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 CNY's own Spring Flower Show is coming to Syracuse again.
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| Hundreds of area landscapers and horticulturalists will be offering you the best of the season's blooms |
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| Interested in learning more about perennial flower gardens? Want to know more about creative outdoor structures or innovative patio designs? We have seminars and presentations to help with your landscape plans. |
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| The garden show is brought to you by the Central New York State Nursery and Landscape Association. We are an organization of local Nursery and Landscape Professionals who are ready to create the kind of outdoor living space you have always dreamed of having. |
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Public Educational Seminars
Syracuse Flower & Garden Show
Our seminars are offered throughout the weekend of the CNY Blooms Show. Please check back for information on our 2009 sessions. If you are interested in presenting a seminar, please complete the contact form on this web site. All speakers must also be exhibitors at the 2009 show. We will feature a keynote speaker on Saturday, March 7th. There is no additional fee to attend the keynote speaker or educational sessions. However, you must have purchased a ticket to enter the show in order to attend these presentations.
Our 2008 Sessions
SATURDAY
9:00-9:50 Terry Ettinger, Facts and Fallacies in Lawns, Landscapes, & Gardens
10:10-11:00 Melinda Myers, Keynote Speaker; Creating a Colorful Garden
11:00-11:30 Melinda Myers, Book Signing at booth #70 and #71
11:10-12:00 Carol Bradford, Ten Least Wanted: Invasive Plants in
Central NY
12:10-1:00 Renuka Rao, Soil Testing: An Excellent Investment for Garden Plants & Commercial Crops
1:10-2:00 Helen Schueler, Double the Fun: WHY "Fall is for Planting"
2:10-3:00 Melinda Myers, Keynote Speaker; Creating Private Space
3:00-3:30 Melinda Myers, Book Signing at booth #70 and #71
3:00-3:50 Gerry Rubinstein, Lawn Care Q & A for Central New York
4:10-5:00 Ray Francis, Raised Patios
5:10-6:00 Mark Blair, Planning and Installing a Water Garden
6:10-7:00 Brenda Lotito, Gardening from the Ground Up: Effects of Vermicompost on Soil
7:00-7:50 Rick Kolceski, Hydroponic Gardening
SUNDAY
10:10-11:00 Scott Stewart, Planning and Building a Wall
11:10-12:00 Janet Allen, Going Native: Adventures with Habitat Gardening
12:10-1:00 Tim Ballantyne, Gardening Green, How to use Organics in Your Home Landscaping Garden
1:10-2:00 Bartlett Tree Experts, live demo
2:10-3:00 Terry Ettinger, There's No Such Thing as Yard "Waste"
3:10-4:00 David Boyle, Basics of Organic Lawn Care |
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 Terry Ettinger
Terry provides landscape design and management, communication, education and research services to individuals, businesses and institutions throughout the northeast.
Listen to "The Weeder's Digest" every Saturday morning at 11:00 on News Radio 570 WSYR. Watch "Garden Journeys" on Time Warner Cable Television News 10 Now in Central New York, on RNews in Rochester and Western New York, and on Capital News 9 in the Capital Region and Western Massachusetts. You can also read his "Let's Get Growing" column every week in your weekly Eagle Newspaper. These programs reach into the homes of more than two million upstate New York residents every week.
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 Brenda Lotito
Upstate Worm Farms was established by Brenda Lotito in 2001 to introduce and educate our communities about the recycling of food substances via the use of red worms. A lifelong interest in organic gardening led to Mrs. Lotitos writing and publishing of a book on the utilization of earth worms named "The Dirt on Worm Farming". Training and consulting services are available to those interested in utilizing worms to reduce food waste while utilizing the compost medium produced.
Over 200 years ago, Charles Darwin noticed the effects of earthworms and their role on our Earth. Find out about studies being conducted on the use of earthworms in our soil as well as their use in the composting process of vegetable waste. Discover how vermicompost can be a gardeners delight; reducing irrigation costs, increasing drought resistance and increasing yields!
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 Gerry Rubenstein
Gerry has owned Lawn-A-Mat of Syracuse for over 45 years. Lawn-A-Mat specializes in proper turf installation and protection. Gerry has also been involved since the early 1980's with our New York State DEC, as well as many associations around the State regarding pesticide issues and regulations. For over 30 years, Gerry has made a point of either speaking publicly or will always take calls at his office, to offer information to anyone, wishing to learn how to use environmentally best practices when treating their turf.
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 Helen Schueler
Growing up on a farm in Cayuga County, Helen tended field crops and chickens, but longed for flowers. After working in industrial management, local government and teaching, Helen and her family turned amateur gardening into her dream job: operating Phoenix Flower Farm in northern Onondaga County. The nursery offers thousands of plant varieties (many rare) in a garden setting, and landscape services.
