge gardens feature bright, bold color schemes that have been greatly influenced by the introduction of tropical

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plants. We are now used to seeing Cordyline, Phormium, Datura, Brugmansia, Canna, Musa, and Ensete but keep on the lookout for all the new Acalypha and Alternanthera or better yet, stroll through the Harry P. Leu Gardens in Orlando (if you happen to be in Florida) for tropicals that we have yet to see on a widespread, commercial basis.

The trend toward using ornamental grasses in gardens continues but the new twist is the extensive use of short, variegated ones like the sedge, Carex ‘Ice Dance’, and Hakone Grass. Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’ has brightened gardens for several years but now there are some new variegated cultivars, such as ‘Naomi’, ‘Nicholas’, and ‘Fubuki’, that have better fall color. Most of the dwarf Miscanthus are variegated but now we also have Calamagrostis x a.’Eldorado’ with its gold centered foliage and ‘Overdam’ with its white edge. While Miscanthus need full sun to be at their best, Calamagrostis are more tolerant of partial shade but will lean with less than a half day of sun.

This use of colored foliage is finding new applications in public landscapes as well. At Battery Park, Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’ has been used en masse as a groundcover. This Hakonechloa has green and yellow variegation as does Sedum ‘Autumn Charm’ which looks wonderful when combined with Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’. Although not dwarf, the Weigela cultivar ‘French Lace’ has green and yellow variegation while ‘Suzanne’ has green and white variegation. In her Dublin garden, Helen Dillon has planted Brunnera macrophylla ‘Langtrees’ next to Lamium maculatum ‘White Nancy’. Both have white variegation but in different amounts.

If you peruse perennial and shrub

catalogs, you know that more and more plants with purple foliage are being introduced. Some of the old favorites are Actaea simplex (a.k.a. Cimicifuga ramosa) ‘Atropurpurea’ amd Cotinus ‘Velvet Cloak’ but there are now several new sedums with purplish foliage. Another foliage color that has found great favor is yellow. One section of the Toronto Music Garden is filled with shrubs and perennials that have either yellow flowers or foliage: Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’, Caryopteris ‘Worcester Gold’, Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’, Hypericum, and Potentilla. For even more impact, try Hakonechloa ‘All Gold’. Many hydrangeas work well in perennial gardens and for the partially shaded garden, a good choice is H.’Lemon Daddy’ although it probably won’t bloom (the flower buds usually freeze during the winter but the foliage color is worth giving up the flowers).

As a contrast to the trend toward colorful gardens, there is another trend that focuses on shapes and textures with shades of green in order to create serene gardens that still have high impact. Perennials with bold foliage such as Helleborus orientalis and Hosta act as a foil for more delicately textured ferns and perennials like Corydalis lutea and Anthriscus sylvestris ‘Ravenswing’ as well as lance-shaped sedges such as Carex siderosticha ‘Variegata’. Of all the trends discussed so far, this one is probably the most difficult to do well.

Now you can try to integrate some of these trends into your designs, following the lead of some of the world’s foremost designers! B Bobbie Schwartz, FAPLD bobbie@bgthumb.com

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U.S. Poll of Consumer Perceptions about Yards, Landscapes, and Landscape Companies To better understand what homeowners feel about their landscapes and get their perceptions of professional landscape companies, PLANET recently commissioned Harris Interactive, a nationally recognized research firm, to conduct an online survey of 2,893 adults ages 18 and older across the United States from Dec. 11-13, 2012.

Those surveyed were asked the following questions: • How important is the upkeep of your yard/landscape?

• Why do you think it is important to maintain your yard/landscape?

• What do you use your yard/ landscaped area for?

• How do you find a lawn care or landscape company?

• What do you look for in a professional company?

Survey Highlights The survey found that 88 percent of U.S. adults have a yard or landscape and that 77 percent have had some interaction with a professional landscape or lawn care company. U.S. adults in the South (91 percent) are most likely to have a yard or landscape. The survey clearly demonstrated that people place a high value on their yards and landscapes.

When asked about the importance of the upkeep and care of their yard/ landscape to the look of your home, an impressive 81 percent said that it was important to them; of that group, 23 percent said it was extremely important. Most older Americans, including women 55 and over (92 percent) and retired people (90 percent), thought it was important to care for their yard and landscape.

