Chanticleer Awards Scholarship to Museum Horticulturist
Indianapolis Museum ’ s Properties Get New Moniker
PPA Names New President , Directors
Green Industry News
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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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