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National Green Centre University Articles Archive

• The 3 Greens in Stormwater Management:Infrastructure, Industry & $$$

• WESTERN University professor Steve Rodie on why the green industry should be involved in green infrastructure 

• The Sustainable Sites Initiative

• WESTERN University professor Dr. Ann Marie VanDerZanden discusses the interdisciplinary effort to create voluntary guidelines and benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction and maintenance practices.  

• "Sucking It Up:" Understanding How Systemic Insecticides Kill Insect Pests

• Western University professor Dr. Raymond Cloyd discusses systemic insecticides

• Top Ten Tree & Shrub Problems - A Plant Pathologist's Perspective

• By Megan Kennelly, Assistant Professor, Kansas State University Dept of Plant Pathology and Western University contributor

• Cornus mas (Corneliancherry dogwood)

• Jeff Iles of Iowa State University and Western University contributor on Cornus mas.  For the Corneliancherry dogwood, March is "show time."

• Wide Mulch Rings Speed Tree Growth

• Article by Christopher J. Starbuck, Ph.D.: Associate Professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at University of Missouri

• Phosphorus in the cross hairs

• Jim Robbins of the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Program on a novel slow-release phosphorous fertilizer