Tim Brotzman, Win Dunwell honored by IPPS

Tim Brotzman, president of Brotzman's Nursery, was presented the IPPS Eastern Region Award of Merit last week at the organization's annual conference in Cincinnati, Ohio Sept. 25-28.

The Award of Merit is made to the individual who, in the opinion of the IPPS-ER Recognition Committee, has made a significant contribution to the field of plant propagation or production and/or for service rendered to the Society and the green industry.

Brotzman has served in many capacities for IPPS: board member, president, committee member, committee chair, local site committee chair.  He has organizedtours for the International Board, has developed a conference program, presented over ten papers, contributed to the new plant forum, solicited scholarships for students toattend the annual meeting and donated countlessplants tothe annual conference auctions. 

Brotzman's Nursery is a wholesale nursery in Madison, Ohio offering specimen landscape material, bare root and B&B trees, shrubs and evergreens. They have introduced over a dozen unique selections, including LAVENDER TWIST weeping redbud, STREET KEEPER columnar honeylocust and White Tigress striped maple.

Also at the meeting, Winston Dunwell, University of Kentucky Extension Horticulture Specialist for Nursery Crops, was honored with the Fellow Award. The Fellow Award was created to honor Eastern Region members for contributions to plant propagationor production in one or more areas: teaching, research, or extension activities as well as for service to the Society.

Dunwell’s area of interest is developing educational programs related to sustainable ornamental plant introduction, propagation, production, and utilization.  He established the Nursery Crops Development Center to carry out trials on cultivated and native plants with unique characteristics of special interest to the nursery/landscape industry and the gardening public. The goal of the Center is to provide plants thatwill increase the product mix at the nursery, increase the number of plants available for the landscape designer's palette, and be useful in environment conservation and restoration. He received the Southern Nursery Association Porter Henegar Memorial Award in 2012.

For more information, please visit www.ippseastern.org.