The Landscape and Grounds Maintenance Short Course is for landscape professionals to learn up-to-date, science-based information to help increase the economic and environmental sustainability of the landscapes you care for. This online training will take place from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in February. To register, visit the short course website.
Topics include:
- Crown Restoration Pruning of Storm Damaged Trees
- Insects to Watch for in 2024
- Planting for Resilience: Trees and Shrubs for the Future
- Low Developing the Next Landscape Staple Perennials
- Bee Lawns: Practical Applications for Industry Professionals
- Disease or Not Disease? That’s the Question
- Turf vs. Drought: The Epic Throwdown
- The Benefits of Growth Regulators (PGR’s) for Trees and Shrubs
look different from the grants we have offered in the past. We have meticulously worked through the emergency rule change process to temporarily modify the structure of our grant program to facilitate the disbursement of this new funding. Our regular and start-up grant offerings will continue unchanged in 2024.
Thirty years of data was reviewed by a group of horticultural, botanical and climatological experts for the latest USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map revision. This was determined to be the best balance between the fluctuations of year-to-year weather variation and the concept that, during their lifetimes, perennial plants mostly experience what is termed “weather” rather than “climate.” A complex algorithm was used for this edition of the Plant Hardiness Zone Map to enable more accurate interpolation between weather reporting stations. This method accounts for factors such as elevation change and proximity to bodies of water, making mapping zones more accurate.