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(42 percent), pride in their home was the reason given for maintaining or improving their yard or landscape.

Other reasons given included to create a relaxing outdoor space (16 percent), to protect property value (15 percent), to have a safe place for kids to play (8 percent), and to connect with nature (7 percent). When asked what they use their yard or landscape for the most, the clear choice was for relaxing (26 percent), followed by planting flowers or vegetables (17 percent); spending time with family (14 percent); playing with pets (11 percent); kids play areas, dining or BBQ, and entertaining (at 7 percent each), and sports and recreation (1 percent).

Referrals (53 percent) are still the most popular way respondents use to find or choose a lawn care or landscape company. Other methods include by online search (27 percent), phone book (19 percent), online reviews (17 percent), advertising (14 percent), media coverage (8 percent), outreach from the company (7 percent), an association referral (4 percent).

Price (69 percent) and quality (68 percent) were equally valued as the most important trait/aspect when selecting a lawn care or landscape company. Also high on the list were customer service (35 percent), references/recommendations (33 percent), and licensed/certified staff (26 percent), followed by types of services offered (9 percent), offering sustainable practices (9percent), and the image or look of the company and employees (6 percent).

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Educational Update An Invasive Species Update Introduction

This article is provided to you as a benefit of membership in the Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association.

Content for this issue provided by: Amy K. Stone Ohio State University Extension, Lucas County, Extension Educator; Kathy Smith Ohio State University Extension, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Program Dirrector; Marne Titchenell Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Program Specialist; Joseph F. Boggs Ohio State University Extension, Hamilton County and Department of Entomology, Extension Educator Invasive species -- whether trees or beetles, shrubs or mussels, fish or fungi, weeds or pigs -- aren’t native to a place but arrive through people’s actions, either by accident or on purpose. They escape, usually spread fast, and can reduce or eliminate native species.

Kathy Smith, forestry program director with Ohio State University Extension

While invasive species are nothing new, global trade has increased the movement of not only desired and sought after products, but some unwanted hitchhikers too. Those hitchhikers can come in the form of pathogens, insects, plants, wildlife, and aquatics.

An article in Time Magazine that was written nearly two years ago, described some of the earlier introductions, of course not all bad or a detriment to other species. Beginning in the 16th century, farmers in North America introduced crops such as wheat, corn, rice, soybeans and cattle, which today makes up a huge percentage of the food production in the United States. These are good things!

While not all are good – in fact some of the arrivals have been devastating. In 1869, a French scientist imported the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), believing he would be able to create this “amazing and sought after silk.” The insects escaped from his lab, an outbreak occurred about eight years later, he left the United States (U.S), and the gypsy moth caterpillar continues to rear its head spreading westward defoliating trees along the way. In 1890 around 100 starlings were unleashed in New York City. Numbers of birds now are in the millions as they crowd out native birds from the east to the west – and places in between. Everyone has heard of the Japanese vine called kudza?

Once planted to prevent soil erosion, it grows so quickly it can overtake roadsides, trees, barns, and abandoned

vehicles creating a blanket of green. It is estimated that kudza covers over 10 million acres, and it is creating issues here in Ohio.

In 1912, the U.S. implemented a series of laws, beginning with the Plant Quarantine Act. The goal was to establish and strengthen our defenses against potential dangerous exotic threats from reaching the US, and controlling those threats if they arrive. The article that appeared in Time Magazine estimated that invasive species cause $1.5 trillion in damage every year worldwide.

In recent years, Ohio seems to be a hub of invasive species. While the gypsy moth has been around for many years, and is not a new issue facing Ohio’s forests, it does occasionally “pop-up.” The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) continues to monitor and manage this pest in cooperation with the US Forest Service. More recent finds include the emerald ash borer (EAB), hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), viburnum leaf beetle (VLB), brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), Asian longhorned beetle (ALB), spotted wing drosophila (SWD), the twig beetle commonly associated with thousand canker disease (TCD) (although the disease has not been confirmed in Ohio), white nose syndrome of bats, and numerous plants both aquatic and terrestrial.

Information on invasive species and related topics can be found at www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov This site serves as an information center maintained by the US Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library.

