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August 2020
Advanced Design Workshop with Patrick Cullina – 8/12/20
This virtual workshop offers a rare small-group and hands-on design experience with award-winning horticulturist and landscape designer Patrick Cullina. In this advanced workshop, participants will learn how to achieve key ecological landscape goals such as biodiversity and durability without sacrificing artistry. CEUs awarded.
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Eco-Tour: Beauty in Flight: A Virtual Tour of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Butterfly House
With native plants and nectar aplenty, the Butterfly House at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG) is a magical world of color, fragrance, and motion. Join this virtual tour to enjoy the magic.
Find out more »Class: Shade Gardens: Embracing the Dark Side
Conducted online: Create lush and vibrant shady gardens by learning how to infuse more color, adventure, and intrigue into those sometimes difficult spaces.
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Webinar: Why Rain Gardens Fail and Tools for Success
With appropriate planning, design, construction, and maintenance, rain gardens, bio-swales, and other stormwater treatment workhorses can be an artistic part of our landscapes, gardens, streetscapes, and public spaces.
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Class: NGICP National Green Infrastructure Certification Program – Maine
The NGICP program provides the foundation understanding needed to properly design and oversee construction, inspection, and maintenance of green stormwater infrastructure.
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Class: NGICP National Green Infrastructure Certification Program – NY
The program provides the foundational understanding needed to properly design and oversee construction, inspection, and maintenance of green stormwater infrastructure. Designed to meet international best practice standards, this program provides candidates with the technical skills necessary to incorporate green infrastructure into projects successfully.
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Eco-tour: Wildflower Meadows and Pollinator Habitat
Join Dr. Cathy Neal on this tour to learn results from UNH research on wildflower meadow establishment, helping you to successfully plan, prepare, plant and maintain a beautiful and functional wildflower meadow that blooms all season long.
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Eco-tour: Native Plant Center
Join this professionally guided tour of The Native Plant Center to learn more about native plants and pollinator support.
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Eco-tour: Exploring the Demonstration Meadows at Helia Native Nursery
ELA Eco-tour to meadows that display the rich color palettes that can be achieved using native plants. The meadows are all designed with four season interest - a feature that invites frequent visits to experience the changing views.
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Eco-Tour – Flying Trillium Gardens and Preserve
We invite you join us on this guided Eco-tour to experience the beauty, diversity and sustainability of our native flora for yourself.
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Eco-tour – Private Gardens in Rye, NY
Tour two private gardens in Rye, NY to learn about design choices based upon ecological principles, habitat-enhancing plant selections, and appropriate maintenance practices, all critical elements in creating healthy ecosystems.
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Eco-tour: Gardening for Insects: Native Pollinator Garden
Join us for a unique opportunity to explore the private gardens of an inspiring insect specialist, landscape designer, and passionate nature photographer.
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