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GARDENCOMM FUNDRAISER: Two Competitors, Two Irises and One Ingenious Chance to Win
Peer into the cutthroat world of iris breeding, where delicacy meets domination. The setting of Lanford Wilson’s 35-minute play, A Betrothal, is a large tent where two flower show exhibitors have sought refuge from a sudden rainfall and in the end learn that sometimes differences are just the thing that can bring people together.
The play will be available on demand December 3-6. Please join us for this fabulous and funny play and fundraiser, mounted especially for GardenComm and performed by Natalie Carmolli and Joe Carmolli and filmed by Adriana Robinson of Spring Meadow Nursery. Pat Stone will perform a musical introduction.
Thank you to Natalie, Joe, Adriana and Pat who have donated their time and services for this end-of-year fundraiser. GardenComm has special pricing for members and their guests. With video-on-demand, you can pause and rewind, something you can’t do that with scheduled content. Since the play is available on demand, you don’t have to be available at a set time to watch. You can get a ticket for a specific day, and then have 48 hours to watch.
Anyone can join us — family, friends, neighbors — for a funny one-act play and fundraiser.
Special pricing for this fundraiser:
House Party, $30, plus fees
The Cozy (1-2 people), $20, plus fees
Pandemic Pocketbook Saver, $10, plus fees
Click here to purchase tickets Want to sponsor this fundraiser? Contact us at info@gardencomm.org
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GivingTuesday — the National Day of Giving, Tuesday, December 1st
This holiday season, please consider a donation to GardenComm. GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world.
GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past seven years, it has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
Your donation will help support education, scholarships, Plant A Row for the Hungry and other programs promoting gardening and gardening communications. GardenComm is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.
Please click here to login and give generously to GardenComm on GivingTuesday or anytime.
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From GardenComm President, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Good news! If you haven’t already, you’ll soon receive notice to renew your membership in GardenComm…at the 2020 rate.
Your board voted to hold the line on dues, keeping them at $125 for regular membership. The dues were scheduled to go up $10 to $135 in 2021.
Your organization’s leadership recognizes how challenging 2020 has been and we know that for many of us, funds are tight. We hope you will look at keeping dues at the 2020 level as a commitment to our members’ best interests and a good reason to continue your membership. Click here to login and renew. Please encourage colleagues to join. BOLO for some new benefits to your membership, too.
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Always a standout, the Easy Wave series lets you garden with a wide array of decorator colors – like NEW Rose Fusion. The vibrant mid-rose colored blooms have deep rose veins. Easy Wave has a versatile habit for hanging baskets, balconies, landscapes or any place you have a sunny garden location.
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Call for Entries: 2021 GardenComm Media Awards
GardenComm is calling on garden communicators to submit their best articles, books, photography, and more to the 2021 GardenComm Media Awards, one of the only national online media awards programs recognizing professional accomplishments in the gardening communications industry. Eligible pieces can be submitted through March 30. Click here to submit.
Big News about GardenComm Media Awards!
Believe it or not, there’s a silver lining to all those Zoom presentations we’ve been doing. This year, in the GardenComm Media Awards Live Presentation category, you may submit a recording of your most excellent Zoom recordings (or videos made via GoToWebinar, GoogleMeet, etc.) as long as you are visible within the recording. You must appear within the presentation, either full screen, as a thumbnail, or a combination of both. You may not submit a slideshow which you narrate but in which you are not visible.
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Support Plant a Row
Support Plant a Row and help make a difference in your community. Click here for more information.
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Benary’s most exciting BIG addition: Extremely well branched with short internodes so it’s covered with blooms. Outstanding garden performance lives up to the BIG Begonia name. Earlier to set blooms then perfect mounded habit later in the season. Extremely heat tolerant!
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"2020 is almost over but you still have time to celebrate the year of the Hydrangea, Lavender, Corn, Iris and Lantana. Click here to promote gardening all year!" #garden365
It’s not just any day. It’s a great day to promote Gardening! In an effort to inspire and support national ‘day of, week of and month of’ celebrations, National Garden Bureau has worked in partnership with GardenComm to create and launch a new web page listing many popular dates. These are fantastic opportunities for garden communicators to promote gardening. The current list is the “best of the best”; there is something that will appeal to just about everyone regardless of age or their level of gardening experience. Use this list to plan for your speaking, blogs, videos, content calendars and social media posts to educate, have fun and inspire gardeners to get out and get their hands in the dirt. In many cases, suggested hashtags are included so feel free to use those to raise the tide of gardening.
