Landscape Saskatchewan News Fall 2015

Landscape Saskatchewan News Fall 2015

IN THIS ISSUE

Winners Announced at the National Awards of Landscape Excellence Attention Journeypersons - Official Red Seal Endorsement Acronym 2015 Saskatchewan Obsolete Pesticide Collection

No Further Dutch Elm Disease Found in Saskatoon SAWP Update

Enter the 2015 Landscape Awards

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LANDSCAPE SASKATCHEWAN

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Welcome to the fall season! I hope everyone has had a successful season so far. Saskatchewan people all seem to understand the need for speed in the fall, winter is coming and we all have work to complete. Preparing for winter means something different to every horticulture based business, whether it is harvest in the field, preparing nursery stock, pruning trees or fall landscape development and maintenance. We are a diverse group and yet we can all learn from each other.

Becoming a member of Landscape Saskatchewan was a decision I made for my company when I started in 2008, because of people like Vic Krahn at Lakeshore Tree Farms. Let me explain. Years ago, about 2001, I was a new buyer of nursery stock and had the opportunity to talk to Vic and enquire about some nursery products.

The wealth of knowledge that he shared with me during his busy time of year left an impression on me. I knew I had to be a part of this industry association.

If my only goal was to increase my bottom line, I would be better off staying at home and working hard in my own little space, but that would not help me in the long term. I feel there is power in stability and just like a good parent, we need to hold strong to our values, listen to the views of others, and hold on to the core principles that the association is built on. In the end, raising the bar and striving for a strong public image is always going to increase the bottom line.

Leslie Cornell President - Landscape Saskatchewan

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

October 7 - 8, 2015 Canadian Greenhouse Conference Scotiabank Convention Centre, Niagara Falls, ON www.canadiangreenhouseconference.com

November 16 - 18, 2015 HortEast Conference & Trade Show Moncton Coliseum Complex, Moncton, NB www.horteast.ns.ca November 19 & 20, 2015 Green Industry Show & Conference BMO Centre, Calgary, AB www.greenindustryshow.com

Board of Directors:

Leslie Cornell Cornell Design & Landscaping Ltd. President Lloyd Trask The Lawn Loggers Limited Vice President

Robin Adair Arbour Crest Tree Service Ltd. Director

Luke van Duyvendyk Dutch Growers Garden Centre Ltd. Director Nancy Martin Dieter Martin Greenhouse Ltd. Director Lane Bullied Gardens By Design Inc. Director

Aaron Krahn Lakeshore Tree Farms Ltd. CNLA Representative

Administrative Support: Joel Beatson, CAE, CLM Executive Director

Marnie Main Member Services Director

Kyla Hardon Communications Coordinator Cheryl Teo Bookkeeper

Contact Us:

Landscape Saskatchewan c/o Landscape Alberta 200, 10331 - 178 Street NW Edmonton, AB T5S 1R5 Tel: 780-489-1991 Toll Free: 1-800-378-3198 Fax: 780-444-2152 admin@landscape-alberta.com www.snla.ca On the Cover The Willows, 2014 Landscape Award of Excellence, G & S Landscape & Excavation Service

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Winners Announced at the National Awards of Landscape Excellence Winners of the National Awards of Landscape Excellence were announced at the 12th annual gala ceremony in Winnipeg, Manitoba on August 19.

Awards were given out to members across the country that showcased excellence in the landscape, garden centre and nursery sectors of the industry. As well, three Green for Life Awards were given to outstanding businesses and individuals who demonstrate the Green for Life values in their communities.

Congratulations to Landscape Saskatchewan member, Vic Krahn from Lakeshore Tree Farms, on receiving the CNLAs President’s Award. For a full list of award winners, visit www.cnla-acpp.ca.

Attention Journeypersons - Official Red Seal Endorsement Acronym The Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship (CCDA) recently announced the official recognition of the “RSE” acronym (Red Seal Endorsement). Anyone holding a Red Seal endorsement in their trade can begin using RSE on their business cards and promotional materials immediately. Many professional groups are identified by the use of an official acronym that confirms their certification and/or accreditation. This allows individuals a way to easily reflect their qualifications while creating prestige for their credentials.

In a statement, the CCDA said, “The implementation of the RSE acronym meets the CCDAs long-term vision for the Red Seal Program by continuing to raise the image of the skilled trades, to recognize the professionalism of the skilled trades and to recognize the standard of excellence offered by the Red Seal Program.”

2015 Saskatchewan Obsolete Pesticide Collection The 2015 Saskatchewan CleanFARMS obsolete pesticide collection program will be running from October 5 - 9, 2015 in the northern half of the province.

Competition was fierce in the landscape category, with 34 entries coming in from across Canada. CNLA wishes The program is free to participate in and is provided to congratulate all of the companies who submitted every three years in each region of the country by the their projects, with each displaying a high level of plant science and livestock medication industries. For times and locations, call CleanFARMS at 877-622-4460 expertise. The National Awards of Landscape Excellence or visit www.cleanfarms.ca. were presented to the following companies: • Caterpillar Award for Commercial Construction/ No Further Dutch Elm Disease Found in Saskatoon Installation to Wilco Civil Inc. in British Columbia So far, no more trees in Saskatoon have been found to • Caterpillar Award for Residential Construction/ have Dutch elm disease (DED) since one tree tested Installation to Peter Hughes Landscape in Alberta positive for DED on July 21, 2015.

• DynaSCAPE Award for Landscape Design to Welwyn Wong Landscape Design in Ontario Since that time, the City engaged its aggressive DED • HortProtect Award for Commercial Maintenance to Response Plan which included removal of the tree Clintar Landscape Management - Mississauga West that tested positive for the disease and an extensive in Ontario surveillance program within a one kilometre radius of • HortProtect Award for Residential Maintenance to the infected tree. Within the surveillance area, nine elm the Landmark Group in Ontario trees were sampled and all tested negative. To date, 43 trees have been sampled in Saskatoon.

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LANDSCAPE SASKATCHEWAN Additionally, the City has: • Identified and cleaned up 12 elm wood storage infractions within the surveillance area.

• Trained an additional crew for increased surveillance.

• Updated the City website and created an online form for the public to submit information about trees suspected of DED symptoms.

• Contacted the province to determine what assistance may be available.

SAWP Update There has been a change in how Mexican workers are going to obtain (for the first time, or to reactivate), their Social Insurance Number (SIN).

As of May 8, 2015, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) no longer sends the SIN requests directly to Service Canada – individual workers are now required to go to a Service Canada Office in order to obtain their SIN. Those who already have a SIN must also go to a Service Canada Office to have it reactivated, and must bring their work permit and passport with them.

The CNLA will be requesting that CBSA and Service Canada find a better permanent solution for SAWP employees to obtain SINs. To find the Service Canada Office nearest to you, please visit the following website: w w w. s e r v i c e c a n a d a . g c . c a / c g i - b i n / s c srch.cgi?cmd=lst&pv=bc&ln=eng.

Canada Blooms Contest for Garden Centres Over 450 retail garden centres will have the opportunity to promote a contest to their customers this summer– the prize is a trip for two to visit Canada Blooms, March 11 - 20, 2016 in Toronto.

only. Contact Claudia at the CNLA office for more information or to sign up: claudia@cnla-acpp.ca or 1-888-446-3499 ext. 8635.

Enter the 2015 Landscape Awards Showcase your expertise and creativity… the early bird deadline for this year’s Landscape Awards is October 23, 2015. Start taking your pictures today!

Email Kyla at admin@landscape-alberta.com to request a copy of the entry forms and guides.

MEMBER BENEFITS

Caterpillar: Until December 31, 2015, save up to $2750 when you buy or lease qualifying Cat Backhoe Loaders, Wheel Loaders, Mini Excavators, Multi Terrain Loaders, Skid Steer Loaders, Compact Track Loaders, Telehandlers or Small Dozers – exclusive to CNLA members. Save an additional $250 on select Cat attachments.

FCA Canada Inc. - Dodge/Jeep/RAM: Significant savings on select new Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles. A $100 administration fee applies, program is non-stackable and cannot be used in conjunction with any other retail incentives including 0% or any other special finance From July 1 to October 31, your garden centre will have rate. the opportunity to take part in the Canada Blooms contest, which sends one lucky winner to Canada Petro Canada: Save 2.4¢/litre off the posted retail price Blooms on VIA Rail and includes three nights at the at retail locations only, 15% off car washes and 3% InterContinental Hotel in Toronto. Each garden centre discount on propane. also receives two tickets to give away in-store.

Canada Blooms will promote all participating garden centres on their site; another great way to showcase your store to gardening enthusiasts! This free opportunity is for Garden Centre Canada members

For more information on these or any other member benefit discount programs, call CNLA Member Services at 1-888-446-3499 ext. 8645 for Chelsea or ext. 8655 for Christine. www.cnla-acpp.ca/benefits.

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CNLA President’s Award Presented to Landscape Saskatchewan Member Vic Krahn

Winners of the National Awards of Landscape Excellence were announced at the 12th annual gala ceremony in Winnipeg, MB on August 19. The evening was highlighted by the CNLA President’s Award going to our very own Vic Krahn of Lakeshore Tree Farms in Saskatoon. This award is given to honour an individual who has made an outstanding personal and professional contribution to our association and industry.

Vic has served the association both provincially and nationally over many years – he has held board positions including Marketing Chair, Government Relations Chair, Research Chair and Treasurer, and CNLA President from 2001 to 2003. He is a Past President of Landscape Saskatchewan, the Western Nursery Growers Group and the Saskatchewan Association of Horticulture Industry. Vic also serves on the Canadian Ornamental Horticulture Alliance Board of Directors – a group that seeks to create a national voice for the ornamental horticulture sector in Canada.

