Perennial Plant Association awards five scholarships

The Perennial Plant Association (PPA) named five outstanding horticulture students recipients of the 2014 Symposium Scholarship Program. Each earned a $1,000 stipend in addition to complimentary registration and lodging for the 32nd Perennial Plant Symposium, tours and trade show to be held in Cincinnati, July 28-August 1, 2014.

“As president of PPA and as a horticulture professor, I am very proud of the PPA’s continued support to students interested in careers in the perennial plant industry,” said Dave Sanford of Penn State University. “This award enables undergraduate students, who might otherwise not be able, to attend our national symposium, to visit nurseries, garden centers, and tour outstanding private and public gardens. The students can make the most of this opportunity to meet and learn from some of the best experts in the field as well as expand their professional network.”

The scholarship program, in its 15th-year, generously provides students excellent opportunities to attend lectures and tours and to network with members of the perennial industry.


The 2014 Scholarship Recipients who will be recognized during the symposium are:

• Naoko Seko, a junior horticulture major attending the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati;
• Andrew Guay, a first-year horticulture major attending Niagara Parks School of Horticulture in Niagara Falls, Ont.;
• Michael Davie, a second year horticulture major at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio;
• James Rockwell, a junior environmental horticulture major attending Virginia  Polytechnic and State University in Blacksburg, Va.; and
• Jacob Suissa, a Sophomore Sustainable Landscape Horticulture major attending University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt.