Welcome to the 23rd Native Plants in the Landscape Conference @ Millersville. We. Are. Back! And we are way better than ever. The 23rd Native Plants in the Landscape Conference is going to be so awesome, informative and educational that you’ll never miss the old conference.

We are so glad to be back and very excited for the future.

For the first time ever, we are offering partial registrations. Yes, you read that right. You asked and we listened. We understand that some professionals can’t make it all three days, and folks not in the industry or just starting can’t leave their work, so we are offering one, two and three day regis-trations. Thursday and Friday are geared for professionals and Saturday is for everyone who wants to learn about native plants. We’re reaching out to the local community with Saturday lectures, workshops and the best native plant and book sale in the east. We even have a children’s program so mom and dad can enjoy some lectures on their own.

Our Continuing Education Units have been greatly expanded to cover most professions in the industry, and there’s even a call for posters to attract students and researchers working on cutting edge technologies involving the use and science of native plants. There will be conference record-ings for the first time, so if you had a tough time deciding between the concurrent sessions, you can purchase a downloadable file to watch after the conference ends. You’ll never have to miss anything again. Technology is great, isn’t it?

We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome you back to Millersville for what we think will be the best Native Plants in the Landscape Conference yet!

See you in June!

Sincerely, Angela Treadwell-Palmer, Director

Steering Committee: Program Committee: Millersville Support:

FM Mooberry — Founder Eileen Boyle Christopher HardyAngela Treadwell-Palmer — Director Maria Cattell David DobbinsWendy Brister — Program Chair Wendy Brister Ryan WagnerCandy DeBerry — Scholarships & Carol Mapes

Poster Sessions Dale HendricksMarci Johnson — Admin. Martha Stauss Chris Uhland — Nursery Industry Ally Bill HoffmanChris Dartley — Plant Sale

Sponsored By: Millersville University’s Department of Biology

Plant And Book SaleHOURS OPEN TO CONFERENCE ATTENDEES

Thursday, June 5: 5:30–9:30pm

Friday, June 6: 7:30–8:45am, 10:30–11am, noon–1:45pm, 4:30–9:30pm

Saturday, June 7: 8:30am–1pm

Plant Sale Open to the General Public:Friday, June 6 4:30pm–8:30pmSaturday, June 9 8:30am–1pm

Native Plant & Book SalesA popular display and plant sales area featuring native plants and information is open at selected times during the conference. To reserve space, contact Chris Dartley at chrisdartley@gmail.com or call (215) 989-0844 and leave a message. The Millersville University Bookstore will have a selection of books related to the conference available for sale, including recent books written by many of the conference speakers.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)Continuing Education credits are available to attendees. We are now certified for LACES, APDL, MDPCH, NJPCH, PAPCH, DEPCH, several other states too; and several Master Gardener CEU units from various state programs. Millersville University will also grant 1.0 CEUs for College Credit and will issue a certificate of completion for an extra fee of $20 per person.

Assistanceships (Working Scholarships)Ten full conference registrations will be offered to anyone who has not received aid in the past and will be awarded to qualifying recipients in honor of our confer-

ence founder, FM Mooberry. The grants cover double dorm room accommoda-tions, all meals and a full conference registration. To apply, submit the following: a cover page with name, address, affiliation (if any), telephone, and email, along with a statement of financial need, a statement on how the conference will be of value to you or your career, and a letter of recommendation from a supervisor or associate. Decisions will be based on interest in native plants and on financial need. Recipients will be expected to serve as conference assistants for a few hours during the conference. Send applications to Candy DeBerry, cdeberry@washjeff.edu. Applications must be received by May 1st.

Call for PostersWe invite submission of abstracts/summaries for poster presentations at the 2014 Native Plants in the Landscape Conference. Posters may address any aspect of native plants and their use in the landscape. (Examples include: research on wildlife utilization of native plants vs. exotics; results of native plant trials; documentation of projects including residential landscape installation, schoolyard gardens, ecological restoration; educational outreach or innovative curricula.) For more information about posters or to submit an abstract/sum-mary, contact Candy DeBerry at cdeberry@washjeff.edu. Deadline for submissions by May 1, 2014

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2014 4pm–8:30pm Registration opens SMC lobby

THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 20147am–12:30pm Registration open Student Memorial Center (SMC) Lobby

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS (Thursday Workshops are geared toward professionals, students and Master Gardeners) Field Trips and Workshops leave from the Student Memorial Center. Transportation and drinks are included in the additional fee for the field trips. Field Trips go rain or shine, so bring comfortable clothes, shoes, hat and sunscreen, and protection against ticks.

