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Enhancing Environmental Resource Management in Nurseries and Landscapes

This initiative focuses on improving environmental resource management within nurseries, greenhouses, and landscapes across the Southeast U.S. It addresses challenges of excess nutrients, pesticide movement, and water quality degradation due to urban landscapes. Key objectives include maximizing nutrient and water efficiency, mitigating contaminants in drainage systems, and utilizing ornamental plants to enhance water quality. Collaborating universities aim to create economical strategies for efficient production, while enabling better selections of landscape plants and fostering new markets.

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Enhancing Environmental Resource Management in Nurseries and Landscapes

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  1. Environmental Resource Management Systems for Nurseries, Greenhouses and Landscapes • North Carolina State University • ARS-McMinnville • Tennessee State University • University of Florida • ARS - Ft. Pierce • Clemson University

  2. Environmental Challenges • excess nutrients, pesticide displacement and water movement from irrigation • soil-less substrates, plastic containers and non-permeable groundcovers, • alter and enhance the off-site movement of pesticides and nutrients.

  3. Environmental Challenges • Urban landscape contributes to increased nutrient and pesticides in surface and ground waters.

  4. Objective 1maximization of nutrient and water utilization efficiency • Ted Bilderback - Substrates - NCSU • Stuart Warren - Physiologist - NCSU • Donna Fare - Physiologist -ARS McMinnville • Chris Cantazara - Horticulturalist -TSU

  5. Objective 2mitigation of nutrient and pesticide contaminants in off-site drainage • Chris Wilson - ENTOX - UF • Tom Yeager - HORT- UF • Joe Albano - Physiologist - ARS Ft Pierce FL • Ted Whitwell -Pesticides - CU • Steve Klaine - ENTOX - CU • Mickey Taylor - ENTOX - CU • Bob Polomski - HORT - CU

  6. Objective 3ornamentals to improve water quality in nurseries and urban landscape • Steve Klaine - Environmental Toxicology - CU • Mickey Taylor - Environmental Toxicology - CU • Bob Polomski - Horticulture - Landscape plants - CU • Ted Whitwell - Pesticides/Herbicides - CU

  7. GOALS • Economical methods to improve exiting water quality. • Self-contained and self-remediating with respect to runoff water. • Increase production efficiency. • New markets for ornamental plants, and the development of a better selection of landscape plants. • Transfer technology for implementation of the strategies and methodologies developed in this research.

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