US (CA): NGB travels to Spring Trials with influential garden communicators

National Garden Bureau (NGB), the non-profit organization promoting gardening on behalf of the horticulture industry and its members, is again traveling the CA Spring Trials with four influential garden communicators. The goal and intent of this sponsored trip is to connect the originating breeder and broker side of the industry with consumers via these influencers with large followings.

Again this year, National Garden Bureau encourages the industry to use the hashtag #CASpringTrials (without a year) to build community and exposure for the event and the new varieties introduced there.

Each year since 2015 NGB has invited a group of bloggers/writers to accompany them to the CA Spring Trials. At the trials, these garden communicators are given a unique opportunity to see the origination point of many of their favorite plants and get an insider’s view of the industry.

National Garden Bureau would like to thank the following NGB Members for their sponsorship contributions which make this trip possible:

All-America Selections
American Takii
Ball Horticulture/PanAmerican Seed
Dummen Orange
Ernst Benary
Harris Seeds
Proven Winners
Sakata
Suntory Flowers
Syngenta

The Garden Communicators attending the 2018 Spring Trials are:

Tracy Blevins – PlantsMap
Karen Chapman- Le Jardinet and Fine Foliage
Gail Pabst – National Garden Bureau
Erin Schanen – The Impatient Gardener
Marianne Willburn – Small Town Gardener

For more information

National Garden Bureau

Diane Blazek

Executive Director

blazekdiane@gmail.com

ngb@aas-ngb.org