CEU Credits: The Association of Professional Landscape Designers offers one credit for each presentation for a total of five (5) APLD CEUs for the full day program.

Register by February 7 to receive early bird registration rates. Registration is $99 for Members of PPA or the Horticultural Society of Maryland, Inc. Non-member registration is $109. Add $10 to each registration after February 7. Due to commitments with vendors, registrations cannot be accepted after February 17, 2014. Please register early to guarantee your seat. 

Cancellations: Refunds will be made, less a 20% processing fee, if cancelled prior to January 30, 2013. No refunds after that date.

8:00 am – 8:45 am: Registration

8:45 am: Welcome

9:00 am: Plants I Haven’t Killed (Yet). . . and Potential Victims

Sandy McDougle, Sandy’s Plants, Inc., Mechanicsville, Virginia

Sandy has been growing and trialing perennial plants in her personal garden for many years. Duringthis time she has come to appreciate a number of plants that are most stalwart. These plants handle abuse and neglect as well as TLC, without missing a beat, looking good without a lot of attention and shining with just a little love. Always looking for new candidates (to replace the dead victims) she continues putting in new varieties and has identified a num- ber of plants that have the potential to thrive despite her best efforts.

10:00 am: Potager Garden Design

Sandra Clinton, Clinton & Associates, PC, Hyattsville, Maryland

Arranging perennials in aesthetic and stable compositions continues to be the ultimate challenge fordesigners and gardeners alike. This presentation will give an introduction to a German plant strategy system and its landscape applications. Join us as we explore perennials and their garden habitats and learn how this method of inter-planting is currently evolving into a revolutionary new planting strategy in Europe.

12:30 - 1:30 pm: Complimentary lunch

1:30 pm: Shady Meadows, One Wet And One Dry

Tom Mannion, Tom Mannion Landscape Design, Inc., Arlington, Virginia

Tom will share insight into the creation of two residential gardens which both feature lushly planted, informal meadow plantings in shady situations, one being a wet site and the other dry. We’ll see before and after photos of each garden. Tom will discuss the design, implementation, and maintenance of both.

2:30 pm: Stretch Break

2:45 pm: Diary Of A Garden Creation

Nancy and Pierre Moitrier, Designs For Greener Gardens, Annapolis, Maryland

It all started from a napkin drawing over a bottle of wine... now, 11 years later, the vision is starting to take shape. Drawing inspiration from nature, travels and the charm of the old villages in France, Nancy and Pierre Moitrier are creating a unique garden where whimsical garden Follies and striking plant combinations abound. Come join them on a retrospective of their garden creation and share stories of challenges, excitement, disappointment, passion and get reminded that indeed a garden is....never done! 

Talented Speakers

Sandra Clinton: Sandra is President of Clinton & Associates, PC. She has been practicing landscape architecture since the completion of her MS degree from the University of Virginia in 1984. She is registered as a landscape architect in the states of Maryland and Virginia, and is Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Board (CLARB) certified to practice in all 50 states. Sandy was elected a Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2005.

Tom Mannion: Tom is the president and only employee of Tom Mannion Landscape Design. He has been designing and building beautiful, lush, award winning gardens since 1989. His work has been published in various books and magazines includng: Sunset Books, The Front Garden, A Man’s Turf, Southern Living, Southern Accents, Home and Design, and The Washington Post. Tom’s gardens have won twelve grand and two distinction awards from the Landscape Contractors Association and two merit awards from the Perennial Plant Association. Tom has a BA from Bucknell University and is a graduate of the George Washington University Landscape Design Program.

Sandy McDougal: Sandy is owner and nursery guru of Sandy’s Plants, Inc. A formal school teacher, Sandy has been growing and propagating perennial plants for many years. She established her family-owned perennial wholesale and retail nursery, located in Mechanicsville, Virginia, in 1979, after a chance encounter with a nurseryman who spied her colorful garden. Starting as a part time, dig and pot operation, Sandy has grown her business into a thriving nursery that encompasses nearly 35 acres and grows around 2000 varieties of perennials, grasses, herbs and groundcovers in containers.

Nancy and Pierre Moitrier: Nancy and Pierre are the owners of Designs for Greener Gardens, an Annapolis based, fine gardening company, specializing in the creation, development and maintenance of distinctive gardens. Pierre comes from France and brings with him a European flair to their garden creations. His special talents include designing and building one of a kind hardscapes for the garden. Nancy is a passionate and experienced garden designer/horticulturist. She is an Internationally Certified Arborist, a Maryland Certified Horticulturist and a Maryland Licensed Tree Expert. She is the principal designer at Designs for Greener Gardens, which she started in 1989.

Claudia West: Claudia is the ecological sales manager at North Creek Nurseries, Landenberg, Pennsylvania. Claudia holds a MS degree of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. In her current role, Claudia works closely with design and restoration profesionals, offering con- sultation services from initial project planning stages to adaptive management strategies after project completion.