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, February 21
5-8pm
Hunter Park – Ike Owens Community Center
8830 Gurley Road
Douglasville GA 30134

Hazard Tree Risk Assesment and Mitigation
speaker: Jeremy Greenberg, Georgia Power Arborist

dinner sponsor:

 

meeting sponsor:

 

Please RSVP by 2019 at 12:00 pm to westgeorgiagreen@gmail.com
One Credit Hour Category 24, and ISA Credit applied for.

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Learn pruning skills, equipment care

Feb. 8, 8:30am-2:30pm
University of Georgia Griffin
Student Learning Center Room 104, 1009 Experiment Street

presenter: Bob Westerfield, UGA Cooperative Extension
The program will cover the proper pruning techniques for trees and ornamentals as well as a short discussion on how to prune fruiting plants. Participants will learn when, where and how to prune plants using certain techniques for creating a professional landscape.
The one-day class will also cover how to select and maintain pruning equipment. Attendees will learn how to sharpen equipment, from hand clippers to gas powered chainsaws, and how to troubleshoot common problems of small engines.

Cost is $49, which includes instruction, materials, lunch and break refreshments.
Preregistration required by Friday, Feb. 1 - call 770-228-7214 or email Beth Horne at bhorne@uga.edu
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To register online, go to https://pruningworkshop_02082019.eventbrite.com

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March 1, 2019
8:30a.m - 4:00 p.m

Reinhardt University, Gordy Dining Center, SIMMS Meeting Room 1,
7300 Reinhardt College Circle, Waleska, 30183

$25 materials fee, Includes lunch, materials
Category 24-4 CEUs
ISA-4 CEU Hours Applied for

Contact UGA Extension-Cherokee County,1130 Bluffs Parkway Suite G49, Canton, GA 30114
(770)721-7803 or uge1057@uga.edu, to register!

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Paulding Extension Office offering Pesticide CEUs
Getting the Best of Pests webinar archives will be offered with Pesticide CEUs for Landscape and Ornamental licenses (Category 24). You have 2 opportunities to earn CEUs at the Paulding County Extension Office. Registration is required and you must call or come by the office to register by February 8 at 5 pm.

February 14, 9 am - 12 pm
Paulding County Extension Office-Webinar Archive Presentation-Earn 2 Pesticide CEUs
Identification and Management of Invasive Plant Species
Guidelines to Control Phytophthora Diseases in Native Restoration Nurseries
Registration fee, $10

February 19, 2 pm - 4 pm
Paulding County Extension Office-Webinar Archive Presentation- Earn 2 Pesticide CEUs
Boxwood Blight: Identification and Management Strategies
Proper Pruning of Healthy and Beautiful Landscape, Shrubs and Small Trees
Registration fee, $10

 

 

 

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Winter Trade Shows
(click the name of the show for more info)

 

WinterGreen
January 23-25, 2019
Infinite Energy Center, Duluth, GA
GGIA

Gulf States
January 30-February 1, 2019
Mobile, AL
ANLA, MNLA, LNLA

 

SC Green Trade Show
January 30-February 1, 2019
Columbia, SC
SC Green

 

Landscape Pro University & Expo
Cobb Galleria, Atlanta, GA
UAC, Belgrade
January 30, 2019

 

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From UAC
presentations from November 5, 2018 dinner
Industry Disrupters: Technology, Automation, and What’s Next

see them here

 

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THANK YOU!

Video recap of the multi-year
Military Honor Garden project
now available here

thanks to Chan Weeks,
Executive Director, Keep Douglasville Beautiful

These fine WGGA companies/organizations
have contributed to the
Military Honor Garden project in 2017!

Douglasville Ace Hardware*Southern States
Alternative Environments*Reslawn
McPlants*Barnett Irrigation
W & W Lawn Care*Accent Nursery
Keep Douglasville Beautiful*UGA DC Extension
UGA DC Master Gardener Extension Volunteers
Well Done Lawns and Landscaping
Black Rock Property Service , Inc.
NG Turf

 

Find a pro!
WGGA members are listed here

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Proud sponsor of WGGA

 

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USDA/NRCS
ONLINE SOIL SURVEY
free, detailed soil info
down to lot!
Updated-November 2017

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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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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

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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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Georgia Gold Medal Plants
plant a winner!

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Plant Classic City Award Winners
and dazzle your clients!

2012 - 2016 Winners here

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 everyone who participated in 2016!

MILITARY HONOR GARDEN
HUNTER PARK, DOUGLASVILLE
Friday. December 9, 2016