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Schedule

8 am to 9 am
Grab 'N Go Breakfast
8 am to 2 pm

Garden Experience

  • Stroll through our extensive perennial gardens.
  • See the cut flower bed and meet Cut Flower Specialist Dave Dowling.
  • Learn how to incorporate lavenders into every season at our NEW Lavender Lifestyle display.
  • Participate in the Perennial Passport raffle.

Suppliers and Industry Leaders

  • Meet with more than 25 suppliers.
  • Visit with our Darwin Perennials product experts.

Tours (30-45 minutes)

8:45am, 9:45am, 10:45am, 11:45am & 1:15pm
  • Darwin Colombia Vegetative Farm (Interactive video tours)
  • Robotic Seed Distribution Facility
All Day
  • Perennial Gardens
Educational Sessions
8:30 – 9:15am

Chicago Botanic Garden’s Top Performers Perennial Trials
Presented by Richard Hawke, Director of Ornamental Plant Research

9:30 – 10:15am

Cut Flowers with Dave
Presented by Dave Dowling, Cut Flower Specialist

10:30 – 11:15am

Echinacea Best Practices for Spring, Summer and Fall
A panel discussion with top industry experts

11:30 am to 1 pm
Lunch under the tent

Meet with these outstanding suppliers

Ball Seed Hardgoods
Creek Hill Nursery
Danziger
Darwin Colombia
De Vroomen Garden Products
DeGroot, Inc.
Donahue’s Greenhouses, Inc.
Dümmen Orange Perennials
Emerald Coast Growers
Garden Solutions
GET Group, Inc.
Gulley Greenhouse & Garden Center
Hidden Acres Nursery
High Volume Bareroot
James Greenhouses
Kébol Plants BV
North Creek Nurseries
Our American Roots
Pacific Plug & Liner
Pizzo Native Plant Nursery
Qualitree Propagators
Raker-Roberta's Young Plants
Swift Greenhouses
Syngenta Flowers
Walters Gardens