A Plant Introduction Program
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Recent Media Coverage of Beautiful Gardens
Virginia Nurserymen's Association Horticulture Research Foundation Inc

2010

Growing flowers could grow jobs at Institute

Daylilies, azaleas and other ornamental plants grow in the new greenhouse at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research. These flowering plants started as tissue cultures in a lab at the Institute for Sustainable and Renewable Resources (ISRR) at the Institute. Eventually, they would go to the commercial market. The Institute is negotiating contracts with the Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association (VNLA) to bulk up tissue culture production for triploid daylilies and different varieties of azaleas.
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By Tara Bozick, Published: July 13, 2010, Danville Register and Bee

Virginia's Plants of Distinction turn a boring yard into a beautiful garden
By Kathy Van Mullekom 757-247-4781 Newport News, Va., Daily Press April 15, 2010
Isle of Wight horticulturist Linda Pinkham, former owner of Smithfield Gardens in Suffolk, is a member of the committee that identifies the plants. She and her horticulturist husband, Bill, also grow and test the plants in their six-acre garden, which is open for public tours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. April 23 during Suffolk's Historic Garden Week Tour (buy tickets at www.VaGardenWeek.org ).
For complete article, go to: http://www.dailypress.com/features/family/dp-life_distinction_0415apr15,0,6599889.story

2009

Conev leaves BG 12/09

Hokie daylily a winner - in the Virginia Tech Research magazine Summer 2009

"Researchers at the Institute for Sustainable and Renewable Resources (ISRR), located at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) in Danville, have developed a triploid daylily that took a blue ribbon at the Richmond Daylily Show and a yellow ribbon at the Tidewater Daylily Show in its first two showings last summer (2008). The winning daylily, known simply as #33........" For complete article, go to: http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2009summer/daylily.html

"Master Plants" in Virginia Living magazine

"The Beautiful Gardens program is designed to spur economic growth in southern Virginia through the discovery and promotion of new plant varieties. The first offspring—nine well-tested hybrids—are now hitting the market." By Ann Wright - For complete article, go to: http://www.virginialiving.com/articles/master-plants/photos.html

News Release: VA Garden Centers Implement Plant Introduction Program - Beautiful Gardens

Nurserymen's Foundation implements Plant Introduction Program ...

Richmond, VA — To strengthen Virginia’s quality and diversity of ornamental plants, ...
For 2009, Beautiful Gardens offer ‘Plants of Distinction’. ...

Green Profit Magazine

www.ballpublishing.com/GreenProfit/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=16936

The American Gardener, American Horticultural Society

www.ahs.org/publications/the_american_gardener/pdf/09/03/Gardener_Notebook.pdf

Greenhouse Grower Magazine
http://www.greenhousegrower.com/news/?storyid=1819

Norfolk Botanical Gardens
http://www.norfolkbotanicalgarden.org/gardens-horticulture/horticulture/beautiful-gardens-of-virginia

Virginia Farm Bureau

http://www.vafb.com/news/2009/feb/022609_3.htm

Buy Local Think Global website

http://buylocalthinkglobal.com/article.cfm?newsid=2655

Smithfield Gardens, Suffolk, seminar schedule

http://www.smithfieldgardens.com/events.php

Cover of VA Tech Outreach Newsletter Fall 1006 (11/2/06)
Presentation by Dr. Rumen Conev for Outreach Now Conference featuring the BG
program: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/outreachnow/presentations/VCE-ON-Beautiful.pdf

Press Releases

VNLA Plant Introduction Program Funded (11/05)

PIP Program Hires Dr. Rumen Conev as Executive Director of Beautiful Gardens 2005

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