Friends of LSU Hilltop Arboretum
Annual Symposium
HEIRLOOM GARDENING:
Yesterday’s Plants for Today’s Gardens
Click here to purchase tickets or call 225.767.6916
Greg Grant’s Arcadian Dogtrot and Heirloom Garden
CEU’s for master gardeners & landscape architects!
Saturday, January 28 ~ 8:30 am-12:30 pm
LSU Design Auditorium
$45 Members/$60 Non-Members
Speakers
Randy Harelson
“How Old is Old?”
(When You're Talking About a Plant)
Gardeners in the 21st century toss around a lot of terms for plants: heirloom, historic, native, pass-along, even patented! What are we really talking about? Randy's short talk defines some terms and touches on the deeper implications of the plant choices modern gardeners make.
Dr. William C. Welch
“Heirloom Plants and Gardens for Louisiana”
Louisiana has a heritage of cultural influences and plants that is worth celebrating and emulating for today’s gardeners. As we explore these influences and plants we will be better equipped to create distinctive and useful new gardens that truly reflect our region and its people. The most meaningful gardens of the past are those that reflected the lifestyle of their owners.
I hope that you will enjoy remembering your own gardening heritage and find ways to reflect it in your landscape. The heirloom plants we discuss as well as many of the design ideas are time tested keys to continuing the richness of our gardening legacy.
Greg Grant
“Gardening for Love: An Arcadian Dogtrot"
~ The tale of restoring my grandparent’s home,
garden, and farm ~
Accompanied by copious pictures, Greg will discuss his unending love affair with his grandparent's old home and property in Deep East Texas and his lifelong quest and promise to restore them. He will discuss both the historic influences that inspired his developing garden and the cottage garden plants that make their homes there.
During a mid-morning break, participants will have the chance to shop the Hilltop Garden Book and Nature Shop and purchase plants discussed during the presentation and view Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture “Design Week” student projects that feature the arboretum as a case study. Speakers will be on hand for book signings. Refreshments will be provided. Registration required.
Speakers Dr. Bill Welch is a professor and Agri-Life Extension landscape horticulturist in the Texas A & M System. He has many years of experience with garden clubs and nursery organizations and is a regular contributor to Southern Living magazine. In addition to being on the board of directors of the Southern Garden History Society, he is also an honorary member of the Garden Club of American, which awarded him its distinguished service medal in 2008.
Greg Grant is the Stephen F. Austin (SFA) gardens outreach research associate at SFA in Nacogdoches. A former Agri-Life Extension agent and lecturer in horticulture at SFA, Grant has traveled extensively to gardens in the U.S. and Europe and is a popular speaker on garden topics throughout the South. He is a regular contributor to Neil Sperry’s Gardens Magazine and writes the column, “In Greg’s Garden,” for Texas Gardener Magazine. |