Greenscapes Symposium – Virtual Registration Packet

GreenScapes Symposium

Virtual Registration Packet

 

Brookside Gardens Spring & Summer Programming

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Continuing Education Units (CEU) Information:

American Society of Landscape Architects (LA CES 5.0)

Those seeking Professional Development Hours for LA CES (Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System) are required to complete a Competency Quiz with a 75% pass rate after each session attended. Please complete the below competency quiz for each session(s) you attended within one week of attending the session. Quizzes submitted prior to the event/session(s) will not be accepted. After successful completion of each session’s Competency Quiz, please expect an email with your Certificate of Completion within two weeks.  Additionally, after each session, M-NCPPC would greatly appreciate if attendees seeking LA CES PDH could complete an evaluation form for each session.

If you have any questions regarding LA CES Professional Development Hours, please contact Emily Balmer at Emily.balmer@montgomeryplanning.org

Below you will find the link to the Competency quiz for each session:

  1. View the LA CES Competency Quiz: New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden
  2. View the LA CES Competency Quiz: Great Natives for Tough Sites: Using Native Plant Communities as a Guide for Better Designs
  3. View the LA CES Competency Quiz: More Than A Pretty Face: Native Alternatives to Invasive Exotic Plants
  4. View the LA CES Competency Quiz:  Low-input, High-impact Design for Sustainable Gardens & Urban Landscapes

Below you will find the link to the Evaluation form for each session:

  1. View the LA CES Evaluation Form: New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden
  2. View the LA CES Evaluation Form: Great Natives for Tough SItes: Using Native Plant Communities as a Guide for Better Design
  3. View the LA CES Evaluation Form: More than A Pretty face: Native Alternatives to Invasive Exotic Plants
  4. View the LA CES Evaluation Form: Low-input, High-impact Design for Sustainable Gardens & Urban Landscapes

Self-reporting

  • Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD 5.0)
  • Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals (CBLP 5.0)
  • Maryland Certified Professional Horticulturist Program (CPH 1.0)
  • Delaware Master Gardener (5.0)
  • Maryland Master Gardener (5.0)
  • Pennsylvania Master Gardener (5.0)
  • Virginia Master Gardener (contact your local extension agent)

 

Schedule of the Day

*Note: The webinar will end  after each presentation. Please use the same Zoom link to log back into the next presentation.

**Each lecture will be recorded and a link to watch the presentations online will be emailed to registrants on Tuesday, February 22. These recordings will be available for four weeks until Tuesday, March 22.

Friday, February 18

9:15 am Welcome & Introductions
9:30 am New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden
Kelly Norris, author, plantsmanCreating landscape designs for small gardens that are both aesthetically pleasing and ecologically functional can be a challenging balancing act. Limited space restricts plant selections and quantity, making it harder to recreate a natural ecosystem that benefits pollinators and wildlife.  Join Kelly as he expertly translates designs based on natural plant communities for the smaller scale of the home garden. He’ll demonstrate how to harness the power of plant layers and palettes defined by nature to design and grow a lush, thriving garden. Combining horticulture with ecology, this presentation will deepen your understanding of plants and place to create beautiful and emotionally resonant designs that also support positive environmental change.
10:45 am BREAK
11:00 am Great Natives for Tough Sites: Using Native Plant Communities as a Guide for Better Designs
Janet Davis, owner, Hill House Farm & NurseryYou’ll benefit from Janet’s decades of experience with growing native plants and working with diverse customers to integrate these plants into a range of landscapes. This presentation will help you better analyze and understand your options for native alternatives for tough sites, including helpful information like cultivation, soil and pH requirements, natural range, and hardiness. Whether its dry shade, waterlogged areas, or clay and compacted soils, you’ll learn how choosing natives for such sites will ultimately restore the native habitats and enhance biodiversity. This lecture will review natives that not only perform well but also add to the overall aesthetic and landscape design goals of your garden. You’ll be inspired to see your work as restoring natural ecosystems whether in your backyard, a public garden or for urban and commercial projects.
12:15 pm – 1:15pm LUNCH BREAK
12:30 pm Sponsor presentation

  • Friends of Brookside Gardens
1:15 pm More Than A Pretty Face: Native Alternatives to Invasive Exotic Plants
Colston Burrell, lecturer, garden designer, award winning author and photographerLandscape plants fulfill diverse rolls within our gardens. They contribute form, color and texture to the garden tapestry through flowers, foliage, fruits and bark. Yet many of the plants most readily available in garden centers and nurseries have become invasive and spread beyond the bounds of our gardens. These invasive species alter the structure and function of ecosystems and displace native species. This lecture presents a wealth of native trees, shrubs and perennials that can serve as alternatives to invasive species, additionally providing food for butterflies, birds and other wildlife.
2:30 pm BREAK
2:45 pm Low-input, High-impact Design for Sustainable Gardens & Urban Landscapes
Nigel Dunnett, plantsman, designer and Professor of Planting Design and Urban Horticulture, Department of Architecture, University of SheffieldNigel is known for his gardens and landscapes that have lifted the spirits of city dwellers for decades. This lecture will explore how he achieves these sustainable plantings with their successional waves of colorful perennials, elegant grasses, and pollinators at work with so few demands on irrigation and other natural resources. He’ll share his pioneering ‘people-first’ approach to ecological planting design for public spaces and urban gardens by taking a deeper look at natural plant communities and the science behind the planted environment. You’ll learn exciting and novel uses of plants, planting design, and application of ecological ideas to achieve low-input and high-impact designs that are dynamic, diverse, and tuned to nature. Innovative design principles will be explored through Nigel’s successful landscape projects including Trentham Gardens, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, Buckingham Palace, Grey to Green Sheffield and The Barbican Centre in London.
4:00 pm CLOSING REMARKS

Information about our sponsors

 

Presenting Sponsor

Friends of Brookside Gardens

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Last Updated: February 18, 2022