March 2010 seems to be THE month for our continuing ed. Seems like every green industry organization is having a seminar or training session of some kind. It was hard to pick and choose, but here’s what we settled on:
Weathermatic Water Management Services seminar–Edward attended this valuable class, aimed at teaching contractors how to [...]
The end of the landscape season marks the beginning of continuing education season at Winona Nursery. In December, 4 of our employees (Dana Coulter, Ed Becker, Dan Filla, and Becky Benson) attended a 12-hour AutoCAD Civil training course through Minnesota State College–Southeast Tech in Winona. Brushing up on our design software capabilities makes us even [...]
Always looking to pick up a new idea or two, Bonnie again headed up to the Cities in July to scout out the MNLA Landscape Tour. Although not quite on par with last year’s, she still thought it was worthwhile. Some of her observations are as follows:
Native and oldie-but-goodie plants (read: dependable!) seem to keep [...]
Dana, Bonnie, and Becky attended a recent continuing education seminar entitled “Perennials for Local Landscapes.” Five speakers dished out the good, the bad, and the ugly regarding mostly new perennial varieties for our area.
Plants we will use more of: bush-form Clematis, Blue Heaven Little Bluestem, and the Twilight series Baptisias. Plants to abandon: sorry, but most of [...]
Who knew? Iowa has one of the best continuing education program around–Perennial Saturday–and it’s even open to the general public, not just the profession.
Dana, one of our designers, clears his calendar every year to attend this one-day intense workshop in early November–it’s that good. The program crams as much pertinent information in as possible with truly captivating speakers AND [...]
Bonnie went on the MNLA Landscape Tour in the Twin Cities on July 30, 2008. Pianist Lorie Line’s home was among the interesting landscapes she saw; she and her husband were most candid in talking with the designers about things they tried that have worked/ not worked, etc, and Bonnie got some great inspiration there and at the six other commercial [...]
On March 13, 2008, McLean, Jordan, and Becky attended Live Roof training and became certified in installation. Just what is LiveRoof, you ask? It is a modular system of plant trays used to create an instantly green rooftop. Picture a roof blanketed by low-maintenance plants, cutting down on air conditioning costs and absorbing rain water to lessen run-off. It’s [...]
March 19, 2008, Dana and Becky attended a Blue Thumb seminar in Roseville. The Blue Thumb program is something to get really excited about; the program promotes and educates people on the fine art of installing raingardens. Raingardens are one of the weapons in a growing arsenal to combat water run-off, thus lessening pollutants that [...]
