Greenscapes Symposium – Virtual Registration Packet

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GreenScapes Symposium

Virtual Registration Packet

 

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Continuing Education Units (CEU) Information:

American Society of Landscape Architects (LA CES 5.25)

Those seeking Professional Development Hours 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. Quizzes submitted prior to the event/session(s) will not be counted. Additionally, after each session, M-NCPPC would greatly appreciate if you 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 “KEY NOTE: Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard”
  2. View the LA CES Competency Quiz “The Pollinator Victory Garden: Winning the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening”
  3. View the LA CES Competency Quiz “Selecting & Sourcing Native Plants for Diverse Landscape Needs”
  4. View the LA CES Competency Quiz “Evidence-based Design in Landscape Architecture and Planning for a more Sustainable Future”

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

  1. View the LA CES Evaluation Form “Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard”
  2. View the LA CES Evaluation Form “The Pollinator Victory Garden: Winning the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening”
  3. View the LA CES Evaluation Form “Selecting & Sourcing Native Plants for Diverse Landscape Needs”
  4. View the LA CES Evaluation Form “Evidence-based Design in Landscape Architecture and Planning for a more Sustainable Future”

Self-reporting

  • Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD 5.25)
  • Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals (CBLP 5.25)
  • Maryland Certified Professional Horticulturist Program (CPH 1.0)
  • Delaware Master Gardener (5.25)
  • Maryland Master Gardener (5.25)
  • Pennsylvania Master Gardener (5.25)
  • 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 Monday, February 22. These recordings will be available until Monday, March 8.

 

9:15 am Welcome & Introductions
9:30 am KEY NOTE: Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
Doug Tallamy, Professor & Chair, Department of Entomology & Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware 
Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us.  Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity and will explain why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.
11:00 am BREAK
11:15 am The Pollinator Victory Garden: Winning the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening 
Kim Eierman, Author & Founder, EcoBeneficial LLC   
With pollinator populations crashing, our managed landscapes have never been more important.  But it takes more than a floral buffet to create a resilient “Pollinator Victory Garden” which attracts, supports and increases populations of a diverse array of pollinator species.  Kim Eierman will share ecological best practices for landscapes that consider habitat, pollination syndromes, specialist pollinators, plant genetics and floral balance.  Learn about the latest strategies for defragmenting pollinator habitats.
12:30 pm – 1:15pm LUNCH BREAK
12:35 pm Sponsor presentations

  • Friends of Brookside Gardens
  • Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection – RainScapes Program
  • Natural Resources Design
1:15 pm Selecting & Sourcing Native Plants for Diverse Landscape Needs
Claudio Vazquez, co-owner of Izel Plants
This presentation will help you navigate the difficult task of selecting and sourcing native plants, including the drawbacks and benefits to using cultivars, the challenges with propagating certain plants on a commercial scale, and the importance of local genotype varieties. Claudio will tackle the hot debate of whether a native-only landscape is necessary and help us understand the environmental impact of genetic diversity and its importance in establishing sustainable ecosystems. Learn how to balance your individual needs as homeowners, horticulturalists and professional designers within the context of conservation, while meeting specific aesthetics, resilience and maintenance requirements.
2:30 pm BREAK
2:45 pm Evidence-based Design in Landscape Architecture and Planning for a more Sustainable Future
Emily McCoy, PLA, ASLA, SITES AP:  Associate Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, North Carolina State University & Landscape Architect at Design Workshop
Gardeners and landscape architects alike understand the importance of designing with native plants but how do we effectively evaluate the environmental benefits of these landscapes?  Emily will draw upon case studies from her work with Andropogon Associates and Design Workshop to demonstrate easy-to-use tools for collecting field data to assess the sustainability of a range of sites before and after design. This presentation will review the latest research focused on landscape performance and best practices that provide layered benefits ecologically, socially and economically, from sites varying in scale and geographic context.
4:00 pm CLOSING REMARKS

Information about our sponsors

 

Presenting Sponsors

Friends of Brookside Gardens

 

 

Click here for Membership Flyer

 Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection - Rainscapes Program

Click here for RainScapes Reward Program Brochure

 

Click here for RainScapes Resources

 

Natural Resources Design

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Last Updated: February 19, 2021