The TAMU Horticulture Club will be holding its (32nd!) Annual Spring Plant Sale on Saturday, March 29th - plan ahead and don't miss it!
1) Participant - As a student, you can present your work and compete for
prizes! Any student who is the primary author of a research project,
class project, or paper may submit an abstract to be considered for the
oral or poster competition. Due to limited
seats, we encourage research participants to register and submit their
abstracts as soon as possible. Registration at
http://srw.tamu.edu will close on March 3rd, 2014 at 5pm.
| The TNLA Education & Research Foundation gave away over $25,000 in scholarship money last year to 8 deserving horticulture students. Do you know a deserving student who is studying horticulture in college or planning to study horticulture next year? Encourage them to apply for a TNLA E&R Foundation scholarship. The deadline is May 1st, 2014. |
| http://www.tnlaonline.org/uploaded_files/2014-2015_Scholarship_Application_5.1.14.pdf |
2014 Horticulture Career Fair is tomorrow, Wed. 2/26 in the HFSB Atrium from 10am-2pm - Don't miss it!
Looking for a horticulture intern for this summer at Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. The
internship will begin in June and end in late August. This is a hands-on
internship where the student will spend a summer along the Maine coast
learning about gardening in a temperate, coastal climate. The internship
is paid and the intern will get the opportunity to rotate and work with
all of our horticulture staff. This person will learn the essentials of
plant propagation, planting, watering, and pruning along with other
gardening skills. In addition, the intern will learn about collections
management and plant mapping. We will have several field trips
throughout the summer and the intern will have a project along with the
responsibility of contributing to the CMBG blog. $10.00 per hour. Visit Aggies for Hire for complete job posting.
Wow! There are so many great companies attending this year so plan ahead and do your research. You can even sign up to have lunch with an attendee!
· *Applicant
must be a resident of one of the 33 counties
making up District VII of the Texas Garden Clubs., Inc. (Aransas,
Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brooks, Comal, Dimmit, Duval, Edwards,
Frio, Goliad, Guadalupe, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kennedy, Kerr,
Kleberg, LaSalle, Live Oak, Maverick, McMullen, Medina,
Nueces, Real, Refugio, San Patricio, Uvalde, Webb, Wilson, Zapata, and
the City of Nixon)
The early bird gets the worm! Spring has not yet arrived, but there are so many great opportunities for horticulture students and grads just around the corner! So plan ahead and take advantage of the possibilities:
