Planting native species with their range of genetic diversity offers different benefits and drawbacks from plants propagated as named cultivars or clones with an identical genetic makeup.

Instructor will compare and contrast benefits and drawbacks, including considerations such as longer and more versatile blooming, adaptation to varying seeding conditions, attraction to pollinators, resilience to varying weather, disease, predation, and soil conditions, local sourcing, and preservation not only of the species, but the genetic variability within the species. Cultivars offer uniformity and reliability in production and performance, enhanced characteristics in size, shape, and color forms, suitability to container growth and appeal, and market draw as something special.

Instructor: Nancy Bissett

CEU INFO
Landscape Architects
Optional CE credits: 1 
Florida Board of Landscape Architecture Course # 0010184 
Licensed provider #0005309