Events & Webinars

AmericanHort Quarterly Advocacy Brief

The AmericanHort Advocacy and Research Team

Quarterly Brief I - Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 11 AM, EST
Quarterly Brief II - Wednesday, June 24, 2020, 11 AM, EST
Quarterly Brief III - Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 11 AM, EST
Quarterly Brief IV - Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 11 AM, EST

AmericanHort premium members get exclusive access to the AmericanHort Advocacy and Research Team during this Quarterly Advocacy Brief webinar series. Attendees get the latest news from Washington D.C. and are able to ask questions on how it affects your business.

Email Amanda Holton at AmandaH@AmericanHort.org to register

Women in Horticulture: An Interview with Suzie Raker-Zimmerman

Wednesday, April 8, 2020, 2 PM, EST

Susie Raker-Zimmerman, AmericanHort Chairwoman of the Board, Raker-Roberta's Young Plants & Mary Beth Cowardin Vice President Membership and Strategic Engagement

Introducing the Women in Horticulture Interview Series! AmericanHort is pleased to present this educational and inspirational interview series with accomplished women from the green industry. Hear their stories of accomplishment, challenges overcome as they’ve navigated their career that will provide you inspiration and encouragement. In this interview, we will hear from Susie Raker-Zimmerman, Vice President of Raker Roberta’s Young Plants.

Women in Horticulture: An Interview with Kathy Fediw

Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 2 PM, EST

Kathy Fediw, AmericanHort Interior Plantscape Hall of Fame Inductee, 2020 &Mary Beth Cowardin Vice President Membership and Strategic Engagement

AmericanHort is pleased to present this educational and inspirational interview series with accomplished women from the green industry. Hear their stories of accomplishment, challenges overcome as they’ve navigated their career that will provide you inspiration and encouragement. In this interview, we will hear from Kathy Fediw, interior plantscape consultant, author, trainer, speaker, and 2020 AmericanHort Interior Plantscape Hall of Fame honoree.

Women in Horticulture: An Interview with Jennifer Moss

Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 2 PM, EST

Jennifer Moss, AmericanHort GenerationNext Community Connector, Moss Greenhouses & Mary Beth Cowardin Vice President Membership and Strategic Engagement

AmericanHort is pleased to present this educational and inspirational interview series with accomplished women from the green industry. Hear their stories of accomplishment, challenges overcome as they’ve navigated their career that will provide you inspiration and encouragement. In this interview, we will hear from Jennifer Moss, owner and director of sales and marketing at Moss Greenhouses in Jerome, Idaho

Three options for protecting your new plant cultivar – which are best for you?

Thursday, May 14, 2020, 1:00 p.m. EST

Travis W. Bliss, Ph.D., Partner and Stephany G. Small, Ph.D., Life Sciences Patent Agent, Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

Over the past two years, breeders of asexually reproduced plant varieties have gone from essentially a single option for protecting their novel varieties to three options: plant patents, utility patents, and plant variety protection (PVP) certificates. This presentation will explore each of those types of protection, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and when one might want to select one over the other. It will also discuss how one can use multiple types of intellectual property protection to “build a stronger fence” around your novel varieties. What you’ll learn: • Basics of plant patents, utility patents, and PVP protection, including how to obtain them, what they can be used to protect, and the scope/strength of protection they provide • The pros and cons of each form of protection • How to use multiple forms of IP protection to build a stronger IP fence around your novel plant variety

Cultivate’20

July 11-14, 2020

New knowledge, networking, strategies, suppliers, brainstorming, plants, products, inspiration, ideas, good eats, great city, and you. With 650+ exhibitors, 100+ education sessions, and 10,000 other attendees to get to know, there's no place better to do business, grow business, and set yourself up for success. Cultivate’20 is All About You, and we can't wait to see you.

DIG Conference

August 31 – September 2, 2020 | Denver, Colorado

Garden Retail Industry Tour

September 29 – October 1, 2020 | Minneapolis, Minnesota

Nursery Production

October 5 – 7, 2020 | Abbotsford, British Columbia

Landscape Operations Industry Tour

October 26 – 27, 2020 | Durham, North Carolina

We’ll visit six exemplary companies to learn how these businesses attract and retain quality team members, build vibrant company cultures, and handle topics like project management, customer service, training and so much more. We will see their operations up close and learn production techniques that allows their businesses to thrive. and so much more.

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2020 IGCA Congress

October 18-23, 2020 | South Africa

Each year, the IGCA Congress is hosted in a different country and this year we are traveling to South Africa! The 2020 IGCA Congress will included a concentrated business tour of garden centres and excellent social programing while exploring South Africa.