WSU Extension Master Gardener Advanced Education Conference
September 26-27, 2025
Virtual WSU Master Gardener Conference: Cultivating Resilience
Join us September 26-27, 2025, for the virtual WSU Extension Master Gardener Advanced Education Conference, Cultivating Resilience! Enjoy top-notch classes and instructors, and enhance your sustainable horticulture skills. The conference features live and recorded sessions on research-based gardening and environmental stewardship.
This exeptional learning opportunity is open to everyone!
Announcing Our Keynote Speaker
Larry Weaner, FAPLD is president and founder of Larry Weaner Landscape Associates and established its educational affiliate, New Directions in the American Landscape, in 1990. He is nationally recognized for combining expertise in horticulture, landscape design, and ecological restoration. His design and restoration work spans more than twenty U.S. states and the U.K., and has been profiled in national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Garden Design, American Gardener, Wildflower Magazine, and ASLA’s “The Dirt” blog. Larry has presented at American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) annual and state chapter meetings,
Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) events, and many others. His book, Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change (Timber Press 2016) received an American Horticultural Society Book Award in 2017. In 2021 he received the AHS Landscape Design Award and the APLD Award of Distinction.
Partnering to further the mission
To further the training of volunteers and keep them abreast of cutting-edge horticultural science, the Master Gardener Foundation of Washington State hosts an annual Advanced Education Conference in partnership with the WSU Extension Master Gardener Program and the dedication of WSU Extension Master Gardener volunteers. This educational event is just one way we strive to ensure that when you reach out to your local Extension Master Gardeners, you are assured of getting innovative, unbiased, scientifically supported advice.
The Conference is also open to the public. All garden enthusiasts are welcome!