Bulletin Update: Aug 31, 2022
In this update:
MEET A GROW STAFF MEMBER: Janet Behrens
Register Now for the GROW Employment Boot Camp this September!
Weed Prevention: Some Surprising Tips from Sunnybrook’s Grounds Department (Your Health Matters)
WATCH: Why You Should Consider A Horticultural Technician Apprenticeship
Fairmont Royal York’s Green Roof (GreenRoofs.com)
READ: Trellis (Fall 2022, Vol. 51)
Technically Speaking: How to Control Rose Rosette Disease (NALP)
1. MEET A GROW STAFF MEMBER: Janet Behrens
Here we introduce our valuable GROW staff who bring Landscape Ontario’s GROW Training Programs to you.
For this week, meet Janet Behrens - One of GROW’s Employment Specialists!
Learn more about Janet
2. Register Now for the GROW Employment Boot Camp this September!
Join GROW’s Employment Specialists & Job Bank Employers online on Sept. 8th from 10 AM - 12 PM!
Find out about the newest employers & job postings on the GROW Job Bank
Get help with your resume and/or job applications
Access one-on-one job coaching with a GROW Employment Specialist
Connect with select GROW Job Bank Employers & GROW alumni
Register for your spot now!
3. Weed Prevention: Some Surprising Tips from Sunnybrook’s Grounds Department (Your Health Matters)
Your Health Matters is Sunnybrook Hospital’s blog on stories and expert health tips. Rohan Harrison, team leader of Sunnybrook’s Grounds Department, offers some unexpected insights around understanding so-called “weeds” and how to manage them in your own garden. Rohan is also an accredited organic lawn care practitioner.
Read the story
4. WATCH: Why You Should Consider A Horticultural Technician Apprenticeship
Hear from Tony Di Giovanni, Landscape Ontario’s Executive Director, about why the Horticultural Technician Apprenticeship is the best-kept secret of the landscape horticulture industry.
5. Fairmont Royal York’s Green Roof (GreenRoofs.com)
See one of the oldest green roofs in Toronto - on top of the Fairmont Royal York (100 Front St. W, Toronto, ON)!
The luxury Fairmont Royal York hotel grows vegetables and edible plants in a 4,000 sq. ft. rooftop garden on the 14th floor roof. The hotel’s Executive Chef grows many herbs and vegetables in 17 beds, including organic basil, parsley, sage, tarragon, chocolate mint, peppermint, spearmint, chives, and lemon balm, two pear trees, five cherry trees and a single green apple tree, marjoram hot peppers and cayenne pepper plants.
Take a look at this Green Roof project
6. READ: Trellis (Fall 2022, Vol. 51)
This fall’s issue of Trellis magazine is jam-packed! Enjoy the stunning plant photos and exciting gardening articles from the Toronto Botanical Gardens:
Bursting With Colour: Trial Gardens inspire visitors, draw hummingbirds and photographers (Leanne Burkholder)
The Teaching Garden: Goals and Challenges of Planting Vegetables (Dean Ruhnke)
Overwinter Tropicals: With a little know-how, you can enjoy them for years (Veronica Silva)
Tiny Garden, Big Impact: Transferring from a large garden to a smaller one (Carol Gardner)
Enjoy the Trellis here
7. Technically Speaking: How to Control Rose Rosette Disease (NALP)
Rose rosette disease is a condition that attacks roses, causing them to develop strange, deformed stems, leaves, and flowers. Rose species and rose hybrids are the only suitable hosts for the disease, with its primary host being the multiflora rose. As of now, there is no cure … making it an incredible threat to the multiflora rose species and potentially to all cultivated roses.
Due to its inability to be cured, it’s important to know how to identify and control this disease.