New Nursery Crops Website/Portal

New Website for Nurseries

Dr. Anthony Lebude

NC State Department of Horticultural Science has introduced three new information portals for commercial nursery crops (Fig. 1), landscape and floriculture.  The sites are intended for growers and Cooperative Extension Agents in North Carolina.  The portal covers the main areas of production, for example, water, substrates, IPM, cultural practices, diagnostics, plant choices for problem areas and more.  News and upcoming events are kept current and there are wholesale prices listed for common green and hard goods in the green industry to gauge their average in the state.  Use the portal to learn about a new challenge to the green industry at your own pace.  For example, there are primary documents that tell the whole research story about a new production practice but that may be too technical for you, instead you might read an extension article that makes the information more practical for North Carolina growers, or read a similar article in a trade publication that might be more broad-based for the southeast, but contain many of the same concepts. There are photos to describe the practices and in some cases videos and podcasts to show you some of the concepts being used in production.  As always, there are links to other relevant information on important topics.
To access the information visit:

nurserycropscience.info
floriculture.nurserycropscience.info
landscape.nurserycropscience.info

Thank you!!

For more information contact your local Cooperative Extension Center and ask for the Commercial Horticulture Agent.

Survey of Cover Crop Use in Field Production of Woody Ornamentals.

Please complete the short on-line survey from the link below. Results will be used to prioritize research and extension efforts to investigate integration of cover crops into nursery production. It takes only 7 minutes to complete.

This project is led by Dr. Anthony LeBude in the Dept. of Horticultural Science and funded by the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service and the North Carolina Nursery and Landscape Association (NCNLA).

ALL RESPONSES ARE ANONYMOUS AND KEPT STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. YOUR RESPONSES CANNOT BE LINKED TO YOU IN ANY WAY AND WILL ONLY BE SEEN BY THE SURVEY OWNER (ANTHONY LEBUDE). AS A FURTHER PRECAUTION, ONLY AVERAGES, AND NOT INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES, WILL BE REPORTED.

An overview of the results will be published in Nursery Notes magazine.

Follow this link below to complete the survey.




Cover Crop Survey


For more information contact your local Cooperative Extension Center and ask for the Commercial Horticulture Agent.