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SUMMARY:Maximalist Gardening: Harnessing Our Changing Ecology for a Better World with Dave Demers
DESCRIPTION:Gardening is hip again. Homeowners\, designers\, and politicians alike seem to embrace plants for their many attributes. The importance of biodiversity—and bio abundance—has become a rallying call that gardeners are well equipped to answer. Yet\, the pressure of being in the spotlight\, finite resources\, and a changing climate all contribute to making gardening more challenging than ever. In this talk\, Dave Demers will share some of his experiences as a designer\, gardener\, and former City elected official. He will take you from a humble hell strip trial to the expansive lawn-gone-wild roof meadow of a stylish furniture store\, from no-mow City parks to generously planted private gardens. \nSpeaker Bio:\nDave Demers’s love for gardening sprouted early in life—he had his first greenhouse by age 10 and started a local garden club before graduating from high school. After studying horticulture in Montréal and New York\, he traveled the world for internships in various botanical collections and for plant-hunting expeditions. A Quebec transplant\, Demers moved to the West Coast to work at Heronswood and eventually settled in Vancouver\, BC\, where he runs a design/build/maintenance landscape firm\, as well as a small specialty plant nursery. \nRecording will be available for 4 weeks. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://northwesthort.org/event/maximalist-garden-harnessing-our-changing-ecology-for-a-better-world-with-dave-demers/
LOCATION:Live Webinar
CATEGORIES:Webinar Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Early Fall Arboretum Walk with Curator Ray Larson
DESCRIPTION:Tour the Arboretum with Ray Larson\, UW Botanic Gardens Curator\, and discover some of the best plants for early fall interest. We’ll see some early fall color and trees and shrubs with special interest this time of the year – maples\, mountain ash\, Franklin\, witch hazels and more. Ray will focus on species and cultivars for home garden use and care and cultivation tips. \nInstructor Bio:\nRay Larson is Associate Director\, Curator of Living Collections and the Otis Hyde Herbarium\, at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens. He is also past Board Member and President of NHS. \nLIMIT:  20 (MAXIMUM 2 PER REGISTRATION) – FEE IS PER PERSON \n  \n \n 
URL:https://northwesthort.org/event/early-fall-arboretum-walk-with-curator-ray-larson/
LOCATION:Graham Visitors Center\, 2300 Arboretum Dr E\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112
CATEGORIES:In-person Class
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SUMMARY:Virtual Fall Symposium: Trees and their Changing Ecosystems
DESCRIPTION:Trees are at the heart of green infrastructure\, providing valuable human and environmental benefits. They produce cooling shade that lessens the impact of urban heat islands. They also filter pollution\, help manage stormwater and create healing environments that have been shown to improve health and wellbeing. Planting the right trees and protecting our existing tree canopy contributes to a better tomorrow! \nListen to 3 expert speakers from BC to Oregon! \nIn late September\, symposium registrants will receive three pre-recorded lectures and an electronic form on which they can submit questions in advance of the panel discussion. They can join the live moderated panel discussion scheduled for Saturday\, Oct 12th\, from 10:00 am to 11:30 am. \nIn addition to the above symposium lectures\, registrants will also receive a bonus recording of sold-out\, popular ‘Dendro Futura’\, an in-person NHS lecture presented by Henrik Sjöman\, co-author of The Essential Tree Selection Guide\, at the Center for Urban Horticulture in March 2024. (Details below.) \nRecordings will be available for 4 weeks. \nLecture Descriptions:\nUrban Trees: The New Reality with Douglas Justice\nClimate change and a greater understanding of ecology and the importance of biodiversity—its effects on plant health\, personal health and societal well-being—are all driving forces in the makeup of tomorrow’s urban forest. Are we ready? \nCultivating Cultivars: The How and Why of New Tree Development with Nancy Buley\nThe journey to develop\, select\, trial\, and introduce new and improved tree cultivars is complex and may take 15 to 30 years or longer. A changing climate adds urgency to the search for tough\, resilient\, adaptable long-lived trees that will thrive in the Pacific Northwest. Understanding the timeline\, processes\, and the reasons behind cultivar development will help gardeners and tree advocates choose\, plant\, and nurture the best trees for future landscapes. \nAfter a quick overview of the tree production timeline\, Nancy Buley will describe the collaborative efforts of plant breeders\, growers\, urban foresters\, arboreta\, and academia to develop new trees. Using examples of several trees developed by J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co. that perform particularly well in the Pacific Northwest\, she will share how new trees make their way into public landscapes and private gardens. \nAwakening Your Inner Rewilder with Ethan Bryson \nWe are all a part of Nature. By looking back at what was and is already around us\, we can find ways to live in better balance with the natural world. We will discuss the importance of bringing back wilderness and ways to activate our inner child by digging\, planting\, and playing in the natural spaces we can all help to create. \nSpeaker Bios:\nDouglas Justice is an Associate Director at UBC Botanical Garden and Nitobe Memorial Garden in Vancouver. He also teaches in the UBC School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture\, and in the Botanical Garden’s Horticulture Training Program. A Vancouver native\, Douglas trained in nursery production prior to earning degrees in horticulture and botany. Throughout his working life\, Douglas has been involved with horticultural groups and professional plant societies\, including as chair of the Great Plant Picks tree committee. He co-authored The Jade Garden: New and Notable Plants from Asia with colleagues at UBC Botanical Garden\, wrote a Field Guide to Ornamental Cherries in Vancouver with volunteers from the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival\, and recently co-authored the book\, The Lives of Leaves with the English dendrologist\, Dan Crowley. Douglas wrote the text for the mobile app Vancouver Trees\, and is now working to complete a treatise on the woody garden flora of Vancouver. \nNancy Buley is Director of Communications for J. Frank Schmidt& Son Co.