Fred W. Case, Jr. has had a long and distinguished career teaching biology to high school students in Saginaw, Michigan, where he is from. He is a Lifetime PAID 19348 Fellow of Cranbrook Institute of Science and a member

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Nonprofi t Organization Nonprofi PERENNIAL of Natural Resources. He lectures widely on native PLANT plants, has published numerous research papers and photographs, and is the author of Trilliums published PLANT CONFERENCE by Timber Press. Fred is the Honorary Director of the Canadian Wildflower Society, and has also been honored with many awards, including the Arthur CONFERENCE Conference Co-Sponsors Hoyt Scott Medal and Award from Scott Arboretum in 2004. Chanticleer Page Dickey is the author of Gardens in the Spirit of The Hardy Plant Society/Mid-Atlantic Group Place, as well as the award-winning Breaking Ground: . A book about her Longwood Gardens, Inc. Portraits of Ten Garden Designers own garden, Duck Hill Journal: A Year in a Country The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Garden, was published in 1991. She has also written Inside Out: Relating Garden to House, Dogs in Their The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College Gardens and Cats in Their Gardens. A contributor to House Beautiful, House and Garden and Horticulture Conference Highlights magazines, she also lectures across the country. She serves on the board of the Garden Conservancy and is one of the founders of the Conservancy’s Open Days • Conference approved for 4.5 Continuing Education Units program. She lives and gardens with her husband in from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers the company of assorted dogs, cats and chickens in North Salem, New York. • Internationally Known Garden Speakers John Friel’s horticultural career began in 1979. • Free Admission to Sponsoring Institution Gardens His column, “The Perennial Cynic,” appears in • Perennial Plant Showcase GrowerTalks magazine, and “The Friel World” in Green Profit magazine. John also writes for Lancaster • Books for Sale newspapers and an entertainment monthly. In his day job, John is Technical Marketing Manager for Green Leaf Perennials, a brand of Yoder Brothers, Inc., About Our Speakers America’s second-largest grower, and major partner in Blooms of Bressingham and The Flower Fields. Denise Wiles Adams, author of Restoring American John is a member of the Board of Directors of the Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Perennial Plant Association, and co-chair of the PPA’s Plants, 1640-1940, (Timber Press, 2004) is a Nomenclature Committee. He has spoken at Perennial horticultural consultant and ornamental-plant Plant Association, Canadian Greenhouse Conference, historian who lives with her husband John and ten New England Greenhouse Conference, Garden Writers cats in a nineteenth-century former tavern in rural Association, and many others. Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in Horticulture from The Ohio State University and for a decade owned an Dan Pearson is a landscape and garden designer heirloom-flower and herb nursery. She is a prolific with an international reputation for design and October 20, 2006 writer and lecturer on topics related to the history planting excellence. His work focuses on blurring of American ornamental gardens and maintains a the boundaries between interior and exterior space, computer database of over 25,000 taxa of ornamental and between ornamental garden spaces and the plants featured in the catalogs of American nurseries wider landscape. He is committed to creating better and seed-houses prior to 1940. Most recently Denise environments for wildlife and people, and to make served as guest curator for Ohio’s Garden Path, a as gentle a mark on the land as possible. He is a multi-media exhibit chronicling the history of Ohio’s weekly gardening columnist for The Daily Telegraph, Lang Performing Arts Center gardens from its early years of settlement, ca. 1800, joint author with Sir Terence Conran of The Essential to the present. Denise is a member of The Southern Garden Book and author of The Garden: A Year At Swarthmore College Garden History Society, Garden Writers Association, Home Farm. He has presented television series for and serves as co-chair of the nomenclature committee various British networks and has designed five award- Swarthmore, PA for the Perennial Plant Association. winning Chelsea Flower Show gardens. Continuing Education Longwood Gardens 501 Box P.O. 19348-0501 PA Square, Kennett REGISTRATION PERENNIAL PLANT CONFERENCE PERENNIAL PLANT Friday, October 20, 2006 • Lang Performing Arts Center • Swarthmore College CONFERENCE

