Learn how to transform your property into
a beautiful oasis for people and wildlife that will not only conserve
precious water resources and reduce pollution but may also save you time
and money.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Morning: South Florida Community College
in Arcadia
Afternoon: South Florida Community College
in Bowling Green
7:45 12:45 Registration begins
8:00 1:00
Neighbor-to-Neighbor Florida-Friendly Landscaping video
8:30 1:30 Welcome: Maran
Hilgendorf, CHNEP, and Effie Keen/Teresa Crawford, SFCC
8:35 1:35 Why it’s important to
be Florida-friendly: Carol Mahler
8:45 1:45 Landscape design:
Laurel Schiller, Florida Native Plants
9:15 2:15 Capturing and using
rain water: Anne Yasalonis, Polk County Florida Yards & Neighborhood
Program
9:40 2:40 Where plants, seeds
and mulch can be obtained: John Sibley, All Native Garden Center
10:00 3:00 Break with
demonstrations on mulching, planting and online help
10:30 3:30 Bugs – good and bad –
and what to do if you think you have problems: Jackson Mosley, Paynes
Creek State Historic Site
11:00 4:00 Ask the experts, including:
John Sibley, All Native Plant Center;
Charlie Foster, Deluxe Trees & Shrubs;
Brooks Armstrong, Pine Lily Nursery;
Laurel Schiller, Florida Native Plants; Jackson Mosley, Paynes Creek
Historic State Park; Anne Yasalonis, Florida
Yards & Neighborhoods; Sue Scott; Ernesto Lasso de la Vega and Gil
MacAdam.
12:00 5:00 As a gift for
attending, each person may take one of the select plants (while supplies
last).
Please complete the page-long evaluation
before you leave.
Your input helps us plan the next
workshop. Thanks.
Sponsors:
This workshop is offered free
because of the cooperation and generosity of many groups.
·
Charlotte Harbor National
Estuary Program
·
the Peace River Basin Board of
the Southwest Florida Water Management District
·
South Florida Community College
·
Pine Lily Nursery, Deluxe Trees and Shrubs, All Native
Garden Center, Florida Native Plants, Florida Yards & Neighborhoods, the
guest speakers, and many others.