Saturday, September 19, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Identify Your Landscape Plants

This Massachusetts Horticultural Society live seminar will be a fast paced review focusing on the identification and placement of ornamental landscape plants & natives, to encourage sustainable landscape design practices. This offering will introduce species of the common native and non-native ornamental plants used in landscape architecture, horticulture, and urban forestry in New England. This seminar will approach plant identification from a horticultural perspective, covering basic plant morphology and botany to aid in the understanding of plant identification, also touching on the horticultural, cultural, and environmental requirements of each plant in relation to practical application. Instructor Nicole Forsyth will lead the class in the Cheney Classroom of the Education Building, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, on September 19 from 10 – noon. $60 for Mass Hort members, $80 for the general public. Register at www.masshort.org or contact Allison Dash at 617-933-4973.