Helen is a Master Gardener, a Master Judge of the American Iris Society and a member and sometime-officer of several local and national plant and garden societies, and currently Treasurer of the Central New York State Nursery/Landscape Association. She has a B.A. from Syracuse University.
Helen is a frequent horticulture presenter at the State Fair, and for gardening and civic groups around Central New York. She practices and promotes natural gardening and believes that increased public access to natural areas in Central New York is essential to our community's physical and mental health.
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Janet Allen
Janet Allen is a co-founder and President of Habitat Gardening in Central New York, a chapter of the national education and advocacy organization called Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes, on whose Board she also serves. She and her family have used native plants to create a habitat for butterflies, birds and other wild creatures around their own suburban home during the past few years. The Allen property is now a certified Backyard Wildlife Habitat and Monarch Waystation.
Janet's slides and stories of her latest adventures with nature in Central New York and farther afield may inspire you to see your own garden—and public space—in a new
way. Janet has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. |
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 Carol Bradford
Carol T. Bradford is a freelance garden writer and photographer based
in Central New York. She is on the Board of the Invasive Plant
Council of NYS and the Interim Steering Committee of the Finger Lakes
Program for Invasive Species Management. She is a member of the
Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Horticulture Program Work
Team. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell, a Master of
Science degree from Syracuse University, a Certificat de Cuisine
Elementaire from the Cordon Bleu in Paris, and has lived, cooked and
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 Tim Ballantyne
With over 20 years experience in the horticulture field, Tim Ballantyne is fluent with all aspects of gardening andlandscaping. Tim owns and operates Ballantyne Gardens along with his wife, Lisa Ballantyne and their staff. Ballantyne Gardens is a full service garden center specializing in water gardening, unusual annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs. They also offer native plants, dwarf and miniature garden plants for rock and train gardens, container gardens, tropical plants, and garden gift items. Ballantyne Gardens’ landscaping department offers the best in design and installation services. |
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 Tom Mullarney
Bartlett Tree Experts
Local Manager/Arborist Representative
ISA Certified Arborist
Past President and Distinguished Arborist Award from New York State Arborists, ISA Chapter, Inc.
Tom believes in managing landscape trees and shrubs by using a basic four-step plan:
- Assess plant health, safety, and appearance through a systematic inspection
- Make an accurate, scientific diagnosis of problems and evaluate current and future plant requirements
- Provide a full range of remedial treatments
- Create and implement innovative, effective long-term preventive care and maintenance programs.
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Renuka Rao
Dr. Rao is Director of the Soil Nutrient Analysis Laboratories at Cornell University. The Laboratories provide soil testing to New Yorkers who request it, whether they are operators of 1000-acre farms, lawn care specialists, or backyard gardeners. Soil tests vary in complexity—and cost—depending on the purpose for which they are needed. Even a basic test will guide you on how to fertilize and/or amend your soil in order to prevent problems associated with over- or under-fertilization. Such tests are available at nominal cost through each county's Extension Service. Soil testing eliminates the guesswork many gardeners face when deciding the kinds and amounts of fertilizers or soil amendments they should purchase and apply. Dr. Rao will give you information on the process and show you how to take samples properly. |
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Mark Blair
Mark Blair represents Landmasters Group, located in North Syracuse, where the design and installation of water features of all sizes is a specialty. |
Ray Francis
Ray Francis is the Central New York sales representative for Belgard Hardscapes. He began installing pavers and retaining walls in Ireland in the 1980's. He is currently certified by both the Interlocking Concrete Paver Institute (ICPI) of America and the National Concrete and Masonry Association (NCMA) as an instructor. He has assisted many complex projects over the years. Ray and crew are pictured below on the job at the Extreme Home Makeover show filmed last year in Albany.
Ray will certainly give homeowners some practical tips on how to evaluate patio plans, materials and installations. |
Scott Stuart
Scott Stewart has been with Unilock Inc for 15 years, working with Landscape Contractors and Designers to provide Landscape Retaining Walls and Precast Concrete Interlocking Pavers. Unilock brought concrete pavers to North America over 35 years ago and remains one of the premier producers of concrete products.
Scott's seminar will explain the installation procedure of small landscape walls 24 inches or less in height, as well as look into some of the factors involved in structural retaining walls. He will discuss what is needed as far as excavation, base materials, compaction, installation and backfill. He will also discuss the use and necessity of landscape fabrics and geogrid.
Scott is currently Unilock's Territory Manager for our region. On a personal note, Scott is married to Veronica and they have one child. |
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