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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Six candidates have received Kentucky Nurseryman certification for 2006.
Dustin Dove, Lexington, Wilson Nurseries; Sarah Morgan, Lexington, Kings Gardens; Mark Rogers, Louisville, LMR Design; Brian Vance, Louisville, Wallitsch Nursery & Garden Center; and Bob Klausing and Greg Boggs, both of Lexington and Hillenmeyer & Associates, earned the designation.
The Kentucky Certified Nurseryman designation helps consumers locate trained professionals that are knowledgeable on a wide variety of topics such as plant identification, proper plant usage, keeping plants health and pest-free, soils, turfgrass management, proper planting and maintenance of nursery stock, and landscape design.
The Kentucky Certified Nurseryman examination is administered once a year at the Kentucky Landscape Industries educational conference in January.
Anyone may obtain the KCN training manual and take the exam. To be granted Kentucky Certified Nurseryman status, an individual must have worked six months full-time or 500 hours part-time in a nursery, garden center or other landscape industry firm. Candidates who successfully complete the test must file for certification and provide signed work experience statements from their employers. They are required to sign an agreement to abide by the rules and regulations governing a Kentucky Certified Nurseryman as established by the certification committee.
For more information, visit the Kentucky Nursery and Landscape Association’s Web site, www.knla.org. For questions about the KCN exam, contact Win Dunwell, Extension nursery crops specialist at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, at wdunwell@uky.edu.
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