Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden Plant Trials Day 2016

Registration Eligibility
All eligible.
Start Date
08/18/2016
End Date
08/18/2016
Description
Planting in a Post Wild World, Claudia West
Planting designers have the opportunity and responsibility to bring wildness and ecological value back into our landscape. This challenge requires a new form of planting design that works with natural principles and marries horticulture with ecology. Join us as we explore how native plants will fit into our future landscape and how plant community based design strategies can help you meet aesthetic and ecological goals during your next planting project.

Innovation in Plant Research at Longwood Gardens, Peter Zale
Since opening to the public in 1957, Longwood Gardens has been at the forefront of ornamental plant research at public gardens. From developing the first Victoria hybrid to exploring the far corners of the world, many of the projects initiated there have achieved legendary status in the field of ornamental horticulture. Discuss the history and evolution of long term programs such as Plant Breeding and Exploration, the recently developed plant Conservation program, and how each of these different projects fuels and compliments one another in a modern context.

Great Garden Plants, Jason Reeves
This talk focuses on dependable new and older but underutilized good garden performers, covering annuals, perennials, tropicals, trees and shrubs that will be in the garden for years to come. If you’re not already growing plants like ‘Roogucchi’ clematis, 'Iron Butterfly’ ironweed, 'Fiona Sunrise' jasmine, wood spurge, ‘Diana Clare’ lungwort, 'Summer Chocolate' mimosa tree, ‘Welch’s Pink’ American beautyberry ‘Appalachian Red’ redbud, and ‘Baby Lace’ panicle hydrangea you will be running to the nursery after this talk.

Where New Plants Come From, Joe Rothleutner
Gardeners love new plants, but often don’t think about where they come from. We will start with what a cultivar is and then dig into the process of plant breeding and the plant supply chain. Chance Seedlings, mutations, controlled crosses, propagation; we will talk about it all and a few cool new plants as case studies. After this talk you should be able to start doing some breeding in your own back yard!

The Best Plants of Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Brian Heinz
Spring Grove is a nationally recognized horticultural gem with a large and diverse collection of young and mature plants. The lessons we can learn from this collection about good plants for the region are many. Brian Heinz has been employed in the Horticulture Department at Spring Grove for many years, and he will share with us the plants that have impressed him the most over those time.

Best Plants Blitz, All Speakers
In this fast-paced, fun filled session, our speakers, some Zoo staff, and a surprise guest or two will each quickly extol the virtues of ten favorite less-well-known plants. The only rules are the speakers must include at least one completely embarrassing guilty pleasure and one impossible plants they have killed at least twice. The other presenters will sit on a panel, trying to identify the impossible plant.

Steve Foltz Steps Out of His Comfort Zone
To say Steve is careful about his plant recommendations is quite an understatement. Perhaps no plant expert in the world takes the responsibility of presenting sensible choices for the industry and the public to use in gardens more seriously. He is famous for bringing Plant Geeeks far and wide to their knees by pointing out that not one of their favorite recommendations can be found growing successfully in area conditions.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Campus Planning & Design
Design-Build
Development Trends
Horticulture / Plants
Housing & Community Design
Parks & Recreation
Residential Design
Rural Landscape
Sustainable Development & Design
Urban Planning & Design
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
6.0
Learning Outcomes
Attendees will learn about many new and exciting plants.
Attendees will develop a greater understanding of how new plants are being developed and what to expect down the road.
Attendees will be introduced to a very exciting and fundamentally different way to plant spaces.
Instructors
Claudia West, Author and Sales Mgr. North Creek Nurseries; Dr. Peter Zale, Longwood Gardens; Jason Reeves, Curattor of U of T Gardens; Joe Rothleutner, Dir. of Horticulture, Lincoln Park Zoo; Brian Heinz, Spring Grove; Steve Foltz, CZBG
Course Codes
CZBG PTD2018
Provider
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden


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