8am–4pm WORKSHOP 1: Vegetated Solutions for Functional and Aesthetic Rain Gardens

Kevin Staso and Claudia West, capacity 25 design/build professionals only (Fee $95.00)

ä Why do a majority of rain garden designs fail to meet our expectations? Hint: It’s NOT the plants’ fault! It’s been proven that properly vegetated rain gardens are 100% successful. The purpose of this advanced and professional workshop will be to properly design a successful plant community, providing maximum function and aesthetics. Attendees will learn how to select, properly combine and install native plants based on a mixed planting approach — transforming beliefs, embracing new methodologies and dispelling currently “accepted” rain garden design.

ä Attendees will need to bring their own hand trowels, gloves and weather appropriate clothing (we will be outside). Boxed lunch will be provided.

1pm–5pm WORKSHOP 2: Native Ferns of the Middle Atlantic States: Ecology and Identification PLUS Propagation of

Native Ferns from Spores Tom Goforth, capacity 20 (Fee $60.00)

ä The high geographic, geologic, and climatic variability of Pennsylvania provides a rich diversity of plant com-munities that include at least 65 temperate native ferns. Among these are species that occur as far south as Florida and as far north as the sub-arctic and northern and southern species of the same genus that are nearly identical morphologically. This presentation will explore the elegant and ancient life style of ferns and the fossil history of ferns found in Pennsylvania rocks, and provide morphological and ecological keys for the identification of Pennsylvania native ferns.

ä Propagation of ferns from spores is an elegant and fascinating horticultural process that can lead to a large number of genetically diverse progeny for gardens and restoration with a minimum of materials and specific and intermittent care protocols. Workshop participants will learn about the fern lifestyle of alternation of generations and spore propagation protocols, sow spores of several native fern species, transplant mature gametophytes, and use a provided booklet and website resources to rear native ferns at home on a small scale or at a nursery for production volume. All materials will be provided at the workshop, except lighting setups.

1pm–5pm WORKSHOP 3: Porous Pavement for Stormwater Management: Design and Installation

Marcus de la fleur (Fee $60.00)

ä How does porous pavement help with stormwater management? This common question will be answered dur-ing the workshop, shedding light on how stormwater runoff moves through and is managed within the porous pavement system. Marcus de la Fleur will detail the design principles of porous unit pavement and shed light on the basic engineering considerations. He will also touch on the installation processes and material choices.

1pm–5pm WORKSHOP 4: Foraging for Wild Edibles: Harvesting and Preparation

Jonathan Darby, capacity 20 (Fee $60.00)

ä Many plants growing right outside our door hold within them the ability to feed us, to heal us, and to help us reconnect with the natural world. This class will focus on the discussion and identification of local wild plants that hold edible and medicinal uses. We will be harvesting in the wild as well as looking at uses, preparations and preservation. We will discuss resources, precautions, and other important related topics.

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5:30–6:45pm Dinner Gordinier Hall

5:30–9:30pm PLANT & BOOK SALE SMC Gym

7:15–8:15pm FULL AUDIENCE #1: Marcus de la fleur One Drop at a Time: A Sustainable Landscape Case Study

This pilot project in Elmhurst, IL with its green roof, rainwater harvesting, rain gardens, and porous pavement technologies, demonstrates responsible treatment of rain water within a residential landscape. Marcus de la Fleur will speak about the rationales of the sustainable practices, touch on the issue of designing with and maintaining native vegetation, address soil conservation issues, and quantify the stormwater benefits of the project site as well as the larger cumulative benefits to the community.

8:00–9:30pm Social Beer, Wine and Snacks available

FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2014(Friday Sessions are geared toward professionals, students and Master Gardeners)

7:30–8:45am Breakfast and Registration

7:30–8:45am PLANT & BOOK SALE SMC Gym

9:00–9:15am Welcome

9:15–10:30am FULL AUDIENCE #2: Benjamin Vogt Moral Gardening: Digging to Save the World

In a time when thousands of species vanish annually alongside their remnant habitats, every suburban yard, commercial landscape, and highway median becomes a protest space. Will we garden not just for ourselves, but for each other and millions of species? What’s at stake when we use exotic plants that divorce us from our home place? Do we dare garden beyond simple aesthetics and in a deeper, more ethical way?

10:30–11:00am BREAK & PLANT SALE

11:00–noon CONCURRENT SESSION A: A-1 Dick Brown — Planting Pollinator Meadows

This will be a presentation designed to assist landowners, landscapers and other native plant enthusiasts with the creation of pollinator/native plant meadows in the landscape. Site selection, preparation and proper planting procedures used in planting and maintaining native plant meadows will be discussed. Also, there will be suggested plants to include in a meadow, some to avoid and those to use with caution. This program will provide advice on plant selection, seed collection, cleaning and seed mix preparation.

A-2 Elizabeth Farnsworth — Go Botany! A 21st-Century Tool for Learning About Plants Imagine a web tool at your fingertips that enables you to identify and learn about more than 3500 species of plants!

That’s Go Botany. Developed with funding from the National Science Foundation, this is the definitive, interactive flora of the northeast. Choose from easy-to-use interactive keys and search engines for beginners, to a technical dichotomous key, to PlantShare, a virtual community for plant enthusiasts. Teachers will find a wealth of educational resources, too.

A-3 Larry Mellichamp — Sarracenia Pitcher Plants and Bog Gardening Bog plants can have beautiful flowers and leaves, form attractive combinations, and provide endless hours of en-tertainment, especially the carnivorous species. Full sun and moist, acidic medium are generally desireable. Ameri-can bog plants may include pitcher plants (11 species of Sarracenia), Venus-flytrap, sundews, Lilium catesbaei, Marshallia, Polygala, Sabatia and certain orchids (Pogonia and Calopogon). Choosing non-aggressive, adaptable species is important. We will consider growing such plants in natural sites, portable containers and constructed in-ground beds.

A-4 Melissa McCormick — Why Our Native Orchids are so Difficult to Grow Restoring, conserving, and growing native orchids is not easy because of their complex life cycles and interactions with fungi. Most orchids require mycorrhizal fungi and can only grow where the right fungi are. We have developed the tools to study these fungi and are beginning to understand what orchid mycorrhizal fungi need to grow. We are applying this information to orchid conservation and cultivation through the North American Orchid Conservation Center (NAOCC).

noon–1:45pm PLANT & BOOK SALE SMC Gym

12:15–1:30pm Lunch Gordinier Hall

1:45–2:45pm CONCURRENT SESSION B: B-1 S. Edgar David — Nature, Schools

and Educational Landscapes All landscapes have the potential to inform people and raise their level of awareness of the landscape that surrounds them. Schools are among the most important landscapes that have the greatest ability to influence children’s knowledge and understanding of their environment and to develop their appreciation for their indigenous landscape. This presentation will draw from projects developed by SED Design and illustrate the benefits for integrating nature in the designed landscape.

B-2 Eric Toensmeier — Permaculture with Native Plants: Ecological Edible Landscaping An ecological garden does more than provide habitat — it feeds human residents and cycles some of their wastes. Eastern North America offers many edible and otherwise useful native plants, which are underutilized in our landscapes. We’ll introduce the range of uses and functions and the native species that can fill these important agroecosystem niches. We’ll also briefly review the history of indigenous cultivation and wild management of native plants and landscapes of the region.

B-3 Derek Stoner — Native Plants for Nesting Birds: Connecting Flora and Fauna Are you interested in attracting colorful birds like Northern Cardinals, American Robins, and Eastern Towhees to nest in your native garden? Learn about the many wonderful selections of native trees and shrubs that pro-vide the attractive nesting cover that songbirds prefer. Follow a seasonal plan for creating a backyard habitat that is sure to be popular with the birds. Enjoy photos of a wide variety of baby birds like Baltimore Orioles, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, and Wood Thrush.

B-4 Michele C. Adams, P.E. LEED AP — Reconnecting Water, Soils and Vegetation: Regenerative Rainwater Management This presentation will present multiple case studies of projects that have achieved a sustainable approach to stormwater management through practices focusing on landscape restoration, healthy soils, water reuse, and integrated stormwater systems, including several LEED and SITES projects. Projects will include institutional, education, commercial, and residential examples, including urban area retrofit projects.

1:45pm–4pm B5 FIELD TRIP

Shenk’s Ferry Wildflower Preserve Tim Draude, capacity of 30 people

ä This glen, along the Susquehanna River, is one of the region’s premier locations for spring wildflowers. On this field trip we will see late spring flowers, ferns, foliage and fruits of abundant and diverse native plants. Our leader will discuss the flora, ecology and geology that makes this area a natural wonderland.

2:55–3:55pm CONCURRENT SESSION C: C-1 Larry Mellichamp — Unusual Southeastern Natives for your Garden

Come celebrate Southeastern natives. The trend towards using more natives (rather than exotics) shows that they interact better with native birds and insects, and are interesting in their own right and ought to be more widely known. The new book Native Plants of the Southeast helps evaluate old favorites as well as new suggestions in virtually every category of garden plants: ferns, grasses, aquatics, bog plants, wildflowers, vines, conifers, shrubs and trees. Try something different in your home landscape!

C-2 George Coombs — An Update on the Trials at Mt. Cuba Center George will talk about Mt. Cuba Center’s ongoing trials of native plants and their related cultivars. Some of the plants currently being evaluated are annual and perennial Coreopsis, Heuchera, Baptisia, and Monarda. George will provide insight into what they have learned about these genera so far and which selections are shaping up to be the best performers.

C-3 Elizabeth Farnsworth — Citizen Scientists are Central to Native Plant Conservation Motivated, well-trained volunteers can provide critical data on the status of rare plants, distributions of invasive spe-cies, responses of species to climate change, and many other aspects of ecology. We’ll discuss several successful programs by New England Wild Flower Society and other organizations across the U.S. to engage citizen scientists, and will consider the features that make for vibrant and sustainable projects.

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C-4 Tyler Case — More than a Stool for your Garden Gnome: How Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms can add New Dimensions to Your Garden Science is just beginning to understand the complex relationships between fungi and plants. On the level of molecule, cell, and organism, fungi are working behind the scenes to promote the health of our native forests. Learn how these same processes can be harnessed to bolster the health of native landscaping while filling shady voids with transient collages of unique color, texture and more mysterious qualities.

3:55–4:20pm BREAK & PLANT SALE

4:20–5:20pm FULL AUDIENCE #3: Sabrena Schweyer, FAPLD Sustainable Landscapes with SITES™

What is The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ and why is it important? A descendant of the LEED rating system, SIT-ESTM presents a similar system for landscapes. Its goal is to promote sustainable landscapes that can clean water, reduce pollution, and restore habitats, while providing significant economic and social benefits to land owners and municipalities. What could be better? Discover the value in these guidelines even if you don’t care about certification.

5:30–6:45pm Dinner Gordinier Hall

7:00–8:00pm FULL AUDIENCE #4: Eric Toensmeier Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden

Oasis in the City

The story of transforming a beat-up urban lot into an edible landscape. The design integrates elements like a greenhouse, microlivestock, water garden, vegetable beds, and perennial food plants into an ecosystem that becomes more than the sum of its parts. Alongside familiar foods like pears and asparagus are roughly one hundred useful native species including fruits, nuts, berries, beans, greens, and tubers.

4:30–9:30pm PLANT, BOOK SALE & LIVE MUSIC

8:00–9:30pm Social Beer, Wine, Snacks and Live Music

SATURDAY JUNE 7, 2014(For anyone who wants to learn more about native plants)

7:30–8:45am Breakfast and Registration

8:30–1:00pm PLANT & BOOK SALE SMC Gym

9:00–10:00am FULL AUDIENCE #5: Candy DeBerry, Ph.D. Why Grow Natives?

What is a “native” plant? Why should people grow more native plants in their gardens and landscapes? Which native trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, and herbaceous perennials are the most garden worthy? This presentation is designed as an introduction for the home gardener who is curious about native plants and the many benefits they bring to the garden and to the greater ecosystem.

9am–10am WORKSHOP 5: (In addition to conference registration, this workshop requires a $25 materials fee)

Create your own Carnival of Carnivores: Build-A-Bog Workshop Randy Heffner

ä Kids and adults alike will love this “Hands On & How To” guidance for creating and building your own mini bog garden which you get to take home! From the bottom up, the secrets of recreating a carnivorous bog’s natural habitat in containers will be explored. We will work through container selection, creating the correct layout, preferred plant selection as well as conditions necessary for long term maintenance of these attractive and captivating container gardens. The best part is the plants EAT BUGS in your backyard! This session will also include information on optimal location for the mini bogs both inside and out, covering “over wintering” condi-tions, preventative pest protection as well as watering and nutritional do’s and don’ts.

9am–12:30pm CHILDREN’S PROGRAM: (Ages 6–12)

Create your own Carnival of Carnivores; Build-A-Bog Workshop Randy Heffner

ä Kids and adults alike will love this “Hands On & How To” guidance for creating and building your own mini bog garden which you get to take home! From the bottom up, the secrets of recreating a carnivorous bog’s natural habitat in containers will be explored. We will work through container selection, creating the correct layout, preferred plant selection as well as conditions necessary for long term maintenance of these attractive and captivating container gardens. The best part is the plants EAT BUGS in your backyard! This session will also include information on optimal location for the mini bogs both inside and out, covering “over wintering” condi-tions, preventative pest protection as well as watering and nutritional do’s and don’ts.

