About our Seminar

Industry education and networking with a focus on landscape use of native plants.

For design professionals, busy landscapers and plant nursery staff. CEUs available.

Enjoy an exclusive, intimate and very friendly continuing education event for landscape architects, designers, installers, maintenance firms, municipalities, growers, garden centers and retailers focused on using more native plants.

 

Classes and activities designed by and for industry practioners.

 

Sourcing, selecting and using Florida native plants for landscape use.

 

CEUs for landscape architects, Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ certified professionals, ISA arborists and FNGLA certified professionals. Plus, you can earn a FANN native plant professional credential.

 

Meet Florida native plant industry leaders who can get you what you need to succeed with native plants.

 

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CLASSES FOR PROFESSIONALS

Classes introduce hot topics such as newly popular native plant for modern landscapes, how to upgrade and enhance landscapes with native plants, understanding and overcoming challenges in native plant sourcing, special applications of native plants and more.

Take advantage of the experience and know-how of professionals that work with these plants every day. 

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EXPAND YOUR NATIVE PLANT NETWORK

Learn what is possible and find the native plant expertise and supply you need. Whether it’s for commercial or residential landscapes, nurseries or garden centers, FANN growers are producing hundreds of ornamental native species in a variety of sizes. Learn how you can use them now.

Nobody knows “right plant, right place” like a native plant professional. Come and benefit from FANN members’ many years of experience using these plants on commercial, residential and institutional landscapes, green infrastructure and habitat restoration projects.

Build relationships in the native plant industry and tap into the growing market for native plants and ecological landscaping.  

 

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Quick Facts at a Glance

Come to learn about the variety and quality of native plants you can use now. Leave with the confidence and connections you need to succeed with native plants.

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

WED NOV 4
8:30-11:00 – Sponsor set up
8:30-11:30 – Offsite Activities 
10:30-Noon – General check-in
Noon – Lunch
1-5:30pm – Classes
3-3:30 – Break
5:30- 6:30 Social
7:00- Dinner out

THURS NOV 5
8:00-4:30 – Classes
10:30-11 – break
Noon – Lunch
3-3:30 – break
5:00 – Event ends


SPONSORS

Native plant growers, suppliers of eco-friendly landscape products and services, and forward-thinking landscape firms aligned with the future of the green industry. Sponsors enjoy networking directly with industry professionals in the classroom and at breaks, exhibit space and online promotion.  

PROFESSIONAL CONTINUING EDUCATION (CEUs)

FANN is a licensed continuing education provider #0005309 for landscape architects regulated by the Florida DBPR Board of Landscape Architecture. FANN routinely provides courses approved for continuing education by FNGLA and ISA for their certified professionals. FANN is proud to now be able to offer Florida-Friendly Landcaping™ professionals certified by the University of Florida FFL program with an additional source of continuing education credits. FANN seminars are highly regarded and valued for their unique focus on the use of native plants by landscape architects, designers, installers, inspectors, arborists, horticulture professionals and community association managers certified with FL DBPR, APLD, UF FFL, FNGLA, ISA and more. 

 

VENUE

UF IFAS Straughn Professional Development Center, 2142 Shealy Dr, Gainesville, FL 32608

KEY DATES

  • Oct 5 – Cutoff for Aloft
  • Oct 9 – Cutoff for Drury Inn
  • Oct 16 – Earlybird discount deadline
  • Nov 4 – Seminar day 1
  • Nov 5 – Seminar day 2

COMMITTEE

  • Janine Griffiths, Green Thumb
  • Rhonda Gracie, UNF Botanical Garden
  • Nick Freeman, Wacca Pilatka
  • Bruce Turley, Wise Hands
  • Michelle Stafford, Signature Landscape Contractors
  • Heather Blake, Natural Treasures Farm & Nursery
  • Leslie Landert, Landert Landscape Design
  • Troy Springer, Springer Environmental
  • Call FANN 321-271-4885

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FANN's Florida Native Plant Seminar

Whether you're a landscape architect, design professional, busy landscaper or retail garden center, we've got what you need to succeed with native plants.

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