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Good design in today's gardens and landscapes integrates the beautiful with the ecologically beneficial. Join the nation's top practitioners of landscape design, ecology, and resource management to learn how you can apply their approaches, insights, and techniques.
See http://www.usna.usda.gov/Education/events.html for an online brochure.
Schedule
8:30 Registration and Plant Sale
9:30 Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Richard Olsen, Director, US National
Arboretum
Joan Feely, Curator, Fern Valley Native Plant
Collection, U.S. National Arboretum
9:40 A Chickadee's Guide to Gardening
Dr. Doug Tallamy
Traditionally, it has been acceptable practice to design landscapes strictly for our own pleasure, with little thought as to how they impact the natural world. Using chickadees and other wildlife as guides, Dr. Douglas Tallamy will revisit our approach to gardening to see what is required to keep our landscapes truly alive. See how sharing our gardens with other living things will benefit local wildlife and enhance our experience.
10:45 Refreshment Break
11:00 Morning Concurrent Sessions:
East meets Wild: Native Plants in Ikebana
Valerie Eccleston
See how ikebana artist Valerie Eccleston and her
students use native plants to create Ichiyo
arrangements, which offer the viewer an experience
with nature that is unexpected, stimulating, and
profound.
Planting the Future of the Anacostia River
Jorge Montero
Learn how native plants and public interest will shape
the future of this important urban waterway.
Unlocking the Mystery of Wild Orchids
Dr. Melissa McCormick
Native orchid expert Dr. Melissa McCormick will share the new methods she has developed to measure, grow, and support both of these entities to advance orchid cultivation and benefit conservation efforts.
12:00 Lunch and Plant Sale
1:15 Afternoon Concurrent Sessions
(See summaries above under "Morning Concurrent Sessions")
East meets Wild: Native Plants in Ikebana
Planting the Future of the Anacostia River
Unlocking the Mystery of Wild Orchids
2:20 Creating a Dynamic and Resilient Landscape
Claudia West
Claudia West talks about spectacular perennials and grasses and how to use them in stable, layered, natural combinations that increase the ornamental, functional, and ecological value of your landscape. Enjoy and be inspired!
3:30 Adjourn
Speakers
Dr. Doug Tallamy is the author of the award-winning book, Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens and more recently, The Living Landscape: Designing with Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden with co-author Rick Darke.
Claudia West holds a Master's Degree of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Together with co-author Thomas Rainer, she has recently published her first book, Planting in a Post-Wild World.
Valerie Eccleston began studying Ichiyo style ikebana in the 1970's while living in Japan with her family. She teaches, demonstrates, and exhibits extensively across the US and Canada.
Melissa McCormick is an Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, where she has worked with orchids and other plants since 1999. She is also one of the founding members of the North American Orchid Conservation Center, which works to assure the survival of native orchids.
Jorge Bogantes Montero is a natural resource specialist at the Anacostia Watershed Society (AWS). He has been working on reforestation, wetland restoration, meadow creation, and invasive plant management along the banks of the Anacostia.
Friends of the National Arboretum
Native Plant Sale
8:30 am 2:00 pm
Located adjacent to the Administration Building
Native Plant Sale proceeds support the
Fern Valley Native Plant Collection
Many vendors accept cash and checks only.
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LocationUS National Arboretum (View)
3501 New York Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20002
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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