The Great Lakes Early Detection Network

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The Great Lakes Early Detection Network (GLEDN) is a FREE app to encourage citizens to join in the battle against invasive species through early detection and monitoring. The idea for an app was born following the identification of the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) infestation in Southwest Ohio in June 2011. As a group of educators worked to get information out about this new pest attacking Ohio’s trees, a discussion began about how to empower citizens and natural resources professionals in the early detection of this non-native invasive pest. The earlier the detection, the greater the likelihood for success in dealing with the issue – whatever it may be. The discussion turned to utilizing smart phone technology to help create more eyes on the ground. It was also decided that if we were going to do this, it shouldn’t be just an ALB focused app, but rather it should address a wide range of invasive species issues including: plants, insects, diseases, wildlife, and aquatics.

The app is the result of a multi-state partnership coordinated through the University of Georgia’s Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health. Other partners include The Ohio State University, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Great Lake Restoration Initiative, National Park Service, and Citizen Based Monitoring (CBM). The group’s objective was to produce an app that provided users with both text and images that would allow better field identification of suspect species. An effort was made to include not just insects and plants, but also aquatic and wildlife invasives in the form of feral hogs, white nose syndrome of bats, invasive fishes, viral hemorrhagic septicemia of fish and many more. Since it is a regional app, species included is more broad than if it was state specific.

Researchers at The Ohio State University, School of Environment & Natural Resources (SENR) are using the app to locate invasive red swamp crayfish. As graduate students find this gulf-states crustacean they will use the mapping feature of the app to describe the developing please see page 36 The Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association’s The Buckeye, April 2013

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Among invasive species’ harmful impacts in Ohio: The zebra mussel and its cousin, the quagga mussel, cost U.S. and Canadian water users in the Great Lakes region an estimated $5 billion from 2000 to 2010, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. How: By clogging municipal water-intake pipes and requiring costly cleanup and prevention.

Bush honeysuckle plants are causing Ohio’s state bird, the cardinal, to be less genetically fit, an Ohio State study reported. The non-native shrubs produce lessnutritious berries than those of displaced native dogwoods and highbush cranberries. Male cardinals that eat the inferior berries end up less healthy but still keep their trademark bright red color, which normally tells a female that they’ll make a quality mate. But in this case, due to their diet, they won’t.

When females choose these vivid but secretly weaker males, the “survival of the fittest” reproductive strategy gets disrupted.

Cardinals nesting in bush honeysuckles also fledged 20 percent fewer young, another Ohio State study found, leading the study’s authors to call the plants “ecological traps.”

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The GLEDN was launched in September 2012 as an Android based application with the iPhone version currently in development.

The app uses the Early Detection & Distribution Mapping System (EDDMaps) system. Users can upload an image and GPS coordinates of the find to the system. From there, the find will be verified by experts who will either follow up with more site work or place a point on the map to indicate where the organism was found.

Creators want to empower and encourage everyone to join the fight against invasive species by downloading the app by either scanning the QR code, or going to the website http://apps.bugwood. org/gledn.html Once the app is loaded, using it is simple. It can be used in the field to help with identification since each entry included in the app has images associated with it.

Find an invasive you want to report? Take a picture of the organism in question with your smart phone’s camera and upload it directly to the EDDMapS system. This will require you to set up a username and password with the system (so that

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you can be contacted if there are any questions, or for any type of follow up). Make sure that your phone’s GPS is enabled so the coordinates of where the organism was found are transmitted with the image. Once submitted to the system, it will be sent to an expert for verification. Once verified, a point will be placed on the map.

Early detection of many of these organisms will allow a more rapid response when trying to deal with them in our natural habitats. The mapping feature will also enable us to have a clear picture of where these invasives are in Ohio.

The National Invasive Species Awareness Week and the National Invasive Species Council (NISC) The National Invasive Species Council (NISC) was established

by Executive Order 13112 to ensure that federal programs and activities to prevent and control invasive species are coordinated effectively and efficiently. Members are the Secretaries and Administrators of 13 federal departments and agencies, and chaired by the Secretaries of Commerce, Agriculture and Interior. The council receives advice from and consults with the Invasive Species

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Advisory Committee, a group of non-federal experts and stakeholders. The committee was chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972.