\, wholesale tree growers of Boring\, Oregon\, where she has been “talking trees” for 30 years. A former newspaper reporter\, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Technical Journalism and Horticulture from Oregon State University.  A Lifetime Honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects\, Nancy has earned national recognition for her tree advocacy and stewardship efforts including over a decade of service on the board of directors of Friends of Trees. Nancy lives and gardens on a couple of acres in Boring\, where in her spare time she helps her son tend an eclectic assortment of trees at their boutique nursery\, Treephoria. \nEthan Bryson is the founder of Natural Urban Forests\, an afforestation company focused on addressing the urgent need to restore native forest ecosystems. Based in Seattle\, Washington NUF creates forests utilizing the Miyawaki method of forest planting with heightened attention to transforming life in the soil. This innovative method enables forests to grow 10x faster at 30x the density of standard afforestation methods. “We work to honor and involve local indigenous communities in the planting and ongoing care of these forests. When possible we begin each planting with a blessing to reset the land\, and nurture the plants\, animals\, and people.” \n \n \n\nBonus Lecture – Description and Speaker Bio:\nTrees are among our best allies in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss. Although we often think of them in forests\, most of our interactions with trees take place in urban environments and in private gardens\, where they provide us with shade\, heat control\, flood avoidance\, noise and pollution reduction\, beauty\, and much more. However\, to maintain and increase those manifold benefits we urgently need to rethink tree selection for our parks and gardens to include those species and provenances most suitable for the environmental conditions and stresses posed by a rapidly changing and unpredictable climate\, spreading pests\, and emerging plant diseases. To create resilience to present and future challenges\, where the exact consequences of future scenarios cannot be predicted in advance\, a commonly proposed solution is to cultivate a large diversity of trees\, i.e.\, increase tree diversity at many taxonomic levels. Achieving an increased diversity of trees to improve the resilience for future conditions is likely to involve greater use of non-traditional species and unique genetic types of trees. In this presentation\, an insight into a unique research profile is presented with focus on how to find and evaluate the trees of tomorrow\, based on travels all over the world. \nHenrik Sjöman is Scientific Curator at Gothenburg Botanical Garden\, a Senior Researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and an Honorary Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens\, Kew. He specializes in how trees deliver ecosystem services in urban landscapes and the practical applications of this in terms of diversifying the urban treescape. Henrik communicates his research through numerous publications and by lecturing to urban planners\, landscape architects\, garden designers and tree nurseries throughout the world. \n \nAbove Images Courtesy www.sugiproject.com \nThis event is generously sponsored by Bartlett Tree Experts
URL:https://northwesthort.org/event/virtual-fall-symposium-trees-and-their-changing-ecosystems/
LOCATION:Live Webinar
CATEGORIES:Virtual Symposium
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SUMMARY:Autumn Color & Fall Garden Tasks in the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden with Del Brummet AM
DESCRIPTION:  \nFall color abounds in the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden and with the diversity of species it stretches from September into November. Join Del Brummet\, head gardener of the EMBG\, for a look at how the garden creates spectacular layers of color from the tall tree canopy down to perennials. We will also look at what it means to “put the garden to bed” as past head gardener Greg Graves called it. The garden has a dynamic approach to cleaning up leaf litter and taking care of perennials\, continuously evolving how the garden is managed. This class will occur close to the peak of fall color — join us for the class and a tour of the garden! \nInstructor Bio: \nDel Brummet got interested in plants through hiking and building trails in high school. While working on a Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Washington\, he worked in a Terrestrial Ecology lab which had a focus on seed propagation research. An internship at Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden just north of Seattle lead to working in and learning from the small but diverse plant nursery in the garden. Currently Del works as the head gardener at EMBG. \nLIMIT: 15 (MAXIMUM 2 PER REGISTRATION) – FEE IS PER PERSON \nA portion of the class fees will be donated to the Great Plant Picks program.
