Landscapers and Plant Lovers - Are You Ready to Up Your Game?

Rutgers University Office of Continuing Professional Education is pleased to present Landscape Plants: Identification, Selection and Application, scheduled for 11 consecutive Friday mornings, January 8 - March 18, 2016, in New Brunswick, NJ.

Over the course of 11 weeks, you’ll be submerged in the world of plants. Through hands-on plant identification walks, comprehensive classroom lectures, and online instructional tools, lead instructor Steve Kristoph will teach you two vital skills that all plant lovers and managers should master:

• The ability to identify landscape plants on the properties you manage
• Expanding your palette of plants to select the right plant for the right site and the right purpose

This course will cover a variety of different kinds of landscape plants, including shade trees, ornamental small trees, conifers, needle evergreens, broadleaf evergreens, rhododendrons and their kin, flowering shrubs, groundcover options, and rariflora.

In small groups led by our instructors, you’ll visit Rutgers Gardens where you’ll get up-close and personal with plants. You’ll see them in their habitat, you’ll learn their Latin names, and you’ll increase your ability to talk knowledgeably with clients.

Whether you’re a landscaping professional or just a person who loves plants, this class is for you. Sign up today!

For more information and to register, visit

http://www.cpe.rutgers.edu/courses/current/al0201ca.html. Questions? Contact Program Coordinator Joe Canzano at 848-932-7317 or canzano@njaes.rutgers.edu.