The NISC is responsible for the following: • Drafting and revising of the National Invasive Species Management Plan • Drafting of the Interdepartmental Invasive Species Performance Budget • Reviewing progress under the management plan • Working with the Department of State to provide input for international invasive species standards A statewide coalition of natural resource-related groups recognized National Invasive Species Awareness Week from March 3 to 8. How did you celebrate the week?

The National Invasive Species Council, which sponsored the week, said invasive species “cause a multibillion-dollar annual drain on our nation’s economy.” The Convention on Biological Diversity calls invasive species the second biggest threat to the world’s biodiversity after habitat loss. In Ohio, the following agencies, organizations or groups promoted the week: APHIS’s Plant Protection and Quarantine and Wildlife Services programs, OSU Extension, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Appalachian Ohio Weed Control Partnership, Wayne National Forest, the Ohio Invasive Plants Council, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Ohio Environmental Council, Cleveland Metroparks, Ohio Sea Grant, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Ohio Department of Agriculture, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) divisions of Forestry, Wildlife and Watercraft.

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As EAB populations were discovered in states outside the core of the infestation, travel budgets were on the decrease. It was important to be able to communicate EAB messages to the masses, without participants or speakers having to travel great distances. EABU is webbased and individuals can participate anywhere they have a computer and access to the internet. Sessions can be viewed live with interaction with presenters via the chat box, or recordings can be viewed following the live presentation. Information including upcoming programs and links to past presentations can be found on the regional EAB website coordinated by Michigan State University at http://emeraldashborer.info

Breaking News!

New News on an Invasive Species – White-Nose Syndrome on Bats As we were doing final edits on this article, Marne Titchenell, Wildlife Program Specialist with OSU’s School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR) sent an email message with a white-nose syndrome (WNS) update in Ohio to OSU Extension. She communicated that WNS was recently been detected in Medina County. There are now 7 counties in Ohio where WNS is present. Those counties include Geauga, Portage, Summit, Cuyahoga, Preble, Lawrence, and now Medina.

What’s the concern? In places, white-nose syndrome has killed 90 to 100 percent of the bats hibernating in caves in winter. Bats provide an average of $740 million a year worth of pest-eating services to Ohio farmers, according to a study in the journal Science.

For more information of WNS, see the following links below: • Updated Map of WNS Spread: http://whitenosesyndrome.org/ resources/map • OSU Ext. FactSheet on WNS: http://ohioline.osu.edu/w-fact/ pdf/W_22_12.pdf • ODNR, Division of Wildlife WNS page: http://bit.ly/WhiteNoseSyndrome

Invasive Species Must Have Links – Add Them to Your Favorites • • • • • • • •

The National Invasive Species Council’s website http://www.invasivespecies.gov/ USDA APHIS’s Hungry Pests website http://www.hungrypests.com ODNR’s Ohio Invasive Species website http://go.osu.edu/SUS OSU Extension’s EAB website http://ashalert.osu.edu Regional EAB website http://emeraldashborer.info Ohio Woodland Steward’s Program http://woodlandstewards.osu.edu Buckeye Yard and Garden Line http://bygl.osu.edu Ohio Environmental Council’s Asian Carp Website http://www.theoec.org/campaign/asian-carp

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Invasive Species Tidbits

Among invasive species’ harmful impacts in Ohio: At risk from the potential arrival of Asian carps -- not just the silver but the grass, black and bighead, too -- is a Great Lakes commercial fishery worth $7 billion, according to the Congressional Research Service. Lake Erie produces more of that harvest than the other Great Lakes combined, says a study by Michigan Sea Grant Extension.

Thousand cankers disease, if it comes to Ohio, threatens all of the state’s walnut trees, which produce lumber worth $1.2 billion and tons of edible nuts. The disease is spread by the walnut twig beetle, which was found in Ohio for the first time in late 2012, but the disease itself hasn’t appeared.

Feral pigs, which are now in southern Ohio, root up crops in farms and gardens, erode soil, and muddy streams with their wallowing. An ODNR Web page calls them “living rototillers.” They eat the eggs and young of groundnesting songbirds, the young of deer and livestock, and the acorns that deer, squirrels and wild turkeys require. They can also carry pseudorabies and swine brucellosis, which can be spread to pets, livestock and wildlife.

ONLA Membership: Plans For Success Exclusive Member Benefits Business Apparel - Land’s End

Trust Lands’ End Business Outfitters for all of your business clothing, uniform clothing, corporate gift and promotional product needs.

