Page B—Grower and Marketer, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 22, 2000
New Meaning To ‘Colorful’ Gardening
George Weaver of Etters in York County, a Master
Gardener since 1995, waters container gardens at
the Trial Garden at John Rudy Park. The gardens are
a project sponsored by York County’s Penn State
Extension Office and cared for by Master Gardeners
from the area.
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“In Pennsylvania, retail
sales of nursery plants
exceeds $2OO million. York
County has 334 registered
nursery, greenhouse, land
scape and garden center busi
nesses representing 5.5 per
cent of the 6,034 green indus
try businesses located in
Pennsylvania. Extension pro
grams are currently reaching
23 percent of these business
es in York County,” Becker
said.
He said, “In it’s first year,
70 ‘best’ plant performers
were evaluated in the York
trial, including 27 annual
and perennial flowers in the
Gardener Selects trial.
Thirty Master Gardeners
donated 400 hours to plant,
maintain, and evaluate
plants in the trial.
“As a result, the program
increased York countian’s
exposure to the identity, cul
ture, and use of desirable
‘new’ plant varieties used
throughout the green indus
try.”
While the “Misty Lilac
Wave Petunia” topped the
recommended list of plants in
the 1999 York County trial
because of its outstanding
color and habit, the Celosia
Argentata with bright scarlet
plumes with bronze leaves,
and Coreopisis Rosea, a fast
1 growing, spreading perennial
for naturalizing-both previ
ously mentioned-were alsc
on the recommended list.
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