Friday, October 20, 2006 7:00 First shuttle leaves from Springfi eld Mall Method, Madness and the Marketplace: To register more than one person, please use a photocopy of Botanical Nomenclature in the this form for each additional registrant. or conference registration 7:30 – 8:50 Early Riser’s Tours of Scott Arboretum Real World – John Friel information, Latin name, “common” name, trademark F Name ______please call Longwood Gardens’ 8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee name, patent name: what’s the REAL name? Continuing Education Offi ce at Company ______John will explore, and attempt to explain, 610-388-1000 extension 507 Address ______9:00 – 9:15 Welcome – Claire Sawyers, Director, those exasperating, tongue-twisting Monday - Friday, 8 am - 4pm The Scott Arboretum binomials – and why we need them City______State _____ Zip ______No phone registrations, please. now more than ever. Phone (_____)______9:15 – 10:15 American Native Plants For the Shade Garden – Fred W. Case, Jr. Tour: Perennial Combinations for Small Directions to the Scott ❒ Early Risers Tour (PET06) Fred Case will discuss selected useful and Spaces - Bill Costello, Susan McGinley Arboretum of Swarthmore Concurrent Sessions: Please note, space limited. growable native wildfl ower treasures for and Sue Stark, Scott Arboretum Gardeners College and parking information Rank the following in order of preference: diverse shade and soil situations. (limit of 90 participants) will be mailed with registration confi rmations. If you have special parking needs, please contact Melanie Blandford at __ Lecture: Trilliums (PLT06) __ Lecture: Botanical Nomenclature (PLN06) 10:15 – 10:45 Break Tour: Swarthmore College’s Vegetated 610-328-8024 by October 8. __ Tour: Perennial Combos (PTP06) Roofs: Attractive and Environmentally __ Tour: Vegetated Roofs (PTR06) 10:45 – 11:30 Perennials of the Past for the Present– Responsible - Lars Rasmussen, Information about the facilities: Denise Adams Antique perennials evoke Scott Arboretum Gardener and Jeff Jabco, Please check type of lunch preferred: The Lang Performing Arts Center is fully accessible and is pleasant memories of simpler times. Coordinator of Horticulture for the Scott ❒ Asian chicken salad (PCL06) equipped with headsets for the hearing-impaired. If such Characterized by distinctive color and Arboretum (limit of 40 participants) ❒ Salmon salad with lemon, capers and red onion (PSL06) accommodations are needed, contact Melanie Blandford at beauty, familiar forms, and often-exquisite ❒ Peanut butter, banana and granola on raisin bread (PPL06) 610-328-8024 for details by October 8. fragrance, these plants are old friends in 2:00 – 2:30 Break Lights in the auditorium will be dark in the front and a rapidly changing world. Learn about ❒ ❒ ❒ dimmed in the back for note taking. Temperatures in the Payment: Check VISA MasterCard perennial treasures of the past, which are 2:30 – 3:15 Promising Perennials Forum – David Culp, ❒ AMEX ❒ Discover appropriate for modern gardens. Moderator; Presenters: Erica Beadle, auditorium fl uctuate. We suggest dressing in layers for the Hank Davis, Jean Frett, John McIntyre, conference. CC# ______11:30 – 12:15 Gardens That Refl ect Their Settings – Alan Petravich, Marilyn Romenesko, Name on credit card if different from above ______Page Dickey Page will show a variety of Przemek Walczak About the area: gardens around America that are sensitive The conference is held in the Delaware Valley, an area rich in ______to their surroundings, use vernacular plants, 3:15 – 4:15 Perennials in Their Place – Dan Pearson gardens. For a list of area gardens and related activities, visit Expiration Date ______NAIC Code______stone, wood, and respond to the climate, By studying plants in the wild one gains www.greaterphiladelphiagardens.org. NAIC Code -3 digit code on back; or 4 digit code on AMEX topography, culture and history of the a clear understanding of where and how Free conference parking will be at the near-by Springfi eld region. plants grow and what they grow with. This Signature ______Mall. Shuttles will be available and will run all day from understanding of local ecologies can then be 7 am until 5:15 pm. No parking on campus. Billing address if different from above ______12:15 – 1:15 Lunch adapted to the job of combining plants for ornamental effect in a garden setting and can ______1:15 – 2:00 Concurrent Sessions – Choose ONE of the act as the inspiration for a range of naturalistic Cancellation Policy following four options aesthetics. Dan will illustrate his talk with Registration fees (less a 15% processing fee) will be refunded if cancellations are made before September 30; no refunds Registration fee: Register early and save $20! examples of his own design work. The North American Trilliums – after that date. For additional conference registration ❒ $79 per person if your registration is postmarked by Sept. 29 Fred W. Case, Jr. 4:15 Afternoon Study Tour: Perennials: Flowers information, please call Longwood Gardens’ Continuing ❒ $99 per person if postmarked between Sept. 20 and Oct. 13 This session will cover most species of our and Foliage, Too! - Dwight Darkow, Education Offi ce at 610-388-1000, ext. 507, Monday - ❒ $119 per person if postmarked after Oct. 13 native trilliums, and how you may include Scott Arboretum Gardener (meets at the Friday, 8 am - 4 pm. Registration fee includes lunch and refreshment breaks. Please make them in your garden. Fred will also discuss entrance plaza to Lang PAC immediately checks payable to Longwood Gardens, Inc. Mail or fax (credit card how to propagate and grow trilliums from following the conference). only) your registration form(s) to: Continuing Education, Longwood seed and cultural challenges. Gardens, P.O. Box 501, Kennett Square, PA 19348-0501. Fax 610- 5:15 Last shuttle leaves for Springfi eld Mall. 388-9806. Conference reservations must be made in advance; all reservations will be confi rmed by mail.