So today was the perennial plant conference. Ive been looking forward to it for awhile now, and it lived up to its expectations. It was held at Swarthmore college, a liberal arts school (a very expensive school...) thats campus also incorporates the Scott arboretum (scottarboretum ). Its a beautiful campus, lots of stone buildings, artwork and mature trees.
The conference itself was about 400 plant geeks in one room. There were five speakers. This from perennialplantconference.org/
Eric “T” Fleisher is the director of horticulture at Battery Park City Parks Conservancy in lower Manhattan and a national leader in the field of sustainable horticulture
Dale Hendricks has been growing and propagating plants professionally since 1975 and has been honored with the American Horticulture Society’s Individual Commercial award and the Perennial Plant Association’s Young Professional award.
Holly Scoggins is an associate professor in the department of horticulture, and the director of the Hahn Horticulture Garden at Virginia Tech, where she teaches courses in greenhouse management, ornamental plant production and marketing, herbaceous landscape plants and public gardens.
John Greenlee is the owner and founder of Greenlee Nursery in Pomona, California, the largest native and ornamental grass nursery on the West Coast greenleenursery.com
Piet Oudolf is a native of the Netherlands, where since 1982 he and his wife Anya run a small specialized nursery and trial garden in the countryside near Humelo. He has designed numerous award winning gardens and public parks throughout Europe and in the United States. www.oudolf.com/piet-oudolf
They spoke in that order, with Piet being the biggest drawcard. To be cont
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