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President’s Letter Nursery Growers of Lake County Ohio, Inc. NGLCO is an eight-county association of growers and suppliers from Northeastern Ohio’s historic nursery region. Founded 1927. PO Box 555 Perry, Ohio 44081 Phone: (440) 241-7969 Fax: (440) 428-9090 [email protected] www.nglco.com Executive Director: Annette Howard See page 2 Calendar of Events We did also have a ‘Bull Session’ about a week prior to that with Tim Brotzman and Bill Mainland leading the way on a di Dept. of Labor. which was well attended. We anticipated about 10 people or so to attend and ended up with about 30 in atte our winery friends as well. We value their input and look forward to a ongoing relationship with them. Thanks to all that at As mentioned above we have moved the meeting to FHYC this time. With some of the experiences we have had in the pas want to try and change the venue to see how it works for us. All in all we think this will be a more professional enviroment NGLCO Field Day See page 3 Friends! Whoa……….that certainly was a quick year! With Field Day coming up and this be- ing my final letter I just want to take the time to thank all the people that offered a helping hand over the last year. I have to say that working with many boards over my career that this was the best board that I could ask for. Everybody kicked in and helped when needed. No one ever said no when it came down to crunch time. I’m very thankful for the support from all of you. Many thanks to Mark Gilson, Tom deHaas, and Bill Hendricks for their guidance and support as well. There were many times I was confused as to how things worked and what the past was like. However they helped point me in the right direction (you may have thought I was- n’t listening but I was). As this board starts its tenure and starts to take over you are in good hands with Mike Scott as President! Please welcome our two new board members Hillary Brotzman and Jim Ratliff. That being said…..Thank you for a great year! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Field Day is August 14 th and is rapidly approaching if you have not booked your booth space, please do so as soon as possible. If you are aware of any vendors that should be exhibiting please contact Doug Diehl [email protected] or Annette [email protected] with their contact infor- mation. Doug already has been working the streets the past few weeks and has been able to bring back some vendors from the past. Invitations also went out to all the OLA members, City Foresters, and a multi- tude of other databases that we had. Tri C will also be exhibiting so please be sure to stop by and meet Jim Funai and Lori Zatroch. Many of their students will be in attendance. In the past, at Field Day, we have tra- ditionally given out two awards but this year we expanded that to four awards adding the Nursery Emeri- tus Award and Young Professional Award. With the amount of retirements and many new faces coming on board and contributing to the industry the board felt it was time to add a few more. As we have done in the past these awards will be presented at Field Day. Thanks to all that attended the IPPS conference at Quail Hollow and the evening presentation at Klyn Nurseries. It was so good to see so many NGLCO members in attendance. Congratulations to Bill, Nancy, and the employees from Klyn Nurseries for putting on yet another memorable evening event. If you were in attendance you did get to see the first of two videos that we are putting together with the communication students of Perry High School. This first video was designed to portray the history of the Nursery Industry in Lake County. Part two goes into production this fall when the students return to school and is designed to be an overview of the Nursery Industry in Lake County targeting our younger genera- tion. As we move forward Doug Diehl, Tom deHass and myself will continue to develop both the video and our ongoing relationship with Tri C to further encourage our younger generation in considering the Nurs- ery Industry as a career. I personally want to thank Ryan Eisenhuth and the staff at Perry High School for their ongoing support of this project. Ryan interned a good portion of his summer with Mark Gilson work- ing on digitally consolidating all of our old records from NGLCO and organizing our databases as well. With all that being said……thank you all so much for allowing me to have the honor of being president this past year. It was truly an enjoy- able experience for me and I look forward to seeing you all at Field Day! Sincerely, Kevin Czajka NGLCO President Kevin Czajka Nursery Direct Sales SiteOne Landscape Supply 3072 West Streetsboro Road Richfield, Ohio 44286 330.888.5836/330.840.1805 Email: [email protected] Kevin Czajka NGLCO President

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President’s Letter

March, 2018

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Nursery Growers of Lake County Ohio, Inc.

NGLCO is an eight-county association of growers and suppliers from Northeastern Ohio’s historic nursery region. Founded 1927.

