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Practical Tools for Designing Resilient Landscapes
The negative effects of climate change are well known – but there are positive changes that we can make locally. Designing with native plants to create sustainable landscapes can be instrumental in mitigating threats to wildlife and the environment. Unfortunately, we’re faced with a deficit of nursery sources, limited plant selections, and a lack of information to make decisions maximizing long-term success and benefits of our designed landscapes. Harsh conditions resulting from our rapidly changing climate place new burdens on all landscapes – home and commercial – often leading to design failure and loss of plants.
Join us for a fascinating day of presentations offering practical strategies to create sustainable and resilient landscapes. You’ll benefit from decision matrixes that help make informed plant selections and develop successful designs based on a range of environments, ecological benefits, and sustainability goals. Experts will present a range of native plant combinations and design layouts that manage water runoff, survive droughts, and support pollinators and wildlife. You’ll be surprised how climate change is dictating conservation efforts, its impact on native plant ecoregions and even its implications for expanding our plant palette.
*This will be offered as a series of live online lectures using Zoom with audience Q&A incorporated into the program. Each session will be recorded and a link to watch the symposium will be emailed to all participants. Professional development credit hours will be available for each session.
About GreenScapes
The GreenScapes Symposium is an annual program planned by Brookside Gardens since 2004. The Symposium explores the latest topics related to landscape sustainability and the environment. This event appeals to a broad audience ranging from landscape architects and designers to master gardeners, horticulturists, and urban planners. Environmental stewardship is a core value of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), Brookside Gardens’ parent organization. As such, we strive to provide timely information and viable solutions to environmental challenges that help create a healthy planet for all people, plants and living things.
Continuing education units (CEUs) will be available for:
- American Society of Landscape Architects (LA CES 5.0)
- Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD 5.0)
- Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals (CBLP 5.0)
- ISA BCMA Science: 1.25
- Management: 3.75
- ISA Certified Arborist: 5
- Municipal Specialist: 5