Virginia Society of Landscape Designers

What do you do with too much water, too quickly?  How much water is your site getting?  How do you manage all that water with grace and beauty? Rain Gardens and other small-scale stormwater best management practices (BMPs) pose two major challenges in their design:  knowing how much water the site must handle, and managing …

Theme: The New Perennial Movement and Why It Matters While much of the nursery industry is focused on the latest and greatest, compact, spring blooming whatever, there’s a counter movement afoot. Paul Westervelt will discuss this style that embraces a more natural look, a different pallet of plants (and scads of them on tight centers) …

Feb. 25,2023 at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Guest Speaker: Preston Montegue Landscape Architect and Artist, Middleburg, Virginia Director of Preston Montague Environmental Design and Fine Arts Studio Guest Co-Host of the Native Plant Podcast Cost: $80 per attendee – (VSLD members attending earn 10m CEUs for the day) CBLP CEUs 4

Hazel Hall at Laurel Ridge Community College, 6480 College Street, Warrenton, VA 20187 Guest Speakers: Doug Tallamy, PhD, Professor of Entomology, University of Delaware Kelsey Johnson, PhD, Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia Schedule of Events 8:00 AM Site opens for set up. The lobby is open to attendees. 9:15 – 10:00 AM Annual Meeting …