PO Box 555 Perry, Ohio 44081 Phone: (440) 241-7969 Fax: (440) 428-9090

[email protected]

www.nglco.com

Executive Director: Annette Howard

See page 2 Calendar of Events

Kevin Czajka, Site One, NGLCO President

After a winter of trade shows, travel to visit customers and fighting off winter its enjoyable to get back to what

we do best and that is produce and deliver some of the finest nursery stock in the nation. March 13th will be our

final general meeting prior to the start of the season and will be held at the Fairirport Harbor Yacht Club with

Tom Demaline as our guest speaker. Continuing on with our theme of mechanization his presentation will be

about what Willoway has done to mechanize their operation. Last months field trip to Ridge Manor and Wil-

lobend was a huge success with approximately 60 people in attendance. Many thanks to Hernie Rosado for lead-

ing that tour and being so passionate about what he does for a living.

We did also have a ‘Bull Session’ about a week prior to that with Tim Brotzman and Bill Mainland leading the way on a discussion about their expieriences with the

Dept. of Labor. which was well attended. We anticipated about 10 people or so to attend and ended up with about 30 in attendance. This session also included a few of

our winery friends as well. We value their input and look forward to a ongoing relationship with them. Thanks to all that attended and thanks to Tim and Bill for their

presentation.

As mentioned above we have moved the meeting to FHYC this time. With some of the experiences we have had in the past with noise, interruptions, and temperature we

want to try and change the venue to see how it works for us. All in all we think this will be a more professional enviroment for us to conduct a meeting. Lets us know

your thoughts afterwards as we are always open to suggestions.

NGLCO Field Day See page 3

Friends!

Whoa……….that certainly was a quick year! With Field Day coming up and this be-ing my final letter I just want to take the time to thank all the people that offered a helping hand over the last year. I have to say that working with many boards over my career that this was the best board that I could ask for. Everybody kicked in and helped when needed. No one ever said no when it came down to crunch time. I’m very thankful for the support from all of you. Many thanks to Mark Gilson, Tom deHaas, and Bill Hendricks for their guidance and support as well. There were many times I was confused as to how things worked and what the past was like. However they helped point me in the right direction (you may have thought I was-n’t listening but I was). As this board starts its tenure and starts to take over you are in good hands with Mike Scott as President! Please welcome our two new board members Hillary Brotzman and Jim Ratliff. That being said…..Thank you for a great year! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Field Day is August 14th and is rapidly approaching if you have not booked your booth space, please do so as soon as possible. If you are aware of any vendors that should be exhibiting please contact Doug Diehl [email protected] or Annette [email protected] with their contact infor-mation. Doug already has been working the streets the past few weeks and has been able to bring back some vendors from the past. Invitations also went out to all the OLA members, City Foresters, and a multi-tude of other databases that we had. Tri C will also be exhibiting so please be sure to stop by and meet Jim Funai and Lori Zatroch. Many of their students will be in attendance. In the past, at Field Day, we have tra-ditionally given out two awards but this year we expanded that to four awards adding the Nursery Emeri-tus Award and Young Professional Award. With the amount of retirements and many new faces coming on board and contributing to the industry the board felt it was time to add a few more. As we have done in the past these awards will be presented at Field Day.

Thanks to all that attended the IPPS conference at Quail Hollow and the evening presentation at Klyn Nurseries. It was so good to see so many NGLCO members in attendance. Congratulations to Bill, Nancy, and the employees from Klyn Nurseries for putting on yet another memorable evening event. If you were in attendance you did get to see the first of two videos that we are putting together with the communication students of Perry High School. This first video was designed to portray the history of the Nursery Industry in Lake County. Part two goes into production this fall when the students return to school and is designed to be an overview of the Nursery Industry in Lake County targeting our younger genera-tion. As we move forward Doug Diehl, Tom deHass and myself will continue to develop both the video and our ongoing relationship with Tri C to further encourage our younger generation in considering the Nurs-ery Industry as a career. I personally want to thank Ryan Eisenhuth and the staff at Perry High School for their ongoing support of this project. Ryan interned a good portion of his summer with Mark Gilson work-ing on digitally consolidating all of our old records from NGLCO and organizing our databases as well. With all that being said……thank you all so much for allowing me to have the honor of being president this past year. It was truly an enjoy-able experience for me and I look forward to seeing you all at Field Day! Sincerely, Kevin Czajka NGLCO President

