Sept 9 Eastern IA Garden & Landscape Show, Cedar Rapids, IA
Brucemore Estate, 9AM-4PM
Sept 9 Wilmington City Garden Contest Awards
2PM, DE Center for Horticulture
Sept 9-10 Garden Conservancy Tours, CT, NJ, NY
NJ: Middlesex County; CT: Hartford County; NY Columbia, Dutchess, Westchester Counties
Sept 11 Secrets of the Chaparral, Del Mar, CA
6:30PM, Surfside Race Place. San Diego Hort Society Lecture on plants that tolerate summer drought, winter rain, wildfire.
Sept 11-12 8th Urban Land Institute 8th Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
Omni Hotel, CNN Center. Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Transit Villages, and Main Streets
Sept 12-13 Historic Landscapes, Madison, WI
Seminar, National Preservation Institute reviewing the basics of scenic vistas; designed, cultural, rural, agricultural, and urban landscapes. In cooperation with The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF); the National Park Service, Historic Landscape Initiative, and the State Historical Society Society of Wisconsin.
Sept 15-17 3rd Annual Garden Fair , Winterthur, DE
Winterthur Museum & Gardens. Lectures, Demos, Plant Sales, Plus. Sponsored by Horticulture Magazine.
Sept 16 Annual Orchid Auction, Orlando, FL
9AM-2PM Harry P. Leu Botanical Garden
Sept 17 Garden Conservancy Tours, CT, NY
CT: Fairfield County; NY: Putnam, Westchester Counties
Sept 20 Garden Market Expo, Las Vegas, NV
14,000 garden retailers, horticultural growers, mass merchandisers, gift and department stores, and more.
Sept 21 Studio Workshop, NYBG
10AM-2:30PM with Landscape Architect Henry M. White, III, who's collaborating with LA Cornelia Oberlander and Architect Renzo Piano on the landscape plan for the new NYT headquarters in Manhattan.
Sept 21-22 Potomac River Gorge Rare Plants, Washington DC
9-21: 1-4 PM Guided 2-3 hour hike; 9-22: Lecture 12-1 PM, US Botanic Garden
Sept 23 - Nov 5 Exhibit on Great Gardens of the World, Chicago, IL
Chicago Botanic Garden, "In Search of Paradise: Centuries of Great Garden Design"
Sept 23, 24 Garden Conservancy Tours, CA, NC, TX
CA: Sonoma County; NC: Wake County; TX: Dallas County
Sept 26 City Roof Design, NYBG
10AM-1PM Lecture, the fundamentals of roof gardens with designer Jeff Mendoza
Sept 28-Oct 1 Stonework Symposium, Hood River, OR
6th annual meeting of The Stone Foundation, an international society of stone masons, contractors, designers, suppliers, landscape architects, artists.
Sept 30 Garden Conservancy Tours, AZ, NC, NY
AZ: Pima County; NC: Orange County; NY: Nassau County
LOOKAHEAD:
October 6-9 American Society Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Conference Minneapolis, MN
OCT 20 PERENNIAL PLANT CONFERENCE, SWARTHMORE,PA
Scott Arboretum 8AM-5PM
NOV 6-10 Aqua Show , Las Vegas NV
Nov 15-17 Greenbuild, Denver, CO
International Conference & Expo, CO Convention Center
Nov 28-Dec 1 Pool & Spa Expo / Backyard Living Expo, Las Vegas, NV