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Sustainable Landscaping with Florida Native Plants and Wildflowers |
| SUMMARY SCHEDULE
- see below for detailed agenda including course descriptions and instructor bios 10:00-10:45am - Florida Friendly Landscaping with Jessica Sullivan 10:45-11:45 - Native Wildflowers in the Landscape: How to Select, Plan & Establish, with Nancy Bissett 11:45am-12:30pm - Lunch 12:30-1:30 - Maintaining Native Florida Landscapes, with Bill Bissett 1:30-2:30 - Using Native Trees and Shrubs to Bring Blooms to the Landscape, with Brightman Logan 2:30-2:45 - Q & A, Completion of Forms, Certificates Issued |
| Continuing
Education Units (CEUS)
FNGLA: 4 CEUS ISA: 3.75 CEUS for Certified Arborist, BCMA Science, Municipal Specialist |
| COURSE IS FILLED - we are unable to accept additional registrations at this time, sorry! |
| Questions: Cammie Donaldson, AFNN, (321) 917-1960 or info@afnn.org |
| DETAILED AGENDA | |
| 10:00-10:45am Florida Friendly Landscaping with Jessica Sullivan |
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| Course: Learn what makes a Florida Friendly landscape, how native plants fit in, and how to promote your use of native plants and Florida Friendly landscaping principles. Discussion will review new legislation (S.B. 2080) that encourages the use of water-conserving Florida Friendly landscape practices. | |
 Jessica Sullivan |
Instructor: Jessica Sullivan has coordinated the Florida Yards & Neighborhoods landscaping education program in Osceola County since 2001. She teaches audiences including homeowners, builders, and green industries professionals through Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ seminars, consultations, news articles, and educational materials. Sullivan has a B.S. in Horticultural Therapy. |
| 10:45-11:45am Native Wildflowers in the Landscape: How to Select, Plan & Establish with Nancy J. Bissett |
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| Course: Learn the characteristics of various Florida native wildflowers including color, seasonality, growth patterns, and how plants will perform in different light, soil, and moisture conditions. Emphasis will be on species that perform well and are available in the trade, with inclusion of some promising underutilized species. Instructor will discuss basic site planning considerations such as grouping, spacing and using bunch grasses for sustainability. Attendees will also learn planting techniques including seeding, watering regimes, and fertilization requirements. | |
 Nancy Bissett |
Instructor: Nancy Bissett is a widely respected horticulturist, restoration ecologist, and botanist with The Natives, Inc., a firm established in 1983, offering consulting, ecological restoration, landscape architecture services and a native nursery for a variety of clients including federal and state public agencies, land developers, and private corporations. Bissett has experimented with propagation and cultivation of many native plants including grasses, wildflowers and rare species; and has developed successful upland restoration techniques including site preparation, planting, direct-seeding of native groundcovers, and weed control. Bissett is Vice President of the Association of Florida Native Nurseries (AFNN), a member of several industry and environmental organizations, and a sought-after speaker for horticulture, botanical and restoration conferences. |
| 11:45am-12:30
pm Lunch onsite |
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| 12:30-1:30 pm Maintaining Native Florida Landscapes with Bill Bissett, ASLA |
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| Course: Instructor will discuss maintenance and aesthetic quality, levels of maintenance and expectations over time, seasonality of landscapes, chemical vs. manual weed control, and recommendations for pruning, trimming, irrigation, fertilization and other maintenance routines associated with native trees, shrubs and groundcover, including wildflowers. Attendees will gain an appreciation of the natural Florida aesthetic, seasonal importance and benefits of ecosystem-based landscaping. Discussion will emphasize working with Mother Nature to save time and money while creating more authentic and sustainable landscapes. | |
 Bill Bissett |
Instructor: Registered Landscape Architect, ASLA, native Floridian and founding
partner of
The Natives, Inc. (1983), Bill Bissett has been instrumental in developing
innovative techniques and uses of native plant materials for large
scale developers, the Disney Company and Florida Dept. of Transportation.
Bissett’s emphasis on environmental function over purely decorative
but nonfunctional landscapes has resulted in numerous award-winning
and successful institutional, commercial and residential projects.
Bissett has developed landscape renovation and maintenance plans and
guidebooks including a manual for Florida Friendly School Landscape
Projects for Orange County Utilities and the St. Johns River Water
Management District. |
1:30-2:30 pm Using Native Trees and Shrubs to Bring Blooms to the Landscape with Brightman Logan |
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Course: Attendees
will learn about Florida’s beautiful,
blooming and bulletproof native flowering trees and shrubs, including
details on seasonal blooming times, natural habitat and suggested landscape
uses, soil preferences and water requirements, height and spread, plant
growth and habits, wildlife attraction and benefits, and maintenance
tips for each species. Instructor will focus on proven performers for
the Florida landscape, including popular species that are widely available
as well as promising but as yet underutilized trees and shrubs. |
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 Brightman Logan |
Instructor: A university trained biologist and native Floridian, Brightman
Logan started in
environmental consulting and later founded his own native nursery (All
Native, formerly Central Florida Native Flora) in 1981, providing restoration
and ornamental landscape consulting and design services as well as
the state’s largest container-grown native nursery. Logan has
been an innovator in the introduction of native tree and shrub cultivars
and the production of large, landscape quality container-grown natives.
He has received national, state and local awards for commercial and
residential landscape projects and is a state-registered provider of
landscape architect CEUs. An active member of several industry and
environmental groups, Logan serves on the board for AFNN and the Florida
Wildflower Foundation. |
2:30-2:45 pm Q&A, completion of forms, certificates issued |
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| FEE - includes lunch, CEUs, handouts, and break refreshment. $45 by March 26. $59 after March 26. Refund with $20 cancellation fee by March 29. NO refunds after March 29, sorry. $10 discount for AFNN members. |
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