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Sponsor an Upcoming Webinar
Our Sponsorship Opportunities include benefits to engage and attract GardenComm's professional member communicators in the green industry including book authors, bloggers, staff editors, syndicated columnists, freelance writers, photographers, speakers, landscape designers, television and radio personalities, consultants, publishers, extension service agents and more. No other organization in the green industry has as much contact with the buying public as GardenComm members.
We can customize packages to meet your budget from $250 or above. Click here to view our packages or contact us at info@gardencomm.org for more information.
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Help us Help You! Share GardenComm Events with Your Readers.
GardenComm has virtual events lined up well into 2021 thanks to our Education Committee led by Maria Zampini and Kim Toscano. As a non-profit, GardenComm relies on events like this to fund member programs, benefits and operations. We would appreciate you sharing events with your newsletter subscribers to increase attendance, attract sponsors and spread the GardenComm love. Please find details here or contact us at info@gardencomm.org to receive additional graphics, events details and links to register to include in your outgoing newsletters.
Thank you for partnering and supporting GardenComm.
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.HORTICULTURE
Controlled-environment specialty crop production
Horti Daily
Professional advice on growing thriving specialty crops in controlled environments is available for free at the second annual Urban Agriculture Controlled Environment Conference online December 3. The event is led by research faculty and specialists of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas A&M AgriLife Research, who welcome new and prospective controlled-environment growers for this online learning event.
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New podcast offers tips on facility design and best greenhouse practices
Greenhouse Grower
GroAdvisor PodcastGroAdvisor, a greenhouse and indoor farming solutions provider, has launched a new “Greenhouse & Indoor Cultivation Podcast.” Commercial growers and cultivation business owners of all crop types can tune in to learn strategies to grow their business, get the most out of their cultivation systems, and advance their horticulture career.
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.JOURNALISM
Congress and the platforms: The circus is back in town
Columbia Journalism Review
While the president continues to rant about conspiracies he believes denied him the election, the Senate Judiciary Committee decided to hold yet another hearing into the alleged misbehavior of Facebook and Twitter. This comes less than a month after the Senate Commerce Committee held a very similar hearing into the two social platforms, which consisted mostly of members like Senator Ted Cruz making a show of badgering Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey.
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Make your garden come to life with Sunfinity® Sunflowers that thrive and bloom continuously all season long.
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Journalists are not the only storytellers
Columbia Journalism Review
Since Tuesday, the Lenfest Institute has been hosting an online summit dedicated to reimagining journalism in Philadelphia (the event continues today). Yesterday morning, ¡Presente! Media — a Philadelphia-based bilingual media collective — presented a documentary about three Philly locals, highlighting the ways in which media can either limit or support the roles that people play in their communities.
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.BUSINESS
3 ways to save money for your small business
Business Matters
Running a business is one of the costliest endeavors a person could possibly imagine. In addition to its personal and managerial challenges, there is also a whole host of expenses required to operate an enterprise.
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5 essential tech solutions your small business needs to grow
CoFounder
Running a small business during the COVID-19 crisis is a challenging task, and unfortunately, there are many companies around the world that will go under during this trying period. If you want to stay afloat and even continue to grow in the new normal, you need to start investing in digital transformation. One of your goals should be to facilitate remote working for you and your employees because remote work has become paramount to success.
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.SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media innovation is dead
Business Insider
Crack open the warm champagne: another short-form, impermanent content stream that looks just like every short-form, impermanent content stream has launched. The newest iteration comes from Twitter, which rolled out the new Fleets feature to its users on November 17.
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To survive, social media needs better governance
built in
Social media companies don’t want to moderate speech. They want to show you ads. Mark Zuckerberg famously told Senator Orrin Hatch as much in 2018 when asked about how Facebook makes money. But as advertisers and the people populating these ad-based platforms began to demand an online experience that was more heavily regulated to mitigate abusive behavior, platforms like Facebook were thrust into a quasi-governmental role.
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