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Wild Ones presents Natural Landscaping with Native Plants

Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM (CT)

Milwaukee, WI

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Are you interested in reducing greenhouse gases, conserving water and expensive gasoline, reducing the use of toxic chemicals, guarding against flooding, providing habitat for birds and insects, and at the same time enjoying a beautiful and vibrant home landscape? Well, these are a few of the reasons why Wild Ones, a nonprofit organization, promotes the use of native plants for landscaping instead of alien species and turf grasses. To help people accomplish this, Wild Ones is sponsoring a one-day conference called: Natural Landscaping with Native Plants on Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 7:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. at Cardinal Stritch University, (Glendale) Milwaukee.


Program choices will include presentations by homeowners who have experience with native plant landscapes and professionals with expertise in a variety of areas including  how to get started in your own yard, propagation, fighting invasive species, pollinators and plant selection.

The speakers’ schedule is as follows:

7:30 - 8:30  Registration

8:30 -9:45

Our Yard:  The Process of Planning and Creating Our Native Planting (Lou & Susannah Roesselet)

Or

Starting Your Own:  How to Propagate Native Plants From Seed or Division  (Wendy Walcott)

 

10:15 - 11:30

Still Learning After 20 Years:  Gardens of Patience, Lessons, Surprises and Joy (Nancy Aten)

Or

Plants, Pollinators, People:  Making the Connection  (Randy Powers)

 

11:30 - 12:45 Lunch

Join us for the Wild Ones Annual Meeting , celebrating 30 years of advocacy for native plants and natural landscaping.

 

12:45 - 2:00

A Wild Journey:  1981-2009 (LuAnn Thompson)

Or

The Missing Link:  The Transition from Canopy to Ground; The Ecology, Culture and Use of Shrubs and Small Trees  (Professor John Harrington)

 

2:15 - 3:30

Getting Started:  Making Time Work For You  (Joy Buslaff)

Or

Update on Invasive Plant Issues:  New Laws, New Invaders, New Controls, New Opportunities (Kelly Kearns)

 

For further information on the speakers or their topics,

go to

www.for-wild.org/conf

 

or phone 414-299-9888, ext 3

 

Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities. Wild Ones is a not-for-profit environmental education and advocacy organization.

 

 

 

 

When & Where


Cardinal Stritch University
Kleibhan Conference Center
6801 N. Yates Road (enter from Port Washington Road)
Milwaukee, WI 53217

Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM (CT)


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