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SPEAKERS

*NEW SPEAKERS ADDED! SEE LIST BELOW

Monday, Jan. 30          8:15 - 9:15 am

K1 KEYNOTE: John Bartram: The King's Gardener
Kirk R. Brown, Author, Lecturer and Garden Coach

Kirk R. Brown delivers a first-person, biographical and historical presentation on the life of America’s first Botanist and Horticulturist:  John Bartram.

John Bartram welcomes you with the horticultural history of America as he began it in Philadelphia and Penn’s Woods.  His story starts in 1699 and moves up to the American Revolutionary War and 1776.  He stands at the very beginning of the international world of plant discovery and identification.  He introduced more than 200 species and 100 trees to the trade. 

Close friends with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington as well as many of the other founding fathers, Bartram is credited with starting the first public garden in America. His humor, his passion and his achievements will entertain, inspire and awe as he shares his hope for the future of the earth and the men who inhabit it.

Kirk's personification of John Bartram is electrifying. What Hal Holbrook is to Mark Twain, Kirk Brown is to John Bartram!

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012         2:15 - 3:15 pm

K2 CAPSTONE: Watch Out! Wicked Bugs in Horticulture's History
Amy Stewart, Author, Wicked Bugs, Wicked Plants and Flower Confidential

Amy photo Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of five books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world, including three New York Times bestsellers, Wicked Bugs, Wicked Plants and Flower Confidential.

Amy is a highly sought-after public speaker whose spirited lectures have inspired and entertained audiences at college campuses, conferences and garden shows, as well as botanical gardens, bookstores, and garden clubs nationwide.

She has appeared on hundreds of national and regional radio and television programs, including CBS Sunday Morning, NPR's Morning Edition, Fresh Air, and Good Morning America. She has written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and every national garden magazine, including Fine Gardening, where she is a contributing editor.

Amy is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the American Horticulture Society's Book Award, and a California Horticultural Society Writer's Award. She lives in Eureka, California, with her husband Scott Brown. They own an antiquarian bookstore called Eureka Books and tend a flock of unruly hens in their backyard.

Invited Speakers

DOUGLAS L. AIRHART
Professor of Horticulture
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN
TLCFORTREES.INFO

MIKE ANDRUCZYK
Extension Agent
Virginia Cooperative Extension
Chesapeake, VA
CMGV.ORG

STEVE BLACKSHIRE
Southeast Region Manager
Otterbine Barebo, Inc.
Lawrenceville, GA
OTTERBINE.COM

CHARLES BLAND
Propagation / Nursery Assistant
Norfolk Botanical Garden
Norfolk, VA
NORFOLKBOTANICALGARDEN.ORG

ADRIA BORDAS
Extension Agent
Virginia Cooperative Extension
Fairfax, VA

KIRK BROWN
Lecturer, Horticulturist, Dramatist
Joanne Kostecky Garden Design Garden Writers Association
Orefield, PA
JOHNBARTRAMLIVES.COM

RUTH BURCH
The Butterfly Lady Butterfly Society of Virginia
Virginia Beach, VA
BUTTERFLYSOCIETYOFVA.ORG

MELISSA BUTLER
Curator of Herbaceous Plants
Norfolk Botanical Garden
Norfolk, VA
NORFOLKBOTANICALGARDEN.ORG

YOLIMA CARR
Curator of Gardens and Grounds
The Hermitage Foundation Museum
Norfolk, VA
THFM.ORG

KAREN CARTER
Extension Agent
Virginia Cooperative Extension Henrico County,
Richmond, VA
EXT.VT.EDU

NAN CHASE
Author
Garden Writers Association
Asheville, NC
EATYOURYARDBOOK.COM

JUANG-HORNG ‘JC’ CHONG
Asst. Professor, Extension Specialist
Clemson University
Florence, SC

ROBERT CHRISTIAN
Pesticide Investigator
VDACS Office Pesticide Services
Richmond, VA
VDACS.VIRGINIA.GOV

