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Education
 
   
Got a great education idea for horticulture, landscape or restoration professionals? FANN wants to hear from you! We’re looking for short (15-20 minute) or long (one hour) professional development and continuing education courses for presentation at our 5th Annual Native Plant Show at the Bradenton Area Convention Center April 20-21, 2017.
 
 
   
Weather preparedness isn’t always about planning for the worst case scenario. More often than not, it is about making a plan that works for your business and protects you from the more likely scenario of dealing with a small amount of weather damage.
 
 
   
FANN Executive Director Cammie Donaldson was recently privileged to tour the latest Florida native landscape exemplars in The Villages, a golf course community with homeowner associations and a high demand for meticulous landscaping. Members of the The Villages Chapter Florida Native Plant Society hosted a members-only landscape tour on September 30, 2016. The chapter has taken on strategic goals of converting a certain number of landscapes each year under the leadership of Steve Turnipseed, who has presented some of this excellent work at FANN’s Native Plant Show and the FNPS annual conference.
 
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Advocacy
 
   
Florida Conservation Voters provides the conservation community with candidate endorsements, legislative reports, issues research and more.
 
 
   
Florida voters will take another crack at legalizing medicinal marijuana with a referendum nearly identical to the one that failed two years ago.

But this year’s run-up to the vote is much more subdued for would-be purveyors of the weed.
 
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Member News
 
   
Join your FANN colleagues and friends, along with Native Plant Horticulture Foundation board members, for an inspiring retreat at the Historic Bailey Homestead Preserve in Sanibel. Focus on your success with discussions on planning for business transition and envisioning the future for our industry. Then enjoy some downtime sampling some local craft beers with fellow members. Have fun, get refreshed and re-invigorated, and make sure our association and foundation work for you. Thanks to FANN member Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation for hosting us. WATCH EMAIL, social media and FANN website for details.
 
 
   
Do you need to renew your membership for 2017? Sign in and find out. Membership categories will be changing for 2017. Watch your email or dashboard announcements when you login.
 
 
   
Vendor applications are now available for the 11th annual Florida Wildflower & Garden Festival to be held March 25, 2017 in downtown DeLand. Reserve your space now at this award winning event sponsored in part by our conservation partner, Florida Wildflower Foundation.
 
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Calendar of Events
November 2016
November 23-25 – FANN office closed
Thanksgiving – Thank you for growing, planting and restoring Real Florida

December 2016
December 1 – Nominations close for (native!) Plant of the Year – Freeman Medal program of the Garden Club of America
December 2 - DEADLINE for submitting Native Plant Show course proposals
December 5-9A Community on Ecosystem Services conference in Jacksonville
December 9-10 – FANN retreat in combination with Native Plant Horticulture Foundation, in Sanibel
December 21 – First day of Winter & Emma’s birthday!
December 23 – Jan 2 – FANN office closed
 
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Industry Updates
 
   
It’s the same. Only different. The continuity lies in the principles and foundations of merchandise management. After that, they diverge.

In either case, while there are huge differences between live goods (stuff that has or had roots) and hard goods (stuff without roots), living close to the Merchant’s Mantra of "Never Buy What You Can’t Sell Before You Have to Pay for it" will go a long way to keep any retailer in the black. This is the same.
 
 
   
This summer, the floriculture industry has been faced with a dangerous new development — the detection of the Q-Biotype whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) in outdoor landscapes. It’s the first time that the Q-Biotype has been found in the U.S., outside of a greenhouse or wholesale nursery, since the pest was first detected on an ornamental plant in an Arizona greenhouse in December 2004.
 
 
   
"We can’t achieve sustainability without considering the landscape. Performance happens there," argued Barbara Deutsch, FASLA, president of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) at GreenBuild in Los Angeles. By performance, Deutsch means just that — achieving concrete, measurable goals through sustainable and resilient landscape design: capturing stormwater, raising property prices, reducing the urban heat island effect, or improving biodiversity.
 
 
   
We’ve come a long way; we’ve a long way to go. The challenge of controlling invasive plants is an ongoing one, and if anyone thinks there’s one simple answer, I’ve got a classic Edsel to sell you.

Over the past couple of decades, this industry has done a superb job fighting the introduction of invasive species and working to control and eliminate those invaders that have already taken root. We’ve been on the front line to provide science-based education. The gardening public is better informed, and legislators are better informed.
 
 
   
Trees shade our homes and help clean the air of our cities. However, their production in the nursery and maintenance in the landscape requires energy and material resources. Some of those processes are mechanized and release greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.

Understanding this balance between tree environmental costs and benefits is crucial to those who plan and plant urban forests as it can help inform species selection, site development and prescribed care measures, says a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researcher and UF/IFAS Extension specialist.
 
 

 

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