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Tag: Peter del Tredici

  • Thursday, March 3, 8:00 am – 8:30 pm – 17th Annual ELA Conference and Eco-Marketplace

    ELA brings together all of the essential information on rain gardens that really work, healthy soils for healthy trees, plant choices for food productive landscapes, and more at the 17th Annual ELA Conference and Eco-Marketplace on Thursday, March 3 from 8 am – 8:30 pm. Co-hosted by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, New England Wild Flower Society, NOFA Organic Land Care Program, Society for Ecological Restoration, New England Chapter, and the Ecological Landscaping Association. Panelists include William Cullina, Dr. Peter Del Tredici, and Jono Neiger, three leading experts in the field of plant selection, who will share their unique perspectives on Native, Introduced, Invasive, and Endangered Plants in the Landscape: Untangling the Roots of the Problem. Visit www.ecolandscaping.org for online registration, or call Penny Lewis at 617-436-5838. The conference will take place at the MassMutual Center in Springfield. Rooms at the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel are available to participants for $109/night. Complete package (not including hotel) for members of one of the sponsors is $170 before 2/15, $225 after 2/15; non members $190/$245.

  • Thursday, November 18, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – 13th Annual Trees in the Urban Landscape Symposium: Diversity in the Urban Landscape, A Planned Invasion

    The 13th Annual Trees in the Urban Landscape Symposium will take place this year on Thursday, November 18, from 9 – 4 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts.  The theme for 2010 is Diversity in the Urban Landscape: A Planned Invasion.  Keynote Speaker will be Peter del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist, Arnold Arboretum.  The Symposium is co-sponsored by Tower Hill and by the Nathaniel Wheeler Trust/Bank of America.  For complete details, call 508-869-6111, ext. 124.  The complete schedule will be published soon at www.towerhillbg.org.