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Conservation Gardening 101: Landscaping with Native Plants
March 13 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
$225Register Here
Led by NCBG Professionals
Date: Mondays, March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 10 and 17
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Location: NCBG and Coker Arboretum
Fee: $225 ($202 Members)
Conservation Gardening 101: Landscaping with Native Plants is a certificate series designed to provide home gardeners and emerging landscape professionals with foundational concepts of landscape design, native species selection, implementation and maintenance of compellingly beautiful and ecologically productive native plant gardens based on conservation principles. This program will cover six conservation gardening topics through lectures, handouts, and instructor-led treks through the Garden. Participants who attend all six sessions and complete a final evaluation will receive a Certificate of Participation from the Garden. Conservation gardening topics included in this series are Landscape Design Principles, Native Plant Selection – Perennials, Native Plant Selection – Shrubs and Trees, Weeding, Mulching, and Seasonal Maintenance, Landscape Installation, and Pruning and Long-Term Maintenance of Woody Plants.
