News/Events - Fish Branch Tree Farm

updated on July 22, 2025July 22, 2025News

Great Southern Tree Conference Nov 19-20, 2025

The Great Southern Tree Conference is back!

Mark your calendars for November 19–20, 2025, in Gainesville, FL.

This year’s event will build on what made past conferences a success with cutting-edge research, outdoor demonstrations, and valuable networking while expanding to include even more for landscape professionals and tree producers alike.

The GSTC began as a one-of-a-kind educational experience, bringing together practical field demonstrations with the latest research. That tradition continues, now with new leadership from Dr. Ryan Klein, building on the strong foundation laid by Dr. Ed Gilman. With 70% of all partner contributions going directly to support UF’s Arboriculture Unit, your support helps shape the future of our industry.

updated on March 21, 2025March 9, 2025News

Owner John Conroy inducted into the FNGLA Hall of Fame

John Conroy has a decades-long history of service and dedication to Florida’s nursery and landscape industry. From promoting tree varieties, to sharing knowledge on topics such as Florida Grades and Standards for Palms, to regularly offering up his company Fish Branch Tree Farm, Inc. as a learning space for educational programming, John has supported the industry’s growth and education.

For these reasons and more, FNGLA recognized John as its 2024 FNGLA Hall of Fame Inductee.

Award Criteria: A lifetime achievement award given to an individual who has given unselfishly of their time and effort having contributed to the industry through pioneering, teaching, production, legislation, marketing, services or research.

updated on January 9, 2025October 19, 2021Publications

Florida Grades & Standards For Nursery Plants 2022 – Effective July 1, 2022

The Florida Grades and Standards for Nursery Plants was first released for use by industry in 1955. The current revision is finalized and will take effect July 1, 2022.

With industry support, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry began our 5-year review of the current Edition. This process started in 2019 which concentrated on the Palms and Tree Section with the overall goal to review and updated where needed. Working groups for both sections meet numerous times over the past three years in person and remotely.

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updated on October 20, 2021August 27, 2021Events

FNGLA AWARD ‘Most Unusual Single Plant Specimen’

We are proud to announce that Fish Branch was awarded the ‘Most Unusual Single Plant Specimen’ Award at the FNGLA Together Again 2021 Landscape show in Orlando, FL for our new Podocarpus Henkelii!!

updated on December 28, 2022August 23, 2021Publications

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By building a network or community across the above sectors, we can ‘raise the bar’ in our fantastic industry. Learning from maintenance issues to design and build differently; Understanding the design fully so that the construction and horticultural maintenance can fully evolve over time as intended; Learning from each other on how best to apply the newest techniques and learning to use the latest innovative products – so we can all shine.

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