How did it get to be June?  Have I been home that long (and did I really send all those emails)?

Honors to Margery Daughtrey!  We know she is a plant disease rock star but apparently so do others.  She now has a downy mildew – the one that affects cleome – named after her – Hyloperonospora daughtreyae (and more than half the letters in the alphabet, too).  May you all get to see Margery but not her namesake mildew.

Horticultural Research Industry has a new BMP document on Boxwood Health for production and landscape management.

https://www.hriresearch.org/sites/default/files/BoxwoodBlight/HRIBoxwoodHealthBMPs-V3-2020.pdf

Want to learn about the research funded by the Hort Research Institute and USDA?  HRI has a new web series called tHRIve (and I didn’t misspell that).  https://www.hriresearch.org/thrive-web-series

Another Cornell connection – for a video on growing in containers for your customers – Bobbie Kuhlman from the Cornell Botanic Gardens does a great job! https://cornellbotanicgardens.org/grow-your-own-vegetables-with-container-and-small-space-gardening/