Georgia Native Plant Society Annual Symposium
Join us on February 24 and 25 for the 2024 Annual Symposium:
DIY Native Habitats – Building Your Stewardship Toolkit
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 habitats and their conservation. Themes change annually, offering a variety of speakers from all aspects of the native plant world. In 2021, due to pandemic conditions, a two-day virtual format was adopted, and this has continued as it allows us to reach more people state-wide.
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. In the years up to the pandemic, the symposia have been held at Middle Georgia State University.
Previous symposia
2023: Planting with Purpose
2022: Healing Our Habitats — At Home and In the Wild
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
(The first symposium was held in 1995.)
Symposium News
Georgia Native Plant Society Annual Symposium 2018 | Save the date
The 2018 Native Plant Symposium, providing a full day of learning, will be held on Saturday February 10, 2018 in the Conference Center of the West Campus of the Middle Georgia State University in Macon. Much more information on the topics and speakers to follow – for...
Working With Nature GNPS Symposium 2017 | by all accounts well done!
More than 220 attendees came to the 2017 GNPS Symposium held in Macon, Georgia to spend a day with like-minded people and learn more on the subject of native plants. Our guest speakers, the participants and the vendors experienced a well organized and coordinated...