Through his connections at CNLA, Vic was introduced to the International Horticultural Producers Association (AIPH) in the early 2000s. He diligently served AIPH as a committee chair and the Canadian representative, and in 2012 became the President of this prestigious organization – a role which has sent him around the world advocating plant breeders’ rights, encouraging innovation and rewarding quality work.

every one of us works at some sort of professional development. Interaction at a provincial and national level gives us the opportunity to see what others in our industry are doing. We have always had a culture in Canada of being quite open. This interaction has been very good for me and for our company. Inevitably, there are business to business opportunities that happen and many learning opportunities that would not be there without participation. Seeing how others are doing things and then emulating their model within your context. It’s not about stealing their model, it’s about adapting some of the small things they do which in turn gets adapted for your operation. No matter how large or how small we are as businesses, we can always learn from each other.

LS: How have you seen the industry change over the years?

VK: On a production level, nursery stock used to be sold out of cold storage either through the mail or directly at the nursery. People paged through catalogues and chose the plants they wanted. It was packaged and shipped or handed to them over the counter. The only place to buy trees, shrubs and perennials was from nurseries. In the early 1960s, crates of cedars and junipers came from Holland as there were few growers wholesaling these plants on the prairies. From attending international plant propagators meetings, my father started growing junipers and cedars in the field, my brothers and I, of course, were the people who dug these plants.

Within a few years, BC nurseries were container growing and shipping across Canada. A few nurseries on the prairies tried container growing. The growing was easy, it was overwintering that was an issue.

Fertilizers started being formulated for controlled Besides his remarkable volunteer service, he is the release over a shorter season and overwintering president of his own successful family business, techniques developed across Canada allowing all Lakeshore Tree Farms, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. growers, no matter what the zone, to cheat their own climate. More and more growers looked at imports Landscape Saskatchewan (LS): Why do you feel based on their economic viability rather than as their associations like Landscape Saskatchewan and the only source.

Canadian Nursery Landscape Association (CNLA) are On the retail end, nurseries evolved into garden centres important for our industry?

Vic Krahn (VK): It is very easy for any of us to become providing a full line of plant material and garden needs. absorbed in our own businesses and while it’s great Many expanded to other non-plant-related items that we have a good work ethic, it’s important that as gardening became a recreational activity for the

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population. Lawn furniture, pet food, aquariums, women’s clothing and accessories, restaurants and coffee bars and rental stores, to name a few. At the same time, there is an ever increasing push from the chain stores to capture this fascination for gardening as virtually every chain store boasts a garden centre. We have gone from an anomaly to mainstream and our statistics show it.

The tasks I have been given at CNLA were very diverse.

Some I think I did well and others I feel I did poorly.

However, in every situation I never did any of this on my own. We always had a team approach and it was the team that had strength because each person added a different strength. We cannot help but take these experiences back to our own businesses.

The international experience has been the most The professional landscape industry has changed challenging simply because no one sits down at age significantly as well. Most of the landscaping in the 29 and says, “I think I will become President of an prairies in the 1960s was done with a small tractors and international organization”. But, in every way, the by hand. Mechanization began in the 1970s. The tree international experience is really no different than the spade brought the possibility of the selling larger trees, CNLA experience. We are all regular people, working to and skid steers changed the landscape industry maybe make our industry more profitable and more widely more than any other piece of equipment. acknowledged for the products and services we contribute to society.

Landscaping went from contouring, seeding grass, planting trees, shrubs and perennials to landscape Involvement in all of these associations has clearly contracting that now includes retaining walls, paving, shown me is that what we do is highly valued by local, roof gardens, sports fields, storm ponds, reclamation provincial and national governments because they and more. This requires very skilled people within many understand, to a certain extent, how that contribution disciplines – it is a major challenge today as we build affects society and the environment. For instance, in our own corporate teams in order to complete the work the context of my international involvement with AIPH, our industry is asked to do. a Dutch landscape architect named Nik Roosen (whose firm does work around the world) told me, “AIPH LS: What does winning the CNLA President’s Award has access to the very highest levels of government mean to you? globally”. This comment encapsulates how far our VK: I do not believe that any of the many volunteers industry has come and gives us a vision of where we across Canada or around the world do any of this work will go in the next 20 years. for an award. It is humbling that my peers think I did something worthwhile, especially when there are so LS: Do you have any advice to encourage others to get many people who have had such amazing input, and involved with their provincial/national association? though their efforts incredible things have happened. VK: In this changing world that we live in there is To be acknowledged by my peers is the highest honor. tremendous pressure to keep up our skills and see how Acknowledging people who have contributed is what we can adapt to the ever-changing business world. we need to continue to do. Maybe it will inspire There is no better context in which to do just that. It someone to take on future challenges. will enhance your business and your outlook on life.

And it could take you to places and to meet people you LS: How has being active at provincial, national and never dreamed possible. international levels as a volunteer impacted your business?

We are proud to celebrate the contribution that Vic VK: I can easily say that every change we considered in has made (and continues to make) to our industry. our business had its roots in the visits, tours and Thank you Vic! interactions I’ve had with industry across Canada. The transition to our present expansion and share structure was vetted in detail through a long term friend who I sat with on the CNLA board. I literally could not buy that kind of advice.

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