OSU Green Industry Short Course and Ohio Turfgrass Foundation Conference Goes Virtual Next Week
Once again, the OSU Green Industry Short Course and the Ohio Turfgrass Foundation Conference are partnering up to bring you two outstanding educational events combined into one program. This year the program is - yes you guessed it - going virtual.
You can join us for this historic virtual event that offers over 60 hours of education! The on-demand sessions are available now if you want to begin learning today! Credits will be offered for many of the live sessions being...
Street Trees Part 7 – Quercus, Oaks
Street Trees Part 6 – Metasequioa, Dawn Redwood and Taxodium, Bald Cypress
Plant Introductions: Meet Invasive Species Common Barberry and Japanese Barberry
Common barberry or European barberry, Berberis vulgaris, is a non-native invasive woody shrub. Intentionally brought to North America by early settlers in the 1600s, it has escaped cultivation and is widely distributed in the northern U.S. Common barberry is also an alternative host for the disease, black stem rust, a severe pest of grains. As a result, large scale eradication efforts began in the 1900's to remove this reservoir of disease. However, populations still exist in the Great Lakes states, including Ohio, and the northeastern United...