Kevin Czajka Nursery Direct Sales SiteOne Landscape Supply 3072 West Streetsboro Road Richfield, Ohio 44286 330.888.5836/330.840.1805 Email: [email protected]

Kevin Czajka NGLCO President

Calendar of Events

Aug 5-8 2018 ISA International Conference Columbus www.isa-arbor.com

Aug 7 & 21, 2018 IPM 3-4 PM Perry Library [email protected]

Aug 14, 2018 NGLCO Field Day Debonne Vineyards www.nglco.com

Aug 14, 2018 NGLCO Annual Meeting Debonne Vineyards www.nglco.com Aug 16, 2018 9AM-3PM Pesticide Disposal Perry Coal & Feed [email protected] Aug 23 2018 OLA Snow & Ice Clinic Broadview Hts www.ohiolandscapers.org Sept 4 & 18, 2018 IPM 3-4 PM Perry Library [email protected] Sept 6, 2018 ONLA Diagnostic Walkabout Akron www.onla.org Sept 20, 2018 ONLA Diagnostic Walkabout Cleveland www.onla.org Sept 20 2018 OLA Landscape Facilities Tour TBA www.ohiolandscapers.org Sept 21-22, 2018 Garden Writers Tour Cleveland www.gardenwriters.org Sept 23-26 2018 IPPS Eastern Region Newark, Delaware ena.ipps.org Sept 28, 2018 ONLA Golf Outing Sunbury www.onla.org Oct 2 & 16, 2018 IPM 3-4 PM Perry Library [email protected] Oct 11 2018 OLA Monthly Meeting TBA www.ohiolandscapers.org October 2018 NGLCO Monthly Meeting TBA www.nglco.com Oct 19-22 2018 ASLA Expo Philadelphia www.aslameeting.com Nov 15 2018 OLA Monthly Meeting TBA www.ohiolandscapers.org November 2018 NGLCO Monthly Meeting TBA www.nglco.com December 4-6 2018 OSU Green Industry Short Course Columbus [email protected] December 2018 Christmas meeting TBA www.nglco.com Dec 12—13 2018 MGIX Member Summit Hilton Easton COLS www.onla.org Jan 9-11 2019 MANTS Trade Show Baltimore www.mants.com Feb 7 2019 TriState Green Industry Conference Sharonville, OH [email protected] February 2019 NGLCO Field Trip TBA www.nglco.com March 2019 NGLCO monthly meeting TBA March 7 2019 MGIX Training Day Cleveland June 21, 2019 NGLCO Golf Outing Erie Shores August 13, 2019 NGLCO Field Day!

Six IPM Meetings left this year; see above! Send your contact info to [email protected]

Tom deHaas OSU Extension Lake County Agri-culture/Natural Resource Educator 440 350 2582

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Live Entertainment

Featuring various local bands and musicians!

Bocce Ball&

Cornhole

Great Food Hot and Cold Appetizers! Cash bar!

Annual Meeting Join us for the 2018 NGLCO Annual Meeting

Summer Field Day After Party

For more information on exhibiting or attending, contact Annette Howard, NGLCO Executive Director

Phone: 440.241.7969 Fax: [email protected] • www.nglco.com

51st Annual Summer Field DayNursery Growers of Lake County Ohio, Inc ~ The Heart of the Nursery Industry

Tuesday, August 14, 2018FOLLOWING THE CLOSE OF FIELD DAY

EVERYONE IS Welcome TO JOIN US ON THE

Patio Chalet Debonne FOR THE PARTY AT 4PM!

AT

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GWA Region III Regional Meeting | Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Grows! Tour in Cleveland, OH

Exploring the Abundance of Cleveland’s Top Commercial and Private Horticultural Attractions

Friday, September 21 - Saturday, September 22, 2018

Early registration ends Friday, August 24

You may have heard that Cleveland, Ohio is a hotbed of horticulture. Now it’s time to experience it in a

whirlwind tour of five of the city’s best horticultural sites. Join us for behind-the-scenes tours at two

commercial growing operations and one award-winning IGC to experience a broad botanical spectrum

from perennials to woodies, orchids and tropical plants. Get the Inside Scoop when you Meet the

Trade Editors of Ball Publishing, GIE Media and Meister Media in our panel discussion. Then tour the

phenomenal private gardens of two local award-winning garden designers. Plan extra time to visit re-

nowned independent garden centers, public gardens and more when you visit Cleveland, Ohio. This is

one Regional Meeting you cannot afford to miss!

