[PCA] Save the date for the Lahr Native Plant Symposium

[Hicks, Lindsay]

Save the Date!
26th Annual Lahr Native Plant Symposium
and Plant Sale

      Saturday, March 31, 2012, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Renowned speakers share knowledge and insight
on the uses and understanding of native plants.
Presented by the U. S. National Arboretum

This year's speakers:


Peggy Bowers - Mt. Vernon Estate Horticulturist, conservationist, educator


Melanie Choukas-Bradley -Author of City of Trees: Field Guide to Trees of Washington, DC


Kevin Conrad - Curator of the USDA-ARS Woody Landscape Plant Germplasm Repository


Pierre Moitrier - Garden structure designer, co-owner of Designs for Greener Gardens


Thomas Rainer -Landscape architect, writer of the award-winning blog, Grounded Design



Lee Reich -Lecturer, farmdener, author of Landscaping with Fruit

Registration information will be available by February 1, 2012 at www.usna.usda.gov<http://www.usna.usda.gov>.

The annual Friends of the National Arboretum Native Plant Sale will run concurrently with the symposium, featuring local native plant nurseries offering an extensive selection of plants. Symposium registrants are offered early access to the sale.

This year the Lahr Symposium and Plant Sale will be held at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center<http://www.ars.usda.gov/PandP/docs.htm?docid=9051>  (BARC) as the Arboretum's administration building is under renovation.

Please contact me with any questions about this or other National Arboretum programs.

Thank you.


Lindsay Hicks
Horticulture Education Programs Specialist
U.S. National Arboretum
3501 New York Ave. NE
Washington, DC   20002
202-245-5898

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