Plant Trials Day Symposium - August 29 Sold Out Plant Trials Day Symposium August 29, 2019 Program is sold out. Call 513-559-7767 to be added to a waiting list. Easily the premier purely garden plant symposium anywhere near here, this 8th annual Plant Trials Day Symposium will feature a lineup that we’ll put up against any. Seriously. You will get to hear Michael Dirr, hands down, the world’s top woodies expert; Keith Warren, recently retired from J. Frank Schmidt and Son and co-author with Dirr on the recently published, The Tree Book; Bill Thomas, Director of Chanticleer Gardens, one of the world’s best public gardens; Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator and Director of Outreach at the Denver Botanical Garden, which is one of a scant handful of gardens that might be the equal of Chanticleer; and Janet Draper, Director of the Mary Ripley Livingston Garden of the Smithsonian Institute and President of the Perennial Plant Association. Truly a “can’t miss” for green industry professionals and passionate gardeners! Speaker Bios and Talk Descriptions Tentative Schedule Michael Dirr, Origins of Cultivated Trees, 9:00AM-9:50AM Keith Warren, What’s New in the World of Deciduous Tree Cultivars, 9:50AM-10:40AM Panayoti Kelaidis, Flyover Horticulture, Gardening from and for the Heartland, 11:10AM-12N Janet Draper, The Many Tales of Triumph & Woe, M. L. Ripley Garden, D.C.-1:00Pm-1:50PM Michael Dirr, New Shrubs for American Gardens, 1:50PM-2:40Pm Bill Thomas, The Art of Gardening at Chanticleer, 3:10PM-4:00PM Panayoti Kelaidis, Tracking Plants to Their Native Lairs,4:00PM-4:50M Ticket includes parking, admission, and food. Social hour afterwards. ASLA, APLD, ISA, ONLA, PGMS, CEUs pending. Time: Registration 8:00AM to 9:00AM | Talks 9:00AM to 5:00PM | Social Hour 5:00PM to 6:00PM. Location: Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Schott Education Building, Frisch’s Theater Parking: Main Zoo Parking Lot on Vine Street. Contact [email protected] for handicapped parking instructions. Cost: Full Price: $99.00 | Volunteer: $30.00 | Student: $30.00 Contact [email protected] for student tickets Native Plant Sale - September 28 Native Plant Sale Dates: August 10 & September 28, 2019 9:00am – 1:00pm 2210 N Mason Montgomery Rd Adventure is blooming at the Cincinnati Zoo’s Bowyer Farm and Wetland! Join Zoo staff and Bowyer Farm master gardeners for an adventurous day filled with native plants, pollinators and wetland perusing! Learn about the land’s history and take a piece of it home from the Native Plant Sale. Bowyer Farm houses a 24-acre reclaimed wetland and an abundance of wildlife. The wetland serves as a home or stopover point for hundreds of birds, and the 15 new beehives are home to thousands of honeybees that help pollinate the entire ecosystem! See the farm, hike the wetland, and learn about the Zoo’s future plans for this thriving oasis. Then, begin an oasis of your own! The plant sale events are listed below: Native Plant Sale – Native plants, including ones found throughout the Bowyer Farm ecosystem, will be for sale. Cash, check, and credit card are accepted. Bowyer Farm is located at 2210 Mason-Montgomery Road, Lebanon, OH 45036. Please note that this is a working farm and ecosystem. Questions? Please email Brian Jorg or Chase Bodkin. Native Plant Symposium Native Plant Symposium November 9, 2019 Wow. Just wow! Listen to this symposium lineup. Larry Weaner, author of one of the most important garden books in the past decade, Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change, will be speaking at the CZBG’s Native Plant Symposium. Arguably, the only other recent book with potentially greater impact has been Doug Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home. It’s a shame we couldn’t get him. But, wait. We did get him! Doug Tallamy will also be speaking! But good things always come in threes, so why not another author and native-plant-world giant? Maybe somebody like Larry Mellichamp? Or, why not him? Yep. Him too. Are you kidding me? Then what? Does it matter? Well, our good friend from Mesker Park Zoo, Paul Bouseman, will give a talk on native landscaping in the ‘burbs. Paul is a humorous, likeable, and incredibly knowledgeable speaker. We still have a few slots to fill, but, really, why? Isn’t this enough? But we’ll announce them soon. $99, includes zoo admission, parking, and a full day of food and drink. Even a social hour afterwards. CEUs pending. Purchase Tickets Time: Registration 8:00AM to 9:00AM | Talks 9:00AM to 5:00PM | Social Hour 5:00PM to 6:00PM. Location: Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Schott Education Building, Frisch’s Theater Parking: Main Zoo Parking Lot on Vine Street. Contact [email protected] for handicapped parking instructions. Cost: Full Price: $99.00 | Volunteer: $30.00 | Student: $30.00 Contact [email protected] for student tickets