GWA has a room block at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in Beachwood, OH.

Tell your friends you’re attending Cleveland Grows and invite them to join you using this link on your social me-

dia pages, blog, newsletter or website: http://bit.ly/GWAcleveland

Registration Deadlines

Early Registration: Friday, August 24

Regular Registration: Friday, September 14

Fee Type Early Regular Late

Attendee

Member Fee: $50.00 $60.00 $60.00

Non-Member Fee: $85.00 $95.00 $95.00

Local coordinators: Maria Zampini, UpShoot LLC (GWA Treas-urer) and Susan Martin (GWA Regional Coordinator).

GWA: The Association for Garden

Communicators

355 Lexington Ave, 15th floor

New York, NY 10017

212.297.2198

[email protected]

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Cuyahoga Community College Plant Science & Landscape Technology Program Looks to Up-date Offerings

Tri-C’s Plant Science & Landscape Technology provides learning opportunities to approximately 35 students annually. These students are incredibly diverse in terms of age, race, gen-der, and personal career goals. To support these students in meeting their goals, the program is looking to expand its offer-ings. Currently students in the program and pursue an Associ-ates of Applied Science Degree in Plant Science with a concen-tration in either Landscape Contracting or Garden Center & Nursery Management. Students pursuing the Garden Center & Nursery Management concentration currently take four elec-tive courses in Plant Propagation, Plant Production, Garden Center & Nursery Management, and Small Business Management. As the industry and its needs evolve, the program must also evolve to keep up with the needs of the industry. To ensure that graduates are meeting the requisites for suc-cess in the industry, Associate Professor Jim Funai and Program Director Lori Zatroch are working with members of NGLCO to evaluate courses and their learning outcomes. The program staff is hope-ful that these changes will be reflected in the 2019-2020 curriculum and will have a positive impact on both students and the industry. For more information on the Plant Science and Landscape Technology Program at Tri-C please visit www.tri-c.edu/pst. If you or someone you know is interested in the program or have suggestions please contact Lori Zatroch, Program Director, at [email protected]

Beech Blight Mystery The problem with local American Beech trees identified by John Pogocnik, Lake County Metroparks, in 2012, continues to spread and to defy explanation. Some local growers are discontinuing produc-tion of European Beech, a cousin of the native beech and long a staple of elegant gardens in Ohio. The only good new to report...some local trees appear to show resistance. There was a great article recently in The Washington Post about our local travails and everyone work-ing on the problem. Copy the following into your Google Browser to find the article (we’re having trouble with some of our hyperlinks!): The Washington Post Beech Trees

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NGLCO Leadership and Board Transitions At our annual meeting each year, after Field Day, there occurs a changing-of-the-guard in NGLCO Leadership! Our outgoing President passes the gavel, along with a lot of guff!, to the incoming President. Some Board Members ro-tate off and some rotate on. The ‘past president’, in this case Doug Diehl, Her-man Losely and Son, heads up the ‘nomination committee’ with assistance from a couple other past-presidents and together they propose a ‘slate’ of new leaders. It’s up to our members at the Annual Meeting to vote on the new ‘slate’ of officers. Outgoing: Proposed Incoming: _________________ ________________ President Kevin Czajka Mike Scott Site One Klyn Nurseries Past-President Doug Diehl Kevin Czajka Herman Losely & Son Site One President elect Mike Scott Hernie Rosado Klyn Nurseries Ridge Manor Board member Joe Dawson Hillary Brotzman Valley Ford Truck Sales Brotzman’s Nursery Board member Brian Sabo Jim Ratliff Sabo’s Woodside Nursery NYP Remaining for another year: Board member PJ Baldree Herman Losely & Son Exec Director Annette Howard Madison Shore Growers Finance Carol Lyons

This has been an active year for NGLCO… please thank Kevin Cza-jka and other outgoing lead-ers...and also their employers! Thanks to Doug Diehl for his work as Field Day Chairperson!

