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01-04 The Livable Landscape, Minnesota Green Expo, Minnesota Nursery
and Landscape Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
CONTACT:
Meaghan Phelan,
MNLA Education Director meaghan@mnla.biz tel 888-886-6652
/ 651-633-4987
WEBSITE: http://www.minnesotagreenexpo.com/
01-05 Digital Photopraphy, Minnesota Green Expo, Minnesota Nursery
and Landscape Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
CONTACT:
Meaghan Phelan,
MNLA Education Director meaghan@mnla.biz tel 888-886-6652
/ 651-633-4987
WEBSITE: www.minnesotagreenexpo.com/
01-05 Ornamental Grasses, Minnesota Green Expo, Minnesota Nursery
and Landscape Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
CONTACT:
Meaghan
Phelan, MNLA Education Director meaghan@mnla.biz tel 888-886-6652
/ 651-633-4987
WEBSITE: www.minnesotagreenexpo.com/
01-09 A Gardener's Conversations with
the Woods, Special Lecture Series: The American Landscape: Nature and Place,
with Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Co-sponsored by the New York Botanical
Garden, New York Historical Society, and the Foundation for
Landscape Studies, held at the New York Historical Society, New
York, New York.
CONTACT:
New York Botanical Garden, tel 718-817-8747
WEBSITES: NYBG general: www.nybg.org/edu/cont_ed_cat.php
Program: http://www.nybg.org/edu/files/cont_ed_catalog/SLS.nature.and.place.pdf
01-23 Livable Landscapes for the Midwest, 25th Anniversary Southern Illinois
Grounds Maintenance School & Trade Show, Collinsville,
Illinois
CONTACT: University of Illinois Extension, Madison-St.
Clair, tel. 618-650-7050 email: madison_co@extension.uiuc.edu
WEBSITE: http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/madisonstclair/downloads/5174.pdf
01-23 Grasses: New Trends & Techniques, 25th Anniversary Southern Illinois
Grounds Maintenance School & Trade Show, Collinsville,
Illinois
CONTACT: University of Illinois Extension, Madison-St. Clair,
tel. 618-650-7050 email: madison_co@extension.uiuc.edu
WEBSITE: http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/madisonstclair/downloads/5174.pdf
01-29 Grasses for Livable Landscapes, New Jersey ASLA Annual Meeting,
Atlantic City, New Jersey
CONTACT: Patricia Brewer, tel 609-393-7500 x 1133 email:
pbrewer@publicstrategiesimpact.com
WEBSITE: http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/madisonstclair/downloads/5174.pdf
FEBRUARY 2007
02-08 Design of the Livable Landscape, Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery
Association, State College, PA.
CONTACT:
Margaret O’Neal, PLNA Director of Education and Certification tel 717-329-1866 email: moneal@plna.com
WEBSITE:
www.plna.com/content/?/conference
02-08 Grasses, Sedges and Rushes for Northeastern Gardens and
Landscapes, Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association, State College,
PA.
CONTACT:
Margaret O’Neal,
PLNA Director of Education and Certification tel 717-329-1866
email: moneal@plna.com
WEBSITE:
www.plna.com/content/?/conference
MARCH 2007
03-03 Grasses for Livable Landscapes, SW Virginia Nursery and Landscape
Association Winter Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia
CONTACT:
Pamela Cadmus,
SWVNLA Secretary, tel 540-651-4464 or 540-763-3362 email info@swvnla.org
WEBSITE: www.swvnla.org/
03-08 Woodland Gardening in the Mid-Atlantic
Region, Tidewater Garden Symposium, Virginia Beach, Virginia
CONTACT:
Kay Shiflett,
Co-Chair 2007 Symposium, tel 757-481-1566
03-12 The American Woodland Garden, Greenwich Garden Education Center,
Cos Cob, Connecticut
CONTACT:
Emily Ragsdale,
tel 203-661-3159 email emrags@optonline.net
WEBSITE:
www.gecgreenwich.org/
03-15 Learning the Layers:
Design Inspired by Plant Communities, NDAL Conference at The Native Plant
Center at Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY
CONTACT:
Nancy Inzinna, Media and Membership Coordinator, tel 914-606-7870
email Nancy.Inzinna@sunywcc.edu
WEBSITE: www.nativeplantcenter.org
03-21
Grasses for
Livable Landscapes, Gertens March Expo, near Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota
CONTACT:
Susie Johnson, Gertens Commercial, tel 651-450-0277 email: wholesale@gertens.com
WEBSITE: www.gertenswholesale.com
03-24 Grasses for Livable Landscapes, Botanica, Inc, Louisville, Kentucky
CONTACT:
Judith Hunt, President, Botanica email: president@botanicakentucky.org
WEBSITE:www.botanicakentucky.org/
03-31 Grasses for Livable Landscapes, US Botanic Garden Symposium, Washington,
D.C.
