Nursery & Landscape Insider   8/11/2016

Fireblight, Mower Costs, Zone 4 Buxus, The Jar in the Window

GrowerTalks   12/1/2018

Wasps: A Love-Hate Relationship

Sylvia Schaap

What good are wasps anyway?

GrowerTalks   4/1/2018

There’s a Bug on My Plant!

Sylvia Schaap

What we really need is growers to communicate what we’re attempting with IPM to the general public.

GrowerTalks   1/1/2018

Hello, Real Life!

Sylvia Schaap

I’ve entered that real world. The one that can be quite a shocker for someone who’s spent years learning about plants off paper.

GrowerTalks   4/1/2018

Eyes Mandatory, Degree Optional

Sylvia Schaap

Identifying insect and disease issues in-house.

GrowerTalks   2/1/2019

Sweet Science

Sylvia Schaap

How using a Brix Refractometer can help you gauge the health of your crop.

GrowerTalks   8/1/2018

Having Six Legs at a Career Fair

Sylvia Schaap

It turns out you get genuine and spontaneous questions from high schoolers when you show them a butterfly or beetle.

GrowerTalks   3/29/2017

Mistaken? Probably …

Sylvia Schaap

Mistakes, although they’re penalized with a poor grade in school and met with displeasure in the workforce, are important in the development of skill and knowledge.

GrowerTalks   2/28/2017

Qualification: Education, Experience, Passion (Not Necessarily in That Order)

Sylvia Schaap

Passion for a career doesn’t grow on trees. It comes through experience and good experiences in the industry of choice.

GrowerTalks   11/30/2016

Young Voices: Ahhh, the Life of a Student

Sylvia Schaap

I’m looking forward to a time when thrills come in the form of hiking acres of horticultural crops, not from getting handed an exam booklet so thick you can identify the tree species it came from.

GrowerTalks   6/29/2016

Young Voices: Opportunities to be Thankful For

Sylvia Schaap

Everything, from “helping” sort freesia bulbs with my parents as a toddler to choosing plants as my life’s path contributed to that something I felt I had to defend.

GrowerTalks   1/15/2009

Industry Loses: Bodger’s Sylvia Pardo

Ellen C. Wells

The tragic Christmas Eve murder of nine people in Covina, California...