Please contact any Board member or send us an e-mail with your suggestions for the association or this website!

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WGGA MEETING
Thursday, October 20
5:50-8:30pm
Hunter Park
8830 Gurley Rd., Douglasville

Urban Tree Insect Pests
Lynn Womack, Forest Health Specialist,
Georgia Forestry Comission

catering by Willismson Brothers BBQ

One credit hour category 24 and one ISA credit applied for.

Please RSVP by 10/14/2016 at 12:00 pm to westgeorgiagreen@gmail.com

Two or five individuals free per business membership.
All others, $20 fee (cash or check) at the door.

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GA EPD Declares a Level 1 Drought Response
to Increase Awareness of Water Conservation

more info and latest updates at

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***U.S. Dept. of Labor***
Wages & Hours Division
Final Rule May 2016 - Overtime

UAC Summery here
DoL release here

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Informative (and timely) article about Politics in the Workplace from Greenhouse Management Magazine here

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Got 45 minutes?
checkout UGA Urban Ag webinars
current schedule below, but there is a complete archive available
click the schedule for more info

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Fire Ant Control

Recorded webinar (March, 2015) from extension.org (national) here.
Thorough discussion of behavior and biology and use of baits and contact kill insecticides. Runs about 60 minutes.

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Stay DPS Compliant

How Turf and Ornamental Businesses Operating Commercial Trucks Can Comply with Georgia Department of Public Safety Commercial Motor Vehicle Regulations: a Q & A Approach
Dr. Mickey Taylor, Associate PSEP Coordinator, UGA Dept. of Entomology Extension
Summary available here

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Classic City Awards
from UGA Trial Gardens
The Classic City awards are based on garden performance over the entire season in the Gardens at UGA, where spring is glorious, and summers are hot, often dry, and rather miserable.

from The UGA Trial Garden's Blog
see what's selected as the best of the best

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Georgia Forestry Commission recently held three workshops in Gainesville, Marietta and Mansfield to help communities develop a personalized Community Forest Storm Mitigation Plan that focuses specifically on trees and ways to avoid or mitigate the damage they cause during a storm or other catastrophic event. Community Forest Storm Mitigation plans serve as a guide for assessing current storm readiness, for creating a summary of your community's current forest management program and as a storm mitigation checklist. Presentations from the workshops are available and Georgia Forestry Commission staff are available to assist your community.

A Community Forest Storm Mitigation PlanningWorkbook and Template are available here

PowerPoint presentations are available here.

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eLearn Urban Forestry
The Office of the Southern Regional Extension Forester, the USDA FS Region 8--Urban and Community Forestry Program along with the Southern Group of State Foresters have partnered to design, develop and implement a state-of-the-art online, distance-learning program geared specifically toward beginning urban foresters and those allied professionals working in and around urban and urbanizing landscapes

To access the modules for International Society of Arboriculture and Society of American Foresters credit, please visit cfegroup.org.
To access the modules for free, please visit elearn.sref.info.
To access the modules for volunteer credit or a certificate of completion, visit campus.extension.org and look for the eLearn Urban Forestry--Citizen Forester course.
For more specific information, please contact Sarah Ashton, Educational Program Coordinator, Southern Regional Extension Forestry at sashton@sref.info.

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Thank you to the following WGGA Members for your help on
the 2011 Freedom Island project!
McPlants, Douglasville Ace Hardware, Alternative Environments, Wynn's Intensive Lawn Care, Black Rock Landscaping, Keen Edge Lawn Care, Douglas County Extension Office, Accent Nursery & Landscaping, Chip's Lawn Care, Hydro Irrigation, John Deere Landscapes, NGTurf, Triple Creek Flower Farm, Well Done Lawn & Landscaping, Mood Swings

Watch the vid!

Get the landscape plan right here

Your donation of professional time, equipment, and material is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your support!
Craig McManus-Chan Weeks-Kevin Livingston

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Wanna be famous?

Write an article for the WGGA website!
Preferably something educational - how you solved a problem that might be seen by another member, or something unusual you tried and what happened (failures are as educational as successes!) - or hints for homeowners (how to prune, different turfgrasses, what's a weed) - or something interesting - or something intriguing - or funny - or -

You and your company will be given full credit and we'll show your logo and phone number very large.
Right here on the first page!

Please e-mail them here.
Photos are good.
(Please identify any people and give a date and city location.)

Please note all will be reviewed before publication and may be edited.

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Find a pro!
WGGA members are listed here

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Proud sponsor of WGGA

 

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Latest Research Findings from

Diagnosing Nutrient Deficiencies
in Ornamental Plants
By Dr. Geoffrey C. Denny, Assistant Extension Professor, and Dr. Karl K. Crouse, Associate Extension
Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences Department.(MSU)

Relative Effectiveness of Various Chemicals for Disease Control in Woody Ornamentals
by Extension Plant Pathologists Kelly Ivors (NCSU), Jean Williams-Woodward (UGA), and Alan Windham (UTenn)

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NEW UGA PUBLICATION

Management of Insect Pests in and Around the Home
FREE PDF HERE

 

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Weed Control in Liriope & Mondo

Controlling Poison Ivy in the Landscape

Winter Protection of Ornamental Plants
(what not to do late Summer/early Fall)

Uso de Herbicidas de Preemergencia para Digitaria y Otras Malezas Anuales de Verano

Control de Poa annua en Céspedes Comerciales no Residenciales de Georgia

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Recent UGA CES publications

Soil Preparation and Planting Procedures for Ornamental Plants in the Landscape
available here

offers a wide variety of professionally targeted, as well as homeowner interest, publications. Some are free, some have a small cost. All are written by UGA Cooperative Extension and CAES or FCS research faculty and all are full of the latest scientific info on many topics of interest to green pros. More info is right here.

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A guide to native wildflowers, ferns, shrubs, trees and vines for gardens in the State of Georgia

By Douglasvillian (?)
Betty Benson
more info here

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Africanized Honey Bee
Now in Georgia!

(photo Utah CES)
UGA CES info here
Run, don't swat.
Be safe, but remember honeybees pollinate about 30% of our food!
Don't harm the good ones!

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Bulldog Bytes
Disposing of Pesticides
right here

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Great info from Mary Carol Sheffield, CES, on garden and lawn diseases
right here

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Trees Eat Pollution Better Than Expected
research from the National Center for Atmospheric Research
published in the Oct. 21, 2010 issue of Science Express
summary here