Our Distinguished Speakers

         Doug Tallamy

           Janet Davis

              Vincent Simeone

             Jeff Lowenfels

                  Jim McCormac

             Stephen Orr

Registration

Directions to  Brandt Student Union
Building 39 with
adjacent parking garage
Campus Map (PDF)

Conference Agenda (PDF)

Hotel Info

Piedmont/Blue Ridge Horticulture Society has partnered with the Environmental Studies Department at Shenandoah University to present:  Tomorrow’s Landscapes: More Birds, Butterflies, and Bees for YOUR Garden and would love to have you join us. Shenandoah University Environmental Studies & Biology professor, Dr. Woody Bousquet, will moderate the conference.

The full day conference will be held on April 14, 2012 at the Brandt Student Union at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. Experts will provide valuable advice on ways to increase birds and butterflies in our yards with plant choices suited to the Virginia/mid-Atlantic climate and soils.

Selected books, plants, and tools will be available for purchase. Space is limited. Registration is $99 and includes coffee and a box lunch. Preregistration is required and all registrations will be handled on-line.

Agenda -

7:30-8:30  Check-in and coffee

8:30 Doug Tallamy

9:30  Janet Davis

10:15-10:45 Coffee break, plant and book sale, book signing

10:45 Vincent Simeone

11:45-12:45 Lunch, plant and book sale, book signing

12:45 Shenandoah University

1:00 Jeff Lowenfels

2:00 Jim McCormac

2:45-3:15 Coffee break, plant and book sale, book signing

3:15 Stephen Orr

4:15 - 5 Plant and book sales, book signing

Click on any speaker’s photo to learn more about the speaker.