Professional of the Year

Dr. Roger Harris, VA Tech Horticulture Department Head was recognized as the VNLA Professional of the Year at the VNLA Annual Breakfast Meeting at MANTS

 Environmental Steward

Beautiful Gardens® Introduces new
'VT Spirit" Daylily in 2012

Our daylily is a new plant introduction that has been registered with the American Hemerocallis Society and will be marketed under the name ‘VT Spirit’. Hybridized by Linda Pinkham, former co-owner of Smithfield Gardens, and developed by Dr. Rumen Conev. Dr. Conev searched published literature on embryo rescue and found that there was no developed media for procedure, so he experimented with adopting a medium for Lilium which resulted in the embyro rescue of the first triploids with 'VT Spirit' being one of them. For more.....

Boxwood blight (also called “box blight” in Europe), caused by the fungal pathogen Cylindrocladium buxicola, was reported for the first time in the U.S. at two North Carolina production nurseries in October, 2011 and a Virginia nursery in November. Boxwoods originating from an infected block of plants at one of the North Carolina nurseries were planted in two production fields in Virginia. The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services are developing and implementing mitigation strategies aimed at aggressively removing the pathogen from infested fields and stopping the spread of this disease. For more info......