Jody Shilan - Consultant & Editor - FromDesgin2Build.com website for professional landscape design/build contractors featuring unique content, discussion forums, trade secrets, podcasts and webinars.

Seminar: Create the Un-Biddable Landscape Plan Tired of clients taking your plan, shopping it to the competition and getting a lower price? This

topic is for you! We will show you what you must include what you should never, ever, ever put on your drawings. Finally, ways to make your competitors do their own homework. It's all in the details, so leave them out. As far as I'm concerned, "bid" is a four-letter word!

Seminar: How to Perform the Perfect Kitchen Table Presentation Learn how to manage the chaos to perform the perfect Kitchen Table Presentation. Learn these “Trade Secrets” and your clients will sign every time!

Ed Gilman - Environmental Horticulturist University of Florida Seminar: Pruning Landscape shade trees for sound structure, improved esthetics, a long life &

meet contract specifications. Training young trees ● Managing mature ones and preserving the crown. ● Poor tree architecture & pruning can be costly, leading to failure and early tree removal ● can harm the tree's health ● stability ● and appearance.

Seminar: Planting and Establishment for Healthy, Long-lived Trees Some treatments designed to improve health can be effective at maintaining health and extending tree life span. Others have no proven value or could be harmful if misapplied. What factors effect health of established and mature trees? Many of the treatments that result in improvements in health also improve conditions for root growth.

Rich Buckley - Diagnostician extraordinaire Rutgers University Plant Diagnostic Laboratory Seminar: Plants I love to Hate: Small Trees and Shrubs

The plants we often use, however, are plagued by problems. ● Proper field diagnosis with an integrated approach to plant health. ● What diseases can be ignored? ● Which can be effectively controlled.

Seminar: Problems Down Below: Key Issues with Ground Covers, Perennials, and Herbaceous Ornamentals in Landscape Beds

Discuss many of the common disease and insect pest problems with our herbaceous plants. ● Proper diagnostics, with an Integrated Pest Management techniques highlighted.

Chris Hyman - Municipal sales rep MTE. Certified Equipment Technician, teaching Turf Aerification, Synthetic Turf Maintenance, Ball-field Skin Grooming/Maintenance, Rotary Mower Preventative Maintenance, Small Engine Preventative Maintenance, and Sidewalk Snow & Ice Management.

Seminar: Small Engine Maintenance & Equipment Safety Considerations Al Sitz - OSHA Assistant Area Director for Health Compliance, Buffalo area as an Industrial Hygienist performing health and safety inspections. Currently involved in several enforcement inspections related to employer compliance with the OSHA Respirable Crystalline Silica standard including exposure assessment, control measures & training

Seminar: OSHA’s Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction Standard

Carol Miller - Has reported on garden retail since 1998, heading up two of the industry’s top magazines. Today, she is Editor of American Vegetable Grower, a publication of Meister Media Worldwide, previously TX Nursery & Landscape Association & Garden Center Magazine

Seminar: Customize Your Marketing Plan to Your Customers Miller will teach easy-to-implement techniques to better understand what really motivates your customers, based on research with a Boston area garden center that thought they ‘Knew their

customers’. With a better understanding comes a smarter—and more impactful—campaign boosting repeat visits. Seminar: Steal this idea! While traveling across the U.S. and Europe visiting a wide array of garden centers, Carol gleaned and will review some of the best ideas she’s seen and invites you to share yours.

Sean Davis - Upstate Western New York Sales Rep for Techo Bloc, joining this summer. He previously owned a maintenance & hardscape landscape business. Sean is ICPI

and NCMA certified. Seminar: Hardscape Estimating & Budgeting/Planning

Registration Form

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Includes all seminars, continental breakfast, hot buffet lunch,

afternoon snack.

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Pay your NYS Nursery Landscape Association & PLANTgflx dues &

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Contact Walt Nelson, wnn1@cornell.edu or

EdDay@plantgflx.com with questions relating to the program.