Foraging Plant Walk Jonathan Darby

ä Many plants growing right outside our door are a source of food. This class will focus on identification of edible local wild plants. We will be harvesting and sampling, discussing precautions, and other related topics.

Create a Bug Hotel Wendy Brister

ä Bug hotels provide a home to pollinators and pest controllers. Tidy gardens, lawns and lack of dead wood, mean less and less habitat for wild bees, spiders and ladybugs. Kids will create a mini-hotel to take home.

Reptiles and Bugs Kelsey Frey

ä Explore the scaly, slimy and crunchy creatures that live in your backyard! Take a hands-on tour of some 4, 6, and 130-legged critters. Learn what they need to survive and how you can explore them on your own. If you dare, see how crunchy they really are…

10:15–11:15am CONCURRENT SESSION D: D-1 Mark Highland — Vermicomposting: Composting with Worms!

Composting with worms is fun and easy! In this class, vermicomposting expert Mark Highland will share his secrets on how to cultivate a worm bin. Within days you will be making the richest soil amendment known to gardening!

D-2 Benjamin Vogt — The Last Migration: Gardening for Monarchs and Other Butterflies With an over 80% decline in 2013, monarchs are the canary in the coal mine. How can our small gardens help create migration corridors? How can we garden for butterflies in all four seasons? Why does it matter? From host plants to the benefit of leaf litter, we’ll see just how powerful even a small garden can be.

D-3 Mary Kline — The Dirt on Soils in the Home Landscape It’s a microbe-eat-microbe world in the soil beneath our feet. Explore how nutrients, soil texture, humus and microbes form the soil food web which shares a symbiotic relationship with landscape plants. Soils give important clues for selecting plants that will perform well in your garden.

D-4 Bonnie Gale — The Potential of Living Willow Structures in the Landscape Living willow structures (such as gazebos, tunnels, outdoor living rooms) have so much potential in the landscape. Structures are made from long, live willow rods which are pushed into the ground and then woven. Bonnie Gale has installed over 40 of these structures to date in schools, public spaces and for private clients. In this presenta-tion, she will review the methods, planting needs and how they can be included in everyday landscape design.

11:15–11:30am BREAK

11:30–12:30pm FULL AUDIENCE #6: Colleen Plimpton Not Tonight, Deer!

Gardening in deer country demands a multifaceted approach. Included in Not Tonight, Deer! Is the recipe for a never-fail deer repellent as well as tips on controlling these creatures as well as voracious voles, marauding moles, bodacious bunnies, greedy ground hogs and other nefarious nabobs of the garden. You will come away from this interactive, humorous talk both educated and entertained.

12:30–12:45pm CLOSING & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Michele C. Adams, P.E. LEED AP is a Water Resources Engineer and founder of Meliora Environmental De-sign. For nearly 30 years, her work has encompassed environmentally sensitive site design, with special focus on “water as a resource” and the integration of stormwater, wastewater, and water supply needs as part of a single water resource.

Wendy Brister is the owner of Har-vey’s Gardens, a native plant nursery in Wrightsville, PA. In addition to growing plants, Wendy assists green industry companies with social media market-ing, teaches Herbaceous Plants I and II at HACC Harrisburg, speaks to garden clubs and other groups, and gardens on 4 acres with her family, dogs and chickens.

Dick Brown, Director of the Native Plant Action Network. BS Degree in Biology from Penn State University. M. Ed Degree in Geology from Millersville University. Taught science in public schools for 34 years. In retirement worked for the Pennsylvania Game Commission as a volunteer and a part time employee. Hobbies include camp-ing, hiking, bird watching, photography, propagating native plants and planting pollinator meadows.

Tyler Case grew up in South Jersey, where he spent much of his childhood scavenging abandoned lots and subur-ban woods for black walnuts, black-berries, and bittercress, and by high school, mushrooms. He is co-founder of Mycopolitan Mushroom Company, Philadelphia’s first mushroom farm. Mycopolitan produces gourmet varieties for local restaurants but also focuses on increasing productivity and sustainability of local farms with fungi and researching hitherto unavailable mushroom varieties which are superior meat substitutes.

George Coombs is the Assistant Research Horticulturist at Mt. Cuba Center. His work includes managing the native plant evaluation program as well

as evaluating plants for potential intro-duction into the trade. Prior to joining Mt. Cuba Center, George worked in the nursery industry at both the wholesale and retail level.

Jonathan Darby works as the Farm Manager for the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education as well as being the owner and operator of Sterling Farm, an organic produce CSA. Jona-than is a certified Permaculturist, wild food educator, and has been active in the local farming community for the past ten years.

