About our speakers Paid US Postage Permit # 6808 LEE BUTTALA is the former Executive Director of Seed Savers Exchange and has Non-Proft Org worked as the Preservation Program Manager for the Garden Conservancy and Martha Stewart Living. He is the co-author of Cultivating Life and the Seed Garden and has won an Emmy Award for his work as a television producer of Cultivating Life, a PBS series on outdoor living and gardening. Lee studied at Kyoto University of Art and Design, the English Gardening School at London’s Chelsea Physic Garden, and the New York Botanical Garden. IRVIN ETIENNE is the Horticultural Display Coordinator for the Garden at Newfelds (Indianapolis Museum of Art) where he has worked for over 25 years. In this position he helps the horticulturists with their plant selection and garden design as well as designing and maintaining his own areas. With knowledge and skill, Irvin cares for 152 acres of garden and grounds flled with woody and herbaceous plants, but he lusts for and loves the tropical species most of all. PANAYOTI KELAIDIS is a plant explorer, gardener, and public garden administrator associated with Denver Botanic Gardens (DBG), where he is now Senior Curator and Director of Outreach. He has designed plantings for many of the gardens at DBG and is particularly noted for the plantings of the Rock Alpine Garden. He has received the Scott Garden and Horticulture Medal and Award and Liberty Hyde Bailey Medal. MIDORI SHINTANI is the Head Gardener at Tokachi Millennium Forest in Hokkaido, Japan. She studied horticulture and landscape architecture before training to become a gardener at Millesgården and Rosendals Trädgård in Sweden. She worked to gain experiences of garden design, landscaping technology, and nursery management in both traditional and modern styles in Japan. Since 2008, Midori has been committed to creating new Japanese horticulture by merging traditional horticulture into wild nature at Tokachi Millennium Forest. JAMES ALEXANDER-SINCLAIR is a well-respected and much in-demand British garden designer. He writes for most British publications, has presented garden programs on the BBC for many years, and is very popular on the lecture circuit. James has been a Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) gardens judge since 2006, Chair of the Chelsea Flower Show selection panel, and Chairman of the Friday, October 18, 2019 International Jury at the Moscow Flower Show. In 2011 he was elected to the Council of the RHS. Lang Performing Arts Center JACQUELINE VAN DER KLOET is an internationally acclaimed garden designer Swarthmore College and one of Holland’s best-known gardening authorities. She is a pro’s pro, a plant specialist whose advice is sought by other designers and landscape architects. Her Swarthmore, PA designs are prized for their artful naturalized schemes and bold uses of color. She is the author of ten gardening books, with the latest, Colour Your Garden, being the frst available in English. Jacqueline is a graduate of the Royal Horticultural Institute for Garden and Landscape Architecture in Boskoop, The Netherlands, and www.perennialplantconference.orgwoodyplantconference.org of the Provincial Institute for Horticultural Studies in Anderlecht, Belgium. She has helmed her own business since 1985. Continuing Education Longwood Gardens Box 501 P.O. 19348-0501 PA Kennett Square, Return Service Requested by: Sponsored Chanticleer Longwood Gardens Plant Society/Mid-Atlantic Group The Hardy Pennsylvania Horticultural Society College of Swarthmore The Scott Arboretum Photo Credit: Lisa Roper - Chanticleer Friday, October 18, 2019 Perennial Plant Conference Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College Registration Form Registration fee includes lunch, refreshment breaks, and free admission to co-sponsoring institution gardens October 19 and 20. 7:30 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee 1:20 - 2:10 A Life in Five Gardens - James Alexander-Sinclair To pay by credit card, register online at: www.perennialplantconference.org 7:45 – 8:45 Early Riser Tours of Scott Arboretum James will take us on the journey of his thirty-year career as a garden designer, looking at fve gardens. The designs, the stories and, of To pay with a check, mail your registration form(s) to: course, the plants will be explored. 9:00 – 9:15 WelcoMe - Claire Sawyers, Director, Scott Arboretum Continuing Education, Longwood Gardens, P.O. Box 501, Kennett Square, PA 19348-0501 2:10 - 3:00 The Return of the Species: Seeds and Biodiversity 9:15 – 10:15 Perennial Perspectives: The Power of the Perennial - Lee Buttala - Jacqueline van der Kloet Please make checks payable to Longwood Gardens, Inc. In a horticultural and agricultural universe where hybrids and Jacqueline will share with us gardens she has designed using propagated plants are commonplace, the biodiversity of many species sustainable combinations of perennial plants in private, semi-private, Register early and save! Deadline for early registration is Tuesday, September 17, is being bottlenecked even by those with the best intentions. In talking and public gardens that follow her naturalistic style. 2019. Pre-registration is required; no walk–ins, please. about how to maintain the adaptivity of plants to respond to changing climate conditions, Lee sets forth a simple approach to increasing the Name: 10:15 – 10:40 Break: Book and Raffe Ticket Sales biodiversity of our own backyards using seed-grown plants. He will teach us how to preserve the biodiversity of the plant kingdom, one Organization: 10:40 - 11:30 Tokachi MillenniuM Forest: The Garden Connecting to the Wild seed at a time. - Midori Shintani Address: Tokachi Millennium Forest is located at the foot of the Hidaka 3:00 - 3:25 Break: Last Chance to Buy Books and Raffe Tickets City: State: Zip: Mountains in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago. Midori will share how she and her garden team take care Phone: 3:25 - 3:30 Raffe Winner Announcements of native vegetation in the forest and merge the cultivated gardens into the nature surrounding them. She will discuss how her gardening Email: methods in developing the vernacular landscape at Tokachi Millennium 3:30 - 4:30 Durable, Adorable Yet Undiscovered Perennials Lunch is included with your registration. Forest are rooted in accumulated wisdom and ancient belief, serving a - Panayoti Kelaidis deeply felt sense of beauty in Japanese culture. In the course of plant explorations, Panayoti has introduced exotic and Three lunch options will be available including a vegetarian and gluten-free choice. wonderful plants that have become popular in cultivation, from South It is not necessary to choose your lunch at the time of registration. 11:30 - 12:20 Gardening Without Privacy African ice plants to penstemons, agastaches and buckwheats from I’d like to attend the following: - Irvin Etienne abroad and western America that were new to cultivation. Many of In a public garden you can’t hide your mistakes for long. That wrong the fnest perennials he has found are in the gardens of amateurs and ❏ Reception: Mix and mingle $20. Space is limited. plant in the wrong place is obvious to all. Reliable, no-fuss perennials nurseries around America. He will reveal that there is a whole palette of that are also very attractive are a design requirement. You need new gems under our nose! REGISTRATION FEE: Register early and save. perennials of this caliber in all seasons and ideally these plants will look ❏ $119 per person if postmarked by September 17, 2019 good in multiple seasons. We will look at some of the best year-in, year- 4:30 Closing Comments ❏ $149 per person if postmarked between September 18 and October 11 out performers in the Garden at Newfelds, a Midwest public garden. 4:30 - 5:30 Reception: Mix and mingle with speakers and horticultural Registration opens July 24. 12:20 - 1:20 Lunch: Book and Raffe Ticket Sales professionals. An additional $20 fee required. Registration fees less a $30 processing fee will be refunded if cancellations are made by October 11. No cancellations will be accepted for refunds after that date. 5:45 Last Shuttle to Springfeld Mall Parking Lot Conference Highlights For directions, visit: • Talks by noted horticulturists and designers Like us on Facebook! www.perennialplantconference.org • Free admission to co-sponsoring gardens October 19 and 20 • APLD & LA-CES credits are available.