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MOBILE, ALABAMA: CITY BY THE BAY International Plant Propagator’s Society th Southern Region of North America 45 Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel Annual Mobile, AL Meeting October 23 – 27, 2021 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Saturday, October 23 Monday, October 25 2:10 PM Break - Bon Secour Bay Foyer, 5:15 PM Depart for Hotel Visit Auction - Jubilee Suite 6:00 PM Arrive at Hotel, Dinner on your own 4:00 PM Hotel Check in Begins 6:30 AM - Noon Registration Open, Pre-Convention 2 2:25 PM Session 4: Moderator, Brandon Stokley, 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM Ice Cream Social, Mobile Bay Ballroom 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Registration Open, Pre-Convention 2 6:30 AM - 7:30 AM Long Range Site Committee Meeting, Stokley Nursery 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM Question Box, Clipper, 1st Floor 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Auction Plants accepted, Jubilee Suite Mobile Bay 1 & 2 2:30 PM “Connecting Veterans to Horticulture”, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Board of Directors Meeting, 6:30 AM - 7:30 AM Fellows Breakfast, Grand Bay Ballrooms Lis Meyer, Samantha Manning, Robert Grand Bay Ballroom 2 7:00 AM - Noon Auction Plants Accepted, Jubilee Suite Wednesday, October 27 Elliott, North Carolina State University 7:00 AM Sponsor Set up, Bon Secour Bay Foyer and Soldiers to Agriculture Program 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM Registration Open, Pre-Convention 2 7:30 AM Silent Auction Opens, Jubilee Suite 3:00 PM 35 Years of Propagation in 30 Minutes, 8:00 AM Opening Remarks, Brie Arthur, Sunday, October 24 8:00 AM Opening remarks and welcoming of Maarten Van der Giessen, 2020-2021 IPPS-SR President, 6:00 AM - 9:30 AM Registration Open, Pre-Convention 2 new members, Brie Arthur, 2020-2021 Van der Giessen Nursery Bon Secour 1 & 2 7:00 AM Load Buses for Tour IPPS-SR President, Bon Secour 1 & 2 3:30 PM Questions 8:10 AM Session 6: Moderator, Jeb Fields, 7:30 AM Sharp! Buses Depart 8:15 AM Session 1: Moderator, Mengmeng Gu, 3:40 PM Break, Visit Auction, Jubilee Suite Louisiana State University Stokley Nursery, Semmes, AL Texas A&M University 3:55 PM Session 5-Moderator-Todd Lasseigne, 8:15 AM Keeping Consumer Demand High: SuperRon’s Nursery, Wilmer, AL 8:20 AM “Ornamental Winners and Losers in the Bellingrath Gardens and Home Riding the Green Wave of the Fernwood Nursery, Semmes, AL Record Texas Freeze of February 15-21, 4:00 PM Advances in Hydrangea Breeding: COVID-19 Garden Explosion, Martin’s Nursery, Semmes, AL 2021”, Dr. David Creech, The Roles of Science and Serendipity, Heather Kirk Ballard, Stephen F. Austin University 12:00 PM Lunch Sponsored by Martin’s Nursery Michael A. Dirr, Partner, Louisiana State University 8:50 AM Camellia Production from Cuttings, Van der Giessen Nursery, Semmes, AL Premier Introductions 8:35 AM Teaching the Next Generation of Bob Black, Bennett’s Creek Nursery Tom Dodd Nursery, Semmes, AL 4:30 PM Questions Plant Propagators, 9:20 AM Questions Mobile Botanical Gardens, Mobile, AL 4:40 PM Announcements Glenn Fain, Auburn University 9:30 AM Break - Bon Secour Bay Foyer, 5:00 PM Buses Depart Mobile Botanical Gardens 4:45 PM Session concludes 8:55 AM Growing an Online Presence: Visit Auction - Jubilee Suite for USS Alabama Battleship 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Registration Open, Pre Convention 2 Cultivating Impact through the IPPS SR 9:55 AM Session 2: Moderator, Jenny Ryals, Memorial Park 5:30 PM Social, Awards Banquet, Live Auction Website, Newsletter, and Social Media, Mississippi State University 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Registration Open, Pre-Convention 2 Bon Secour Bay 3. Fellows Award, Laura Barth, IPPS-Southern Region 10:00 AM Adaptable Texas Native Woodies and 5:30 PM Social and Dinner on the USS Alabama, Sydney B. Meadows Award, Student 9:15 AM Questions Perennials that Deserve Broader Mobile, AL Competition Awards, Margie Jenkins 9:25 AM Break, Bon Secour Bay Foyer Horticultural Attention, 8:30 PM Buses Depart for Hotel IPPS Conference Scholarship Award, 9:45 AM Business Meeting Adam Black, BotaniConserve. Inc. Sponsor Recognition and Live Auction 10:45 AM Break 10:30AM Cutting Propagation of Magnolia 5:30 PM Silent Auction Ends 11:00 AM Session 7: Moderator, Shelby Spittler, grandiflora Cultivars for Production, 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM Auction Check out, Pre-Convention 2 Saunders Bros., Inc. John Davy, Panhandle Growers 11:05 AM The Does and Don’t’s on Using 11:00 AM Questions LIMITED REGISTRATION Biologicals, 11:10 AM Lunch on your own, Tuesday, October 26 Chris Hayes, BioWorks Visit Auction Jubilee Suite NOTICE 6:30 AM - 9:00 AM Registration Open, Pre-Convention 2 11:35 AM Is Your Fertility Program Stuck in the 1950s? 12:55 PM Session 3: