Overview (All sessions)

Landscape management extends far beyond routine lawn care. It encompasses detailed maintenance and management specifications that address every aspect of the outdoor environment, including:
•    Plant Care: Pruning, fertilization, and integrated pest management.
•    Irrigation: Optimizing water use efficiency.
•    Bed Maintenance: Mulching, waste handling, and composting.
•    Hardscape Management: Preserving and maintaining built landscape elements.

Great landscapes don’t begin with a shovel—they begin in the mind. In this dynamic 2-part session, award-winning designer Kevin O’Brien draws on 30 years of professional experience to reveal how bold creativity transforms constraints into signature opportunities that set you apart in a crowded marketplace. Through a curated slideshow of projects, Kevin guides you deep into real-world case studies where difficult environments became the catalyst for innovation:  

Join Dr. Nangle for a discussion of possible options for low input lawns, and recent research on topics that have made the popular news feed, such as No Mow May and lawncare inputs. 

New technologies, using massive datasets and machine-learning algorithms, are increasingly common in urban forestry. Yet, there remains some trepidation about artificial intelligence. This presentation explores applications of emerging tools (e.g. ChatGPT, object detection, sensors) and how these technologies may be used to improve urban tree monitoring and management.  

Before everyone yells that there’s no such thing as dirt, let’s take a closer look at urban and traditional soil profiles, then we can discuss how a tree reacts and responds to its environment. After we have a better understanding of why I chose the word dirt, is there something we can do about it? We will start with the history of soil care, then move on to what we are doing now, straight into the future.

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Healthy mature trees are vital to the ecosystem, improve the health and the residents’ quality of life. But healthy trees require healthy soils. Unfortunately, the building process and the usage of a site destroys the soil microbiome with compaction, pollution, pesticides, and depletion of organic matter. Soil

Hone your design skills and focus your energy on time management through a series of guided design scenarios with Matthew Ross from The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park. Balancing the client’s needs within the constraints of the existing site conditions is a time-consuming process.

Learn tricks and techniques in this interactive design charrette as we design collaboratively in small groups. In order to enhance the process and encourage networking, you’ll be encouraged to work with colleagues from other companies during the session.

Join Matthew Ross as he shares some of the top offerings from across the Trade Show Floor.  New Plants, New Products, and a wide array of favorites will be on display as we highlight the top offerings for 2026 together.

What constitutes a traditional Japanese Garden? Learn about the core principles and similarities between many of these gardens have created one of the most recognizable garden design styles in the globe.