NEIL CLARK
Extension Agent
Virginia Cooperative Extension
Courtland, VA

ERIC DAY
Manager, Insect ID Lab Entomology,
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
WWW.IDLAB.ENTO.VT.EDU

JEFF DERR, PHD
Professor, Extension Specialist
Virginia Tech / HRAREC
Virginia Beach, VA
AREC.VAES.VT.EDU/HAMPTON-ROADS

DEBBIE DILLION
Urban Horticulturist
Virginia Cooperative Extension
Loudoun County, VA
EXT.VT.EDU/LOUDOUN

TRACY DISABATO-AUST
Author
Sunbury, OH
TRACYLIVE.COM

ADAM DOWNING
Extension Agent, Forestry
Virginia Cooperative Extension
Madison, VA

DOUG EDWARDS
Supervisor, Enforcement & Field Operations
VDACS Office Pesticide Services
Richmond, VA
VDACS.VIRGINIA.GOV/PESTICIDES

SUE ERHARDT
Director of Education
Casey Trees
Washington, DC
CASEYTREES.ORG

BERNIE ERVEN
PHD Professor Emeritus
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

LAURIE FOX, PHD
Horticulture Associate
Virginia Tech University
Virginia Beach, VA
AREC.VAES.VT.EDU/HAMPTON-ROADS

SUSAN FRENCH
Municipal Arborist
City of Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach, VA
VBGOV.COM

RAY FUNKHOUSER
Technical Sales Representative
PBI Gordon Corporation
White Stone, VA
PBIGORDON.COM

KATHLEEN GAGAN
Lady Farmer
Peony’s Envy
Bernardsville, NJ
PEONYSENVY.COM

STANTON GILL, PHD
Extension Specialist, Professor
University of Maryland Montgomery College
Ellicott City, MD
IPMNET.UMD.EDU

MIKE GOATLEY, PHD
Professor, Extension Specialist
Virginia Tech University
Blacksburg, VA
ANR.EXT.VT.EDU/LAWNANDGARDEN

KIM GRAHAM
Community Relations Director
Virginia Conflict Resolution Center
Norfolk, VA
VACONFLICTRESOLUTION.ORG

JACK HIGGINS
Territory Manager
Earthworks & Soil First Consulting
Easton, PA
SOILFIRST.COM

STACEY HIRVELA
Marketing Specialist
Spring Meadow Nursery Proven Winners ColorChoice Shrubs
Grand Haven, MI
SPRINGMEADOWNURSERY.COM

GARY JOHNSON, PHD
Professor
University of Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN
TREES.UMN.EDU

LINDA MK JOHNSON, PHD
Assistant Professor Department of Biology
Chatham University
Pittsburgh, PA

BRIAN KNOX
President
Sustainable Resource Management, Inc.
Oxford, MD

GERRY CENCI KRALL
Vice President
Virginia Bonsai Society
Virginia Beach, VA
VIRGINIABONSAI.ORG

STEVE KRALL
President
Virginia Bonsai Society
Virginia Beach, VA
VIRGINIABONSAI.ORG

ELIZABETH FAIN LABOMBARD
Associate
James Corner Field Operations
New York, NY
FIELDOPERATIONS.NET

CHERYL LAJOIE
Water Garden Products Manager
Lancaster Farms
Suffolk, VA
LANCASTERFARMS.COM

MIKE LIKINS
County Agent
Chesterfield Extension
Chesterfield, Virginia

JOHNNY LINVILLE
Horticulture Foreman
Friends of the High Line
New York, NY
THEHIGHLINE.ORG

HERB MAHER
Safety Specialist, Occupational Safety
City of Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach, VA

SUSAN MARTIN
Director of Marketing Communications
Walters Gardens, Inc.
Zeeland, MI
WALTERSGARDENS.COM

BERT McCARTY, PHD
Professor, Extension Specialist
Clemson University
Florence, SC

BILL MCREYNOLDS
Director of Board
Virginia Bonsai Society
Virginia Beach, VA
VIRGINIABONSAI.ORG

KATY MCREYNOLDS
Director of Board
Virginia Bonsai Society
Virginia Beach, VA
VIRGINIABONSAI.ORG

