Special Events

2008 SPRING SYMPOSIUM Saturday, February 9, 2008 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Greening of the Garden: Create a Beautiful Earth Wise Paradise A Perennial Plant Symposium and Silent Auction Presented by The Atlanta Botanical Garden and The Georgia Perennial Plant Association Held in Day Hall of the Atlanta Botanical Garden Registration fee $67(ABG/GPPA members $57) - Boxed lunch $10 To register by voice mail: (404) 876-5859 ext. 2558 Click here to see a slideshow of candid photos from this successful GPPA event! Featured Speakers Earth Friendly Gardening Katy Moss Warner is an award winning garden designer, author and lecturer. She is currently the President Emeritus of the American Horticultural Society. Thoughtful Water Use: Create a Beautiful, Healthy Garden Mark Fockele is the president of The Fockele Garden Company, a landscape design and management company. Mark has designed and installed fine gardens in Atlanta, North Carolina and North Georgia. Perennials: Tried, True and New for the Southeast Jamie Blackburn is Curator of Woodland Gardens at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Previously Jamie was the Rainforest Manager at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Florida. Natives for Natural Gardens Carole Ottesen is an award winning garden writer, photographer and designer. She is a contributing writer to the American Gardener magazine published by the American Horticultural Society. Teaming With Microbes: The Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web Jeff Lowenfels is a popular radio and television host and garden writer. He is a former president of the Garden Writers of America and is the founder of “Plant a Row for The Hungry’. To register by voice mail: (404) 876-5859 ext. 2558 Registration is Open for the Symposium