2010 Symposium
| PROGRAM |
Native Gardening in the Southeast
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Dan Long is owner of Brushwood Nursery, a mail-order nursery specializing in vines and climbers. He has been in production horticulture for 22 years and is a past instructor at Longwood Gardens and the New York Botanical Garden. He is also a well-known lecturer on vines, with an emphasis on creative and non-traditional ways to train and utilize these plants in the garden.
Rick Lewandowski is the director of Mt. Cuba Center in Greenville, Delaware. His role includes overseeing institutional planning and garden development as well as conservation, education, and research program development for the 660-acre property. Rick is a frequent speaker, has edited several books and has authored many articles. He actively explores and studies plant habitats throughout the eastern and southeastern United States in order to enrich the gardens of Mt. Cuba Center with documented, wild-collected, seed-propagated plants and to conserve plant genetic diversity for future generations.
Tom Patrick is a botanist for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. He received his B.S. degree from Syracuse University and M.S. from Cornell in plant taxonomy. After nearly a decade working on rare plant inventories and taxonomy of the Trillium erectum complex, he accepted a position with GA DNR in 1986. He has studied the flora of Georgia extensively, especially monitoring sites for two rarities, Trillium reliquum and Trillium persistens.
Gil Nelson is an author, botanist, and coordinator of the Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project at the Godfrey Herbarium at Florida State University. His twelfth book, which focuses on the best native plants for southern gardens and includes an extensive chapter on native hollies, is scheduled for release spring 2010. He has a special interest in woody plants of the Southeast, with an emphasis on the phytogeography of native trees and shrubs. He has authored articles on native hollies for American Gardener (American Horticultural Society) and Tipularia (Georgia Botanical Society).
George Kish is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Tampa, Florida, and a PhD student at the University of South Florida in the Department of Geography, Environmental Science, and Policy. He is also a past president of the Hillsborough County chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS) and a past Director-at-Large of the state FNPS. George coordinates the Southeastern Regional Phenology Network, a branch of the USA-National Phenology Network (USA-NPN). He is actively engaged in seeking long-term phenology research partners and study sites in the Southeast.
Jan Midgley is the owner of Wildflower, a nursery selling native herbaceous perennials and ferns. She is the author of Nursery Sources of Native Plants of the Southeastern United States, published in 1993, and Southeastern Wildflowers, published in 1999. She is renowned for her expertise on propagation of native plants and is a popular speaker at native plant conferences. She is a past Conference Director of the Cullowhee Native Plant Conference.
Ron Lance is a Senior Naturalist at Balsam Mountain Preserve in Sylva, NC. Ron has written numerous tree and shrub guides and keys for Southeastern plants, including his self-published Hawthorns of the Southeastern United States, Hawthorns and Medlars, co-authored with James B. Phillips and published by Timber PRess; and his book Woody Plants of the Southeastern United States - A Winter Guide, a college-level reference book with illustrations and keys for winter plant identification (University of GA Press). He is currently working on a field guide to hawthorns.
*NEW* For those of you that have wanted some "hands on" activities, this year's symposium offers lunchtime workshops. Your lunch will be delivered straight to the classroom so that you can munch your way through a small group workshop. Each workshop will be limited to 20 participants and will be held in a classroom with tables.
All Workshops are FULL
Directions:
Use your favorite map program to get directions to the following address:
Chattahoochee Technical College
North Metro Campus
5198 Ross Road
Acworth, GA 30102