The West Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association, Inc.

• WVNLA "Finish Up the Work" day - fine tuning the Summer Volunteer Project, Tuesday, August 17, Golden Girl Group Home. Please see Volunteer Project page for photos and story.

• WVNLA Summer Social & Golden Girl Group Home Ribbon Cutting, August 20, 2:00 pm

Golden Girl Group Home, Ceredo, WV. Celebration Feast just after ceremony.

• MANTS (Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show) date: January 5-7, 2011, Baltimore Convention Center www.mants.com.

• WVNLA 2011 Winter Meeting, Charleston, WV, Thursday & Friday, January 20 and 21.

• 2010 America in Bloom Symposium Sept. 30-Oct. 2, St. Louis. MO www.americainbloom.org

• Casual Furniture Accessories Market, Sept. 21-24, Chicago, IL, www.casualmarket.com

• Farwest Show, Aug. 26-28,www.farwestshow.com

• The Southern Region of North America-International Plant Propagators’ Society will have its Annual Meeting, October 10-13, at the Raleigh Sheraton, Raleigh, NC. More information:

www.ipps.org/SouthernNA/meeting.htm.

• ANLA (American Nursery & Landscape Association) 2011 Management Clinic, January 26 - January 29, 2011; Louisville, KY

• PANTS10 (www.pantshow.com), August 3-5, 2010, Philadelphia PA

• CENTS Tradeshow (www.onla.org), January 24-26, 2011 Columbus, Ohio

• WVNLA Winter Meeting • January 20 & 21, 2011 Summit Conference Center, Charleston, WV. We are presenting another outstanding educational series for the 2011 WVNLA Annual Winter Meeting. Speakers and subjects include:

-- Carol Reese, Horticulture specialist at the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, Sex and the Single Pistil.

-- Dr. Laura Deeter, ATI Ohio State University Bringing Your Perennials up Right

-- Rick Lewandowski, Director of the Mt. Cuba Center, Delaware Nature’s Secrets, the Beauty of Natives

-- Rick Crowder, General Manager of Hawksridge Farm, Hickory, NC, Seeking Plants in Japan

-- Evening Session-Carol Reese and Rick Lewandowski

-- Dr. Paula M. Shrewsbury, The University of Maryland Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, Ornamental & Turf, IPM, Entomology Restoration of Plant and Insect Community Dynamics.

-- John Jett will also offer the Horticultural Exam Thursday, January 20 at 5:30 pm

• Certified Professional Horticulturist Program is a certification program sponsored by the WVNLA. The objective of the program is to raise and improve the professional standards of the nursery, landscape, and garden center industries by giving special recognition to individuals who have demonstrated a high level of competence in the principles and practices relevant to these industries. See the complete story in the July newsletter, page 5. The newsletter is mailed to members or may be download on the Newsletter page of this site.