Wright Scoop Challenges Consumers to ‘Think Shop Buy Local,’ Beautiful Gardens
An advocate of the Retail Merchant’s ‘Think Shop Buy Local,’ Wright Scoop - Sylvia Hoehns Wright - challenges consumers to take the concept of sustainability a step further, not simply a use of plants that works well in their region but those that contribute to regional economic sustainability.
Richmond, VA, February 23, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Richmond VA based The Wright Scoop –Sylvia Hoehns Wright, www.TheWrightScoop.com, recipient of the ‘Turning America from Eco-weak to Eco-chic’ award sponsored by Hines Horticulture, Project Evergreen and Today’s Garden Center magazine – encourages consumers to garden green, create sustainable urban/suburban landscapes. An advocate of the Retail Merchant’s ‘Think Shop Buy Local’, Wright challenges consumers to take the concept of sustainability a step further, not simply a use of plants that works-well in their region but those that contribute to regional economic sustainability: developed, grown and distributed within their community – plants such as those offered through the state of Virginia Beautiful Gardens® program, www.beautifulgardens.org.
Beautiful Gardens® State-wide Reception –
From spotlighted by Wright and her colleagues as the center piece of the 2010 Virginia GoGreen Garden Festival held in Richmond Virginia to plant testing coordinated by master gardeners or events host by the garden clubs of Virginia, Beautiful Gardens® is gaining brand recognition. “As spokesperson,” says Neal Beasley, “for the plant introduction program, I’ve found initial plant development to be diverse: range from Tyler’s farm Pine Knott located in south-side Virginia to a grower for the Stokesia located in Mississippi. In fact, a few of the selected plants are quite old and difficult to credit to any particular developer; and of course, some are native; so, God gets that one. Still regardless of the plants initial origin, the result is Virginia consumers have a wide-range of choice supported by demonstrated sustainable use.”
Beautiful Gardens® Plants of Distinction –
To initiate the 2009 program, Beautiful Gardens® promoted nine underutilized plants with stable performance in USDA hardiness/AHS heat zones 6a/2 to 8a/7, and excellent ornamental display. For 2010, the program added eight plants and for 2011, an additional six: Edgeworthia chrysantha, Hesperaloe parviflora, Iris cristata ‘Tennessee White’, Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Early Bird Gold’, Sporobolus heterolepis, and Narcissus ‘Golden Echo’. Details are available by linking to www.beautifulgardens.org option ‘Plants of Distinction11’.
To nominate a plant or solicit an opportunity to participate as a grower, contact Lisa Lipsey, Program Coordinator at 540-231-6961 or llipsey@vt.edu . For further details of the Beautiful Gardens® program, see web site www.BeautifulGardens.org or contact Wright's colleague Rick Baker, Marketing Chairman with VDACS at rick.baker@vdacs.virginia.gov or contact the Virginia Nurserymen’s Association Horticulture Research Foundation Inc., 383 Coal Hollow Rd, Christiansburg, VA 24073-6721, at 540-382-0943 or info@beautifulgardens.org.
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Beautiful Gardens® State-wide Reception –
From spotlighted by Wright and her colleagues as the center piece of the 2010 Virginia GoGreen Garden Festival held in Richmond Virginia to plant testing coordinated by master gardeners or events host by the garden clubs of Virginia, Beautiful Gardens® is gaining brand recognition. “As spokesperson,” says Neal Beasley, “for the plant introduction program, I’ve found initial plant development to be diverse: range from Tyler’s farm Pine Knott located in south-side Virginia to a grower for the Stokesia located in Mississippi. In fact, a few of the selected plants are quite old and difficult to credit to any particular developer; and of course, some are native; so, God gets that one. Still regardless of the plants initial origin, the result is Virginia consumers have a wide-range of choice supported by demonstrated sustainable use.”
Beautiful Gardens® Plants of Distinction –
To initiate the 2009 program, Beautiful Gardens® promoted nine underutilized plants with stable performance in USDA hardiness/AHS heat zones 6a/2 to 8a/7, and excellent ornamental display. For 2010, the program added eight plants and for 2011, an additional six: Edgeworthia chrysantha, Hesperaloe parviflora, Iris cristata ‘Tennessee White’, Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Early Bird Gold’, Sporobolus heterolepis, and Narcissus ‘Golden Echo’. Details are available by linking to www.beautifulgardens.org option ‘Plants of Distinction11’.
To nominate a plant or solicit an opportunity to participate as a grower, contact Lisa Lipsey, Program Coordinator at 540-231-6961 or llipsey@vt.edu . For further details of the Beautiful Gardens® program, see web site www.BeautifulGardens.org or contact Wright's colleague Rick Baker, Marketing Chairman with VDACS at rick.baker@vdacs.virginia.gov or contact the Virginia Nurserymen’s Association Horticulture Research Foundation Inc., 383 Coal Hollow Rd, Christiansburg, VA 24073-6721, at 540-382-0943 or info@beautifulgardens.org.
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