LINPI Native Plant Symposium: "Native Plants and the Long Island Landscape"I

The Long Island Native Plant Initiative, Inc. (LINPI) hosts a Native 
Plant Symposium "Native Plants and the Long Island Landscape".

Registration: http://www.linpi.org/native-plant-symposium/

After Hurricane Sandy, the public and industry professionals are affirming the importance of utilizing native plants in the residential landscape and ecological restorations.  Many landscapes were 
destroyed following flooding and salt spray damage from last year’s storm.  Using natives can help ensure resiliency in the face of future storms and at this symposium, top professionals will demonstrate how agencies, businesses and the public can successfully incorporate native plants into landscape design, commercial cultivations and restorations by highlighting their own successful efforts.  Nursery and landscape industry professionals, landscape architects, land managers, government agencies, public officials, supervisors and plant enthusiasts are encouraged to attend.

Author and Executive Director, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens 

Keynote Speaker: William Cullina- Native Plants in Context: Ecology, Diversity, and Interconnection 

Gardens Filled with Life: Designing with Northeastern Flora. Carolyn Summers: Landscape Architect, Adjunct Professor at Westchester Community College, Advisor to WCC Native Plant Garden, Author, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.

Pinelands Nursery: Building a Native 

Plant Nursery from the Ground Up. Don Knezick, Owner, Pinelands Nursery and Supply, Columbus, NJ

Working Lunch Lecture: Oakland Lake Park Improvement Program.  Dean Cavallaro, Deputy Chief, Staten Island Bluebelt, NYCDEP, Flushing, NY.

SITES on the Ground: Lessons from a 

Sustainable Sites Initiative Pilot Project. Constance T. Haydock  Landscape Architect, P. C., Locust Valley, 

NY.

Vegetated BMP Solutions: Inspired by Native Plant Communities.  Claudia West Ecological Sales Representative, North Creek Nurseries, Inc., Landenberg, PA.

Locally Sourced: Brooklyn Botanic Garden Expands Its Native Plant Collection. Uli Lorimer Curator, Native Flora Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Brooklyn, NY

Professional continuing education credits (CEUs) offered:APLD, CNLP, NOFA, LACES with NYSDEC and IS.  Registration required; credit cost included in registration fees.

Registration $50 per person and includes a continental breakfast.    

For more information: info@linpi.org or (631)560-9945.