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Nursery Immigration Talking Points

With recent workplace raids in Northern Ohio and continuing deportations throughout America it is natu-ral for us to consider some sort of industry response. Should we advocate on behalf of our workers and comprehensive immigration reform, even though this could bring more attention to the existence of un-documented nursery employees? Or should we stay quiet and not risk further public outcry? Further-more, should we openly support Latino Advocacy Groups who are on the ground in the aftermath assist-ing agricultural workers…or should we keep our distance and pretend we do not have a role in this mess? Personally, as one who has engaged in this debate for over ten years, I don’t like to be quiet! I think we have a compelling and important story to tell. Below are some proposed ‘talking points’ regarding nurs-ery immigration. Let me know what you think! Mark Gilson, NGLCO Newsletter Editor [email protected]

Nurseries OPPOSE illegal immigration. Nurseries OPPOSE ‘open borders’. Nurseries SUPPORT effective border security. Nurseries SUPPORT and OBEY the rule-of-law in America. Nurseries OBEY existing immigration laws through conscientious attention to the I-9 hiring

process and that is why we have legal ‘safe harbor’ even if workers are later found to have provided false documentation.

Nurseries SUPPORT guest worker programs such as H2A and H2B; in addition, a growing num-ber of local nurseries engage in the expensive and complex H2A program to assure their workers are 100% legal.

Nurseries SUPPORT comprehensive immigration reform. It’s been 30 years since reform under President Reagan. Nurseries have been telling elected leaders since the 1990s that the I-9 process was ‘leaky’ but congress would not listen. Nurseries asked for improvements to the guest worker programs before additional enforcement measures were employed but congress did not listen. Nurseries supported reform efforts in 2007 and 2013 but congress could not get it done.

Nurseries REFUTE the insistence that foreign agricultural workers take jobs away from Ameri-cans.

Nurseries SUPPORT reform efforts consistent with traditional rule-of-law in America…such as looking to the intent of a criminal (the intent of most illegal residents was to work, live, pray, raise a family…all consistent with American values)…such as looking to the passage of time since a crime was committed… such as providing measured justice that correlates the penalty with the circumstances.

Nurseries SUPPORT increased legal immigration by law-abiding entrants who might begin their American Journey in agriculture, as have many immigrants throughout our history.

Nurseries SUPPORT alternate consequences such as fines and other penalties instead of auto-matic deportation in cases involving otherwise productive and law-abiding illegal residents who have been in this country for many years.

Nurseries SUPPORT arrest, detainment and deportation of illegal residents in cases involving crime against people and property.

Nurseries OPPOSE deliberate separation of families under any circumstance. Nurseries SUPPORT congressional enactment of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Some nurseries SUPPORT and utilize the voluntary E-verify program…others OPPOSE E-verify in

its current form because it represents an undue burden on small businesses (over 80 pages of employer instructions) and because it does not catch all cases of fraudulent documenta-tion (error rate runs approximately 10% as evidenced by recent workplace raid in Massillon).

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Martin’s Nursery 3728 North Ridge Road Perry, Ohio 44081 Www.martins-nursery.com

By Laurie Martin

Martin’s Nursery is a family owned business that has been in operation for four genera-tions. Gaza Martin, a Hungarian immigrant, worked at Storrs & Harrison Nursery. In 1934 he purchased 10 acres on Route 20 in Perry and built his home from a Sears’s kit. Like many other nursery workers, Gaza would take home a few cuttings in his lunchbox and eventually he established his own wholesale nursery. After he died, his son, Zoltan, took over the operation of the nursery. He died in 1954, leaving the nurs-ery to his wife and their two sons. David and Dennis expanded the nursery to include a land-scaping business. When David was drafted and went to Viet Nam, Dennis started D.G. Martin Landscaping Company, specializing in small commercial projects. He landscaped over 100 gas stations in Lake and Cuyahoga Counties and in 1976 he received the American Association of Nurserymen’s National Landscape Award, signed by Betty Ford, in recognition of his beautifica-tion of a Shell gas station in Lakewood, Ohio. Eventually, Dennis and his wife, Laurie,[a gradu-ate of Lake Erie College], bought the nursery from his mother. For a brief period of time he was manager of Champion Garden Towne and then greenhouse manager at Gales Garden Cen-ter keeping the nursery as his part-time business. But, like his grandfather and father before him, Martin’s Nursery was his passion. He soon decided to open a retail garden center at Mar-tin’s Nursery with a landscape division. His two children, Rob & Josie, grew up working in the nursery but Rob decided to make it his vocation as well. He graduated from Ohio State’s Agri-cultural Technology Institute with a dual major in Landscape Construction and Nursery Man-agement. In 1998, soon after Rob graduated, Dennis died of a heart attack at the age of 52. Rob took on the management of the landscape division and his mother, a soon to be retired school librarian, became president of the corporation in charge of accounts receivable and payable. They are very fortunate to have loyal employees and the business continues to grow and prosper.

