30Th Annual AMGA Conference Renaissance Riverview Hotel Mobile, Alabama March 30 - April 1, 2020
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30th Annual AMGA Conference Renaissance Riverview Hotel Mobile, Alabama March 30 - April 1, 2020 Conference Registration Form: Please complete a separate form for each person attending sessions or register at www.alabamamg.org. (List any guests on this form below. A guest is registered for meals only so does not need to complete a separate form.) Last Name _______________________________ First Name_______________________________ MI ______ Street _______________________________ City_________________________________ ST ____ ZIP ______ Email _______________________________ Phone (____)_________ Local MG Assoc.___________________ Please check one: MG______ MG Intern ______ACES ______ Speaker ______ Vendor ______ Other _______ Preferred name on badge: ____________________________________ Registration Cost includes Monday: Reception; *Tuesday: Coffee & Mardi Gras Sweets, Lunch, and Dinner; *Wednesday: Coffee & Mardi Gras Sweets. *(cash bar available) Check for _____Vegetarian or _____ Gluten Free meals. Early Bird Registration: Postmarked January 1-26 $160 $_________ (Enters you in a drawing for a refund of your registration fees.) Regular Registration: Postmarked January 27-February 29 $160 $_________ Late Registration: Postmarked March 1-March 16 $170 $_________ Conference Logo T-shirts $15 each (must be preordered and paid for with registration) Please indicate Size and Number of each: S_____M_____L_____XL_____2XL_____3XL_____ Total number of shirts x $15 $_________ Guest Meals (Not available for late registrations) Vegetarian____ Gluten Free_____ Guest Name ___________________________________________ Monday Reception $33 $_________ Guest Name ______________________________________________ Tuesday Dinner $43 $_________ Total Amount Due (Make checks payable to AMGA Conference) $_________ Mail form and payment to: Janet Waters, 5558 Thomas Jefferson Ct., Mobile, AL 36693 or contact: (251)648-3784 or [email protected]. RENAISSANCE RIVERVIEW HOTEL RESERVATION: Make your reservation soon for best room selection! Conference rate is $135 per night ($153.90 with tax). Use link below or call (251)438-4000 and ask for the AMGA Annual Conference 2020. Reservation link for 2020 AMGA Annual Conference at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel: https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation- link.mi?id=1555428147355&key=GRP&app=resvlink ALABAMA MASTER GARDENERS STATE CONFERENCE March 30 – April 1, 2020 Renaissance Riverview Hotel Mobile, Alabama (All activities take place on the second floor of the hotel.) Monday, March 30 9:00-5:30 Registration. (Second Floor) Shop vendors. (Second Floor) Silent auction. (Jubilee Suite) 10:00-11:00 Pre-opening Workshops Brenda Litchfield, Ph.D.: Waxing Camellias and Other Flowers (Mobile Bay I & II) Derek Norman: Connecting Art to Science to People (Mobile Bay III) Evie Pankok: Let’s Talk Trash: Recycle in the Garden (Grand Bay I & II) 11:00-1:00 Lunch on your own. Shop vendors. (Second Floor) Silent auction. (Jubilee Suite) 1:00-2:30 Welcome and Opening Keynote - Jim Martin: Gardening Future Forward (Bon Secour Ballroom) 2:45-3:45 Jim Martin: Star-Studded Floral Design Using Creative Structures, Grocery Store Fare, and Your Back Yard (Bon Secour Ballroom) Evie Pankok: Let’s Talk Trash: Recycle in the Garden (Grand Bay I & II) 3:45-5:30 Shop vendors. (Second Floor) Silent auction. (Jubilee Suite) 5:30-7:00 Welcome Reception – Cash Bar with Hors d’œuvres. (Bon Secour Ballroom) Silent Auction. (Jubilee Suite) Shop vendors (Second Floor) 1 Tuesday, March 31 7:30-9:00 ‘Mardi Gras’ pastries and coffee. (Bon Secour Ballroom) Shop vendors. (Second Floor) Silent auction. (Jubilee Suite) 8:00-5:30 Registration. (Second Floor) 9:00-10:00 Bobby Green: Gulf Coast Appalachia: A New Frontier for Your Garden, Exploring the Trees and Shrubs of the Red Hills. (Mobile Bay III) Bill Barrick, Ph.D.: Bellingrath Gardens and the Future of Public Gardens (Grand Bay I & II) Beth Bolles: Selecting a Flowering Vine for Your Garden Space (Mobile Bay I & II) 10:15-11:15 Bill Finch: Light in the Long Leaf (Mobile Bay III) Beth Bolles: Selecting a Flowering Vine for Your Garden Space (Mobile Bay I & II) Sarah Skelly, D.O.: Adaptive Gardening: Strategies for Gardening as We Age (Grand Bay I & II) 11:15-12:00 Box lunch. (Bon Secour Ballroom) Shop vendors. (Second Floor) Silent auction. (Jubilee Suite) 12:00-1:30 Business meeting. (Bon Secour Ballroom) 1:45-2:45 Juan Mata, Ph.D.: Fungi in Your Lawn and Garden: Friend or Foe?