10% off full price retail and logo application fees.

Cell Phone Service - Sprint

ONLA members can receive a 12% discount on corporate Sprint wireless accounts, and an 8% discount on personal Sprint wireless accounts.

Credit Collection - Cash Flow Management (CFM)

With CFM, a trained collection specialist is assigned to bring in your past-due accounts before they fade away as bad debts.

Credit/Debit Card Processing - Merchant Services

ONLA members can take advantage of credit and debit card merchant service processing program through Merchant Services.

Merchant Services brings electronic processing programs specifically designed to fit the needs of your business.

Energy Program - Growers Energy Solutions (GES)

Grower Energy Solutions (GES) helps manage an energy program designed to help save on your natural gas and electric bill by utilizing the strength of group buying. Average savings between 8 and 15%.

Federation of Employers & Workers of America

FEWA is an internationally recognized non-profit association which provides members with educational and informational services related to cultural and non-immigrant and immigrant labor management issues.

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(ADP) offers a range of payroll, payroll tax, and human resources services to assist ONLA members with staffing, managing, paying, and retaining employees.

Property/Casualty Insurance - Best Hoovler McTeague Save on your property and casualty insurance with BHM. BHM’s group program is designed for ONLA members to save at least 15% with the best coverage rates for your liability, fleet and equipment.

Safety Services - American Safety & Health Management Consultants, Inc./American Premier First Aid

Save up to $.05 per gallon on all fuel purchases at SuperFleet® (Speedway, Marathon and Rich Oil) locations with no minimum purchase required.

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Attend educational and social events hosted by the ONLA and engage with fellow green industry professionals.

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The ONLA Group Benefit Programs has partnered with various health plans to offer a variety of plans with many optional benefits such as vision, dental, life, and disability.

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Full-time lobbyist, Capitol Consulting Group, is employed by the ONLA to ensure green industry legislative involvement.

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Take control of your shipping costs and add profits to your bottom line. PartnerShip delivers effective discounted shipping services to small- and medium-sized businesses nationwide, save up to 20%.

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Through CLC LABS, ONLA members receive various laboratory services at a 10% discount off list prices including testing of soil nutrients, soilless media, soil texture, fertilizer solution, plant tissue, irrigation water suitability and dry fertilizer analysis.

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AONLAquick, affordable, convenient way to learn is pleased to once again offer a series of 50-minute webinars, in cooperation with OSU extension. These Series Schedule

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May 8, 2013 June 12, 2013 July 10, 2013 August 14, 2013 September 11, 2013 October 9, 2013

educational webinars tell you WHAT you need to know, WHEN you need to know it. We will cover five ‘hot topics’ each webinar, which will be delivered to your computer on the second Wednesday of every month, May 8th through October 9th.

“What Will I Learn?”

Our webinars will cover topics that are prominent this year (ie: impatiens downy mildew), topics that continue to be of interest, and topics that will emerge throughout the growing season. It’s a short course class delivered to your office! Webinars are visual and will include many images of pests and plants. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions before and during the class. Speakers from the Ohio State University Extension Nursery, Landscape & Turf Team will be the hosts for the informative lessons.

You will be given timely and useful information on current and emerging issues critical to your green industry business including: 1. Diseases 2. Insects 3. Plant Selection 4. Current Happenings 5. Q & A from the participants

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To get your company involved in these beneficial webinars, you can sign up online at www.onla.org.

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In 1995, the Lighthouse Program (LHP) was created to be the grassroots and national partnership program to unite the collective voice for the industry’s national and state associations on our shared interests. LHP continues to successfully serve that role, being the conduit through which over 10,000 member businesses participate. The partnership currently includes 41 state associations, the National Christmas Tree Association, and OFA – The Association of Horticulture Professionals.

When a message needs to reach members of Congress or key Federal Agencies, LHP regularly delivers hundreds of messages from the participating organizations and, when appropriate, we coordinate with other specialty crop groups with the potential to generate thousands of messages that flood the offices of policymakers. Because we do not have the “deep pockets” of other industries like Oil, Coal, Pharmaceuticals, and Insurance, we’ve got to hustle and work together. Coordinated messages delivering a clear point of view are a vital tool to making sure our interests are reflected in the national agenda. These efforts have played a significant role in securing special consideration for an agriculture labor fix in the current push for immigration reform and in the 2008 Farm Bill when over half a billion dollars were dedicated to supporting specialty crops for the first time.

