News published: 6 January 2023

From history to culture to trends, the issues and ideas at the forefront of horticulture take center stage at Today’s Horticulture Symposium on Friday, February 3 from 8 am to 4:30 pm at Longwood Gardens.

Leaders in the fields of conservation, ornamental horticulture, and more guide attendees through the daylong conference hosted by the Professional Gardener Alumni Association (PGAA). Designed for horticulture professionals, landscape designers and architects, passionate gardeners, and horticulture students, registration for the symposium is now open.

Featured presenters include Chris Bolden-Newsome and Owen Taylor of Truelove Seeds on their work returning African diasporic seeds to people who have been systematically disconnected from their homelands and foodways.

The lecture series finishes with a talk by David Bengston, PhD, environmental futurist with the Strategic Foresight Group of the US Forest Service, on the rapid social, technological, environmental, economic, and political change as the broad context for horticulture in the 21st century.