Designing Plant Communities for (More) Resilient Landscapes Lecture & Workshop
Saturday, January 25 2020
MUST REGISTER HERE FOR THE LECTURE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-plant-communities-for-more-resili...
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YOU MAY ATTEND BOTH! If you sign up for this workshop, the lecture is mandatory and included in the workshop price.
LECTURE DETAILS:
Date And Time
Sat, January 25, 2020
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM CST
Location
Pavilion of Two Sisters, New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park
1 Victory Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70119
Cost: $25
About this Event
The New Orleans Botanical Garden and The Native Plant Initiative present a lecture and workshop by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, the co-authors of the critically acclaimed book, Planting in a Post-Wild World.
Lecture with Thomas Rainer
Learn how to create beautiful, lush, ecologically functional plantings for green infrastructure, public plantings, and residential gardens. based on native plant communities. This lecture will focus on rebuilding biodiversity in New Orleans urban landscapes and gardens.
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. Lecture
10:30 a.m. Q & A and Book Signing
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Date And Time
Sat, January 25, 2020
12:45 PM – 5:00 PM CST
Location
Garden Study Center, New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park
1 Victory Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70119
Cost: $150
About this Event
The New Orleans Botanical Garden and The Native Plant Initiative present a lecture and workshop by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, co-authors of the critically acclaimed book, Planting in a Post-Wild World.
Learn how to create beautiful, lush, ecologically functional plantings for green infrastructure, public plantings, and residential gardens based on native plant communities.
Hands-on design workshop with Claudia West
After the lecture, join leading plantswoman Claudia West for a hands-on design workshop to learn how to translate ecological principles of wild plant communities into planting design tools that will help you create better planting. Learn why so many rain gardens, meadows, and ecological plantings fail. This interactive workshop will introduce you to the science behind stable and lasting plant combinations. You will learn the skill of creating plant communities in hands-on design exercises. Workshop is limited to 25 participants.
If you sign up for this workshop, the lecture is mandatory and included in the workshop price.
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. Lecture
10:30 a.m. Q & A and Book Signing
11:30 a.m. Lunch on your own
12:45 p.m. Workshop Part 1
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Workshop Part 2
Contact the event organizers: Volunteer & Continuing Education Committee