Native by Design: Gardening for a Sustainable Future
Arboretum Native Gardening Conference
Event Details
Date
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Time
8:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Location
Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum
Description
The annual native gardening conference promotes the use of native plants in home landscapes for biodiversity, habitat, beauty, and sustainability. Expert-led workshops inspire and inform gardeners and landowners to create and maintain native gardens or small-scale restorations. Keynote: “Habitat as Home: Native Plant Gardens and Insect Life,” Micah Kloppenburg, restoration outreach coordinator, UW Arboretum. Fee: $65 through July 21; $70 after. Students: $35 with ID. Register by September 4.
Cost
$70
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email susan.carpenter@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Sunday, August 31, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.