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Nursery History Corner

The Historic Nursery Belt of Lake County Ohio

By Mark Gilson

People often ask why Lake County became such a mega-center for nurseries. In the be-

ginning, 1854, the first nursery resulted from the vision of one man, Jesse Storrs, who moved

his family and nursery to Painesville from Cortland, New York... [Press control-click to open

link to articles, part 1 and part 2.]http://www.gardenopoliscleveland.org/2018/06/the-historic-

nursery-belt-of-lake-county-part-1/

Jim Ratliff, NYP, at Sharing Across Borders IPPS event

The Heart of the Nursery Industry page 10

Out and about…

Have you been to an IPM Meeting at the Perry Library lately? Tom deHaas, OSU Extension, is wired in for real-time participation with Mark Shelton and others from Willoway Nursery, and elsewhere. Tom incorporates reports from local growers, up-dates from around the state, tech talk from Tech Representatives, and puts it all into a wrapup report available the same day! Perry High School intern, Ryan Eisenhuth, is wrapping up a digital record of NGLCO board meetings and is turning his attention to a listing of potential new members in the NGLCO 8-county footprint. Earlier this year Ryan coordinated production of a six-minute video introduction to our local industry (see page 9). At a recent public meeting Perry leaders unveiled an outside study regarding po-tential development of the historic 220-acre ‘Champion Farm’. Housing, retail and agriculture are all suggested components in the decades to come Godspeed to Bill Boonstra who is competing in another triathalon! Did we hear this right? Bob Lyons, nursery icon and former owner of Sunleaf Nurs-ery, acted as Justice-of-the-Peace for Vic Mastrangelo, Chagrin Valley Nursery, and his new wife? A new calling for Bob? And what about the Buddhist pastor, a Madison resident and drummer for the Cleveland Orchestra, who officiated at the July wed-ding on a North Perry Beach for Matthew Gilson and Eva Sanchez, a Mexican/US citi-zen and Honda engineer? Thanks to Team-Klyn for helping entertain the Canadian IPPS and local growers at a pig roast last week; thanks also to Tom Demaline, Willoway Nursery, and Angelo Petitti, Petitti Group, for presenting on the-state-of-our-industry!

Passings

We’ve lost many friends over the past year. Sometimes we meet other nursery folks at the funeral services and we remind one another to rejoice at this sad time over a life well lived in a wonderful lively industry! Other times we find out too late and reflect silently that our world is now a little bit lonelier. In July, 2018, we lost Mary Jane Way, companion of Jay Kish, River Road Nursery, and Mary VanVliet, widow of John VanVliet, VanVliet Nursery, hosta grower from Ben-net Road. We also lost Abigail Krizman, daughter of Joe and Ann Krizman, Meadow Beauty Nursery. Sam Lambo, Lambo Nursery, a highly regarded propagator who started out working for Zophar Warner, passed away in June. President Czajka asked us to compile a five-year list of local nursery industry pass-ings to memorialize at Field Day. Presently we’re over thirty names and the list is not yet complete. We find members who passed away in between NGLCO Newsletters and were never mentioned, such as local icon Claude ’Doc’ Brown, C.M.Brown’s Nurs-ery, who died June 6, 2017...Francis Nock, Nock’s Nursery, on June 9, 2017, and Carl Sency, Sency’s Nursery, the month before. We are an industry comprised of large nurseries and small, quiet members as well as the not-so-quiet, owners and icons as well as the field workers and tractor-drivers and spray-applicators who toil alongside our dusty roads. All are equally important to this nursery mosaic. Help us to remember and pay tribute to them all.

