Associations

Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Fund Awards 12 Scholarships

The Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Fund has announced the names of 12 students from nine southeastern universities chosen to receive academic scholarships this year. The scholarship fund was created in 1989 by the Southern Nursery... more »

AFE Releases Thrips and Botrytis Webinar Series Recordings

The American Floral Endowment (AFE) has released webinar recordings from a six-week webinar series highlighting new research findings from its specially-funded Thrips and Botrytis Research Fund. Initially presented exclusively to AFE's Thrips and Botrytis Fund supporters, these... more »

Spring Meadow-Proven Winners Endowment Eclipses $1 Million for HRI

Spring Meadow Nursery and the Horticultural Research Institute (HRI) recently announce that the Spring Meadow-Proven Winners Endowment Fund has topped $1 million. Dale and Liz Deppe established the Spring Meadow-Proven Winners Endowment Fund with HRI... more »

PPA Names Schizachyrium scoparium 2022 Perennial of the Year

Schizachyrium scoparium has been selected by the Perennial Plant Association as its the 2022 Perennial Plant of the Year. The Perennial Plant of the Year program began in 1990 to showcase a perennial that is... more »

PPA Announces 2021 Pop-Up Event Series

The Perennial Plant Association has announced that registration is open for the second part of its 2021 Hybrid National Symposium series, PPA Pop-Ups. The PPA Pop-Up event series will be hosted regionally in August and... more »

Retailers’ Choice Awards Announced at Cultivate’21

Danny Summers, managing director of The Garden Center Group, has announced the winners of this year’s Retailer’s Choice Awards. Sponsored by the Garden Retailers Group and AmericanHort, the awards recognize the most unique and innovative... more »

PPA Symposium Registration Closes July 23

The registration deadline is quickly approaching for the Perennial Plant Association's 2021 Virtual National Symposium in July. For the first time ever, PPA will present a Hybrid National Symposium showcasing world-renowned speakers on an online... more »

SAF Names New President-Elect

The Society of American Florists has announced that Oscar Fernandez, director of sales for Equiflor-Rio Roses in Miami, Florida, has been named next president-elect. “I am very excited to have been chosen to serve as... more »