Plants Seminars
LG056: Potted Exotics: What about Olives, Lemons, and Figs??
When your client says, “I’d like something different. Something unique,” or maybe you have a job that needs a special flourish. A Mediterranean touch.
What about adding potted olives, lemons, and figs as a premium choice you can help with.
Although none of these plants are fully hardy here in Ontario. They all do well in containers. And they can all take colder temperatures than many people realize. That means that you have overwintering options.
During this half day seminar participants will find out how to successfully grow maintain, prune and fertilize potted olive trees, potted lemon trees, and potted fig trees.
A seminar for those looking to hear a new potting idea for their next job or just for their own personal interest
Lunch not included
LO member price: $88.00
Non-member price: $154.00
Maximum participants: 15
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Steven Biggs, Food Garden Life Media
Date: Thursday January 28, 2027 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
When your client says, “I’d like something different. Something unique,” or maybe you have a job that needs a special flourish. A Mediterranean touch.
What about adding potted olives, lemons, and figs as a premium choice you can help with.
Although none of these plants are fully hardy here in Ontario. They all do well in containers. And they can all take colder temperatures than many people realize. That means that you have overwintering options.
During this half day seminar participants will find out how to successfully grow maintain, prune and fertilize potted olive trees, potted lemon trees, and potted fig trees.
A seminar for those looking to hear a new potting idea for their next job or just for their own personal interest
Lunch not included
LO member price: $88.00
Non-member price: $154.00
Maximum participants: 15
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Steven Biggs, Food Garden Life Media
Date: Thursday January 28, 2027 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
EN017: NEW - Building Biodiversity: Creating Space for Native Species in Every Landscape
No matter the style of garden, native plants can be incorporated to provide habitat for pollinators and manage stormwater infiltration on site.
The seminar will use both discussion and examples to show ways of using trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses and groundcover to accomplish these goals.
Lunch not included
LO member price: $88.00
Non-member price: $154.00
Maximum participants: 15
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Adele Pierre, Adele Pierre Landscape Architect
Date: Friday February 5, 2027 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
No matter the style of garden, native plants can be incorporated to provide habitat for pollinators and manage stormwater infiltration on site.
The seminar will use both discussion and examples to show ways of using trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses and groundcover to accomplish these goals.
Lunch not included
LO member price: $88.00
Non-member price: $154.00
Maximum participants: 15
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Adele Pierre, Adele Pierre Landscape Architect
Date: Friday February 5, 2027 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
EN018: NEW - Pocket Pollinator Patches
Creating connected patches to support pollinators is urgently needed—and easy to do! — on boulevards and other pocket places in our communities.
In this illustrated talk, Lorraine shares inspiring examples of pocket pollinator patches in various contexts, and outlines some of the special challenges and key benefits of these small-scale landscape projects.
Also included will be the step-by-step process Lorraine took, with volunteers, to create the Portland Place Pollinator Patch on an urban boulevard—from grant writing to design, soil preparation, planting and maintenance.
You will leave this talk inspired to action in community spaces.
LO member price: $190.00
Non-member price: $334.00
Maximum participants: 15
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Lorraine Johnson, Garden Author
Date: Tuesday February 9, 2027 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Creating connected patches to support pollinators is urgently needed—and easy to do! — on boulevards and other pocket places in our communities.
In this illustrated talk, Lorraine shares inspiring examples of pocket pollinator patches in various contexts, and outlines some of the special challenges and key benefits of these small-scale landscape projects.
Also included will be the step-by-step process Lorraine took, with volunteers, to create the Portland Place Pollinator Patch on an urban boulevard—from grant writing to design, soil preparation, planting and maintenance.
You will leave this talk inspired to action in community spaces.
LO member price: $190.00
Non-member price: $334.00
Maximum participants: 15
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Lorraine Johnson, Garden Author
Date: Tuesday February 9, 2027 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
LD055: NEW - A Deeper Dive on Rain Gardening
Urban development has resulted in large areas of impermeable surfaces.
During this seminar techniques will be discussed to aid in infiltrating rainwater into the soil while beautifying your landscapes and allowing a more unusual palette of plants to be used.
Rain gardens can be a beautiful addition to any yard and can allow the planting of some truly interesting plants.
Covering:
How to design and build a rain garden, including placement, construction, and plant choices.
Special situations, as well as some failure/solution stories.
Schematics, more on the ‘treatment train’, how to calculate the size the rain garden, soil and infiltration testing, as well as the specialized details on how to plant as well as a few plants that the presenter hasn’t covered before.
LO member price: $190.00
Non-member price: $334.00
Maximum participants: 15
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Sean James, Sean James Consulting
Date: Thursday February 11, 2027 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Seminars main menuUrban development has resulted in large areas of impermeable surfaces.
During this seminar techniques will be discussed to aid in infiltrating rainwater into the soil while beautifying your landscapes and allowing a more unusual palette of plants to be used.
Rain gardens can be a beautiful addition to any yard and can allow the planting of some truly interesting plants.
Covering:
How to design and build a rain garden, including placement, construction, and plant choices.
Special situations, as well as some failure/solution stories.
Schematics, more on the ‘treatment train’, how to calculate the size the rain garden, soil and infiltration testing, as well as the specialized details on how to plant as well as a few plants that the presenter hasn’t covered before.
LO member price: $190.00
Non-member price: $334.00
Maximum participants: 15
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Sean James, Sean James Consulting
Date: Thursday February 11, 2027 9:00 am - 3:30 pm