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February 2020
Class: Cultivating Your Plant Communities
In this three-part workshop, learn to identify appropriate native plants and groupings for your site and create a personalized plant palette and design that is beautiful and enhances biodiversity.
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Class: A Holistic Guide for the Modern Land Steward
(Conducted as a live webinar.) This land care guide will address regenerative design, green infrastructure, resilient landscapes, adaptive strategies, and building your own toolbox and rule book.
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Class: Tips and Techniques for Healthy Seedling Starts
(Conducted as a live webinar.) Learn basic yet critical propagation techniques for successful seedling starts.
Find out more »Class: Navigating Public Design, Part 2
(Conducted as a live webinar.) In this half-day workshop, we will build on the stakeholder collaboration processes to navigate public designs.
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Class: Building the Green Industry
(Conducted as a live webinar) You will learn opportunities, challenges, and strategies to guide your own projects in the green industry.
Find out more »May 2020
Class: Eco-restorative Garden Design
(Conducted as a live webinar) Eco-restorative Garden Design: Topics cover everything from removing invasives to analyzing the site, conserving resources, and enhancing aesthetics and wildlife habitat.
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Class: Native Plant Design for Human Health
(Conducted as a live webinar) Learn the theories behind healing landscapes and elements of healing gardens that you can integrate into your own projects.
Find out more »Class: Our Future with Water: Stormwater Management Strategies
Based on decades of experience, this stormwater management guide will address rain harvesting, permeable pavements, green roofs, bioswales and rain gardens, and tree planting.
Find out more »Class: Landscape Design for Changing Site Conditions
This advanced design session includes a set of hands-on exercises to challenge our perspectives and to instill flexibility in our approach.
Find out more »June 2020
Celebrating Natives – Garden Tours
Due to concerns about community transmission of COVID-19, we will feature our hosts and their gardens in the June 2020 ELA Newsletter. We look forward to photo tours by our generous homeowners, landscape designers, and area organizations as they provide inspiration and education on native plant gardens.
Find out more »2020 Spotlight on Natives Photo Contest
Between now and June 30, enter your most inspiring photographs of individual native plants or of native plants in a garden setting to ELA's photo contest. You’ll be entered to win a one-year ELA membership.
Find out more »July 2020
Virtual Eco-Tour: Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary
This virtual tour will highlight many of these habitats and native plants including: Meadowscapes, both wet and dry, Native orchids, Liatris, Actaea, Pycnanthemum, Solidago, and much more.
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