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Welcome to the Nursery & Landscape Program Webpage!

If you are a nursery grower, landscaper, arborist, landscape architect or other professional in the horticulture industry, you can rely on the Nursery & Landscape Program for valuable information and exciting educational events.  The Nursery & Landscape Program:

  • Provides individual consultations for professionals on horticulture topics related to trees, shrubs, and perennials in the nursery or landscape
  • Develops outreach publications
  • Coordinates regional conferences and educational programs
  • Presents on various horticulture topics at local industry meetings and educational events
  • Conducts on-site horticulture trials and demonstration projects

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    Current Projects

     

    Notice: NEW Blight Ravages Boxwoods

    A new, aggressive, exotic disease called Boxwood Blight is now affecting all species of boxwood on Long Island and other areas of the US. If you see bare twigs on your boxwood this winter, send a sample to the LI Horticultural Research & Extension Center at 3059 Sound Ave. Riverhead / 631-727-3595 to ID the pathogen and slow the spread of this serious disease. Non-commercial samples can be brought to CCE-Suffolk Diagnostic Lab at 423 Griffing Ave. Riverhead / 631-727-7850. For more info. click Boxwood Blight Cornell Fact Sheet 2012

     

     

    Upcoming Program: 1st Annual Green Infrastructure Conference & Expo

     

    June 21, 2012

    8:00am - 4:00pm
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Princeton Avenue, Upton, NY 11973

     

    "Protecting Our Water Resources"

    Sponsored by Nassau and Suffolk Soil and Water Conservation Districts, this 1st annual conference and expo will facilitate the successful use of green technologies to manage stormwater. General and technical information on cost-effective green infrastructure techniques that increase stormwater infiltration and prevent adverse impacts to Long Island's valuable water resources will be presented. Regional success stories will show how green infrastructure has been beneficially put into place and how these methods can be funded. To see the program agenda, CLICK HERE!

    • Who Should Attend: landscape architects, regional planners and developers, municipal engineers, building and public works department employess, and anyone else who is interested in learning how to protect our water resources!

    • Does your green business want to be an exhibitor or sponsor? CLICK HERE!

    • Landscape architecture continuing education credit hours will be provided in Courses of Learning - HSW to New York State registered landscape architects through Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, a New York State Education Department approved provider (number of credits is pending).

    • Professional education credits for engineers and architects will be offered through the US Green Building Council.

     

    Conference Organizing Committee: Hempstead Harbor Protection Committee, Long Island Chapter of the US Green Building Council, Manhasset Bay Protection Committee, New York Sea Grant, Oyster Bay-Cold Spring Harbor Protection Committee, and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County

    Thank-you to our sponsors!