Features Crops Flowers
Vegetative trials at Vineland on May 30

NEWS HIGHLIGHT

Vegetative trials at Vineland on May 30
Vineland, Ont. — Ontario growers,
mark your calendars. This year’s annual Vegetative Trials open house
will be held on Friday, May 30 at the Vineland Research Station of the
University of Guelph.

May 22, 2008, Vineland, Ont. — Ontario growers, mark your calendars. This year’s annual Vegetative Trials open house will be held on Friday, May 30 at the Vineland Research Station of the University of Guelph.

Rodger Tschanz and Wayne Brown, in file photo from the 2007 trials.

The open house is sponsored by the University of Guelph, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and the participating breeders. It will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Participating breeders include Dummen USA, Proven Winners, Syngenta and Ball. Over 160 cultivars will be featured, including selections of angelonia, bacopa, calibrachoa, gaura, lobelia, petunia, pelargonium and vinca, among others.
For further information and to RSVP, please contact OMAFRA greenhouse floriculture specialist Wayne Brown (wayne.brown@ontario.ca) at 905-562-4141, ext. 179, or Rodger Tschanz (rtschanz@uoguelph.ca) at 519-241-9536.

P.S. Please mention the open house to your grower colleagues who may not have received a notice.