Connecticut Green Industry Members Install Landscaping at New Vo-Ag School

Making their annual gift to the people of Connecticut, the state's nurseries, landscapers, and garden centers will install new landscaping Oct. 2 for the grounds of Middletown's new vocational-agriculture high school building as part of the annual PlantConnecticut program.
   
The project, organized each year by the Connecticut Nursery & Landscape Association (CNLA), is designed to focus attention on the value of Connecticut-grown plants and encourage planting around the state, said Kevin Sullivan, chairman of this year's PlantConnecticut,  and owner of Chestnut Hill Nursery in Stafford.
   
Every year since PlantConnecticut first began in 1950, the nurserymen/women have picked a different site around the state to do their complimentary planting and landscaping.
  
A volunteer crew of at least 20 nursery/landscape workers from up to a dozen companies from all over Connecticut will spend Thursday, October 2 installing over 30 different varieties of plants around the vo-ag building.
    
The plantings around the School will be a learning experience for the vo-ag high schoolers, who will be with us that day.
   
The plants will be donated by many of the state's nursery growers. The production of plants and flowers is Connecticut's biggest agricultural segment at over $1 billion annually. Connecticut's residents, because of their affluence, spend more per capita on flowers and plants than people of any other state.  The Connecticut Nursery & Landscape Association represents more than 400 companies in the business.