(Mobile Bay I & II) Jack LeCroy: Landscape 401k: How Long Will Your Landscape Thrive? (Grand Bay I & II) David Held, Ph.D.: Understanding Pest Outbreaks in Urban Landscapes (Mobile Bay III) 2 3:00-4:00 Curtis Hansen, Ph.D.: Lichens in the Landscape (Mobile Bay I & II) Bill Finch: Rediscovering the Seasons (Mobile Bay III) Sherry Melton and Molly Dickinson: Small Containers, Big Impact (Grand Bay I & II) 4:15-5:15 Barry Ballard: Great Grasses for the Southeast and Beyond (Mobile Bay I & II) Jack LeCroy: Houseplant Hysteria: The New Age of Our Indoor Companions (Mobile Bay III) Sherry Melton and Molly Dickinson: Small Containers, Big Impact (Grand Bay I & II) 5:15-6:10 Happy Hour Cash Bar (Second Floor and Bon Secour Ballroom) Shop vendors (Second Floor) FINAL SILENT AUCTION BIDDING. (Jubilee Suite) 6:10 SILENT AUCTION ENDS 6:20 Dinner Awards Ceremony and Installation of New Officers Keynote Speaker - Dolores Hydock: Two Gardening Tales: “Becoming Mrs. Nash” and “Western Civilization” (Bon Secour Ballroom) Wednesday, April 1 7:30-9:00 ‘Mardi Gras’ pastries and coffee. (Bon Secour Ballroom) Shop vendors. (Second Floor) 9:00-11:30 First Annual AMGA Film Fest (Bon Secour Ballroom) 1. Flight of the Butterflies 2. Ben Raines: The Underwater Forest 11:30 Closing Remarks (Bon Secour Ballroom) 12:00 Pick up silent auction items. (Jubilee Suite) Possible 10 CEUs 3 Conference Speakers Barry Ballard was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida. He has worked in horticulture for over two decades. Since graduating from the University of Florida, he has worked in horticultural research, public gardening, education, plant propagation, and extension services. Currently he is serving as the Plant Health Specialist and Director of Trialing, Research, and Development for Emerald Coast Grower, LLC, the largest ornamental grass liner producer in the United States. Bill Barrick, Ph.D., was executive vice president and director of gardens at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia, for almost twenty years before becoming executive director of Bellingrath Gardens and Home in November 1999. Dr. Barrick became director emeritus of Bellingrath upon his retirement in 2019. He is a past president of the American Public Garden Association and past chairman of the American Horticultural Society. His awards include the 1994 Arthur Hoyt Scott Horticulture Medal, the 2012 Alabama Governor’s Tourism Award, the American Horticulture Society’s 2015 Liberty Hyde Bailey Award, and the 2015 Auburn University College of Agriculture Outstanding Alumni Award for the horticulture department. Dr. Barrick is a graduate of Auburn University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees and received a doctorate in landscape horticulture from Michigan State University. Beth Bolles is the Horticulture Agent with University of Florida Extension in Escambia County. For 22 years, she has directed programs for homeowners and horticulture professionals on Florida Friendly Landscaping, Pesticide Certification, and general gardening topics. She has also coordinated Master Gardener volunteers as they provide community outreach to both adults and youth. Beth is originally from Nashville, TN and received degrees in Horticulture and Entomology from the University of Tennessee. Beth enjoys continually learning about plants and natural systems. Bill Finch is a writer, radio and TV host and naturalist who for decades has dedicated himself to exploring and understanding the Alabama landscape. He is an award- winning environmental reporter and garden columnist and was conservation director for the Alabama Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and executive director of Mobile Botanical Gardens. He now has his own environmental consulting company with his wife, Beth, and they’re developing multiple conservation, preservation and research projects. You can catch his radio show/podcast every Sunday morning from 9 until 11 on fmtalk1065.com. His book, Longleaf Far as the Eye Can See, published by University of North Carolina Press, is in its fourth printing. 4 Bobby Green Bobby Green is a landscape designer and owner of Green Nurseries in Fairhope, AL, specializing in Camellias, winter-interest plants, and scarce native plants. He has introduced seventeen Camellia sasanqua hybrids, including the internationally awarded Green’s Blues and Rose of Autumn and the Southern Living October Magic Series. He perceives garden design as an extension of our natural surroundings, thereby involving people within their garden. In recent years, he has turned his nursery eye to the heat-tolerant native tree and shrub species of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Curtis Hansen is curator of the Freeman Herbarium at the Auburn University Museum of Natural History. He earned a B.A. degree in biology from the University of Utah and holds M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University and Auburn University. Working over two decades at Auburn University, Curtis has not only explored the incredibly diverse plant flora of Alabama but has also collected and documented the rich lichen flora of the state. He currently tracks