CONTACT:
Katie Palm, Education Program Specialist, U.S. Botanic Garden,
tel. 202-226-8038 email: kpalm@aoc.gov
WEBSITE: www.usbg.gov/
APRIL 2007
04-10 Grasses for Livable Landscapes, Memphis Public Libray & Information
Center, Memphis, Tennessee
CONTACT:
Heather Lawson,
Adult Services Coordinator, tel 901-415-2854 email lawsonh@memphislibrary.org
WEBSITE: http://www.socahort.org/
04-12 Digital Photography as a Gardening
Tool, (workshop), Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta,
Georgia.
CONTACT: Tracy Barlow McClendon,
Education Director tel. 404-591-1542 email:
tmcclendon@atlantabotanicalgarden.org
WEBSITE:
www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org
MAY 2007
05-10 The Livable Landscape, Southern California Horticultural
Society, Los Angeles, California
CONTACT:
Kathy Musial, tel 626-405-2517 email kmusial@huntington.org
WEBSITE: www.socahort.org/
05-18 Native Plants and Livable Landscapes, New England Wild Flower Society
Symposium, Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachussetts.
CONTACT: Greg Lowenberg, Education
Director tel. 508-877-7630 email: glowenberg@newfs.org
WEBSITE: www.newfs.org/courses/SS2007cc/symposia.html#SYM0703 Click here to view the Symposium flyer in PDF
05-23 Grasses for Livable Landscapes, (special presentation with reserved
lunch) Gravetye Manor, near East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19
4LJ, United Kingdom
CONTACT:
Gravetye Manor tel (from USA) 011-44-1342-810567 email: info@gravetyemanor.co.uk
WEBSITE: www.gravetyemanor.co.uk
JUNE 2007
06-07 Design Inspired by Plant Communities, Native Plants in the Landscape Conference
at Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania
CONTACT:
Department of Professional Training, Millersville University, tel 717-872-3030
Conference brochure: http://muweb.millersville.edu/~pte/business/Native%20Plants%2007%20Brochure.pdf
06-07 Grasses, Sedges and Rushes for
Mid-Atlantic Landscapes,Native Plants in the Landscape Conference
at Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania
CONTACT: Department of Professional Training, Millersville
University, tel 717-872-3030
Conference
brochure: http://muweb.millersville.edu/~pte/business/Native%20Plants%2007%20Brochure.pdf
06-20 Grasses for
Livable Landscapes, Wellfleet Garden Club, Wellfleet Public Library,
Cape Cod, Massachussetts
CONTACT: Elizabeth Phillips, tel 508-240-0154, email
eaphillips12@comcast.net
JULY 2007
07-07 Celebrating the Signifigance of Highlands Biological Station
on its 80th Anniversary, outdoors in the amphitheater at Highlands Biological Station,
Highlands, North Carolina
CONTACT:
Anya Hinkle, Highlands Biological Station ahinkle@email.wcu.edu tel:
828-526-2602
07-25 The Livable Landscape, Dallas Arboretum, Dallas, Texas
CONTACT:
Joy Ijams jijams@dallasarboretum.org
tel 214-515-6538
WEBSITE: http://www.dallasarboretum.org/
AUGUST 2007
08-04 Grasses and the Design of Livable Landscapes, Hamilton County Master Gardeners:
Gardening Seminar, Noblesville, Indiana
CONTACT:
Suzanne Stevens, Program Co-Chair, suzanne.stevens@earthlink.net tel 317-846-9203
SEPTEMBER 2007
09-01 Grasses and the Liveable Landscape: A Sustainable Approach, New Zealand Landscape and Garden
Design Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
CONTACT:
Lisa lisa@marketingworkz.co.nz
