A Virtual Symposium & Trade Show for Horticulture Professionals
Metro Hort Group’s Plant-O-Rama goes VIRTUAL for its 25th anniversary. This acclaimed annual symposium and trade show brings together gardeners, designers, growers, arborists, and educators working in public parks, botanical gardens, and private landscapes in the tri-state region.
This year, we can’t meet in person at Brooklyn Botanic Garden due to the pandemic, but organizers have planned an inspiring interactive day of speakers and over 30 trade show exhibits. Purchase a $30 day pass and join in from the comfort of your office or home. Presentations will be recorded and available to ticketholders for two weeks after the event.
Symposium Keynote Speakers
Adrian Benepe
President & CEO, Brooklyn Botanic Garden; former commissioner of
NYC Parks & Recreation
Gardens and Parks in the Age of Climate Change and Pandemic:
Challenges, Refuges, and Natural Solutions
Signe Nielsen
Landscape architect and founding principal at Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, New York City
Little Island: A Refuge in the Storm
Jennifer Jewell
Creator, writer, and host of Cultivating Place and author of The Earth in
Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants
The Earth in Her Hands: Growing a More Resilient Future
Leah Penniman
Author, activist, farmer, and founder of Soul Fire Farm, Rensselaer
County, New York
Black Land Matters: Ending Racism and Injustice in our Food System & Gardens
Midori Shintani
Head gardener, Tokachi Millennium Forest, Hokkaido, Japan
Tokachi Millennium Forest: Gardening with Wild Nature
Margaret Roach
Creator of awaytogarden.com, former editor-in-chief of Martha
Stewart Living, and New York Times garden columnist
New Ways to Garden: Changing Practices for Professionals and Homeowners
See full speaker details and a list of exhibitors on the event’s registration page.