Georgia Native Plant Society Annual Symposium

Each year, the Georgia Native Plant Society holds a symposium to provide members and non-members with up-to-date information on native plants, their habitat and their conservation. Normally a one-day meeting, the symposium brings together a group of native plant experts who give individual presentations. Vendors sell native plants, books and other items, as well. In 2021, due to pandemic conditions, a two-day virtual format was adopted, and this will be continued in 2022.

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The first symposium was held on April 10, 1995. Sally and Andy Wasowski, authors of Gardening with Native Plants of the South, waived their normal speaker’s fee, as did Kathy Henderson and George Sanko, in order to promote the first symposium at DeKalb College. More recently, the symposia have been held at Middle Georgia State University.

Previous symposia

2021: Georgia’s Wildlife from the Ground Up — Why Native Plants and Places are Essential

2020: Creating and Connecting Native Habitats — How to Sustain Nature in our Yards and Communities

2019: Caring for Our Living Landscapes — How and Why

2018: Rooted in Trees — Landscaping in Harmony with our Native Environment

2017: Working with Nature — Rather than Against

2016

2015

(The first symposium was held in 1995.)

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