Join Dr. Michael Dirr (and only 99 of your colleagues) for his 3rd biennial colloquium.
The Education of Gardeners: How to Promote, Market, Sell and Educate Customers about Plants, Design and Garden-making
(Sponsored by Bailey Nurseries)
Monday, January 10th; 1:00 P.M.
Cost: $90 (Member)
Limited to 100 participant
Requires additional registration.
Dr. Michael Dirr will join Ellen Barredo of Bowood Farms, June Hutson of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and Meg Bergen of Horstmann Brothers, LLC at the 2011 National Green Centre for his 3rd biennial colloquium. Mike will be leading a discussion on promoting new plants in an ultra-competitive market as well as marketing and selling new designs and installations. This informative and always entertaining colloquium will be limited to 100 participants and is a ticketed event..
Michael A. Dirr
is a legend in the horticultural world. His teaching, lectures, seminars, garden study tours, and plant introduction programs have contributed enormously to greater horticultural awareness. Today he travels widely to lecture, teach, and form new opinions of plants. In 2007 Michael Dirr together with Mark Griffith and Jeff Beasley established Plant Introductions, Inc (www.plantintroductions.com). They converted an abandoned hog farm into a facility to breed, select, evaluate, and develop new ornamental plants. They are currently breeding and evaluating thousands of seedings and selections in dozens of genera.
Ellen Barredo, Bowood Farms
Ellen is the horticulture manager with Bowood Farms, a garden center in the Central West End of St. Louis, MO. Originally a wholesale supplier of containerized plants, Bowood Farms rehabilitated the buildings now housing the garden center and Cafe Osage, located within the garden center, in 2005. The garden center also sells naturally raised Bowood Bison, raised on their farm in Pike County, MO. They are one of the few locally family owned garden centers located in the City of St. Louis. Bowood Farms was recently featured in Midwest Living.
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Ms. June Hutson, Missouri Botanical Garden
June Hutson with the Missouri botanical Garden is supervisor of the eight-acre Kemper Home Demonstration Garden complex featuring 23 different types of gardens scaled to a size that makes them practical for individual home owners. She was named the Aurelia Schlapp Curator of Perennials, the only horticulture curatorship awarded in the history of the Missouri Botanical Garden. She is the author of Annual Gardening for the American Garden Guide series and numerous articles in such magazines as Fine Gardening, Midwest Living and Better Homes and Gardens. In addition she is featured in a new book Container Gardening published by Fine Gardening magazine.
Margaret Bergen, Horstmann Brothers, LLC
Margaret Bergen, a landscape architect with Horstmann Brothers, LLC, offers fifteen years of experience in the landscape industry. Prior to joining Horstmann Brothers in May of 2009, she was a landscape architect with Moynihan and Associates in St. Louis, Missouri, a landscape designer for A. Waldbart and Son's Nursery in St. Louis Missouri, a landscape designer at Ritter's Home and Garden Showplace, in Burlington, Iowa, and the Soil Conservation Service in Council Bluffs, Iowa. In these positions and her own experience gardening, she has gained practical experience in residential and institutional landscape design and construction, horticulture, native plants, water gardens, designing outdoor classrooms, rain gardens, and computer simulations. She graduated from Iowa State University in 1994 with a bachelor of Landscape Architecture and a minor in environmental studies. Margaret is a registered landscape architect in the State of Missouri.
