Our 2010 Keynote Speakers are:

Thursday, March 4th 11:00 a.m. -11:45 p.m.
Ed Dore, Owner Dore Landscaping and Akron Tree Farm
Tree Varieties, Maintaining Healthy Trees, Tree Problems in CNY and how to recognize them.

Saturday, March 6th  12 noon -12:45 p.m.
Dr. Donald Leopold, SUNY-ESF Distinguished Teaching Professor and Author of "Central New York's Natural Wonders"
Protected and Ecologically Significant Areas of CNY

Sunday, March 7th 12:00 noon-12:45 p.m.   
Terry Ettinger, SUNY-ESF
Gardening Q & A With Terry, Live

Ed Dore

Edward "Ed" Dore
Owner Dore Landscaping and Akron Tree Farm

Ed is a man who is passionate about trees!  He began his career forty years ago as a landscape  employee with a prominent firm in western New York.  Today, he owns Dore Landscaping and Akron Tree Farm, in Akron, New York,  where he raises trees to supply the landscape trade in New York and nearby states.  Ed is universally respected for his knowledge of landscaping and horticulture, but more especially for the work he has done to promote professionalism in the nursery and landscape industry.   Ed, was a leader in the development of the CNLP Certification (Certified Nursery & Landscaping Professional) which requires college level study, exams, and continuing education to maintain the certification.    Ed also established a program entitled   "2000 Trees", now called Community Trees.  Today Community Trees serves as a re-forestation program for all of New York State.  To date, over 20,000 trees have been planted in the state under this program. Ed has been active for many years in support of the Botanical Garden in Buffalo.   At the state level, he is a past president of both the New York State Nursery & Landscape Association and the New York State Nurserymen's Foundation.   The foundation funds scholarships, research,  and educational programs in the nursery and landscape  industry.  Ed is a past President of the Western New York Nursery/Landscape Association.  Ed has also been elected into the New York State Nurseryman's Hall of Fame.

Dr Don Leopold

Dr Donald Leopold
Distinguished Teaching Professor
State University of New York College of Environmental Science & Forestry

Internationally renowned author of four books on native plants and a resident of Central New York, Dr Don Leopold is back at CNY Blooms by requests from our show attendees!   Dr.  Leopold is no stranger to Central New York gardeners and nature lovers, especially since the publication in 2007 of his popular Native Plants of the Northeast: a Guide for Gardening and Conservation(Timber Press, Portland, Oregon).

Dr Leopold is currently Chair of the Faculty of Environmental Science and Forestry at SUNY ESF, which he joined in 1 985.  He has taught several thousand budding foresters and environmental scientists the secrets of wetland ecology and the mechanics of conservation and habitat restoration.  Along the way he has collected a page full of degrees, awards and commendations for research, for publications, and for expert assistance to habitat protection and restoration. What makes Dr Leopold valuable to our community as a whole is his unflagging enthusiasm for New York's natural treasures and the ability to share his experience and knowledge with all of us in a down-to-earth way.

Terry Ettinger

Terry L. Ettinger
SUNY-ESF
Terry’s interest in growing plants was nurtured at a very young age by his parents. They always had a vegetable garden and enjoyed growing colorful dahlias, cannas, and gladiolus.  It's also a product of the time he spent as his grandfather's shadow on his northern Illinois farm where his grandparents raised hogs and grew corn, soybeans, oats - and Christmas trees!  Terry has a total of ten years of post-secondary education;  at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, the University of Minnesota-St. Paul, and SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.  In addition, he has years of experience  as a horticulture specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension, and over twenty-five years of experience in the field of landscape horticulture. Terry is certified as both a New York State Nursery & Landscape Association New York State Certified Nursery & Landscape Professional  and International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist.  He has an absolute passion for what he does, which makes Terry a very popular and respected nursery and landscape professional in Central New York. Terry now serves as the Greenhouse Manager for SUNY ESF.