Scenes from 2016 Landscape Show

FANN staff in one corner of our booth at the 2016 Landscape Show. Pictured L-R are Mala Dodge and Emma Haselow.

FANN staff get ready for the onslaught of attendees!

FANN had a blast at the 2016 Landscape Show in Orlando Sept 14-16, 2016 AND we made a big impact. We recruited a few new members, renewed some who had lapsed, interacted with 250 middle and high school students and for the first time ever, gave them a “Native Plant Careers” flyer to take home, sponsored an awesome pollinator workshop, and distributed about 700 copies of our new Native Plant & Service Directory and 300 bee tattoos. Plus we had a fantastic turnout at our members meeting (and dinner after!) and the board is moving forward on an initiative to streamline membership and possibly hold our first ever FANN retreat (stay tuned!).

Part of the Green Isle Gardens Nursery booth

Of the 32 FANN members exhibiting at the show, 5 took booth awards as follows:

• Triple O Nursery Farms: Best 300 square foot and larger booth
• Grandiflora Nursery: Best 200 square foot booth
• Green Isle Gardens Nursery: Best 100 square foot booth
• Sandhill Native Growers & Environmental Services: Special Recognition
• AgriStarts: Special Recognition

One little patch of the scrub in Sandhill Native Growers booth, with 3000 pounds of ancient beach sand, lots of native plants, gopher tortoises and scrub jays …

Eve Spengler of Bay Mulch Organics Recycling talks to our Pine Lily Chapter FNPS volunteers in front of the super popular bee display.

Native Plant Careers flyer

Our first ever Native Plant Careers flyer with seed packet attached.