2016 CNLA Certificate of Membership Enclosed
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Green Industry News Midtown in Focus Toronto, Ontario
Winter PUBLIC 2016 WORK office for urban design & landscape architecture Vol. 25 Issue 1 PLANNING & ANALYSIS
What’s inside: • Greetings from the CNLA President • A ‘seasonal’ industry can be a good thing • Kick-off the New Year with two new online resources
CNLA and CSLA launch first edition of the Canadian Landscape Standard story on page 14
• Launch of the beautiful Oscar Peterson rose
Learning from European nursery growers A
• New pesticide label NATIONAL HONOUR app from Health Canada lthough late January is not usually considered
to be the best time for nursery tours, 23 adventurous nursery people, representing 12 Ontario nursery companies and suppliers spent several days earlier this winter visiting a variety of nursery growers in Germany and The Netherlands. The timing of the tour was chosen to coincide with a visit to the IPM Essen trade show, the largest and most important international trade show showcasing the ornamental horticulture sector. The objective of the trip was to explore technology and productivity enhancements on behalf of the Canadian nursery grower sector.
As European winters are typically much milder than is experienced in most regions of Canada, there was much to see and learn from all of the nursery and technology sites that were visited by this group of hardy Canadians (despite the time of the year). Tour sites included a very diverse selection of growers, ranging from production of young plants, container production, bare root tree producers and caliper tree operations. Recognizing that many of the European growing practices are not directly transferable to Canadian operations due to climatic, soil and demographic Continued on page 8...
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