Taproot November/December 2011 : Page 1
A Publication of the Idaho Nursery and Landscape Association November / December 2011 Supporting Our Members to Advance Idaho’s Green Industry T he November / December Taproot 2011 . T a p roo t .. Idaho Hort Expo • Jan. 18-20, 2012 Watch Your Mail! The Idaho Hort Expo Pre-Registration Brochures will be arriving around Thanksgiving. Plan to attend as we have a terrific lineup of seminars and vendors awaiting you in January. Our seminar lineup has up-to-date, new and interesting topics throughout the 3 full days of the Expo. Many pesticide classes will be held Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for those needing PLRC credits for their licenses. National speaker, Lorene Edwards Forkner, will present two topics on Small Is The New Big and Stylish Handmade Gardens for our attendees. Judy Sharpton from Growing Places Marketing will return with new topics and ideas on Store Development and Trends in Retail . Many other seminars are offered this day including a business track, a basic horticulture track put on by University of Idaho, and arborist seminars with the beginning of a few seminars from Don Blair on his Monticello Crane Operation , Oakmen vs. Eucmen , and the History and Development of Tree Climbing . A fantastic group of seminars for landscape and irrigation contractors is planned for Wednesday, as well. On Thursday, Jan 19 th , a production track has been planned addressing many grower topics. Wall blocks and pavers will be addressed for our retail and landscape tracks; irrigation and arborist seminars are planned all morning as well. Our Spanish presentations will take place that afternoon, with three valuable, educational topics being presented in that track. The INLA Luncheon and Green Industry Gathering will be held on Thursday. You won’t want to miss this chance to network and find out what’s going on in the industry. The E.G.G.S. Breakfast, premiered last year with huge success, and will be held bright and early Friday morning, giving you a place to network with peers on a variety of topics while enjoying a delicious full breakfast. E.G.G.S. stands for what the breakfast is all about, Eat, Gather (knowledge), Grow (your thoughts) and Share (your ideas)! Come ready to talk about solutions to our industry’s challenges with your peers. Registration for this breakfast ($20) has limited seating, so be sure to sign up early with your pre-registration. Friday has a nice range of turf, marketing, and applicator seminars, a special Water-Efficient Landscaping seminar, and national speaker Gordon Mann presenting on the topics of Customer Service in Arboriculture and Pruning Young Trees in the arborist track. It should be a fun educational day, with attendees gaining all kinds of ideas and information for their businesses. The Expo Trade Show this year, will again be on Thursday afternoon from 1-5 pm and Friday afternoon from 12-4 pm. We are planning to have a full show of over 150 booths with the latest in plants, products and technology. Remember, in this economy, Face Time, It Matters! Last year we began a fun certification challenge, that involved plant identification in many of our trade show booths. We offered up a WII game system to the person who received the best score on the game card. Once again we will offer this fun game of competition. We hope you’ll play this year, and provide some good hearty competition! That’s a quick overview of the fun things we have going on at the Expo. We hope you’ll mark your calendars, save money by pre-registering, and join us! What can be better than networking, learning, sharing, and having a good laugh or two in the middle of winter? Please see pages 14-17 of this Taproot issue to learn more about this year’s Expo. Come enjoy! INLA . . P age .1
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