S. Edgar David is founder of SED De-sign landscape architects specializing in the creation of sustainable landscapes, ecological restoration and planning with the purpose of integrating people with their landscape and enhancing the environment for the world around us. Prior to engaging in private practice Edgar David served as a tenured Asso-ciate Professor of Landscape Architec-ture in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture at Temple University. Edgar David’s professorial background has been an instrumental influence in designing educational land-scapes and the creation of memorable and inspirational landscapes.

Candy DeBerry, Ph.D., is an associate professor of biology at Washington and Jefferson College, where she teaches cell biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry. Dr. DeBerry is passionate about ecological gardening for biodiver-sity, and regularly speaks to community organizations about native plants, environmentally-friendly gardening, and creating habitats for wildlife. Her 1/3 acre suburban property has been certified as an NWF Backyard Wildlife Habitat, an Audubon PA Bird Habitat, a Monarch Waystation, and a Wild Ones Native Plant Butterfly Garden.

Tim Draude is a botanist, ecologist and environmental restoration consul-tant. He has spent many years explor-ing and studying the plants and natural

communities associated with the lower gorge of the Susquehanna River.

Dr. Elizabeth Farnsworth is Senior Research Ecologist with the New Eng-land Wild Flower Society, an Associate Research Scientist with Harvard Univer-sity, and Editor-in-Chief of the botanical journal, Rhodora. She has both led and benefited from citizen-science programs since 1987. Her field research focuses on the ecology of rare plants.

Marcus de la fleur is a vanguard in the application of green technologies to the commercial, public, and private landscape. He earned his Horticultural Diploma from the Royal Botanic Gar-dens, Kew and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Shef-field, U.K. Marcus has contributed to multiple sustainable projects, some of them LEED certified, and has extensive field experience in sustainable technolo-gies through his past work in Germany, Switzerland, and Great Britain.

Kelsey Frey is an environmental edu-cator and loves sharing her passion for nature with audiences of all ages. Her favorite hobbies are gardening, nature photography, and studying natural history.

Bonnie Gale is a landscape designer using live willow as her medium. She is a leading force in the green building movement relating to living structures. She has completed over 40 structures for public and private clients. She has degrees in Planning and Landscape Ar-chitecture. Her work has been featured in Vogue, public television and on the Martha Stewart Show in 2010.

Tom Goforth has been commercially growing eastern North American native ferns from spores for 15 years and does fern ecology and plant community/geology correlations research in the field from the Southern Appalachians to New England and the Upper Mid-west. He has a BS in geology and an MFA in visual arts. He is writing a book on the

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patterns of ever increasing diversity and complexity in the Universe since the Big Bang from initial nucleosynthesis, ~14 million years ago, to the current human endeavors to synthesize life.

Randy Heffner has over 25 years experience in consultation, evaluation design and management of wetland and aquatic ecosystems. Throughout this period he has provided expert testi-mony, authored papers, given lectures, seminars and workshops on topics such as “Landscaping Wetlands”, “Us-ing Aquatic Macrophytes to Limit Nutri-ent Availability”, and “Lake Management Techniques”. In addition to wetland and aquatic plants, Randy’s wholesale nursery Aquascapes Unlimited Inc. is a carnivorous plant hybridizer and grower with a focus on the propagation and hy-bridization within the Sarracenia genus.

Mark Highland. It was on a beautiful piece of farmland that Mark pushed his first shovel into garden soil. After he “grew up” Mark focused his M.S. de-gree studies in the Longwood Graduate Program on compost and potting soil. Mark started the Organic Mechanics Soil Company in 2006.

Mary Kline is a Landscape Architect in Glen Rock, PA. Mary’s interests in native plants, soils and biodiversity has focused the firm on sustainable design. Mary C. Kline, RLA specializes in threat-ened and endangered plant surveys, habitat restoration, and bike trails.

Dr. Larry Mellichamp is a Professor of Botany at the University of North Caro-lina at Charlotte where he has taught for 38 years and directed their Botanical Gardens (http://gardens.uncc.edu). He studies Sarracenia pitcher plants and other native species, and has trav-eled in Australia, Borneo, China, Costa Rica, Hawaii, and South Africa. Recent books include The Winter Garden, Bizarre Botanicals and Native Plants of the Southeast. He advocates utilizing more eastern American natives in home landscaping.

Melissa McCormick is an Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Re-search Center, where she has studied orchids and other plants since 1999.

She received a BS in Biology from Trin-ity University in San Antonio, Texas and a PhD in Ecology, Evolutionary Biol-ogy and Behavior from Michigan State University. Her current research focus is on plant associations with mycorrhizal fungi and how they affect the distribu-tion of host plants, especially orchids.