URL:https://northwesthort.org/event/autumn-color-and-fall-garden-tasks-at-the-elisabeth-c-miller-botanical-garden-with-del-brummet-am/
LOCATION:Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden (Address will be made available to registrants two days prior to event.)\, Seattle\, WA
CATEGORIES:In-person Class
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SUMMARY:Autumn Color & Fall Garden Tasks in the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden with Del Brummet PM
DESCRIPTION:Fall color abounds in the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden and with the diversity of species it stretches from September into November. Join Del Brummet\, head gardener of the EMBG\, for a look at how the garden creates spectacular layers of color from the tall tree canopy down to perennials. We will also look at what it means to “put the garden to bed” as past head gardener Greg Graves called it. The garden has a dynamic approach to cleaning up leaf litter and taking care of perennials\, continuously evolving how the garden is managed. This class will occur close to the peak of fall color — join us for the class and a tour of the garden! \nInstructor Bio: \nDel Brummet got interested in plants through hiking and building trails in high school. While working on a Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Washington\, he worked in a Terrestrial Ecology lab which had a focus on seed propagation research. An internship at Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden just north of Seattle lead to working in and learning from the small but diverse plant nursery in the garden. Currently Del works as the head gardener at EMBG. \nLIMIT: 15 (MAXIMUM 2 PER REGISTRATION) – FEE IS PER PERSON \nA portion of the class fees will be donated to the Great Plant Picks program.
URL:https://northwesthort.org/event/autumn-color-fall-garden-tasks-in-the-elisabeth-c-miller-botanical-garden-with-del-brummet-pm/
LOCATION:Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden (Address will be made available to registrants two days prior to event.)\, Seattle\, WA
CATEGORIES:In-person Class
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SUMMARY:Dishing Dirt with Bess & Richie: Autumn Transitions
DESCRIPTION:Autumn is a season of change. Join Bess Bronstein and Richie Steffen as they discuss ideas and tips for autumn transitions. They will pick apart what worked and what didn’t in the garden\, so sharpen your pencils for lists of plants worth planting again. \nSpeaker Bio(s):\n \nBess Bronstein is an ISA Certified Arborist\, educator and horticultural consultant based on the Kitsap Peninsula in Kingston\, Washington. She has 35 years experience in arboriculture\, landscape management and garden design. Bess was an instructor for the Edmonds College horticulture program for 28 years\, with a focus on courses in pruning and tree care\, plant identification\, plant pests and diagnosis\, and soils. She frequently teaches public and professional arboriculture and horticulture courses throughout the Puget Sound and supports ongoing education in sustainable landscape management practices and tree care. \nRichie Steffen\, former president and board member of NHS\, is enthusiastic about\, or more accurately\, obsessed with\, plants. He is the Executive Director for the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden where he oversees the Garden\, its rare plant collections\, and the Miller Garden’s primary educational program Great Plant Picks. A noted author\, photographer and lecturer\, Richie’s work is regularly featured in the NHS newsletter\, GardenNotes\, as well as Fine Gardening magazine. He is also co-author with Sue Olsen of The Plant Lover’s Guide to Ferns. His photography has been featured in numerous publications including several books and national magazines. In his spare time\, he gardens with his husband\, Rick\, on their ten-acre property in Kingston. \nRecording will be available for 4 weeks.
URL:https://northwesthort.org/event/dishing-dirt-with-bess-and-richie-autumn-transitions/
LOCATION:Live Webinar
CATEGORIES:Members Free Lecture Series,Webinar Lecture Series
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