Introduction to Plant Identification

Date

November 6 - 7, 2008
9:00AM - 3:30PM

Description

Do you cringe when a customer asks you to identify a tree? Do you look around your property or work site and wonder, “What the heck are all these plants?” You are not alone! Many landscape professionals and gardening enthusiasts don’t have formal training in plant biology or botany and realize that they can’t properly manage the plants and trees in their care without knowing how to identify them. End the confusion and uncertainty now. Whether you are just in it for personal enrichment or to provide better service to your customers, our two-day Intro to Plant ID course will give you the skills and tools to confidently identify the plants and trees in your surroundings. Please note: This class is recommended for anyone planning to attend Basics of Plant Material for Landscape Use

This is a core class in the Landscape Management Certificate program. Click to see a list of all the courses in the certificate program

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Fees

Early Registration Fee	$395.00	7/25/2008 - 10/24/2008
Registration Fee	$445.00	10/25/2008 - 11/6/2008

Location

New Brunswick, NJ.

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NOTE: If paying with a PURCHASE ORDER, online registration is NOT available. Please use our Registration by Mail or Fax option below

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Full Description

This two-day course will teach you the basics of plant classification and biology, and help you better understand how plants are grouped and identified. This course is taught by Certified Tree Expert Ted Szczawinski, a professor of plant science and biology in the Bergen County Technical School. He will give you plenty of examples and demonstrations so that you will have confidence in identifying, keying out, and talking intelligently about landscape plants.

Should You Take this Course?

Whether plants are your passion or your profession, this course will help you. These are just some of the professions identified by past participants in this course:

Arborist
Farm Owner
Foreman
Gardener
Horticulturalist
Landscape Contractor
Landscape Designer
Librarian
Master Gardener
Nursery Staff / Owner
Property Manager
Residential Inspector
Tree climber
Superintendent
Tree and Shrub Supervisor
Turf Manager

Approved Credits

CPWM: 6 Technical (this was approved last year, this years coming soon)

Agenda

Coming soon!

The Instructor

Ted Szczawinski
Certified Tree Expert and professor of plant science and biology, Ted is one of our most passionate and popular instructors. His dynamic teaching style and encyclopedic knowledge of plants will give a solid foundation in plant identification in a manner that’s fun, interactive, and easy-to-understand!

Course Evaluations

Here’s How Your Colleagues Rated This Program:
(2005 - 2007)
This is the tally of the responses we received:

	Excellent	Good	Fair	Unsatisfactory
Please Rate the Overall Content Of the Program	50	9	1	0
How Would You Rate The Usefulness of the Information You Received In Today’s Class?	56	4	1	0

Here’s How Your Colleagues Rated the Instructors of this Course
(2005 - 2007)

Here’s How Your Colleagues Rated the Instructors of this Course
(2005 - 2006)

	Excellent	Good	Fair	Unsatisfactory
Ted Szczawinski	57	1	0	0

We asked: “Would you recommend this program to an associate?”
This is the tally of responses we received:

Yes	60
No	0

Here's What Your Colleagues have Said About the Course

“Wish we could have stayed longer.”

“I have found my calling.”

“Very intense.”

“The outdoor hands-on walks were so useful!”

“Excellent Information.”

“Program was great and Ted was the best.”

“Very simple and easy to understand.”

“I look forward to using the information.”

Here’s What Your Colleagues Said About the Instructor

“Ted is a great teacher. He keeps the class interesting. He has inspired me to follow through on becoming a landscape designer.”

“Ted was excellent and very enthusiastic about the subject. This made us even more focused.”

“An excellent job, good pace, great information and continued to keep me interested.”

“Ted tackles tough topics easily and leaves his audience wanting more knowledge than can be covered in an eight hour class.”

“He was so much fun that the class went fast. He was very knformative.”

“Good job catering to different levels of knowledge between classmates.”

“Very knowledgeable and entertaining. I learned a lot and had fun.”

“Wonderful teacher – he was very informative and made the topic fun.”

Recommended Classes

Hazardous Tree ID
Taught by Ted Szczawinski, this one-day course will walk you through the steps of identifying, treating, and documenting tree hazards.

Basics of Plant Material for Landscape Use
This 11-day course is intended as a follow-up to Introduction to Plant Identification and will focus enhance your knowledge of plant material and the selection process for the landscape.

Soil and Plant Relationships
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Water Management and Drainage
This class is designed to be taken with Soil and Plant Relationships and will teach you to evaluate site conditions to make better plant selections, maintenance decisions, use of water with proper grading techniques, and much, much more.