Chanticleer Awards Scholarship to Museum Horticulturist
Indianapolis Museum’ s Properties Get New Moniker
PPA Names New President, Directors
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Chanticleer Awards Scholarship to Museum Horticulturist
The Chanticleer Foundation Board of Directors has selected Gwyn Rager as the latest recipient of the Chanticleer Scholarship in Professional Development. Rager, a horticulturist at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, will attend the“ Art of Gardening at Great Dixter” Symposium in East Sussex, England, to study garden design and maintenance. Following the symposium, she will visit gardens throughout the UK and Europe. Her scholarship also supported participation in a four-day garden design workshop presented by Chanticleer and led by British garden designer Annie Guilfoyle this past July.
The Chanticleer Scholarship in Professional Development promotes creativity and leadership by providing professional development opportunities for public garden staff. Established in 2008, the scholarship has supported 47 public garden professionals from gardens of all types and sizes. It has two core components: Academic study to improve leadership skills and support of travel to meet with leaders to build on that academic experience.
Indianapolis Museum’ s Properties Get New Moniker
The Indianapolis Museum of Art’ s Board of Directors has renamed all of its properties Newfields, a Place of Nature and the Arts. Newfields includes the 50-acre gardens and grounds, the American Country Estate Oldfields and the 100-acre Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, which is adjacent to the museum. It also covers the Miller House and Garden in Columbus, Indiana. Oldfields and the Miller House and Garden are on the National Register of Historic Landmarks.
PPA Names New President, Directors
Marking a new fiscal year, the Perennial Plant Association has installed four new board members and a new president.
Janet Draper has been chosen to lead the organization through a time of transition as longstanding executive director and organization co-founder Steven Still retires this fall and the association turns the reins over to a management firm.
Draper has been a member of PPA for nearly three decades, serving as its Mid-Atlantic Director for six years, organizer of the annual Mid-Atlantic Region Symposium for six years and co-chair of the 2015 National Symposium in Baltimore. Her diverse background includes work in nursery production, garden center retail, landscape maintenance and, for the last 20 years, as head horticulturist of the Mary Livingston Ripley Garden at the Smithsonian Gardens in Washington, D. C. Her peers describe her as one of the industry’ s most knowledgeable, personable and passionate leaders.
Holly Scoggins, associate professor at Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, joins the PPA board as President-Elect. She currently teaches courses in ornamental plant production, herbaceous landscape plants, greenhouse management, and public gardens maintenance and management.
Patty Steinhauser joins the PPA board as Great Lakes Region Director. She is co-owner and vice-president of Stonehouse Nursery, a wholesale propagator and grower in southwest Michigan.
Robert Bowden has been named the new Southern Region Director of PPA. He has served as the director of the Harry P. Leu Botanical Gardens in Orlando, Florida, for the last 24 years.
KELLEN TO MANAGE PPA The Perennial Plant Association’ s Board of Directors has hired Kellen Company, the same company that manages GWA, to manage PPA. Kellen’ s Washington, D. C., office will serve as PPA’ s headquarters, and Shawn Swearingen is the new PPA executive director. Swearingen has been with Kellen for six years as account executive, government affairs manager and in other posts.
Stroll Winterlights at Newfields( the new name of the Indianapolis Museum of Art), November 19 through January 7, 2018. The glow of a million bulbs brings to mind the song“ Walking in a Winter Wonderland,” and now you can amble with family and friends through memorable holiday light displays in forest, field and gardens, and from“ whimsy trees” to the Snowflake Bridge to the grand Allée.
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In October, Brent Heath presented“ Bulb Design: Potentials & Possibilities for the Green Industry Professional,” in Louisville, Kentucky.
Jenks Farmer presented sustainable farming, home gardening and telling stories from his book Deep Rooted Wisdom: Skills and Lessons from Generations of Gardeners at Florida Master Gardener’ s Statewide Continued Training Conference in St. Augustine, Florida.
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Nicholas Staddon manned the Village Nurseries plant display at the ASLA National Conference and Trade Show at the LA Convention Center in October. Then on to California garden club presentations: November 1, San Clemente Garden Club; November 9, the Garden Group of Long Beach and the Tustin Garden Club; and November 13, the Los Angeles Garden Club.
Debra Prinzing emceed the floral presentations at“ Bouquets of the Heart,” a benefit luncheon to raise funds for The Bloom Project in Portland, Oregon, October 27. On November 5, she will speak on“ Slow Flowers” at the New England Farmer-Florist Connection in Plymouth, Massachusetts. On November 6-7, she will co-present“ Artisanal Flowers,” a lecture and design workshop at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.
Jacqueline Soule will speak at three southern Arizona garden clubs, seven different area libraries, and at the Western National Parks Association bookstore. If you will be in the area, contact her for dates and details.
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