CRAIG MORAN
Program Coordinator
The Virginia Zoological Park
Norfolk, VA
VIRGINIAZOO.ORG

JOSEPH MURRAY
Assistant Professor Biology
Blue Ridge Community College
Staunton, VA
TREEBIO.COM

DAN NORTMAN
Extension Agent
Virginia Cooperative Extension
Yorktown, VA

BRIAN O’NEIL
Director of Horticulture
Norfolk Botanical Garden
Norfolk, VA
NORFOLKBOTANICALGARDEN.ORG

JIM ORBAND
Senior Extension Agent, Emeritus
Yorktown, VA

LES PARKS
General Manager
Smithfield Gardens, Inc.
Suffolk, VA
SMITHFIELDGARDENS.COM

CHAD PEEVY
Grounds Manager
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA

VICKIE PEPPER
Propagator
Norfolk Botanical Garden
Norfolk, VA
NORFOLKBOTANICALGARDEN.ORG

RICH POMERANTZ
Photographer Rich Pomerantz Photography
Washington Depot, CT
RICHPOMERANTZ.COM

CHRISTOPHER RANGER, PHD
Research Entomologist
USDA- Agricultural Research Service
Wooster, OH

LISA SANDERSON
Extension Agent
Virginia Cooperative Extension
Henrico, VA
OFFICES.EXT.VT.EDU/HENRICO

NICOLE SCHERMERHORN
Co-Owner,
A Thyme to Plant at Lavender Fields Herb Farm
Glen Allen, VA
LAVENDERFIELDSFARM.COM

PETE SCHULTZ, PHD
Entomologist & Director
Virginia Tech / HRAREC
Virginia Beach, VA

JEAN SCOTT
Territory Manager
Rainbow Treecare Scientific Advancements
Salisbury, MD
TREECARESCIENCE.COM

BILL SKERRETT
President
ICT Organics, LLC
Columbia, MD
ICTORGANICS.COM

THOMAS SNODDY
Forester
Virginia Department of Forestry
Spotsylvania, VA
DOF.VIRGINIA.GOV

MARCIA STEFANI
Senior Agricultural Research Specialist
Virginia Tech University / HRAREC
Virginia Beach, VA

AMY STEWART
Author
Garden Writers Association
Eureka, CA
AMYSTEWART.COM

ALEX SURCICA
Agricultural Engineer
Penn State Extension
Shippensburg, PA
FACEBOOK.COM/4WASPS

LYNNETTE SWANSON
Horticulturist Extension Agent, Retired
Newport News, VA

STEPHEN THOMAS
Damage Prevention Specialist
VA State Corporation Commission
Richmond, VA
SCC.VIRGINIA.GOV/URS

MEGAN TIERNEY
Extenion Agent
Virginia Cooperative Extension
Hampton, VA
FUTURE.EXT.VT.EDU

GARY UMPHLETT
Captain
Virginia Beach Fire Department
Virginia Beach, VA
VBGOB.COM

BRIAN UPCHURCH
Owner
Highland Creek Nursery
Fletcher, NC
HIGHLANDCREEKNURSERY.NET

LILIANA VANDAM
Instructor
Virginia Beach Public Schools
Virginia Beach, VA

JEAN ANN VANKREVELEN
President
White Willow Media
Portland, OR
WHITEWILLOWMEDIA.COM

SHIRLEY VAUGHN
Business Developer
The Davey Tree Expert Company
Kent, OH
DAVEY.COM

WAYNE VOLZ
President
Profits Unlimited
Louisville, KY
PROFITSAREUS.COM

SHAWN WALKER
Urban Forestry Instructor
Casey Trees
Washington, DC
CASEYTREES.ORG

ALEX WHITE
Instructor Agricultural Economics
Virginia Tech University
Blacksburg, VA

CYNDI WYSKIEWICZ
Extension Agent
Virginia Cooperative Extension
Portsmouth, VA
OFFICES.EXT.VT.EDU/PORTSMOUTH

 

 

 

 

 


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