WEBSITE: http://www.bloomings.com.au/alcnz.htm
Conference brochure
PDF download link: http://www.bloomings.com.au/NZp4efile.pdf
09-04 Grasses for Livable Landscapes:
The Making of the Book, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney,
Sydney, Australia
CONTACT:
Warwick Forge, Bloomings Books warwick@bloomings.com.au
09-08 Grasses and the Liveable Landscape:
A Sustainable Approach, Australian Landscape and Garden
Design Conference, Melbourne, Australia
CONTACT:
Warwick Forge, Bloomings Books warwick@bloomings.com.au
WEBSITE: http://www.australianlandscapeconference.com.au/2007infooz.htm
Program: http://www.australianlandscapeconference.com.au/2007program.htm
09-15 Serendipity and the New Wild Garden, Winterthur GardenFair, Winterthur
Museum and Country Estate, Winterthur, Delaware
CONTACT:
Chris Strand, Director, Garden & Estate cstran@winterthur.org
WEBSITE:
http://www.winterthur.org/calendar/gardenfair_symposium.asp
09-20 Grasses for Livable Landscapes, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe,
Illinois
CONTACT:
Jill Selinger, Manager, Joseph P. Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago
Botanic Garden jselinger@chicagobotanic.org tel. 847-835-6849
WEBSITE:
http://www.chicagobotanic.org/school/class_schedule/september.php
09-21 Digital Photography as a Gardening
Tool, Chicago
Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois
CONTACT:
Jill Selinger, Manager, Joseph P. Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago
Botanic Garden jselinger@chicagobotanic.org tel. 847-835-6849
WEBSITE:
http://www.chicagobotanic.org/school/class_schedule/september.php
09-24 A Walk Through Longwood's Ornamental
Grasses, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
CONTACT:
Dave Thompson, Continuing Education Coordinator DThompson@longwoodgardens.org tel. 610-388-1000 ext 522
WEBSITE:
http://www.longwoodgardens.org/DessertLectures.html
09-24 Grasses in the Livable Landscape, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square,
Pennsylvania
CONTACT:
Dave Thompson, Continuing Education Coordinator DThompson@longwoodgardens.org tel. 610-388-1000 ext 522
WEBSITE:http://www.longwoodgardens.org/ShortCoursesandWorkshops.html
09-27 The Livable Landscape, Oklahoma Convention & Trade
Show co-sponsored by the Oklahoma Greenhouse Growers Association and the
Oklahome Nursery and Landscape Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
CONTACT:
Wendy Gerdes, Executive Director ONLA & OGGA
oklahomaonlaogga@aol.com
tel 405-942-5276
OCTOBER 2007
10-05 Grasses and The Design of Livable Landscapes, Florida Nursery Growers and
Landscape Association FNATS show, Orlando, Florida
CONTACT:
Linda Reindl lreindl@fngla.org
tel 407-295-7994
WEBSITE: http://www.fngla.org/fnats/general.asp
10-23 The Livable Landscape, Third International Seminar
on Contemporary Landscape Design, Santiago, Chile
CONTACT:
Paz Hormazabal terrapaz@gmail.com
WEBSITE: http://www.terrapaz.cl/seminario/seminario.html
NOVEMBER 2007
11-08 Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest in Our Urban Parks
, Keynote,
Emerald Necklace Conservancy Annual Meeting at Longwood Towers, 20 Chapel
Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
CONTACT:
Susan Knight sknight@emeraldnecklace.org
tel 617-232-5374
WEBSITE: www.emeraldnecklace.org