Colleen Plimpton spent 30 years in her first career as a clinical social worker with the chronically mentally ill. Her second career is that of profession-al garden communicator. Trained at the New York Botanical Garden, she has tended her sloping Connecticut acre for 21 years. Colleen has appeared on nu-merous TV and radio programs includ-ing CBS, ABC, Good Morning America and PBS; she pens a prize-winning newspaper column for Hearst Media Group; coaches gardening; has taught at the New York Botanical Garden; lectures widely; and writes for publica-tions such as GreenPrints, Connecticut Gardener, and Toastmaster. Colleen’s multi-honored garden memoir, Mentors in the Garden of Life was a finalist for the Connecticut Book of the Year in the Memoir Category.

Sabrena Schweyer, FAPLD is Vice President of Salsbury-Schweyer, Inc., an Akron-based design firm known for insightful, inspirational and ecological landscapes. She is a certified Perma-culture consultant, a guest columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and a Fellow in the Association of Professional Land-scape Designers. Sabrena has received top international design awards and been featured in such publications as The American Gardener, Fine Garden-ing, and The Wall Street Journal.

Kevin Staso is Sales Director at North Creek Nurseries in Landenberg, PA. Kevin drives sales and marketing efforts for the horticulture and ecological mar-kets. He develops regional and national native plant programs for wholesale growers and independent and national retailers. Kevin is a board member of the Ecological Landscape Alliance, the Perennial Plant Association’s Environ-mental Committee, and contributing member of Pennsylvania’s Storm Water Technical Review Council’s Vegetation Advisory Committee.

Derek Stoner is the Conservation Proj-ect Coordinator for the Delaware Nature Society, working out of the Ashland Nature Center in Hockessin, DE. He is in charge of monitoring conservation ease-ments, coordinating the reforestation project at 850-acre Middle Run Natural Area, and leading environmental educa-tion programs for children and adults. Outside of his workplace, he does biodiversity consulting, specializing in bird surveys for conservation organiza-tions like Mt. Cuba Center, Brandywine Valley Association, and the White Clay Watershed Association. An avid writer and photographer, his work appears in Outdoor Delaware magazine, Wild Dela-ware and Wild Delmarva books, and the News Journal newspapers.

Eric Toensmeier is the author of Para-dise Lot and Perennial Vegetables, and co-author of Edible Forest Gardens. His current work relates to farming practices and crops that sequester carbon to fight climate change. He is an appointed lecturer at Yale University. Eric’s home garden features over 200 useful species on an urban tenth of an acre lot.

Benjamin Vogt owns Monarch Gar-dens, a prairie garden consulting service in Nebraska. He writes on native plants and wildlife landscape design for Houzz, contributes to the website Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens, and his Great Plains plant choices were featured in the book Lawn Gone. Benjamin runs the Facebook group Milk the Weed and blogs at The Deep Middle.

Claudia West is the ecological sales manager at North Creek Nurseries, a wholesale grower in Landenberg, PA specializing in the production of Eastern US native plants. Claudia holds a Mas-ter’s Degree in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from the Techni-cal University of Munich, Germany. In her current role, Claudia works closely with design and restoration profes-sionals, offering consultation services from initial project planning stages to adaptive management strategies after project completion.

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REGISTRATION OPTIONS — June 5–7 (must select one):(Vendor, Speaker, and Committee registration options appear online only)**Rooms are limited; please attempt to room with one or more people**

Package #1 Includes full conference registration from June 5–7, housing for Thursday and Friday nights, all meals from Thursday lunch through Saturday breakfast and one pre-conference workshop on Thursday. If the Rain Gardens workshop is chosen, there will be an additional $35 fee to cover the cost.

Package #2 Includes full conference registration from June 5–6, housing for Thursday night, all meals from Thursday lunch through Friday dinner and one pre-conference work-shop on Thursday. If the Rain Gardens workshop is chosen, there will be an additional $35 fee to cover the cost.

