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Margery Daughtrey
Tough yet tender
 
 
 
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Tough yet tender
Perennials are tough plants and overcome most pests and diseases they tackle in the landscape, but putting these diverse growers side by side in the nursery or greenhouse creates challenges.

Where will we learn?
Funding challenges are reducing the scope and strength of the land grant university and extension networks in our country. Margery talks about why events like the Perennial Production and Retailing Conference are more important than ever.

Perennials in Jeopardy
Margery talks about the Perennial Jeopardy game scheduled for the Perennial Production and Retailing Conference. With so many different species in production how do you stay on top of the diverse pest and disease challenges that they face?
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Margery Daughtrey

Margery Daughtrey is a Senior Extension Associate with the Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University. She has conducted a research and extension program on the management of diseases of ornamental plants since 1978, at Cornell’s Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center in Riverhead, NY. She provides diagnosis and educates growers on management of greenhouse and nursery crop diseases and investigates controls for problems such as powdery mildew, downy mildew, and Pythium and Phytophthora root rot. Daughtrey holds a B.S. degree in Biology from the College of William and Mary and an M.S. in Plant Pathology from the University of Massachusetts. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of APS Press. Daughtrey is coauthor of several books, including Diseases of Herbaceous Perennials, published in 2009 by APS PRESS.