NH Horticultural Endowment 2013 Annual Report

Special
$300 to $499
*Barrett Greenhouse and Nursery
*Bayberry Nursery
*Belknap Landscape Co., Inc.
*Blackberry Farm
*Colby Hines Contracting
*Davis Engineering
*Deer Cap Greenhouse
*Fred C. Gloeckner Company
*Gillyflower Glen
J.P. Bartlett, Co.
*Johnson’s Flower & Garden
*Ledgeview Greenhouses
Mason Hollow
Margaret Hagen
Merrymeeting Garden Center
*Neva Dun Farm
NH Association of County Extension Agents
*Portsmouth Gardens
*Quietaire Corp.
*Sunderman Manufacturing Company
*The Green Thumb of North Haverhill
*Uncanoonuc Mt. Perennials
*Weir Tree Farm
Donors
$299 or less
2 Blooming Sisters Garden Center
4 J’s Earth Works
7 Day Farm
*A Growing Concern
Ann & Dave Hilton
Apple Ridge Growers
Bay 19 Gardens
Benson’s Lumber & Hardware
Bob Parker
*Blue Star Peat Moss
*Bly Farm
*Boulder Farm
Brookhill Lighting & Landscape
*Callahan’s Greenhouse
*Calvin Schroeder
*Cannon Equipment Co.
Canterbury Plantation
Chris Schlegel
*Claussen’s Greenhouses
*Colebrook Nurseries
*D. McLeod, Inc
D.S. Cole Growers- Jason Ginn
*David Seavey
DeVylder Farms
Eagle Mountain Evergreens
*Environments
French Farm
Frizzhome Gardens
Garden Center of Epping
* Ginny Hast
Goudreault Farm
*Greenstuff
*Growing Things
Hemingway Farm
Hardy Greenhouses
Jaderloon Greenhouse Company
Jill West
Johnson & Dix Fuel Corp.
Jungle Drop Garden Center
*Konjonian’s Floriculture Education Services
Lake Street Garden Center
L’Annscapes
Leslie Doherty
Let It Bee Garden
Longacres Landscaping
Mason Hollow Nursery
Mathew Kobs
*Meredith Gardens
Miltimore’s
New England Heather
Northeast Landscaping
Northeast Nursery, Inc.
Parkwood Farm
Pure Barnyard
*Putnam’s Flowers & Gifts
*Revay’s Garden Center
*Ronald B. Laurence, P.E. Consultant
*Rosemont Farm
*Salmon Falls Nursery
Shady Hill Greenhouses
Stone Fall Gardens
Stonepost Nursery
Sunny Border Nurseries
Surfside Landscape
*Sullivan Greenhouse
*Tammy Hathaway
NH Horticultural Endowment
2013 Annual Report
NH Plant Grower’s Association * New Hampshire Horticulture Endowment
The Grant-Making resource for New Hampshire’s Horticulture Industry
NH Horticulture Endowment
Steering Committee
Peter van Berkum
Van Berkum Nurseries
Deerfield, NH
Henry Huntington
Pleasant View Gardens
Loudon, NH
Doug Cole
D.S. Cole Growers
Loudon, NH
Robert Demers
Demers Garden Center
Manchester, NH
June 30, 2014
Progress Report: Partnership
for Consumer Focused Videos
Rick Simpson
Rolling Green Nursery
Greenland, NH
Dr. Cathy Neal ([email protected])
and Dr. Brian Krug ([email protected] )
The Blue Bell Greenhouse, Inc.
The Donald Ward Company
University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
Vermont Natural Ag. Products, Inc.
Vicki Jancef
*Village Greenery
Willowmist Grasses
Willow Pond Nursery
*Yoder Brothers
*Founding benefactor
295 Sheep Davis Road, Concord, NH 03301
(603) 435-6425
[email protected]
We appreciate the support of the New Hampshire Horticulture
Endowment in funding our proposal to produce five videos that answer
frequently asked questions from gardeners. These videos were meant to
support garden center personnel by providing a quick and easy source of
objective information to help educate customers on such topics as proper
planting, mulching and watering practices. Knowing that successful planting
295 Sheep Davis Road, Concord, NH 03301
(603) 435-6425
[email protected]
results in repeat sales, retailers can link customers with the videos through their smart phones, provide viewing
areas in the store, and/or embed the video links in their own website for later viewing.
We polled garden center operators through an on-line survey, asking them to rank potential topics from
a list and/or write in additional ideas. While some topics were too complex to address in a short video, others
were well-suited for a 5-8 minute time frame, which survey respondents said was the ideal length for a video. We
narrowed it down to this list of five:
• How to Plant a Tree in Your Landscape
• Mulching Your Trees and Shrubs
2013 NH Horticulture
Endowment
NH Horticulture Endowment
Financial Report
Financial
Report
1/01/13 through 12/31/13
Checking Account balance: 1/01/13
Income:
Donations to Endowment
Sungrow
Expenses:
UNH Sponsored Programs Grant
Admin. Asst. 2012 hours
Checks
• Choosing and Caring for Backyard Fruit Trees
Income less Expenses:
• Watering the Garden
Checking Account Balance: 12/31/13
• Simple Tips for Diagnosing Plant Problems
Net gain (loss) to checking account:
With assistance from Extension Field Specialists
Margaret Hagen, Amy Papineau and retired Extension
Specialist Bill Lord, the first three videos on the list
were completed in early 2014 and posted on the
UNH Extension YouTube Channel. To date, the three
completed videos have had nearly 1000 views in a
three-month window. You can see and link to them
through this webpage:
$7,404.79
$2,825.00
$3,070.00
$5,895.00
$5,000.00
$530.00
$25.50
$5,555.50
$339.50
$ 7,744.29
$339.50
MFS Mutual Fund Value: 1/01/13
MFA Mutual Fund Value: 12/31/13
Income (loss)
/
$20,510.94
$24,381.66
NH Charitable Foundation: 1/01/13
Net Investment Return
Foundation Fees
Ending Balance: 12/31/13
Net gain (loss)
$119,205.69
$11,226.97
_ ($804.63)
$135,363.88
Total Assets as of 1/01/13
Total Assets as of 12/31/13
$3,870.72
$16,158.19
$147,121.42
$167,489.83
http://extension.unh.edu/Videos-Home-Gardener
The remaining two videos are scheduled to
be filmed and edited by September, 2014, and will be
posted as soon as possible. Dr. Cheryl Smith will be
helping Brian Krug with the video on diagnosing plant
problems, and Margaret Hagen will produce the video
on watering.
Please help get the word out about their availability and encourage people to plant, mulch and care for
their plants properly! We are currently looking into having hang-tags printed up with QR codes linked to the
appropriate videos. You would simply hang the tags on your trees or shrubs and the customer would have easy
access to the video right in the nursery or whenever convenient after making the purchase.
Let us know what you think. Do you need help embedding the videos on your own webpage? Are
there more topics you want added to the video library? Are you interested in learning some tips to produce
your own videos? Not many people have given us feedback, but one garden center emailed last week to say
“we absolutely LOVE the videos you guys put up. Those are the typical questions we get from our customers
and we have been debating on making videos ourselves to cover the basics. You have done a much better job
than we ever could.”
NHPGA Container Mix Program:
NHPGA members raised over $3,070 dollars in the past year
for the NHHE Endowment fund. One dollar from the sale
of every bag goes to research that benefits NH Growers.
To learn more about selling the container mix please
contact Peter Gagnon, Sungro Horticulture, 860-428-8470,
[email protected]
Plant
Growers
NEW HAMPSHIRE
QUALITY GARDEN CENTERS
& GROWERS
The New Hampshire Horticulture
Endowment (NHHE) was founded
in 1997 as an extension of the
New Hampshire Plant Growers
Association. Each year the NHHE
grants money to researchers
working on related issues in
the field of horticulture that
will assist New Hampshire
Plant Growers.
ALL-PURPOSE
CONTAINER
MIX
READY TO USE
FOR OUTDOOR PLANTS
PROCEEDS FROM
THIS BAG OF SOIL WILL
BE USED TO HELP
GROW THIS FUND.
YOUR SUPPORT IN MAKING
THIS PURCHASE IS HELPING
TO MAKE NEW HAMPSHIRE
A GREENER PLACE TO LIVE.
2.5 Cu Ft ~ 64 Dry Quarts (70.4 L)
295 Sheep Davis Road, Concord, NH 03301
(603) 435-6425
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D o n o r s t o D ate :
Pacesetting
$10,000 plus
*Pleasant View Gardens
Leading
$5,000 to $9,999
First Pioneer Farm Credit
*Ledgewood Farm
*Newton Greenhouses
Major
$3,000 to $4,999
Ball Seed Company
*D.S. Cole Growers, Inc.
*Griffin Greenhouse
and Nursery Supply
New Hampshire Landscape Association
*Spider Web Gardens
*Van Berkum Nursery
W.H. Milikowski, Inc.
Primary
$1,000 to $2,999
*Bailey Nurseries, Inc.
Cavicchio Greenhouses, Inc.
*Champions of NH Farms/ NH Dept. Of Agriculture
*Deerfield Gardens
*Demers Garden Center
Durham Garden Club
Edgewater Farm
*Garrison Hill Florists, Inc.
*Goldstar Wholesale Nursery, Inc.
*Hortica (formerly known as Florist’s Mutual Insurance Company)
*Nancy Carlisle Interior Plantings
*Outdoor World
*Prides Corner Farm, Inc.
*Rimol Greenhouse Systems, Inc.
*Rolling Green Nursery
*Round Table Farm Greenhouse
*Stratham Circle Nursery and Landscape
*Trugreen Landcare (Formerly *Coronis Landscaping, Inc.)
Wentworth Greenhouses
Supporting
$500 to $999
*Berger Peat Moss, Inc.
*Berger’s Springledge Nursery
*Bergevin’s Greenhouse
*Charter Oak Landscape & Nursery Sales
*Churchill Garden Center
*Davis Brook Farm
*Ellison’s Greenhouse
McSherry’s Nursery
*Kathan Gardens
Millican Nurseries
* Nancy E. Adams
The Mixed Border Nursery
*New England Anemones
*Wayside Farm
Windsock Gardens
295 Sheep Davis Road, Concord, NH 03301
(603) 435-6425
[email protected]