In 2024 , the Perennial Plant Association is thrilled to celebrate 40 age of connecting professionals , ply education , and promoting perennial works . Since 1984 , the Perennial Plant Association has welcomed horticulture professionals to a residential area where passion for perennial run deep and professional comradeship is nurtured .

The Perennial Plant Association ab initio comprised six regions with a director for each : Northeast , Southern , Great Lakes , Central , Western , and Canada ; PPA added the Mid - Atlantic neighborhood after . The first three confluence were held in Columbus , but since 1987 , the symposium has circulated through the seven regions . meeter love and benefit from chit-chat and touring a new region of the United States or Canada each yr .

Pierre Bennerup , of Sunny Border Nursery and a founding PPA phallus , best explains the impetus for the innovation of the PPA . " What you have to understand is that if you were growing perennials in 1980 in , say , Illinois , you had no idea who was growing what in Maryland or Connecticut , " say Bennerup . " You might know one or two others , but otherwise you were totally staccato . PPA get everyone together . "

PPA has also install several well - recognized plan and awards in the horticultural industry . In 1990 , the successful Perennial Plant of the Year ® platform was set out with the natural selection of Phlox stolonifera . A young Perennial Plant of the Year has been select by a vote of PPA fellow member in each subsequent class . In 1992 , the Landscape Design Awards Program was initiated to honor room decorator with a virtue or pureness award for exceptional landscape painting designs that spotlight perennial role .

The PPA menage will meet this class for its 2024 National Symposium in Asheville , North Carolina , July 29 - Aug. 1 . PPA will commemorate 40 year of story on Wednesday of the Symposium , with a special celebratory dinner party abide by the famed horticultural circuit host that day . PPA will honor this momentous milestone by ponder on and recognise those who help build the administration and nurture the recurrent industry . In recognition of today ’s organization and penis and the bright diligence time to come that lies forrader , Special Recognition Awards will also be present that evening . PPA 40th Anniversary ware will also be available for leverage this spring .

" Happy 40th day of remembrance to the PPA ! " said PPA President Richard Hawke of Chicago Botanic Garden . " From Columbus to Asheville and every place in between , it ’s been an awesome journey . I ’ve been a proud member for 38 years and am honored to be part of PPA leadership at this auspicious time . "

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