Dans le Jardin
A Symposium on the Challenges in Gardening
Friday, March 22nd
8am - 3pm Lite Center 537 Cajundome Blvd Lafayette, LA Admission - $50 per person Deadline to register - March 15th |
In addition to the four one-hour main presentations, tabletop exhibits will be displayed on additional topics, such as Setting up a Home Irrigation System, Plant Propagation and Cottage Gardens.
Door prizes will be given out throughout the event and a silent auction will be held. Attendees will each receive a plant as a thank you for attending this symposium. Click HERE to register on line with a credit card. Tickets will not be sent to attendees.
Registration will be confirmed via email and admission will be from a master list at the event check-in table. For persons wishing to do so, a hard copy of the registration may be accessed by clicking HERE. Checks can then be made out to LPMGA and mailed to 110 Wicklowe Road, Lafayette, LA 70503. Checks must be received on or before March 15. Registration will be confirmed via email and admission will be from a master list at the event check-in table. NO REFUNDS AFTER MARCH 15. Seating is limited and walk-ins cannot be accommodated. For additional information, please email [email protected]. See photos from Dans le Jardin 2023 HERE
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The event’s schedule is as follows:
8:00 – 8:30 Check in
8:30 – 9:00 Announcements
9:00 – 10:00 Dr. Heather Kirk-Ballard -
Climate Stress in the Landscape: Freezes, Droughts, Excessive Heat and Salt Wedge
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:15 Dr. Jared Barnes -
Flora with a Southern Flair: Great Plants for the Deep South
11:15 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 1:30 Garrie Landry -
Exploring Jungle Gardens at Avery Island
1:30 – 1:45 Break
1:45 – 2:45 Dr. Phyllis Griffard -
How Native Plants Might Work in a Traditional Landscape
2:45 - 3:00 Wrap-up and silent auction results
8:00 – 8:30 Check in
8:30 – 9:00 Announcements
9:00 – 10:00 Dr. Heather Kirk-Ballard -
Climate Stress in the Landscape: Freezes, Droughts, Excessive Heat and Salt Wedge
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:15 Dr. Jared Barnes -
Flora with a Southern Flair: Great Plants for the Deep South
11:15 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 1:30 Garrie Landry -
Exploring Jungle Gardens at Avery Island
1:30 – 1:45 Break
1:45 – 2:45 Dr. Phyllis Griffard -
How Native Plants Might Work in a Traditional Landscape
2:45 - 3:00 Wrap-up and silent auction results
Meet Our Speakers
Jared Barnes, Ph. D.
Flora with a Southern Flair:
Great Plants for the Deep South Jared Barnes, Ph. D. started gardening when he was five years old, and since then he has enthusiastically pursued how to best cultivate plants and cultivate minds. He currently fulfills those passions as an award-winning associate professor of horticulture at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX. He is also the host of The Plantastic Podcast, and writes a weekly newsletter titled plant•ed. He obtained his PhD in horticultural science from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. He has traveled around the US and eleven countries to gain a national and global perspective of horticulture. His passion has been recognized by peers in interviews in People, Organic Gardening, Greenhouse Grower, AmericanHort Connect, Ken Druse’s Real Dirt, and Nursery Management, and his articles have appeared in The American Gardener, Fine Gardening and Carolina Gardener.
Phyllis Baudoin Griffard, PhD.
How Native Plants Might Work in a Traditional Landscape
Phyllis Baudoin Griffard, PhD. was born and raised in Louisiana, earning a PhD. in Science Education from LSU in 1999 and an MS in Medicinal Chemistry from Purdue 1987. She traveled the world, teaching biology, and returned to Acadiana in 2015. She retired from the ULL Biology faculty in 2020. As an educator, she devised creative ways to get students involved in activities like installing a monarch butterfly waystation and tagging monarchs and maintaining the native plantings on campus. Phyllis got involved with the Acadiana Native Plant Project in its infancy. She was named Visionary Educator of the Year at the Bayou Vermilion Preservation Association's Symposium in April 2023.
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Heather Kirk-Ballard, PhD.
Climate Stress in the Landscape:
Freezes, Droughts, Excessive Heat and Salt Wedge Heather Kirk-Ballard, PhD. is an Assistant Professor and state extension specialist of Consumer Horticulture for the LSU AgCenter. She is the host of the Get It Growing ™ extension program focusing on home gardening that is disseminated weekly through video to news stations and in print to newspapers across the state. She has a teaching appointment at LSU and her research interests include sustainable landscaping, home gardening and medicinal plants. She holds a PhD in Renewable Natural Resources, an M.S. and a B.S. in Plant and Soil Systems, all through the School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University.
Garrie P. Landry
Exploring Jungle Gardens
at Avery Island Garrie P. Landry is retired from the Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette as of 2016. During his time at ULL he taught plant taxonomy classes for 38 years. After retiring he has been employed by the McIlhenny Company, Avery Island, LA as their first botanist. Since then, Garrie has established an herbarium documenting the plants of Jungle Gardens as well as all of Avery Island. His exploration of the island has led to the discovery of several new state records and identifying many exotic plants that have been growing in Jungle Gardens for over 100 years. Garrie resides in his hometown of Franklin, LA.
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Dans Le Jardin
A Symposium on the Challenges in Gardening
Friday, March 22nd 8am - 3pm
Lite Center 537 Cajundome Blvd Lafayette, LA 70506
A Symposium on the Challenges in Gardening
Friday, March 22nd 8am - 3pm
Lite Center 537 Cajundome Blvd Lafayette, LA 70506