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.
See how native plants can be used to meet the highest aesthetic standards at the world class Naples Botanical Garden, a 200+ acre international destination and conservation research facility. Beautiful specialty gardens of native and exotic plants await! Your ticket includes garden admission from 9am-5pm.
Enjoy an exclusive and chummy educational event for landscape architects, designers, installers, maintenance firms, municipalities, growers, garden centers and retailers focused on using more native plants in South Florida. Get directly applicable info & insider insights in professionally-appropriate classes.
Use breaks, lunch times and the Wednesday evening social to get to know the native plant industry, build and strengthen relationships, and ask even more native plant questions! Event sponsors will be happy to engage with you at their display space inside or out on the Kapnick Center patio.
CLASSES FOR PROFESSIONALS
Classes and industry panel sessions introduce hot topics such as native plant performance after Hurricane Ian, how to maintain native plants in high style and formal landscapes, and how climate change may affect future plant selections. Join your peers for walks in the garden to see and discuss the best plants. Take advantage of the experience and know-how of professionals that work with these plants every day.
NEW, first of its kind professional microcredential: 25 participants are participating in a FANN-FGCU pilot program, with an opportunity to earn a digital badge promoting their demonstrated ability to successfully select and use in landscaping, twenty of FANN’s favorite native plants for South Florida.
EXPAND YOUR 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 with commercial, residential, institutional and natural restoration projects.
Build relationships in the native plant industry and tap into the growing market for native plants and ecological landscaping.
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
Wednesday October 18
8:30-11am – Credential activity
9am – Garden open to attendees
9am-Noon – Sponsor setup
Noon – Welcome Lunch
1-3pm – Classes
3-3:30 – BREAK
3:30-5:30 – Classes
5:00 – Garden closes
5:30 – Evening Social on patio
6:30 – Dinner – stay tuned!
Thursday, October 19
8-10:30am – Credential activity
9am – Garden open to attendees
9am-Noon – Classes
Noon – Networking Lunch
1-3:30pm – Classes
3pm – Credential field module
5pm – Garden closes
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 and community association managers (CAMs) regulated by the Regulatory Council of Community Association Managers. We routinely provide courses useful to FNGLA certified horticulture & landscape professionals. FANN seminars are highly regarded by landscape architects, designers, installers, inspectors, arborists, horticulture professionals and community association managers certified with FL DBPR, APLD, FNGLA, ISA and more.
VENUE
FGCU Kapnick Center Buehler Auditorium and Naples Botanical Garden, Bayshore Dr, Naples FL
KEY DATES
- Jun 19 – attendee registration opens
- Sept 18 – SpringHill Suites Naples deadline
- Oct 1 – Earlybird Registration Deadline
- OCT 18 – Seminar opening day
- OCT 19 – Seminar final day
COMMITTEE
- Chairman & Sponsorship: Eryk Jadaszewski, Everglades Native Designs
- Local Arrangements Chair: Leslie Landert, Landert Landscape Design
- Additional Volunteers: Jenny Evans, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, Janine Griffiths, Green Thumb, and Jess Lummus, Sebastian River Farms
- Call FANN 321-271-4885 for anything else
PAST EVENTS
- 2022 Fall Wild Meadow Magic Panama City
- 2021 Fall CEU Event at Sebastian River Farms
- 2021 Fall CEU Event at Chiappini Farm Native Nursery
- 2019 7th Annual Native Plant Show West Palm Beach
- 2018 6th Annual Native Plant Show Bradenton
- 2017 5th Annual Native Plant Show Bradenton
- 2016 4th Annual Native Plant Show Kissimmee
- 2015 3rd Annual Native Plant Show Kissimmee
- 2014 2nd Annual Native Plant Show Kissimmee
- 2013 Inaugural Native Plant Show Kissimmee
The South Florida Native Plant Seminar
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