Meadow Management and Enhancements Workshop
Gillespie Museum
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEUs)
Florida DBPR Board of Landscape Architecture – 1 Optional CEU Credit, #0015386
FNGLA Certified Horticulture Professional – APPROVED
Also qualifies for UF Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Continuing Education
The session will focus on practical management and enhancement of meadow gardens, using an existing sandhill ecosystem research and teaching site. The workshop will review different methods to both manage and enhance a predominantly herbaceous landscape designed to function as an ecosystem.
The instructor will present an interactive exercise consisting of hypothetical but typical requests and complaints from clients seeking to achieve greater aesthetics and ecological function. The instructor will then review how to meet client goals by adding containerized plants, sowing seeds, and managing the site over the next two years. The instructor will discuss and demonstrate how to conduct all management operations onsite and the typical problems to address over the course of the management period.
Herbaceous wildflower and grassland meadows are becoming very popular. However, most landscape professionals have not been introduced and properly trained in how to plant and maintain meadow landscapes that function like ecosystems. This workshop will better prepare the landscape professional in confidently and more successfully constructing and maintaining meadow-like landscapes.
Much of DeLand was once a vast sandhill ecosystem, a unique gently rolling habitat of deep sandy soils, filled with a great diversity of grasses and wildflowers, many rare and endangered, and “overseen” by towering Longleaf Pines with a sparse midstory of deciduous oaks. This is a fire dependent system that is critical for aquifer recharge. The Volusia Sandhill Pollinator Project is a collaboration between university biologists and museum visitors to identify and monitor pollinators in a developing urban ecosystem. It serves as an outdoor, living laboratory for Stetson University faculty and undergraduate research, the inspiration for sustainability projects, a source of seed and restoration ecological research for the Stetson Seed Library, and a Florida Wildflower Demonstration Garden. It is supported by the Florida Wildflower Foundation and was recently awarded “Garden of Honor” recognition by the Florida Native Plant Society as part of their 2025 Landscape Awards program. Learn more about the Sandhill and it’s history here:https://www.stetson.edu/other/gillespie-museum/vse/
Limited to 25 attendees
Florida DBPR Board of Landscape Architecture – 1 Optional CEU Credit, #0015386
FNGLA Certified Horticulture Professional – APPROVED
Also qualifies for UF Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Continuing Education
The session will focus on practical management and enhancement of meadow gardens, using an existing sandhill ecosystem research and teaching site. The workshop will review different methods to both manage and enhance a predominantly herbaceous landscape designed to function as an ecosystem.
The instructor will present an interactive exercise consisting of hypothetical but typical requests and complaints from clients seeking to achieve greater aesthetics and ecological function. The instructor will then review how to meet client goals by adding containerized plants, sowing seeds, and managing the site over the next two years. The instructor will discuss and demonstrate how to conduct all management operations onsite and the typical problems to address over the course of the management period.
Herbaceous wildflower and grassland meadows are becoming very popular. However, most landscape professionals have not been introduced and properly trained in how to plant and maintain meadow landscapes that function like ecosystems. This workshop will better prepare the landscape professional in confidently and more successfully constructing and maintaining meadow-like landscapes.
Much of DeLand was once a vast sandhill ecosystem, a unique gently rolling habitat of deep sandy soils, filled with a great diversity of grasses and wildflowers, many rare and endangered, and “overseen” by towering Longleaf Pines with a sparse midstory of deciduous oaks. This is a fire dependent system that is critical for aquifer recharge. The Volusia Sandhill Pollinator Project is a collaboration between university biologists and museum visitors to identify and monitor pollinators in a developing urban ecosystem. It serves as an outdoor, living laboratory for Stetson University faculty and undergraduate research, the inspiration for sustainability projects, a source of seed and restoration ecological research for the Stetson Seed Library, and a Florida Wildflower Demonstration Garden. It is supported by the Florida Wildflower Foundation and was recently awarded “Garden of Honor” recognition by the Florida Native Plant Society as part of their 2025 Landscape Awards program. Learn more about the Sandhill and it’s history here:https://www.stetson.edu/other/gillespie-museum/vse/
Limited to 25 attendees
Design FNGLA certified professional LA CE credits Landscaping Plants