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PRESS RELEASES
Recent press releases from the Montana
Nursery & Landscape Association may be downloaded or opened in Microsoft Word
below:
2008 Annual Meeting & Trade Show [September 18, 2007] - click link to download Word copy of press release
2007
Horticulture Scholarship Awards [September 4, 2007] - click link to download
Word copy of press release
INDUSTRY NEWS
National Plant Board Position Paper on
P. ramorum
("Sudden Oak Death")
[December 2006]
Daylily Rust
(Puccinia hemerocallidis)
Daylily species are undemanding perennials,
long cultivated and naturalized in many areas. They are very popular in North
America where thousands of new cultivars have been introduced since 1950.
Daylily rust appears to be very aggressive, especially on the daylily variety
"Pardon Me". Following inoculation of the leaves, infection occurs two to three
days later, eventually killing the foliage. Spread to other daylilies in a
nursery is rapid. The
Montana Department
of Agriculture may be surveying nurseries for this pest as soon as 2005. For
more information, follow this link to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS):
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/npb/daylily.html
Yellow Flag Iris
(Iris pseudoacorus)
Yellow Flag Iris is listed by Montana as a
category 3 noxious weed and this plant is invading irrigation ditches and slow,
fractured channels in the Bitterroot River in Ravalli County. It is currently
being targeted for eradication on the Lee Metcalf Wildlife and Teller Wildlife
Refuges and the Ravalli County Weed District is working to fund surveys of the
pest and determine best methods of eradication. Invasion by yellow flag iris in
waterways reduces fish habitat and interferes with the free flow of water in
shallow areas. This species of iris is also believed to be problematic in other
areas in Montana, including the Pattee Canyon drainage in Missoula and areas of
the Bitterroot River in Missoula County.