As our industry recovers from the recent economic downturn we need to take the time to evaluate our programs – identify what works and how to make them stronger and more efficient. LHP has done a lot of good things and will continue to do those. However, steps can be taken to deliver more, keeping LHP partners engaged on the issues important to member businesses that are playing out on the National stage – giving our grassroots a better foundation and background for when action is needed.

ANLA, as the administrator of LHP, has recently begun delivering topical webinars bringing insights on important industry issues directly to the members of LHP partners ¬– like addressing the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) and an update on boxwood blight.

Soon, LHP partners will be able to access articles regarding national issues impacting our industry through a protected web portal, so they can get timely news and information when they need it.

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2013-2014 Garden Trends Report

ANLA Lighthouse Program: Uniting the Green Industry

Garden Media Reveals its 2013-14 Garden Trends Report: Finding “Bliss” by Channeling the Forces of Nature Look around. In this day and age of smart phones, apps and texting, people have become dependent upon a “wired” lifestyle for everything from news to socializing and keeping current.

In its 12th annual Garden Trends Report, Garden Media Group spots a positive trend revealing people are searching for ways to be happy.

According to the report, people are re-evaluating values, re-defining “happiness” and re-considering how gardening and caring for Mother Nature bring joy and satisfaction.

“People today are searching for ways to find bliss in everyday life. Being in nature – either in a garden or park or filling your home with indoor plants - adds immeasurable happiness and wellness to our lives.

Connecting with nature is a necessity, not a luxury,” says garden trendspotter Susan McCoy, president of Garden Media.

Global trends expert Li Edelkoort agrees.

When looking at the future of fashion and home décor, she explains the ‘Year of Bliss’ takes its cue from nature, finding expression in bright colors, nature inspired products and tactile experiences. She notes as a society we’re slowing down, seeking authenticity and well-being, and tuning into “now”.

“A shift is happening,” explains McCoy. “People are voting with their wallets, and the winning brands are the ones that enhance lives and give back to communities.”

Eric Liskey, Deputy Garden Editor of Better Homes and Gardens, says people are using a more modest, down-to-earth aesthetic in their landscape and gardens. “People are being more thoughtful in their purchases and are buying higher quality plants and garden products that perform and last.”

Wellness

Health and wellness are the #1 reason people select the products they buy, according to the international research group TrendWatching, and herbs are topping the list in the edibles category.

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Advertisers’ Index continued from page 41 gardening has dropped from 43% to 38% since last year, but people are continuing to grow herbs. The popular blog Garden Rant has predicted herbs will be “the next hot edibles”.

“Herbs are the gateway to gardening,” says Liskey. “They’re easy to grow in containers, gardens or even on a windowsill.”

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The new shareable economy is giving rise to an emerging collaborative 21st century lifestyle. From sharing sustainable living spaces to plant swaps, this cultural shift is gaining steam.

Community gardens, CSA’s and Farmers Markets are becoming the new grocery stores where people go for fresh produce and good company. “The new movement of sharing yards, tasks and bounty is totally grassroots with neighborhoods creating a sense of community,” says Liskey.

McCoy says anyone can channel the forces of nature to find happiness in the garden. She suggests turning gardening tasks, like weeding and watering, into a Zen experience, creating a backyard retreat that offers a place of serenity and bliss and filling the home and office with live plants. “Nature has given us the tools to find happiness in ordinary living things,” she says.

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Arboretum, Kirtland • Independent Sales Representative/ Distributors Paygro- Division of Garick, Charleston, OH • Landscape Crew Foreman Beining Nursery & Landscaping LLC, Cloverdale • Landscape Designer/ Estimator Todd’s Enviroscapes, Louisville • Landscape/ Hardscape Foreman McCoy Landscape Services, Inc., Marion

• Landscape Supervisor KGK Gardening & Design Corp., Hudson • Lead Horticulturist The Holden Arboretum, Kirtland • Marketing/Research Analyst (part-time or full-time) Garick, LLC, Cleveland For Sale • Vermeer Model TS32 Hydraulic Tree Spade Vogel’s Nursery, New Lebanon

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