Overview (All sessions)

One of the most popular trends in gardening is using plants with colorful foliage to accent and highlight the landscape. Whether they are woody, herbaceous perennial, or annual there are some fantastic plants whose leaves add color, texture, and boldness to the landscape. This talk focuses on specific foliage plants that one might consider adding to the landscape, and combinations of plants that will knock any garden lover’s Crocs off! 

Join Mardi for inspiration and tips on how to create a layered garden with beautiful time-tested plant combinations. You will also come away with creative ideas for using hardscape elements, art and ornament, and enclosed spaces to tie the garden together!

Join us for an insightful session tailored for leaders and HR professionals in the Green Industry who are committed to shaping the future of their organizations. Explore innovative strategies to attract, hire and nurture top talent, ensuring a sustainable pipeline of leaders for generations to come. In today's competitive landscape, hiring and retaining skilled professionals is crucial for organizational success.

We all live in a world with many challenges, both personal and professional. But who has your back through all of this? When you are working and living your best life, you have someone to bounce off ideas and help make your business dreams come true. Having the right “Number 2” person (also called a "second-in-command") at your side will help expand your thinking, improve implementation, and raise morale. You need a second-in-command to help carry the weight and get more done at work.

In this session, participants will learn how Open Book Management and Business Transparency can be a “Game Changer” in the horticulture industry. Even among seasonal employees and employees who speak other languages, Engagement, Education, Communication, and Winning can be used as common themes to rally everyone around the same goal. If you are looking for a creative way to improve the culture and profitability of your Green Industry business, attend this session to learn practical techniques that you can implement immediately.

The current market demand for irrigation controllers that can be accessed remotely is growing fast and the Wi-Fi technology is growing even faster. Even if you took a Wi-Fi course in 2021, you are probably missing essential information to be successful today.

From getting an irrigation controller connected and diagnosed to managing your irrigation company as a professional Wi-Fi provider, this course has the latest technological updates.

Finding the right employees is one of the most difficult challenges that companies are faced with today. You must be hyper-focused on your onboarding processes and company culture during hiring or all of the time you’ve spent finding those new team members will be wasted.

In this program, the audience will gain an understanding of how common insecticides work against pests that we encounter each season and the history of their development. We will revisit concepts such as IPM, resistance, Mode of Action, LD50, and pest resurgence. The talk will provide a foundation to aid in product selection, stewardship, and management decisions.

Mosquito development, species of mosquitoes, diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, mosquito distribution and monitoring tactics, public health stats on importance of mosquito control, control aspects (actives, equipment, calibration, PPE).