$ _____ Commuter Only (no housing) — $205 per person for package #1, $155 per person for package #2

$ _____ Rain Garden workshop extra fee — $35 (both package #1 and #2)

Single Room (Room to yourself)

$ _____ Reighard Hall (upgraded room) — $390 per person #1, $330 per person #2 $ _____ MU Dorm — $325 per person #1, $265 per person #2

Double Room (sharing with one other person)$ _____ Reighard Hall (upgraded dorm) — $310 per person #1, $265 per person #2$ _____ MU Dorm — $275 per person #1, $220 per person #2

I would like to room with _______________________________________________________

Shenk’s Hall Suites (up to 4 people per room)$ _____ Suite A (4 single rooms, 2 bathrooms, common area) — $285 per person #1, $225 per

person #2$ _____ Suite B (2 private/1 double room, 2 bathrooms, common area) — $285 per person #1,

$225 per person #2

I would like to room with 1. _______________, 2._______________, 3.__________________

I will share a double in the suite with ____________________________________________

Package #3$ _____ Includes Saturday workshops and lectures — $60 per person

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Extras$ _____ Thursday workshop and lunch only — $60 per person for all except Rain

Gardens, which is $95 per person$ _____ Saturday child workshops — $45 per child$ _____ Thursday evening lecture only — $15 per person$ _____ Friday evening lecture only — $15 per person$ _____ Both Thursday & Friday evening lectures — $25 per person$ _____ Wednesday night room: Reighard Hall single — $90, Double — $49;

Shenk’s Suite — $43, MU Dorm single — $50, MU Dorm double — $42 Note: for Reighard Hall, you AND your roommate must be staying on Wednesday to be charged the double rate, otherwise, you will be charged the single rate.

$ _____ Extra breakfast ticket — $5 per person$ _____ Extra lunch ticket — $9 per person$ _____ Extra dinner ticket — $13 per person$ _____ Continuing Education Certificate from MU — $20 per person$ _____ Late Fee — for registrations received after May 25 — $25 per person

Please list any special dietary needs: ____________________________________________

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Choose Your Pre-Conference Workshop/Field Trip:________ Workshop #1 — Rain Gardens — limit 25 ________ Workshop #2 — Ferns — limit 20________ Workshop #3 — Porous Pavement ________ Field Trip #4 — Foraging — limit 20

Concurrent Session Selections (circle only one number per session)Thursday, June 5 Session A 1 2 3 4Friday, June 6 Session B 1 2 3 4 5 Friday, June 6 Session C 1 2 3 4Saturday, June 7 Session D 1 2 3 4

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If the conference is full, all payments will be refunded in total. Requests for cancellations must be made online or in writing by close of business on May 25, 2014; a $25 processing fee will be retained. Cancellations received after May 25 will not be refunded.

A late fee of $25 will be charged for registrations postmarked after May 25, 2014. The conference is designed for adults. Casual attire is encouraged for both participants and speakers. Millersville dormitories are air-condi-tioned. Persons who prefer motel accommodations should check the commuter option on the registration form and make their own lodging reservations. Information on Lancaster area accommodations and attractions may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Dutch Convention and Visitors’ Bureau at www.800padutch.com or phone 1-800-723-8824. Registration and most sessions are held in Student Memorial Center (SMC) on the Millersville Campus. You will receive a marked map with your registration confirmation. Directions to Millersville University’s campus may be found at www.millersville.edu/directions/.

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organization. Responsibility for the information and any views expressed lies entirely with the participating company or individual expressing that informa-tion or view. The views expressed or products offered by participating companies or individuals do not necessarily reflect the official position of the conference administrators and are not necessarily endorsed by the conference or its sponsors.

Consent, Waiver of Liability, and Release When you enter the Conference, you will be entering an area where photography, video, and audio recording may occur. By registering and attending the event, you:

1. Consent to the use of photography, audio and video recording, and its/their release for publication, or reproduction for news, promotional purposes, advertising, inclusion on websites, or any other purpose by the Conference and its representatives without payment/royalties or inspection/approval of materials;

2. Waive any claims you may have arising out of such activities; and

3. You release the Conference, and each and all persons involved from any liability connected with the taking, recording, digitizing, or publication of images, video and/or sound recordings.

Millersville University is an affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution.

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P.O. Box 1002Millersville, PA 17551-0302

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CONFERENCE MISSION STATEMENTThe purpose of this conference is: to increase the knowledge, propagation, cultivation, and use of native plants in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions; to promote methods of land management and design that respect “sense of place” by preserving and restoring native species and natural processess; to engender an appreciation of regionally appropriate landscapes that are harmonious for people and nature. While the subject of the conference pertains to native plant communities, the spirit of the conference is to build human communities among a broad range of participants by designing a conference affordable to all; encouraging formal and informal exchanges of information, and providing opportunities for social interaction.

www.millersvillenativeplants.org

P.O. Box 1002 | Millersville, PA 17551-0302

Register Online!https://www.regonline.com/npilc2014

3 Inspirational Field Trips3 Educational Workshops

3 Engaging Topics of Concern3 Native Plant & Book Sale

3 Native Plant Merchandise