Native Plants

Mark your calendars… for the 22nd Annual Conference

Conference dates – June 7-9 for the 2012 Native Plants in the Landscape Conference

On the campus of Millersville University in scenic Lancaster County, this conference provides essential information and networking for gardeners, teachers, and students, as well as landscape, nursery, botanic garden, and environmental professionals.

On-line registration is NOW open . Register HERE!

Download the 2012 Conference Brochure here!

Please help us conserve resources and be as sustainable as possible by registering online.

Full Audience Speakers Include:

C. Colston Burrell – The Sustainable Garden: Magic, Myth, or Reality?
Stephanie Cohen – Native Plants: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Back this year by popular demand is the New and Underused Native Plants – see brochure for details on how to present your favorite native plant(s) Dr David Wagner – The Tangled Fates of Plants, Caterpillars and Birds
Fred Spicer – Why Do We Botanize?
Jim McCormac – Bugs and Blooms: Growing Insects
Nancy Beaubaire – Beyond the Grass Ceiling: Less Lawn, More Natives

Workshops and Field Trips include:

A trip to the Milton Hershey School Meadow – with Tim Hoover
The Joy of Propagating with Barry Glick
Social Media 101 – How to get started with Angela Treadwell-Palmer
Making Furniture from Native Plants with David Hughes
A trip tot he Brickyards Restoration Project with Tim draude

Concurrent Session Highlights Include:

Fred Spicer – Good Things from South of the Mason-Dixon Line: Why Southern Plants are the Basis for Many Northern Gardens
Claudia West – Rain Gardens Inspired by Native Plant Communities
Rob Cardillo – Garden Photography – Lessons from a Pro
Gregg Tepper – Great Hardy Native Ferns
C. Colston Burrell – Obsession and Exploitation: A Cultural History of Trilliums
Harold Sweetman – Blueberries: The Main Delicious Ericaceous Fruit

Other Topics Include: Triliums, Cool bugs, Social Media workshop, Photography

Optional 1/2 Day Excursions and Workshops
on Thursday. Tour the Milton Hershey School Prairie,
Tour a preserved meadow with Tim Draude and back by popular demand – Plant Propgation with Barry Glick.

The Native Plants in the Landscape Conference Mission: To increase the knowledge, propagation, cultivation and use of native plants in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions. To promote methods of land management and design that respect “sense of place” by preserving and restoring species and natural processes as well as to engender an appreciation of regionally appropriate, sustainable landscapes that are harmonious for people and nature. While the subject of the conference pertains to native plant communities, the spirit of the conference is to build human communities among a broad range of participants by designing a conference affordable to all, encouraging formal and informal exchanges of information and providing opportunities for social interaction. The conference is held on the campus of Millersville University in picturesque, historic Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Native Plants in the landscape conference Native Plants in the landscape conference Registration brochures will be mailed in early March.

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Contact info: 717-871-2189, or email us at nativeplantsatMU@gmail.com