Thanks for a great symposium! See you again next year!
Second Annual Symposium
“Natural Landscaping:
Getting MORE with Less
Practical information about using native plants in the home landscape to get
MORE birds & butterflies, biodiversity, beauty, and a healthy environment …
with LESS watering, maintenance, lawn area, and chemicals.
Saturday, March 9,
2013
8:00 a.m. ‐ 3:30 p.m.
Chattanooga State Humanities Building Auditorium
4501 Amnicola Highway, Chattanooga, TN
Informational exhibits.
Native plants will be available for sale.
8:00 a.m. ‐ 3:30 p.m.
Chattanooga State Humanities Building Auditorium
4501 Amnicola Highway, Chattanooga, TN
Informational exhibits.
Native plants will be available for sale.
To register, click on the
2013 Symposium Registration tab above
8:00 a.m. ‐‐ 9:00 a.m. ‐‐ Registration
9:00 a.m. ‐‐ Welcome
9:10 ‐ 10:00 a.m. “Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachians” – Tim Spira, PhD Which native plants belong together in a harmonious community? Dr. Spira explains the multi‐layered tapestry of plant life in this area and how knowing how the members of these plant communities support each other can reduce the need for constant intervention. He will also provide information about wildflowers that make an attractive addition to woodland wildflower landscapes.
10:00 ‐ 10:50 a.m. “Building a Native Plant Garden: Native Trees, Shrubs and Woody Vines in the Urban Environment” – Leon Bates A well designed landscape starts with a good infrastructure. Leon Bates shows how native trees, shrubs and vines provide those basic building blocks for a sustainable and enjoyable urban or suburban yard.
10:50 ‐ 11:10 a.m. – Break & Door Prizes
11:10 a.m. – 12:00 Noon “Adding More Beauty: Great Native Perennials for Your Garden” – Andy Sessions Native plants do grow unaided in the wild, but in a garden they benefit from the same care given to other ornamental plants. Learn about native perennials that offer beauty, low maintenance, flower and foliage integrity, profuse blooming, and insect and disease resistance so that you can create your own native plant paradise.
12:00 Noon ‐ 12:50 p.m. – Lunch (provided)
12:50 ‐‐ 1:40 p.m. “Gardening for Nature: Promoting Biodiversity at Home” – Lisa Wagner, PhD Increasing biodiversity means we are building a habitat that supports a wider range of wildlife. Learn what native plants will encourage birds, butterflies, and other creatures to visit and live in our landscapes.
1:40 p.m. – Break & Door Prizes
1:55 p.m. ‐‐ 2:45 p.m. “Managing Invasive Exotic Plants in a Natural Landscape” – Cherie Cordell Despite best efforts, exotic pest plants like privets and exotic honeysuckles can be a constant challenge to control. Cherie Cordell has many years of experience in invasive pest plant control and will provide best practices for keeping your landscape natural.
2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Q&A Panel: Dealing with Gardening Challenges of the Tennessee Valley
9:00 a.m. ‐‐ Welcome
9:10 ‐ 10:00 a.m. “Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachians” – Tim Spira, PhD Which native plants belong together in a harmonious community? Dr. Spira explains the multi‐layered tapestry of plant life in this area and how knowing how the members of these plant communities support each other can reduce the need for constant intervention. He will also provide information about wildflowers that make an attractive addition to woodland wildflower landscapes.
10:00 ‐ 10:50 a.m. “Building a Native Plant Garden: Native Trees, Shrubs and Woody Vines in the Urban Environment” – Leon Bates A well designed landscape starts with a good infrastructure. Leon Bates shows how native trees, shrubs and vines provide those basic building blocks for a sustainable and enjoyable urban or suburban yard.
