NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS 



Meetings Past. 



Winter Meeting. 



In spite of overwrought weather 

 forecasts and some early morning 

 squalls, over 50 people attended 

 The New Hampshire Plant Grow- 

 ers' Association Winter Meeting at 

 the Granite Street Bar & Grill on 

 January 13. 



At the annual business meeting, 

 reports were presented, officers 

 elected, and new business attended 

 to (dues were raised to $35.00 a 

 year, beginning in 1994). 



Although the theme of the day 

 was 'Color in the Garden,' some 

 black-and-white topics were pre- 

 sented as well. Tina Sawtelle 

 (Sawtelle Marketing Associates) be- 

 gan the program by discussing de- 

 signing a logo that works and — if 

 you have a logo you like, how to 

 use it effectively. And just before 

 lunch. Bill Martin (Southern NE 

 Farm Credit) gave procedures for a 

 "fifteen-minute grower's analysis" — 

 a number of ways to use the fig- 

 ures in your financial records to in- 

 terpret the health of your business. 

 But in between, there was lots of 

 color in Mike Murgiano's (Sluis & 

 Groot) presentation of new and col- 

 orful annuals — new trends and cus- 

 tomers' favorites. 



At lunch, after UNH Plant Biol- 

 ogy Chairman Curt Givan thanked 

 the Plant Growers for their contin- 

 ued generosity to horticulture stu- 

 dents at UNH, Bob Demers, Jr., 

 presented this year's NHPGA schol- 

 arships to Madeleine Duhamel 

 (Thompson School) and Jobriab 

 Anderson (Plant Biology). 



In the afternoon, Dick Zoerb 

 (Fred C. Gloeckner Co., Inc.) gave 

 a tour of the colorful — although 

 rainy — Ameriflora Exhibition in Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio, and Peter van 

 Berkum (van Berkum Nursery) 

 gave another colorful tour — this 

 one of perennials — focusing on less- 

 used varieties that grow well in 

 New Hampshire's climate and soils. 



For members wanting still more 

 color, Wayne Winterrowd (North 

 Hill Garden Design Associates, 

 Readsboro, VD spoke to the NHLA 



that evening in the same room and 

 NHPGA members were invited to 

 attend. 



Thank you, all speakers and or- 

 ganizers. It was a full day. With 

 lots of color. 



Twilight Meeting- 

 Pleasant View Gardens. 



The following week, on Thursday, 

 January 21, Pleasant View Gardens, 

 Pittsfield, invited members to tour 

 their recently-built 25,000 square- 

 foot Nexus gutter-connected house. 

 Over 50 people came to see the en- 

 vironmentally computer-controlled 

 house already filled with its first 

 crop of Fischer geraniums. 



The Huntingtons were pleased 

 with the response and thank every- 

 one for coming. 



...and Meetings Future 



Summer Meeting. 



The New Hampshire Plant Grow- 

 ers' Association will hold their 1993 

 Summer Meeting at Elliott and Wil- 

 liams Roses, Inc., in Dover, New 

 Hampshire on August 18. 

 The meeting will be lighter, more 

 social, a place where you can bring 

 the family. 



The tentative schedule includes 

 tours, a featured speaker, and a 

 strong trade show in the morning, 

 and in the afternoon, lunch, the 

 auction, and an opportunity to visit 

 some of the highlights — gardening 

 and otherwise — of the seacoasL 

 The Board will give members a list 

 of the best, along with a map. The 

 rest of the day — and evening — is 

 yours. 



The traditional tailgate trade 

 show and scholarship auction are 

 expected to be "bigger and better 

 than ever." Peter Callioras of The 

 Auction Professionals, Inc., will 

 again be the auctioneer, so the auc- 

 tion should not only raise scholar- 

 ship funds, but be great entertain- 

 ment as well. 



Perillo's will cater the lunch — 

 barbecued chicken, hot dogs, ham- 

 burgers, hot sausage grinders, po- 

 tato salad, com-on-the-cob, potato 

 chips and all the fixings and water- 



melon for dessert. (The price is 

 $6.50 for children 12 and under.) 



Pre-registration will be $25; reg- 

 istration at the door is $30. 



More information will be in the 

 June/July issue. 



New Products— 

 New^ Hampshire 



Pleasant View Gardens, Pittsfield, 

 NH, has joined with 

 EuroAnmerican Propagators 

 (Encinitas, CA), Four Star Green- 

 houses (Carleton, MI), Kientzler 

 Young Plants (Gensingen, Ger- 

 many), and Weidners' (also of 

 Encinitas, CA) , and other growers 

 from Europe, Australia, and Japan 

 to form 'Proven Winners.' "The 

 Proven Winners for 1993 will be in- 

 troducing outstanding new varieties 

 to the USA that are already popular 

 and proven in Europe. 



These include: 

 Brachycome 'Ultra.' Compact, easy 

 to grow, with tight foliage and 

 large, deep-blue, numerous flowers. 

 (3-4 cuttings per basket, 10-14 

 weeks to finish.) 



Dianthus caryophyllus 'Sweetheart 

 Cascade.' (the German name: 

 'Tiroler Gebirgshangenelke.') An 

 improved basket carnation similar 

 to 'Flame,' producing numerous 

 deep-red fragrant blooms on both 

 upright and trailing stems 9-12 

 inches long. (3-4 cuttings per 10 

 inch basket; 13-16 weeks to finish.) 

 Helichrysum hracteatum 'Golden 

 Beauty.' Compact and trailing, it is 

 a perennial 'strawflower,' with 

 golden-yellow blossoms with glossy 

 petals coarse to the touch and soft 

 velvety centers. A good plant for 

 warm sunny areas, under the right 

 conditions, it can flower year-round. 

 (34 cuttings per 10 inch basket, 10- 

 14 weeks to finish.) 



Scaevola 'Blue Wonder.' A pro- 

 fuse bloomer and heat tolerant, 

 while not new to the trade, it's part 

 of the new Proven Winners line. (3 

 to 4 cuttings per 10-inch basket, 10- 

 14 weeks to finish.) 



For information, contact Henry 

 Huntington at (603) 435-8361. 



April & May 1993 



