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Monday, July 21: Lancaster County Growers and Garden Center Tour
Registration: 6:30 am Sheraton Liberty Ballroom Foyer
Buses load 7:15 am; Return 5:00 pm
This optional tour caters to growers and retailers who want to experience a progressive independent garden center and some of the icon plug supply nurseries in North America.
Creek Hill, Yoder Brothers, and Emerald Coast Growers are known throughout North America for providing starter plants.
Attendees will enjoy the lunch stop at Conestoga House and Gardens, a garden designed and developed in the 1930’s.
Emerald Coast Growers
Emerald Coast Growers, one of the industry’s largest suppliers of ornamental grass liners, also produces a wide variety of perennial starter plants and specialty plants.
Founded in 1991 by Dave Babikow, Emerald Coast’s headquarters are in Pensacola, Florida, with production facilities in Lancaster and Florida. The Lancaster facility has 50,000 square feet of inter-connected greenhouses, which are used for production of cool weather grasses such as Carex, Festuca, and Calamagrostis, many seed perennials, and a hellebore program. A recently installed trial garden highlights new varieties, as well as some tried and true.
The registration fee for this optional tour is $80 for PPA members and $110 for non-members. The fee includes coach transportation and lunch at Conestoga House and Gardens.
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