Lecture Schedule

During this all-day workshop, we will visit and analyze several woodland habitats and multiple meadows, where we will discuss how their varied environmental conditions and disturbance histories have affected their current vegetative composition. Tours and discussions will be led by Ted Elliman, Uli Lorimer, Mark Richardson, & Larry Weaner.

CEUs: APLD, LACES, ISA, MCH, MLP, NOFA (please check NDAL website for further details)

This session will be held mostly outdoors.

This all-day workshop will feature presentations that explore the plants, insects, and human activities that shaped the Tallgrass Prairie (Laura Rericha-Anchor and Gerould Wilhelm), and demonstrate how the compositions, patterns, and processes of prairie and associated plant communities can be incorporated into the designed landscape. (Larry Weaner).

CEUs: APLD, LACES, ISA, MCH, MLP, NOFA (please check NDAL website for further details)

This session will be held entirely indoors.

During this all-day workshop, we will observe a managed and unmanaged woodland site at the Morton Arboretum, compare their respective vegetative compositions, and discuss potential management approaches for their respective future enhancement. We will also visit a high-quality remnant prairie in the Illinois Beach State Park’s Nature Preserve to study the intricate relationships between flora, fauna, the physical environment, and human activity in a remnant prairie system. Tours and discussions will be led by Larry Weaner, FAPLD, Gerould Wilhelm, PhD, and The Morton Arboretum Staff.

CEUs: APLD, LACES, ISA, MCH, MLP, NOFA (please check NDAL website for further details)

This session will be held mostly outdoors.

This all-day workshop will feature presentations that analyze the key forest, meadow, and wetland communities of the Atlantic Coastal Plain (Daniela Shebitz), illustrate how to foster a natural refuge everywhere to enrich the experiences of both people and wildlife (Pat Sutton), and show how the compositions, patterns, and processes of Coastal Plain plant communities can be incorporated into the designed landscape (Larry Weaner).

CEUs: APLD, LACES, ISA, MCH, MLP, NOFA (please check NDAL website for further details)

This session will be held entirely indoors.

During this all-day workshop, we will visit the Cape May State Park Hawkwatch Platform to learn about specific habitat requirements that the marsh is providing; explore several restoration sites on Cape May Point; and conclude our day at the New Jersey Plant Materials Center whose mission is to seek out, assemble, test, and provide the commercial landscape industry with superior performing plants for restoration; and develop innovative, science-based technologies to improve planting and seeding success. Tours and discussions will be led by Brett Ewald, David La Puma, Chris Miller, Bob Mullock, and Larry Weaner.

CEUs: APLD, LACES, ISA, MCH, MLP, NOFA (please check NDAL website for further details)

This session will be held mostly outdoors.

Selecting and arranging plants is central to – if not the heart of – fine garden design. Plant community-based design is no different; it simply uses natural vegetative models as its primary template. In this presentation, Larry will illustrate how to associate plants with their preferred environment, create plant compositions that function as integrated communities, and accommodate compositional change over time. But the word garden is not lost in this “wild” shuffle. He will conclude by revisiting fine garden design to show how an ecology-based plant palette can express, and even enhance, many different landscape styles.

This session is VIRTUAL!

The Garden Club of Virginia is an advocate of environmental garden responsibility and a promoter of the use of native plants and organic gardening practices. The statewide organization is committed to ensuring an environmentally sound Virginia as a fundamental part of their vision. Larry’s presentation will focus on meadows, wetlands, and residential eco-landscaping techniques.

**This event has options to attend in-person and virtually!**