Delilah Onofrey, an editor with Meister Media Worldwide, and a horticulture lover, was honored recently with “Best Use of Color” in the seventh annual Westlake In Bloom competition. With her family, she planted flower beds with lively color varieties such as petunia Easy Wave ‘Blue,’ gaillardia ‘
The value of this vibrant program isn’t lost on anyone in the
What an inspiring and creative way to brighten a community and garden. Congratulations to Delilah, her family, and
~Leslie
Greenhouse Grower, a much-admired Meister Media publication, recently upgraded its Web site to provide readers a fresh, user-friendly, and interactive news source on all things relevant to horticulturists, greenhouse growers, and members of the industry.
The new Web site contains many helpful features to assist garden centers, growers and other agribusiness professionals access the “Whats?”, “Hows?” and “Whys?” of the Green Industry – quickly and easily. The site includes:
· The latest news and trends in the greenhouse world
· Informative viewpoints from industry professionals, gathered and written by Delilah Onofrey, Sara Tambascio and others at Meister.
· Special reports section on topics like “Top 100 Growers” and sustainability
· “Ask the Experts” section where greenhouse and nursery professionals can interact with OHP experts
· An archive of articles providing the green industry a multitude of resource materials and information on many important and helpful topics of interest…including article contributions from our own
Good job, Sara and Delilah…as always.
Check out the great new site at www.greenhousegrower.com
– Adam
I’m telling you; it’s hard to go wrong when you combine awesome people with delicious food and a few drinks. 🙂
What a blast! We were able to enjoy a lovely evening with industry leaders such as Dan Heims, Ken Brown and Dave Doolittle from Terra Nova Nurseries, Bob Lovejoy from Horticultural Identification Products (HIP), and Tom Kegley and Kim Cameron from Novalis Plants that Work / Plants that Work by Color.
Several of our trade media friends also attended such as Delilah Onofrey, Kevin Yanik and Sue Distaulo from Meister Media Worldwide, Ellen Wells and Jen White from Ball Publishing, Paige Worthy, Jasmina Radjevic and Darhiana Mateo from Scranton Gillette, and Meshele Conley from Garden Design!
What I learned at dinner:
And, remember everyone – this is an annual event, so keep your calendars open for next year! For those clients and media members who did not join us, we hope you can make it next time.
~Leslie
Meister Media’s Medal of Excellence Awards event at OFA 2008 was its usual success…and very much the buzz of Short Course. After all, who wouldn’t have fun surrounded by the awesome folks from Meister and beautiful award-winning plants!?
First, I think the Meister folks deserve a big award for hosting the Medal of Excellence each year and being such tireless industry supporters! On behalf of EPR and our clients, many thanks to Delilah Onofrey, Sue Distaulo, Bob West, Richard Jones, Sara Tambascio, Ann-Marie Conroy, Laura Drotleff, Joe Monahan, Jeff Fenner and all the others from Meister…for always putting the rest of us first!
Second, there were several excited and well-deserving winners. Check out Meister’s “On Location at Short Course” blog to read about them and other people and happenings from OFA this year!
My personal favorite winner of this year’s award ceremony was the Reader’s Choice for Breeding, the new Rudbeckia ‘TigerEye’™ from Goldsmith Seeds. It is the first and only FI hybrid Rudbeckia with a never-before-seen uniformity on the bench and strength in the garden. Its long-lasting flowers are a rich yellow-gold featuring brown centers that will catch your own eye from a distance.
Some of its benefits include:
‘TigerEye’™ offers retailers a compact habit and durable, eye-catching flowers…and is sure to be a hit for 2009.
Also, if you haven’t seen Goldsmith’s 2008-2009 catalog, check it out as soon as you can. The photography alone is enough to almost use it as a coffee table book, in addition to being a stylish sales and marketing tool. To learn more, log onto www.goldsmithseeds.com.
~ Don
WILLOUGHBY, Ohio (Aug. 6, 2007) – Today’s Garden Center® Magazine today announced the launch of TGC’s Revolutionary 100 Garden Centers for 2008. Those interested in being considered for the list can take the online survey at www.todaysgardencenter.com.
The program, now in its third year, surveys garden center owners and managers and culminates in a listing of the 100 most revolutionary garden centers – 20 in each of five national regions. It is open to all garden centers, large and small, and is based on leadership and innovation, not on size or revenue.
“In the garden center industry, there is a ranking focused on dollars that also includes big-box retailers,” says Richard Jones, Group Editor of Today’s Garden Center. “We decided we would create a definitive report focused solely on independent garden centers that would give single-location retailers equal weight with larger independent chains. In our first two years, the response has been tremendous.”
Garden center owner and managers across the United States fill out the online questionnaire covering topics such as employee training, industry involvement, profitability, marketing, use of technology, purchasing, and customer and community service. The entrants are ranked according to a point system, and the 100 top entries make the list.
The online survey is posted at www.todaysgardencenter.com. The survey deadline will be October 12 and the top 100 rankings will be listed in the January issue of Today’s Garden Center magazine.
For more information, contact:
Richard Jones
440-942-2000 x 217
Congrats to our friend Sara Tambascio, managing editor of Greenhouse Grower magazine (Meister Media publication) on the recent re-launching of her greenhouse industry blog, Sara’s Green Space! We love the new format and are excited to keep up with Sara’s industry news and insight through the blog. We’re also looking forward to reading future posts, which will surely include her thoughts on various happenings and developments effecting the greenhouse-growing world. In the near future, we hope to have Sara featured as a guest blogger on MAAN to share her outlook on what’s to come for and from the industry in 2008. In the meantime, be sure to check out Sara’s Green Space for the latest from Sara Tambascio and Greenhouse Grower.
– Sally
Novalis, the national grower consortium responsible for the Plants that Work brand, was recently honored with two awards at this year’s OFA trade show in Columbus, OH.
Left: Delilah Onofrey, J. Guy, Novalis, Sara Tambascio, and Jim Frederick, Landmark Plastic. Novalis won the Medal of Excellence Marketer of the Year Award.
First, Novalis was recognized for its marketing efforts by receiving the Meister Media/ Greenhouse Grower Medal of Excellence for Marketing. The wonderful folks over at Meister provided a great evening and awards reception, including video presentations for all award nominees. The Medal of Excellence Awards are being called “the Oscars of the industry”. We certainly enjoyed it.
One the last day of the show, Novalis was awarded the “Best Booth” award by Branch-Smith Publishing. They were excited and honored for the recognition and encouragement from many within the industry. At the show, we heard comments like this from attendees and exhibitors alike:
“It’s a tree house.”
“You can’t call that a ‘booth’.”
“I went to bed in Ohio and woke up in Charleston.”
The Novalis booth at OFA.
– Sally
