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July 2020
Class: Soil: The Solution Beneath Our Feet
Conducted online: Learn soil basics, then expand your understanding. Find out how soil affects plants’ health, supports sustainability, and combats climate change.
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Class: Structural Plant Combinations
Conducted online: Structural shrubs and trees are essential elements in memorable gardens, providing both ambiance and organizing principles in the landscape.
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Advanced Design Workshop with Patrick Cullina 8/5/20
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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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.
Find out more »September 2020
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: Propagation – Native Seeds
Learn how to grow native plants from seed and why the skill is relevant in a horticultural context.
Find out more »Class: Native Species, Cultivars, and Selections: What’s the Difference?
In this class, you will learn about the nuances that distinguish cultivars from native plant selections.
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Class: Climate Change and Native Plants
This class will cover a brief history of climate change and address carbon and hydrological cycles, the earth’s heating and cooling systems.
Find out more »Class: NGICP – December 2020
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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Webinar: Proper Planting Practices: Are We Landscaping in a Deficit Model?
In this presentation, Richard McCoy will provide information on current techniques of proper planting, how to correct unseen issues that are borne in the landscape nursery, the importance of the plant root collar, plant placement by matching site conditions to a plant’s cultural needs, and how these efforts add value.
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