February 10 & 11 – Ithaca’s 4th Annual Designing with Native Plants Symposium

Visit www.plantsmen.com for detailed info including program and registration link

The 2012 Designing with Native Plants Symposium will be held on Friday, February 10th and Saturday, February 11th at Cinemapolis, Ithaca’s Downtown Art Theatre, located at 120 East Green Street adjacent to the Ithaca Commons. The conference will explore and promote the use of native plants in landscape design. This year, the conference theme focuses on our Upstate New York regional identity. In landscape design and horticulture, our regional identity is reflected in, and shaped by, plans, designs and projects using native plants and inspired by native plant communities. The Symposium was created to inform and inspire landscape architects, designers, educators, Master Gardeners, government employees, homeowners and anyone else eager to learn more about this growing movement.

Speakers include renowned Landscape Architects, Landscape Designers, Professors, Directors of Conservation Organizations, Practitioners and Horticulturists. Presentations cover a wide but focused range of topics related to the use of native plants in projects of all scales and sizes.

The Designing with Native Plants Conference is organized by Dan Segal of the Plantsmen Nursery and Rick Manning, Landscape Architect. Continuing education credits are available for Registered Landscape Architects, nurserymen and landscape contractors.

For detailed conference information and to register, visit The Plantsmen Nursery web site at www.plantsmen.com.