The IPPS Eastern Region honors it’s own once a year at the annual conference. Nominations of worthy candidates may be submitted at any time but in order to be considered for the 2015 balloting, nominations must be received by July 15, 2015. Contact Recognition Committee Chair Ron Amos to make a nomination: ron@evergreennurseryco.com.Fellow ...
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Liza Whalley was awarded an IPPS Propagator's Scholarship ... she reports on her experience.As a young person in the horticulture industry, it's common to hear that horticultural groups are not much more than 'old men talking about plants'.. and to some extent this is true!Having been involved in horticulture almost from conception, I appreciate wh...
Mpendulo's presentation at the 2016 conference
Megan Blatchford's presentation at the 2015 conference.
With a great passion for indigenous plants, Megan worked at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden for a year and a half, until December 2015. She graduated from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology with a National Diploma in Horticulture in 2015. She worked as the Kirstenbosch Scholar whilst completing her BTech (Horticulture) full time vi...
Melissa was Southern Africa's 2014 exchange student that visited Australia in May 2014. Melissa van der Burg was nominated by the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens during her internship as Kirstenbosch Scholar. She completed her internship in December 2014 and is currently doing her Btech: Horticulture at the Cape Peninsula University of Tech...
IPPS offers exchange programmes to encourage and support young members to travel and learn from others. Here is a list of the exchange programmes. Please follow the links to the relevant pages for more detail.Australia & Southern Africa ExchangeEuropean Region Mary Helliar Travel ScholarshipNew Zealand & Western Region of America Exc...
The student exchange nominees who had been awarded the opportunity to attend the 2016 annual conference held on the West Coast, were Andre Niehaus, Katrien van Zyl and Mpendulo Gabayi.The IPPS Southern Africa board each year selects and sponsors three top candidates from the nominations received for the Australia/Southern Africa student e...
Katrien's presentation at the 2016 conference
Lindani Nzimande's presentation at the 2015 conference.
Che-Slovo Jood's presentation at the 2015 conference
IPPS Western/New Zealand Regions Young Professional Exchange FellowshipThe IPPS Western/New Zealand Regions Young Professional Exchange Fellowship is a unique opportunity for a member of the Western Region to travel to New Zealand as a guest of the New Zealand Region. While in New Zealand, the recipient will have the opportunity to interact with pl...