Get ready for the return of Landscape University hosted by Lake, Orange, and Seminole Counties.
8:00 am – 8:30 am – Registration
8:30 am – 9:20 am – Basics of Landscaping, Hangry Plants Intro
9:30 am – 10:20 am – Hangry Plants, Fungus Among Us
10:30 am – 11:20 am – Pruning Trees and Shrubs
11:30 am – 12:20 pm – Insect Identification
12:30 – CEUs, Grab and Go Lunch
This four-hour in-person class will cover:
Basics of landscaping will teach florida-friendly landscaping maintenance techniques for healthy landscapes to reduce pests and diseases. Integrated pest management techniques such as cultural, physical and mechanical controls.
Hangry plants will prevent pests by growing healthy plants using proper nutrition as a cultural control will discuss the nutritional requirements of plants, the right plant, and the right place, diagnosing nutritional deficiencies, and preventing and correcting them.
The fungus among us will cover the following: what are fungi? How do fungi interact with plants? What are beneficial fungi in the landscape? Common fungal diseases in the landscape, cultural control of pathogenic fungi in the landscape, the use of fungicides in the landscape.
Pruning trees and shrubs will cover pruning to reduce pests and disease as a method of prevention and cultural control; removal of diseased, damaged, deformed, dying, and dead branches; proper pruning techniques for structure and resiliency of trees, shrubs and palms in the landscape; pruning for aesthetics and clientele expectations.
Insect identification will focus on common insects and other arthropod pests frequently encountered in the ornamental landscape. Proper identification is one of the main building blocks for an effective ipm program. We will discuss how ipm strategies and decisions are based on proper pest id.
An Equal Opportunity Institution. UF/IFAS, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Andra Johnson, Dean, and director. Single copies of UF/IFAS Extension publications, (excluding 4H and youth publications) are available free to Florida residents from County UF/IFAS Extension Offices. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 296.26, F.S. persons needing accommodations or an interpreter to participate in the proceeding should notify UF/IFAS Lake County no later than 72 hours prior to the meeting at 352-343-4101.