10:50 ‐ 11:10 a.m. – Break & Door Prizes
11:10 a.m. – 12:00 Noon “Adding More Beauty: Great Native Perennials for Your Garden” – Andy Sessions Native plants do grow unaided in the wild, but in a garden they benefit from the same care given to other ornamental plants. Learn about native perennials that offer beauty, low maintenance, flower and foliage integrity, profuse blooming, and insect and disease resistance so that you can create your own native plant paradise.
12:00 Noon ‐ 12:50 p.m. – Lunch (provided)
12:50 ‐‐ 1:40 p.m. “Gardening for Nature: Promoting Biodiversity at Home” – Lisa Wagner, PhD Increasing biodiversity means we are building a habitat that supports a wider range of wildlife. Learn what native plants will encourage birds, butterflies, and other creatures to visit and live in our landscapes.
1:40 p.m. – Break & Door Prizes
1:55 p.m. ‐‐ 2:45 p.m. “Managing Invasive Exotic Plants in a Natural Landscape” – Cherie Cordell Despite best efforts, exotic pest plants like privets and exotic honeysuckles can be a constant challenge to control. Cherie Cordell has many years of experience in invasive pest plant control and will provide best practices for keeping your landscape natural.
2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Q&A Panel: Dealing with Gardening Challenges of the Tennessee Valley
(all speakers)
3:30 p.m. – Door Prizes & Closing Remarks
Symposium Speakers
Leon Bates is a native of East
Tennessee with family ties to pioneer “mountaineers.” He is a graduate of the
University of Georgia (B.S. Forestry) and the University of Tennessee (M.S.
Botany). During his professional career with
the US Forest Service, TVA and the City of Florence, AL, he served as a
forester, biologist, botanist and urban forester/horticulturist. Since the early 70s, Leon has actively
supported and served as an officer and board member of state and local native
plant, wildflower, conservation, arboriculture and invasive plant
societies. An avid hiker, naturalist and
nature photographer, he explores the streams and “hills and hollers” of
Southeast Tennessee where he and wife, Pat, live on the ancestral home place of
his great grandparents.
Cherie Cordell has worked as the Biological Science
Technician for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Gatlinburg TN for the
past 11 years, with primary duties including greenhouse management and invasive
plant removal. She graduated from the University of Tennessee (B.S. Ornamental
Horticulture and Landscape Design). After graduating she worked at the Native
Gardens in Greenback, TN. In addition,
she worked at Stones River National Battlefield and Golden Gate National
Recreation area, focusing on exotic plant control.
Andy Sessions is a graduate
of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, (B.A. plant taxonomy) and the University
of Tennessee in (M.S. botany). At U.T.,
she met her future husband and business partner, Marty Zenni, who had
established Sunlight Gardens as a landscape company that specialized in using
native plants way back in the 1980s. Together
they continue to operate Sunlight Gardens, growing, selling and landscaping
with native plants
Tim
Spira,
Ph.D., is a plant ecologist, native plant gardener, hiker, and professor of
botany at Clemson University where he teaches field botany, plant ecology, and
the natural history of wildflowers. He
is the author of the award-winning book, Wildflowers
and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont: A
Naturalist's Guide to the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia
(University of North Carolina Press).
Lisa Wagner is Director of Education at the South
Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson University. A plant ecologist (Ph.D. in
Botany, UC Berkeley), she’s interested in native plants, sustainable gardening,
public education, and promoting habitat restoration. She was the lead author of The Nature of Clemson: a Field Guide to the
Natural History of Clemson University. Her blog, Natural Gardening, http://www.naturalgardening.blogspot.com/ contains her reflections and
observations about gardening and the natural world.
Lisa Wagner
and her spouse Tim Spira, have transformed a 2-acre traditional landscape in
the Piedmont of South Carolina to a garden that includes a diversity of native
plants, wildlife habitats, and a raised-bed organic vegetable garden. In
the mountains of North Carolina, they are transforming mulched beds to pocket
meadows and a native woodland garden.
Chattanooga Arboretum & Nature Center
Chattanooga Association of Landscape Professionals
Master Gardeners of Hamilton County
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