Plan It Native 2025 is bigger and better than ever! We are offering two full days to learn about native plants, designing and managing native plant gardens, and the flora/fauna connections we all appreciate.
The conference opens on Tuesday, February 11 with keynote speaker Nancy Lawson, author of The Humane Gardener. On Wednesday afternoon, we feature Doug Ladd as our second keynote speaker.
In between, Plan It Native 2025 is offering more concurrent sessions, 21 in fact! Session topics include:
• Planting and maintaining green infrastructure projects,
• What wild plant populations can tell us about planted plants,
• Woody plants and pollinators,
• Shrubs and Small Trees in Landscape Design and Ecosystem Function
• Native Plant Solutions: Perennials for Shade,
• Working with “Neatniks” to Create Sustainable Native Landscapes
• And much, much more! Check back for a full list of presentations and overviews. Coming Soon!
Attendees will have plenty of time to socialize in our exhibit hall, lunch breaks, and the Tuesday evening social hour.
Can’t wait for February! Register now and add a Halfway To Plan It Native Field Trip ticket!
FEATURED SPEAKERS
NANCY LAWSON
Nancy Lawson is the author of The Humane Gardener and Wildscape: Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and other Sensory Wonders of Nature. Nancy co-chairs Howard County Bee City in Maryland and helped launch Monarch Rx, based on scientific discoveries made in her own garden. Her books, garden, advocacy, and scientific endeavors have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Oprah Magazine, Entomology Today, and more.
DOUG LADD
Doug Ladd is the author of Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Common Wildflowers and Plants of the Prairie Midwest. He worked for the Nature Conservancy for 33 years and is currently a research associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and a senior lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches courses in conservation, botany, and ecology.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND PLAN IT NATIVE? YOU!
All are welcome. Whatever your experience with native plants, you will find resources to grow your knowledge. CEUs will be available as well.
Previous attendees include:
municipalities
parks departments
landscape architects
students and educators
conservation agencies
nonprofit organizations
landscapers
nurseries
naturalists
home gardeners
The goal of Plan It Native is to increase the appreciation, conservation, and use of native plants in the heartland.
Together with our multi-sector Partners, we work to increase native plant landscapes through educating, collaborating, and facilitating the planting of regenerative native landscapes that are essential for a healthy planet. Learn more at deeprootskc.org.
2025 Sponsors
Bur Oak Sponsors
Black Cherry Sponsor
Prairie Willow Sponsors
