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01-24 Reality-Based Landscapes:
Plant Palettes for Urbane Designs, Metro Hort Plant-O-Rama
at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York.
CONTACT: Bob Hyland, phone 518-851-9731, email loomis@mhcable.com
01-30 The Livable Landscape,
Mid-Atlantic Horticulture Short Course, Virginia Horticultural
Foundation, Ramada Plaza Resort Conference Center, Virginia
Beach, Virginia.
CONTACT: Shirley Elstrodt, phone
757-787-9451, email: shirleyels@msn.com
WEBSITE: www.mahsc.org
FEBRUARY 2006
02-15 The Livable Landscape
and The Luminous Landscape, Midwest Perennials
Conference, Pewaukee, Wisconsin.
CONTACT: Kathy Garbe, phone 262-968-5628,
email: rgarbe@wi.rr.com
MARCH 2006
03-09 Picture-Perfect Grasses:
A Digitally Focused Photography Workshop and Grasses for Your Utah
Landscape: Durable, Luminous, Water-Wise. Red Butte Garden, Salt Lake
City, Utah.
CONTACT: Mandy Self, phone 801-585-0416,
email: aself@redbutte.utah.edu
WEBSITE: www.redbuttegarden.org
03-16 The Livable Landscape,
Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado.
CONTACT: Debbie
Whittaker, phone 720-865-3608, email: WhittakD@BotanicGardens.org
WEBSITE: www.botanicgardens.org
03-24 The Livable Landscape,
Master Gardening Symposium "Inspired by the Past, Informed
for the Future", Charleston Riverview Hotel and Conference
Center, Charleston, South Carolina.
CONTACT: Keeling Warburton, phone
843-849-8172, email: warbucks.sc@netzero.net
WEBSITE: www.charlestonMGconference2006.com
APRIL 2006
04-01 The American Woodland
Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest,
Fernwood Botanic Garden and Nature Preserve, Niles,
Michigan
CONTACT: Wendy Jones, Education Manager, tel
269-695-6491 ext 220 email: nature@remc11.k12.mi.us
WEBSITE: www.fernwoodbotanical.org
04-06 Native Plants and
Local Landscapes, American Horticultural Society,
River Farm, Alexandria, Virginia
CONTACT: Stephanie Jutila, Education Programs Manager.
Tel 703-768-5700 ext 121 email: sjutila@ahs.org
WEBSITE: www.ahs.org/events/garden_schools/06/060406_information.htm"
04-18 The American Woodland
Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest,
Michigan Master Gardeners, Tawas, Michigan
CONTACT: Lois Bienlein, Tel 989-876-6106
MAY 2006
05-06 Grasses and the Luminous
Landscape, Mountain States Nursery Landscape
Architects' Conference, Litchfield Park, Arizona
CONTACT: Janet Rademacher, Mountain States Wholesale Nursery,
tel 800-840-8509 ext 24 email: janet@mswn.com
WEBSITE: www.mswn.com
05-10 The Livable Landscape,
Northwest Horticultural Society, Seattle, Washington
CONTACT: Karin Kravitz, Business Manager, NWHS tel
206-527-1794
WEBSITE: www.northwesthort.org
JULY 2006
07-26-06 Luminous and Lively:
Grasses for New England Gardens and Landscapes,
The Polly Hill Arboretum, West Tisbury (Martha's Vineyard),
Massachussetts.
CONTACT: Barbara Conroy tel. 508-693-9426 email: Barbara@pollyhillarboretum.org
WEBSITE: www.pollyhillarboretum.org
07-27-06 Digital Photography as a Gardening
Tool, The Polly Hill Arboretum, West Tisbury
(Martha's Vineyard), Massachussetts.
CONTACT: Barbara Conroy tel. 508-693-9426 email: Barbara@pollyhillarboretum.org
WEBSITE: www.pollyhillarboretum.org
SEPTEMBER 2006
09-09-06 The American Woodland Garden:
Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest, Highlands Biological Station, Highlands,
North Carolina.
CONTACT: Jim Costa tel. 828-526-2606 email: costa@wcu.edu
09-12-06 The Livable Landscape, Alston Lecture, Atlanta Botanical
Garden, Atlanta, Georgia.
CONTACT: Tracy Barlow McClendon, Education Director tel.
404-591-1542 email: tmcclendon@atlantabotanicalgarden.org
WEBSITE:
www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org/events/ListEvents.do#119
09-28-06 and 09-29-06 The Livable Landscape, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe,
Illinois.
CONTACT: Beth Pinargote, Coordinator, Symposia & Special
Programs tel. 847-835-8278 email: bpinargote@chicagobotanic.org
WEBSITE:
direct link to
symposium brochure in pdf format: www.chicagobotanic.org/symposia/pdf/pp-symposium.pdf
OCTOBER 2006
10-17-06 Learning from a Woodland
Stream, Garden Club of America National Meeting
at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
CONTACT: Angela Williamson, Continuing Education Coordinator,
tel. 610-388-1000 ext. 543 email: awilliamson@longwoodgardens.org
WEBSITE: www.longwoodgardens.org
10-18-06 Where is Gardening
Going?, 20th Anniversary Master Gardener
Banquet, Dover, Delaware.
CONTACT: Susan Barton, University of Delaware, tel. 302-831-1375
email: sbarton@udel.edu
10-28-06 Native Plants
and Livable Landscapes for Western Pennsylvania,
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CONTACT: Nancy Knauss, email: knaussn@phipps.pgh.pa.us
WEBSITE: www.phipps.conservatory.org
10-28-06 Living with Native
Plants, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
CONTACT: Nancy Knauss, email: knaussn@phipps.pgh.pa.us
WEBSITE: www.phipps.conservatory.org
NOVEMBER 2006
11-01-06 The Livable Landscape,
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland sponsored by The Douglas Hyde
Gallery and the Irish Garden and Landscape Designers Association
(GLDA)
CONTACTS: The Douglas Hyde Gallery email: dhgallery@tcd.ie and Tycho Mays (GLDA) email: tycho@eircom.net
WEBSITES: Douglas Hyde Gallery http://douglashydegallery.com
and the
Irish Garden and Landscape Designers Association (GLDA) http://www.glda.ie/
11-08-06 The Livable
Landscape, Cornell Plantations, Ithaca, New York..
CONTACT: Sonja Skelly, Director of Education, tel 607-255-2406
email: sms92@cornell.edu
WEBSITE: www.plantations.cornell.edu
DECEMBER 2006
12-07-06
The Livable Landscape, Brandywine Conservancy Subscriber's
Seminar, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
CONTACT: David Shields, Associate Director, Environmental
Management Center, tel 610-388-8342 email: DShields@brandywine.org
WEBSITE:
www.brandywineconservancy.org