Shop and garden with confidence when you visit a Colorado Certified Nursery Professional (CCNP)
Colorado Certified Nursery Professionals (CCNPs) are uniquely trained and qualified greenhouse and nursery personnel, who have the highest level of knowledge to help customers garden successfully. The CCNP program is designed to promote high quality standards and professionalism for the Colorado nursery industry and allows consumers to buy with confidence from trusted industry experts.
To be certified, nursery employees and owners are required to learn specialized knowledge about four product/service types: perennials, trees, shrubs, and landscape design. Their education concludes with a rigorous, half-day certification exam, on which they must score higher than 75 percent in each area.
CCNPs combine high-caliber training with quality experience. Before receiving certification, they are required to complete at least 2,000 hours of verifiable employment with a Colorado registered nursery, garden center, landscape contractor, or an allied industry.
To keep up to date with industry standards and new trends, recertification is required every three years. To be recertified, CCNPs must take continuing education classes or workshops, and complete further verifiable employment hours.
Find a CCNP
The CNGA Membership Directory identifies all members with CCNP on staff. You can search for members in your area in the directory under the Find a Member tab on our website, and see the CCNP designation in the list next to the company name.
CNGA announces New Certified Nursery Professionals and Greenhouse Growers
Congratulations to the following individuals who earned certification as Colorado Certified Nursery Professionals in August 2011:
Merri Helm of Harding Nursery, 721 N. Powers Blvd. Colorado Springs, Colo.
Quinn Farrington of Echter's Greenhouse, 9170 W. 52nd Ave., Arvada, Colo.
Jesse Eastman of Fort Collins Nursery, 2121 E. Mulberry St., Ft. Collins, Colo.
Matt Kaylor of Fort Collins Nursery, 2121 E. Mulberry St., Ft. Collins, Colo.
Cortney Moore of Fort Collins Nursery, 2121 E. Mulberry St., Ft. Collins, Colo.
Congratulations to the following individuals who earned certification as Colorado Certified Nursery Professionals in February 2011:
Khanh Tran from Thornton, who is employed at Picadilly Nursery, 21750 E. 152nd Ave., Brighton, Colo.
Luke Larralde from Denver, an employee at Heritage Eagle Bend, 23320 E. Phillips Pl., Aurora, Colo.
Bonnie Parker-Taylor from Manitou Springs, an employee at Phelan Gardens, 4955 Austin Bluffs Pkwy., Colorado Springs, Colo.
Esther Langley from Colorado Springs, an employee at Britton Nursery, 7075 Wyoming Lane, Colorado Springs, Colo.
CNGA also recognizes the following CCNP program graduates from summer 2010:
Jason Ryan of Fort Collins, at Fort Collins Wholesale Nursery, 2224 North Shields Street, Fort Collins, Colo.
Brandon Fish of Colorado Springs, at Phelan Gardens, 4955 Austin Bluffs Pkwy., Colorado Springs, Colo.
Additional congratulations are due to the following CNGA members who earned certification as Certified Greenhouse Growers:
Marjorie Sutter of Colorado Springs, at Phelan Gardens, 4955 Austin Bluffs Pkwy., Colorado Springs, Colo.
Aaron Brown of Denver, at Brown’s Greenhouse, 7290 Kipling St., Arvada, Colo.
Kathryn Wilcox of Conifer, at Denver Botanic Gardens, 909 York St., Denver, Colo.