Sports track questions maybe directed to Katie Berger,

katie@bataviaturf.com

Identifies seminars with CEUs:

Certified Nursery Landscape Professional

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

Interlocking Concrete Paving Institute

Sports Turf Management Association

International Society of Arboriculture Landscape Architect Land

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1:00

PM

Jody Shilan Performing the Perfect Kitchen Table Presentation

Al Stutz OSHA update, highlighting stone dust management

Rich Buckley Plants I love to Hate: Small Trees and Shrubs

(1:30) Chris Hyman small engine maintenance equipment safety considerations

2:00

PM

Carol Miller Successful

Garden Retail Ideas for Sharing

Sean Davis Hardscape

Estimating & Budgeting/

Planning

Ed Gilman Planting & Establishment for Healthy, Long-lived Trees

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PM

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& adjourn

Rich Buckley Problems Down Below: Key Issues with Ground Covers, Perennials, and Herbaceous Ornamentals in Landscape Beds

evaluation &

adjourn

4:00 silent auction results, evaluation & adjourn

Horticulture Seminar Speakers

ICPI CNLP Land CNLP

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ICPI CNLP Land

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CNLP DEC

Horticulture Seminars 7:00 AM Registration, tradeshow, silent auction, continental breakfast 8:00 Welcome: PLANTgflx President, & lead Sponsors 8:30 Jody Shilan - Creating the Un-Biddable Landscape Plan 9:30 Break in tradeshow area 10:00 Ed Gilman - Pruning Shade Trees for Structure & Esthetics 11:00 Carol Miller - Do You REALLY Know Who Your Clients Are? Noon: Lunch & Trade Show

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CNLP DEC Land

Sports Turf Seminars 8:30 Luke Yoder - Drought vs Drench & Experiences under a Child Safe Playing Field Act 9:30 Jim Miller - Care of grass: Expectations vs Regulations & Budget 10:30 Break in tradeshow area

10:45 Luke & Jim - Putting it all together 11:30 Lunch in the Atrium & MTE demonstrations 12:30-1:30 Luke & Jim - Round Table, Finding Solutions with Collaborations 1:30-2:30 Chris Hyman - Small Engine Maintenance & Safety CNLP

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STMA CNLP

STMA CNLP

DEC STMA CNLP

CNLP ISA

Luke Yoder - former Head Grounds Keeper, San Diego Padres, now field con-sultant as Sr. Vice President of Business Development in the Southeast for DuraEdge.

Jim Miller - former manager of Grounds & Athletic Fields, Syracuse University. Now Turf Consultant, SiteOne Landscape Supply.

Together they will address all areas of athletic field maintenance:

Seed selection Aeration Fertilization Soil sampling Irrigation calibration Sharpening mower blades Infield skin maintenance Laser grading

Weed suppression minus pesticides What top dressing and when for football/soccer fields Irrigation in-ground or water wheel Height of cut for sports vs common areas Are all athletic field grasses maintained the same? Examples of budget presentations for a safe field, it’s all “in the bucket!”

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PLANTgflx & Cornell Cooperative Extension, Monroe County present

our Annual Education Day Conference and Trade Show Tuesday

February 12, 2019.

This year’s program feature three great keynotes:

Jody Shilan, Speaker - Consultant & Editor

Ed Gilman, Environmental Horticulturist University of Florida

Carol Miller, Garden Center Professional

A full day of ornamental horticulture and related seminars with

continuing education and recertification credits available for:

Certified Nursery and Landscape Professionals

Landscape Architects

Interlocking Concrete Paver Installers

Commercial Pesticide Applicators

Nearly 40 vendors will exhibit

Kick off another ‘green season’ and seize this opportunity for:

Professional development

Earning recertification credits

Strengthening your network

This conference is a valuable investment of your time!

Visit our website www.PLANTgflx.com for the latest information

Admar*

Alliance Designer Products

American Equipment*

Atlantic Irrigation*

Attica Packing

Batavia Turf*

Brighton Securities

Brodner Equipment*

Cambridge Paving Stone

Chestnut Ridge Nursery

Dig Safely NY

Excel Lawn Care*

Finger Lakes Mulch & Soil*

Helena Chemical

Great Lakes Athletic Fields

Lakeside Sod Supply

Belgard by Domine Builders

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County

Grasslands Equipment & Irrigation

Keystone Hardscape by CST

Lawley Insurance

Lighting by Niggli Associates*

MTE Turf Equipment Solutions*

Northern Nurseries

NYS DEC

NYS DOL

NYS DOT

Preferred Seed*

Pride s Corner Farms

Pro-Tech*

Rinox Pavers

Seedway

Sensenig’s Landscape Supply

ShrubBucket

SiteOne Landscape Supply

Techo Bloc

The Flanders Group

Upstate Gardeners Journal

Weckesser Brick Company

We Find Plants

(* Program sponsor)

2018 Participating Exhibitors

2019 Lead Sponsors

Education Conference &

Trade Show Tuesday February 12, 2019

Doubletree Hotel

1111 Jefferson Road

Rochester NY 14623

In association with

Cornell Cooperative Extension Monroe County