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Meet the ProGrass expert: Steve Varga

Steve has been a horticulturist with ProGrass since 1984. He brings together a team of ProGrass experts for a lively dialogue of all things horticultural including eco roofs, gardening with kids, community gardening and interior plantscaping.

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'Gardens For Kids' In The News Again

By: Maggie Thornton 02.19.2010 | Comments: 0

ProGrass landscape architect Michael Bybee has been working with the teachers and 5th graders at Bolton Primary in West Linn since September 2009. Yesterday's West Linn Tidings newspaper featured Bolton's involvement in the ProGrass 'Gardens For Kids' program. We are so excited by the enthusiasm at Bolton. The 5th graders Michael has been working with started this process last year as 4th graders, and the results of their learning and experience are apparent.

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Early Spring Lawn Care

By: Steve Varga 02.17.2010 | Comments: 0

I was driving through several neighborhoods today and saw lots of

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Tags: cranefly fertilizer moss control NaturalCare spring

And The Winners Are...

By: Maggie Thornton 02.16.2010 | Comments: 0

For those of you who attended the Yard, Garden & Patio Show this past weekend, as promised, here are the winning numbers from our prize drawing! There were thirteen prizes to give away, and only 2500 possible winning numbers, so your odds were very good. Thank you for visiting the ProGrass booth at the Show and participating in our drawing!

BELOW ARE THE WINNING NUMBERS FOR EACH PRIZE:

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Starting From Scratch: Creating Our YGP Show Display

By: Maggie Thornton 02.10.2010 | Comments: 1

A tremendous amount of work goes into creating the displays for the Yard, Garden & Patio Show. Our crew enters the Oregon Convention Center, literally before dawn on Monday, to start building the ProGrass Sports Pavilion.

In these photos, our crew begins to lay the paver patio and erect the side structures of our display. Note how empty the Convention Center looks! Around 30,000 people will come through the show by end of day Feb. 14.

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Preparation=Success for School Gardens

By: Michael O'Loughlin 02.05.2010 | Comments: 0

A leading advocate for the school garden movement, today my friend Michael O'Loughlin writes a blog post. Michael's insight is invaluable to parents and educators looking to create a nature space or garden. Enjoy the sun! Maggie Thornton

This year, I have visited more schools planning to build school gardens than I have in the past ten years combined. There is definitely an exciting movement afoot.

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ProGrass Sports Pavilion Opening Soon!

By: Maggie Thornton 02.01.2010 | Comments: 0

Have plans for the weekend of Feb. 12-14? No? Well, you do now! The Yard, Garden & Patio Show at the Oregon Convention Center has something for everyone!

Here's a multiple choice question for you: which activity best suits you?

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Tags: containerscaping YGP Show

Cranefly Larvae In Turf

By: Steve Varga 02.01.2010 | Comments: 0

Yes, I saw them yesterday...munching and chewing away on a lawn with no cares about destroying the grass.

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How Does $40 In Your Pocket Sound?

By: Maggie Thornton 01.22.2010 | Comments: 0

Or even $50? Here's the scoop for our friends residing in Portland. The Portland Bureau of Environmental Services wants to give you a 'treebate' of up to $40 for improving your landscape and planting a tree. They'll raise that to $50 if it's an approved native tree. The 'treebate' is valid for 50% of the tree you purchase, up to $40 for most trees and up to $50 for native trees on the approved list. That is a deal too good to pass up!

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Cranefly In Lawns

By: Maggie Thornton 01.18.2010 | Comments: 0

The 'winner' of the cranefly spotting contest for 2010 is a ProGrass client from Woodinville, WA. While there is no prize associated with this pseudo-contest, we do sincerely thank our customers who keep an eye out for potential cranefly damage.

Cranefly larvae can do great damage to lawns, coming up at night to feed on the grass and leaving thin or bare patches in their wake.

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Gardens For Kids Program At Alberta Rider

By: Maggie Thornton 01.15.2010 | Comments: 0

Today, my neck is stiff from looking up, fifty feet or more. I was at Alberta Rider Elementary School in Tigard Thursday, looking at the mature Douglas fir trees around the historic pioneer cabin on the school grounds. 

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