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 and chummy educational event for landscape architects, designers, installers, maintenance firms, municipalities, growers, garden centers and retailers focused on using more native plants in Central Florida. Get directly applicable info & insider insights in professionally-appropriate classes. 

 

CLASSES FOR PROFESSIONALS

Classes and industry panel sessions introduce hot topics such as 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: Participants can elect to add the micro-credential program, CENTRAL FLORIDA PROVEN NATIVES 2024, and earn a state-of-the-art digital badge promoting their demonstrated ability to successfully select and use in landscaping, twenty of the best trees, shrubs, groundcovers and wildflowers for sustainable Central Florida landscapes. 

Native Plant Show

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.  

Exhibits at the Native Plant Show

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 November 5
8:30-11:30 – Sponsors set up
8:30-11:30 – Outdoor Activities
Noon – Lunch
1-5:30pm – Classes
3-3:30 – Break
5:30- 6:30 – Social
7:00- Dinner out
Thursday, November 6
8:30-11:30 – Outdoor Activities
9:00-4:30 – Classes
Noon – Lunch
3:30-5:30 – Sponsors break down


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

Stetson University, 421 N Woodland Blvd, DeLand, FL 32723

KEY DATES

  • September – registration opens
  • OCT 17 – Earlybird Registration Deadline
  • OCT 30 – Online registration ends,
  • No refunds after Oct 30
  • NOV 5 – Seminar opening day
  • NOV 6 – Seminar final day

COMMITTEE

  • Ebonie Gorniak, EarthBalance
  • Janine Griffiths, Green Thumb
  • Katelyn Hixon, Green Isle Gardens
  • Leslie Landert, Landert Landscape Design
  • Jenni Pell, Lindley’s Garden Center
  • Troy Springer, Springer Environmental
  • Michelle Stafford, Juniper Landscaping
  • Call FANN 321-271-4885

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The Central Florida Native Plant Seminar

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