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South Georgia Native Plant and Wildflower Symposium 2025

Sustainable Landscaping Practices: Create a Beautiful Landscape while Conserving Natural Resources – Mark Tancig, Commercial & Residential Horticulture Extension Agent, UF/IFAS Extension Leon County

Naturally Native – Heather Brasell, Gaskins Forest and Education Center, Alapaha, GA.

Conservation of Native Plants in the Coastal Plain – Jennifer Ceska, Conservation Coordinator, State Botanical Garden of Georgia, University of Georgia

Feathers & Flora – Sarah Manning, Coastal Conservation Coordinator, Birds Georgia

South Georgia Native Plants and Wildflower Symposium 2024

Enhancing Your Plant Palette with the Best Native Flowers: Lessons from the Field. Bodie Pennisi (University of Georgia – Griffin)

Capturing the Heart of a Place: Designing with Native Plants and Materials in Mind. Suzanne Finger (Raymond C. Finger Architects, Thomasville)

Balanced Garden: Understanding maintenance to support a healthy and diverse native landscape. Keren Giovengo (University of Georgia – Brunswick)

Healthy Gardens: Insects – Jason Schmidt (University of Georgia – Tifton)

Annual Fall Meeting, November 4, 2023

Monarch Butterflies: Science and Conservation – Dr. Jaap de Roode

Altamaha River Conservation Corridor Habitat Restoration Project – Eamonn Leonard

Chapter Projects “Snapshots”

Top 12 Native Plants for Gardening – Heather Brasell (YouTube video)

South Georgia Native Plants and Wildflower Symposium 2023

Design with Nature: Ecological Landscaping – Jody Walthall

Plant This, Not That—Native Substitutes for Exotic Plants Typically Found in South Georgia Garden Centers – Marilynne Marshall

Reflections from a Bird Bath: What Game Cameras Can Teach Us about Fruit-eating Birds – James Ferrari

South Georgia Native Plants and Wildflower Symposium 2022

Know It and Grow It, Native Plants in the Landscape – Amy Carter

Native Plant Hosts: Attracting beneficial insects to your garden for a healthy ecosystem – Allie Snyder and Lisa Giencke

Annual Fall Meeting, November 6, 2021

Invasive Plants in the Urban Landscape and How to Treat Them (PDF)

Invasive Plants in the Urban Landscape and How to Treat Them (Youtube Video)

Eamonn Leonard is a Natural Resources Biologist in the Nongame Conservation Section of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. He is on the CPC GNPS Board and on the GNPS Conservation Committee.

Wildlife Habitat Garden Ponds (PDF)

Wildlife Habitat Garden Ponds (YouTube Video)

Erin Cork is a Wildlife Biologist with the Private Lands Program of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Erin in on the CPC GNPS Board and serves as Conservation Director of the chapter.

Wetland Restoration (PDF)

Wetland Restoration (YouTube Video)

Heather Brasell is practicing forest stewardship on family property, part of which includes managing the Gaskins Forest Education Center. Heather is the CPC GNPS President and also serves on the GNPS Habitat Certification Committee.

Virtual Nature Walk Through the Okefenokee Swamp Park (PDF)

Virtual Nature Walk Through the Okefenokee Swamp Park

Katie Antczak is the Environmental Science Education Coordinator at the Okefenokee Swamp Park and the Science Specialist at the Okefenokee Regional Education Service Agency. Katie will begin serving as CPC GNPS Secretary in 2022.

CPC Spring Meeting / Miniconference
Tuesday March 16, 2021, 10 a.m. to noon.