{"id":1324,"date":"2012-11-02T07:46:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ext100.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/?page_id=1324"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:48:29","slug":"horticulture-professionals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/mg-home\/horticulture-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Horticulture Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--sidebar-right\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Commercial Diagnostic Services<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You may send commercial samples for diagnosis directly to the <a title=\"WSU Puyallup Plant Clinic and Diagnostic Laboratory\" href=\"https:\/\/puyallup.wsu.edu\/plantclinic\/\">WSU Puyallup Plant Clinic and Diagnostic Laboratory<\/a>. We no longer have a professional diagnostician on staff and WSU regulations do not allow Master Gardeners to answer commercial diagnostic questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Private Pesticide Applicator License<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Information about pesticide applicator licensing is available from the&nbsp;<a title=\"Washington State Department of Agriculture\" href=\"https:\/\/agr.wa.gov\/services\/licenses-permits-and-certificates\/pesticide-license-and-recertification\">Washington State Department of Agriculture<\/a>. Study materials may be purchased at our office and some of the exams are also given at our office. Review the&nbsp;<a title=\"schedule\" href=\"https:\/\/agr.wa.gov\/services\/licenses-permits-and-certificates\/pesticide-license-and-recertification\/pesticide-and-spi-licensing\/exams-and-study-materials\">schedule<\/a> and then call 1-877-301-4555 to make an appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Horticultural Professional Training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Horticulture Professional Training that is offered in conjunction with annual <a title=\"Become a Master Gardener\" href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/garden\/master-gardener-program\/become-master-gardener\/\">Master Gardener Training<\/a> will has ended for 2024-2025. Information for the 2025 class, called &#8220;Washington Green School&#8221; is available on the &#8220;Become a Master Gardener&#8221; page.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n        <div id=\"cahnrs-back-to-top\" class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top\" hidden aria-hidden=\"true\">\n            <a id=\"cahnrs-back-to-top-btn\" class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__btn\" href=\"#product-top\" aria-label=\"Back to top\">\n                <span class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u2191<\/span>\n                <span class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__label\">Back to top<\/span>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Snohomish County has become less agricultural and more urban, the focus of the local WSU Extension horticulture program has been on serving gardeners, not horticultural professionals, but we now have a horticulture agent to do educational programming for growers of row crops, nursery crop producers, park and commercial landscapers and maintenance personnel. Sharon Collman,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":42308,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_expiration_date":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43490,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1324\/revisions\/43490"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}