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8 am Registration (Visitor Center) Professional Horticulture Alumni Spotlight Preregistration is required via paper registration or online. Today’s Horticulture Symposium Plant Sale (Patio of Oranges) Part Two: Horticultural Therapy at the NJDOC Sorry, no telephone registrations. No walk-ins will be accepted. February 7, 2020 Debbie Mahon The Symposium fee includes admission to Longwood Gardens, Longwood Gardens all lectures, CEUs, lunch, refreshments, and plant sale access. 8:50 am Welcome (Ballroom) The New Jersey Department of Corrections operates Emily Reuther, Event Coordinator the Jones Farm Horticulture Program in Mercer County. To register online, visit longwoodgardens.org/todayshorticulture. Instructor Debbie Mahon will present the day-to-day, To register by mail, please use the attached form. Name (for additional registrants, please use a copy of this form) 9 am The Thousand Year Wood: Past, Present, yearly, and professional achievements of the students and Future of People and she teaches, while also sharing some positive points in Onsite Symposium Pricing William Bryant Logan hiring a returning citizen. $119 Onsite Symposium Early Bird (if registered by January 4) $149 Onsite Symposium (if registered after January 4) Company/Institution Professional Horticulture Alumni Spotlight Oaks and people have been intimately connected since $75 Onsite Symposium PGAA Members (discounted rate applies Part Three: Why Not Roses? at least the Mesolithic Period. Learn about the long history to alumni who have paid 2019 dues) of that relationship including the many things oaks have Adam Glas taught us, in locations from Japan to Europe to California. Fall back in love with America’s national flower. Many Attend Online Address William Bryant Logan discusses the present possibilities gardeners are intimidated by roses because of their You may now participate in Today’s Horticulture anytime, anywhere, for planting and maintaining oaks in the landscape with reputation for being difficult to grow. Learn how new for free. You can access the symposium webcast, live or on demand, consideration given to the preferences of different species breeding efforts, sustainable growing methods, and trials using your preferred platform, including mobile device. For details or City, State, Zip and where they are best suited. for pest and disease resistance have positioned roses for to register, visit longwoodgardens.org/todayshorticulture. a renaissance and find out which ones are best for your 9:45 am Transforming Residential Landscapes garden. Telephone number Ash Gillis Cancellation Policy Early registrations are recommended. Seating is limited and registrations will be accepted on a first-come basis. With in severe decline, one way to affect 2 pm Dessert/Coffee Break Registration fees will be refunded less a $30 processing fee if change is to radically increase native plants in residential requests are made by January 3, 2020. The event will be held Email landscapes. But what would motivate homeowners 2:15 pm Farming While Black: regardless of weather conditions. No refunds will be given if you to make this shift when faced with opposing societal Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty are unable to attend due to weather. pressure? This presentation offers insights from social Amani Olugbala Professional Horticulture Program Alumni? Y / N psychology and successful real-world examples of Accessibility Longwood Gardens and the Today’s Horticulture Some of our most cherished sustainable farming practices communities growing native plants together. Selection Committee will make every effort to assist individuals with have roots in African wisdom, yet discrimination against accommodation requests. Please contact us at least one week prior African-American farmers has led to their decline to to the symposium to discuss any questions or concerns. Year of Graduation 10:30 am Break fewer than 2% of all growers today. Meanwhile, Black communities suffer disproportionately from lack of access 11 am Year Five on Day One: to fresh food and healthy ecosystems. Learn about Soul Cultivating the Amazon Spheres Fire Farm’s commitment to ending racism and seeding Continuing Education Units Ron Gagliardo food sovereignty based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are offered by the following In 2018, Amazon HQ Seattle opened The Spheres, a new organizations for attendance at the symposium. Unless otherwise take on the urban office environment that embraces noted, CEUs are not available to webcast attendees: biophilic design. The Spheres is a result of innovative 3 pm Break Payment Information thinking about the character of the workplace and an To register using a paper registration, please include a check extended conversation about what it often lacks: a direct link 3:30 pm Collaborative Approaches to Design payable to Longwood Gardens. To use a credit card, please to nature that inspires curiosity and conservation. and Planting at Harris Bugg Studio register online. Charlotte Harris & Hugo Bugg PLNA 4.5 units with self-reporting; available to webcast attendees Mail to: 11:45 am Lunch (Terrace Restaurant) Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg had successful separate ASHS 6 units with self-reporting; available to webcast attendees Continuing Education design practices before formally merging in 2017 to form Longwood Gardens Harris Bugg Studio. Harris and Bugg share case studies AOLCP 4 units with self-reporting; available to webcast attendees 1 pm Professional Horticulture Alumni Spotlight Part PO Box 501 of a range of their public and residential projects, as well One: Water Gardening Lessons Learned DNLA 1 unit with verification of attendance Kennett Square, PA 19348-0501 Tim Jennings as insight into what it takes to produce an award-winning garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. They also explore ISA 2.5 units with verification of attendance Must be postmarked by January 31, 2020 Adding a water feature to your garden can enhance some of the challenges of collaborating and how they ALPD 5 units with self-reporting; pending approval of webcast attendees Contact Us: your entire landscape. Explore the culture, care, and have (or haven’t!) resolved them. maintenance of aquatic plants with the horticulturist LA-CES 6 units with verification of attendance Questions regarding this event’s content may be directed to: responsible for Longwood’s outdoor Waterlily Display, Emily Reuther, Symposium Event Coordinator, Please check the symposium website for updated information. reinforcing water gardening principles and introducing a 4:15 pm Closing Remarks [email protected] few favorite plants.