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SHIFTING LANDSCAPES: TRADITION & TRENDS
November 3, 2018 @ 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
$80 – $100Join us to celebrate 80 years of Horticulture with a one-day symposium in our newly renovated Administration Auditorium. Topics include a look at Norfolk Botanical Garden’s past, present and future, climate change and its impact on local plants, great garden plants for our region and natural landscape design.
Added Bonus Take Home a FREE Tree. As part of our Green initiative, we are giving away 2,000 Virginia Stock Longleaf Pine trees on November 3rd. It’s the tree that built Tidewater.
| 8:00 AM | Registration Opens |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome |
| 9:15 AM | NBG Celebrates 80 Years! Noted local historians Dr. Martha Williams and Amy Waters Yarsinske will discuss the Garden’s unique heritage. President & CEO Michael Desplaines will present the Garden of Tomorrow |
| 10:15 AM | Break |
| 10:30 AM | Mark Weathington, Director of the JC Raultson Arboretum at North Carolina State University and former NBG Director of Horticulture. Presentation will be based on his recent book Gardening on Your Own. Beyond Tire Planters- Creating the New Southern Garden
The south has a tremendous culture of gardening but as priorities and times change, how and why we garden evolves as well. We garden for more than beauty – for food, to support wildlife, to solve environmental problems. Knowing why we do what we do allows the cultivated landscape to work for us and not the other way around. |
| 11:30 AM | Lunch, with time to tour the Garden on your own |
| 12:45 PM | Welcome Back |
| 12:55 PM | Dr. Michael Allen, Old Dominion University Assistant Professor Political Science & Geography,The Science of Climate Change: Local Impacts for Virginia |
| 2:00 PM | Dr. Tatyana Lobova, Old Dominion University, Senior Lecturer, Department of Biological Science,Effects of Climate Change on Native Plants |
| 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:15 PM |
KEYNOTE SPEAKERLarry Weaner, Principal and founder of Larry Weaner Landscape Associates Living in the Liberated Landscape Using examples from his own property as well as diverse client projects, Larry will share how this give-and-take approach can result in compelling, low-maintenance landscapes that free plants to perform according to their natural abilities and liberate people from having to cater to their landscapes’ every need. |
| Closing | Join us afterward for an ending reception and cocktail hour. |
5 CBLP CEUs are available.