Landscape Design TEST MOCH Dec. 2011

The Landscape Design Sector Group launches our second newsletter.
This edition focuses on all the great items avaiable to us at this year’s landscape designer conference.
Join us and participate as we foster and build a community among designers and our peers, where we can share our achievements, ideas, resources and projects.

Your ongoing feedback and story contributions are welcome! Please contact us today at gardens@jenniferhaymandesign.ca.

Best wishes for a happy and prosperous holiday season.
Jennifer

Landscape Designer Conference — Jan. 9
Doubletree by Hilton Toronto Airport, in the International Ballroom
An initiative of the Landscape Ontario Designer Sector Group
A full-day event with lunch and reception included with registration.

Don’t miss the early booking deadline special of Dec. 16. Register now!

8:00 a.m. Registration, International Ballroom foyer
8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks, Tony Lombardi BA, CLD,CLP
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Evolve or Die – The Future of Online Communications
Presented by Kyle Lacy, Mindframe, Indianapolis, Indiana

Kyle will discuss the changing world of communication and customer
interaction because of Facebook and technology like Mobile. You will
walk out of the room ready to implement strategies and more effectively
reach customers using online marketing and content.
10:30 a.m. – 12-noon Strategies That Win Clients and Increase Profits

Ron Koudys, BLA, MEd, OALA , CSLA, ASLA, RLI (MI), CLD
With 30 years of experience, Ron Koudys will share some insights for
building a successful design firm, and how to attract high quality
clients with high profit potential. You will learn that not every client
is the one that you want, how to establish the potential for profit and
how to shape your firm to suit your personality.
12-noon – 1:00 p.m. Lunch (included with registration)
1:00– 2:30 p.m. ‘Details, Details, DETAILS!’

Moderated by Haig Seferian, OALA, CSLA, FASLA, CLD, HHHBA Seferian
Design Group, Burlington.
Panellists: Ron Koudys, Landscape Architects, London, Tony Lombardi,
BA, CLD, CLP, Dr. Landscape INC., Toronto, Christine Gracey, OALA, CSLA, DA
Gracey and Associates, Vaughan.

This panel will cover details and take questions — construction details,
permits and regulations, red tape, seasonality, client quirks —
highlighting the different approaches. Our panelists represent diverse
geographical areas, and design both small and large commercial
and residential jobs. Their insight and experience could prove valuable
to your operations. Discover what these seasoned industry leaders have
learned and gain a better understanding of navigating through business
as a landscape designer.

2:30– 2:45 p.m. BREAK
2:45– 3:30 p.m. Designing with Trees in Mind

Presented by Phillip Van Wassenaer, Urban Forest Innovations,
Mississauga

With space at a premium in urban areas, trees are still all-too-often an
afterthought in the landscape design process, whether in new builds or
site redevelopment. Detail cross-sections and landscape renderings are
full of large-canopied shade trees, but rare is the design that shows
adequate room for root development or specifies a high-quality, suitable
growing environment for trees. With an ever-growing volume of research
about the requirements of trees in urban spaces, designs which do not
account for future tree growth and for existing trees on sites that are
no longer good enough. Phillip will outline strategies for keeping
mature trees on-site and for integrating good growing sites and
successful, long-lived plantings into landscape designs.
3:45– 4:45 p.m. Seductive Tropical and Winter-hardy Succulents for
Garden and Containers
Presented by Paul Zammit, Toronto Botanical Garden
The presentation will explore the expanding world of both tender and
winter-hardy succulents. Choice selections in each group will be
described in detail, with examples of how to best grow and utilize them
in the landscape. Expand your knowledge base of this vast group of
plants and stimulate your desire to design with them.

4:45 p.m. Closing Remarks and Conference Reception

Thank you to our sponsors!

PLATINUM SPONSOR: Blue Sky Nursery Ltd.

GOLD SPONSOR: Unilock

SILVER SPONSORS: Dynascape, Moonstruck

BRONZE SPONSOR: CNLA, Central Tree Care

Ticket prices up to December 16 are $135 for members and $185 for
non-members. After December 16, prices are $185 and $265 respectively.

Register now!.

More information is available at www.locongress.com. Individually priced. See registration form for fees.
As an added bonus, all registrants for this program are automatically registered for the Congress trade show.
The Congress Conference is a separate fee.