Photos: Three Amigas, Klyn’s IPPS Dinner, Carl Sency

The Heart of the Nursery Industry page 11

You Tube Video… Welcome to NGLCO! Wouldn’t it be great to have a eight-minute nursery You Tube video? We’ve been saying this for years! Thanks to Perry High School Video Lab, Ryan Eisenhuth, Tom deHaas and NGLCO Leadership...now we’ve got one! Hit CTRL –click to fol-low the link below! https://

www.youtube.com/

watch?

You’ve Got Mail by Ryan Eisenhuth

In order for an organization to be successful, a business must find an efficient way to reach out to its customers. In the past, mailing out catalogues and pamphlets was the best way to reach customers, but with rising prices of paper and stamps, this method has become ob-solete.

Email marketing is the future of business. According to the Inbox Re-port, 89% of Americans check their email at least once a day. This means that email campaigns are the easiest and most cost-effective way to reach consumers and expand your business. Sending out hundreds of emails using bcc on your personal email is a great way to have your messages sent straight to your customer’s spam folder. Using email marketing service providers is the most effective way to stay out of spam folders and get your message out to potential cus-tomers.

MailChimp and Constant Contact are two of the most popular email marketing service providers out there, but which is the best for your business? Let’s compare the two to find out.

Constant Contact

Gives more options when importing contacts

Easier-to-manage email lists

Gives more email design options for a more professional ex-perience

Has a strong customer support team

MailChimp

Allows unlimited images for free, stored on your account

Has superior email previews and more detailed and easy-to-understand analytics

Has a stronger user interface and allows for more powerful automation and A/B testing

Has a much cheaper price on almost all plans

In conclusion, Constant Contact gives many design options and has an outstanding customer service team, but MailChimp has more ad-vanced automation and A/B testing features and is much easier to use. In the end, MailChimp seals the deal by having a much more reasonable price.

Nursery Communication Techniques...

Ryan Eisenhuth, NGLCO Intern, Senior at Perry High School interested in a career in Com-munications

As nurserymen, landscapers, suppliers and facilitators,

it’s important to reflect sometimes upon why we were

drawn to these great allied fields. We love plants and

flowers, we love our local ecologies, we love what plants

can do for our local communities!

NGLCO Officers and Board Members:

President: Kevin Czajka, SiteOne President-elect: Mike Scott, Klyn Nurseries Past President NGLCO Field Day Chairman Doug Diehl, Losely Nursery Board Members: Brian Sabo, Sabo’s Woodside Hernie Rosado, Ridge Manor Joe Dawson, Valley Ford Truck Sales PJ Baldree, Loselys

Charles Tubesing, Board Advisory The Holden Arboretum

Tom deHaas, Board Advisory OSU Extension

Executive Director: Annette Howard Madison Shore Growers

Finance Director: Carol Lyons Website: Dan Means

Newsletter Writer/Editor & NGLCO Historian: Mark Gilson, Gilson Gardens

A Historic Region

In 1858 two nurserymen formed a partnership

that would one-day become the largest nursery in the world. Attracted to the southern edge of Lake Erie by favorable climate and fine soils, this partnership continues today through a dy-namic industry producing high-quality trees, shrubs, container-plants and perennials. Over 80 years ago a local association was formed to foster trade and provide education. Today the Nursery Growers of Lake County Ohio (NGLCO) represents over 140 growers and suppliers throughout eight counties comprising North-eastern Ohio. Strategically positioned within 500 miles of 2/3 of the U.S. population, local growers pro-vide a wide assortment of plants throughout the Midwest, East Coast and beyond. Cutting-edge production and growing techniques are employed to produce robust, uniform, high-value containerized and field-dug materials. Pot-in-pot, large specimens, new introductions and finished containers ready for thigh-to-eye pres-entation before discriminating customers…the nurseries of Lake County Ohio offer it all! The original partnership, Storrs and Harrison Nursery, continued well into the next century and was followed by Kohankie Nursery, Cole’s, Champions, Wayside Gardens plus many oth-ers, large and small. Contact your local grower or NGLCO to arrange a tour of this historic re-gion.

www.nglco.com

Photos: PJ Baldree, Mike Scott, Doug Diehl & Kevin Czajka, Brian Sabo

The Heart of the Nursery Industry

The Heart of the Nursery Industry May, 2018