Moderator, Billy Lucas, 6:30 - 7:00 AM Load buses Well, it Should Be! - Nutritional Approach Van der Giessen Nursery At the time of publishing this brochure, the Re- 7:00 AM Buses Depart to Passive Plant Pest Immunity, 1:00 PM Splinter Hill Bog: An Introduction to naissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel has Grand Bay, Mobile, AL Michael Roe, Windmill Nursery Tuesday’s Tour ~ Highlighting some limited the number of people at our meeting Bellingrath Gardens and Home, 11:55 AM IPPS-SR 2022 Meeting Preview Plants Well-Worthy of Nursery Production Theodore, AL Athens, Georgia, Dr. Tim Smalley to 150. Thus, registration for this conference is Fred Nation, Environmental Consultant Waters Nursery Robertsdale, AL 12:15 PM Questions full registrations only. If this number is increased 1:30 PM Missives, Misunderstandings & Mixed 12:25 PM IPPS-SR 2-21 Meeting concludes later in the summer, IPPS-SR will notify members Signals: Discussions on Scientific Based Lunch at Waters Edge 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Board of Directors Lunch, Riverboat by email of available space. We encourage Landscape Management in an era Sponsored by Plant Development Services, Inc. those who are committed to attending to reg- of Misdirection and Change, Greg Paige, Bartlett Arboretum ister for the conference and make their hotel Plant Development Services, Loxley, AL 2:00 PM Questions Splinter Hill Bog, Bay Minette, AL reservations as soon as possible. Register at: https://form.jotform.com/211334103395143 helped us because there are so many that I would surely miss someone. Thank you, nursery community, for making us a success. Tom Dodd Nursery Founded in 1920 by Mr. Tom Dodd, Sr. Tom Dodd Nurseries developed a reputation for quality and innovation. In 2004 the nursery was sold and is now owned by Mr. John Williams, Jr. The nursery today 2021 IPPS-SR Tour Description 2021 IPPS-SR Tour Descriptioncontinues to strive to produce a diverse of selection quality woody ornamentals, perennials, grasses and groundcovers in all container sizes for the industry. We are licensed by the major brands, including Southern Living, Encore, First Editions, Endless Summer, Proven Winners. We also produce Knockout Sunday Tours Tuesday Tours and Drift Roses. The nursery has grown to nearly 300 acres and employs more than 100 people during peak season Fernwood Nursery – Stokley Nursery, Semmes, AL Flowerwood, Mobile, AL Jim and Andrea Gaston started Lyle ry Fernwood Nurse Stokley in 1973 started with the one nursery small inAfter greenhouse. 1970 receiving and now runs it with the help of his two sons, Brandon and Blane. Begun as the backyard hobby of Harry H. Smith, Flowerwood Nursery was incorporated as a nursery in Auburn Horticulture Degrees, their After sons, graduating Jimmy from and Auburn’s Mo came Horticulture home to help expand the nursery to its program, the brothers came home to help run the nursery. 1938. A third-generation family-owned wholesale nursery selling only to the trade with locations in Ala- current size of . 44 acres The family grows With primarily Brandon for wholesale handling and production bump-‐up market and and offer Blane a wide handling sales, the two make a great team and it shows. bama, Florida, and Georgia. Flowerwood provides broadleaf evergreens, conifers, deciduous shrubs, PDSI assortment, ranging from ground 4” covers to The30 -‐ gallonnursery trees. hasBesides grown producing from 30high a to-‐quality 200 acres product, over the last 15 years. Recently the nursery has opened up grasses, groundcovers, trees, perennials, and seasonal color throughout the Southern and Mid-Atlantic Fernwood focuses on growing what others don’t want to grow or offering it at a time when it is scarce. Plant Development Services, Inc. was founded in 1996 by Greg Smith of the third generation, family-‐ two successful retail operations in Semmes and Mobile. states. At Flowerwood Grand Bay you will see how simple adjustments to the potting line can dramati- Stokley Nursery owned helped us Flowerwood because there Nursery, are so many Inc. that I wouldNursery Flowerwood surely remains miss someone. one of Thank the you, largest nursery wholesale plant Cottage Lyle Stokley Hill Nursery started the nursery -‐ Joel in Turk and 1970 now will runs it send something with the help of his two sons, Thursday. Brandon and cally increase output and reduce labor. You will also see how forks can significantly reduce labor associ- nurseries community, in for the making Southeast. us a success. Greg identified a need for an industry resource that could market plant Blane. After graduating from Auburn’s program, Horticulture the brothers came hope to help run the ated with pot placement and spacing in the field. nursery. With Brandon handling production and SuperRon Blane handling sales, Nursery, the two make a great team and it Wilmer, AL advancements being made by breeders throughout the world.