Friday

October 15, 2010

Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College

Speakers

Eric “T” Fleisher is the director of horticulture at Battery Park City Parks Conservancy in lower Manhattan and a national leader in the field of sustainable horticulture

John Greenlee is the owner and founder of Greenlee Nursery in Pomona, California, the largest native and ornamental grass nursery on the West Coast.

Dale Hendricks has been growing and propagating plants professionally since 1975 and has been honored with the American Horticulture Society’s Individual Commercial award and the Perennial Plant Association’s Young Professional award.

Piet Oudolf is a native of the Netherlands, where since 1982 he and his wife Anya run a small specialized nursery and trial garden in the countryside near Humelo. He has designed numerous award winning gardens and public parks throughout Europe and in the United States. 

Holly Scoggins is an associate professor in the department of horticulture, and the director of the Hahn Horticulture Garden at Virginia Tech, where she teaches courses in greenhouse management, ornamental plant production and marketing, herbaceous landscape plants and public gardens.

 

 

Conference Highlights

• Receive 3 CEU's from APLD and 5 CUE's from PDH
• Internationally known speakers
• Free admission to sponsoring institutions
• Books for sale/author signings

 

Conference Co-Sponsors

• Chanticleer
• The Hardy Plant Society/Mid-Atlantic Group
• Longwood Gardens, Inc.
• The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
• The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College