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The Native Landscaping Certification Program has announced its fall class schedule, with offerings in Georgetown and San Antonio.
a hands-on exercise. Photos by Bill Hopkins
This is the first time the popular classes will be offered in the Central Texas area. Classes have been offered in San Antonio and the North Texas area for several years.
For a complete list of class dates and or to register visit www.npsot.org/wp/nlcp.
The program will announce classes later for the North Texas area, including a first-ever class in Tyler.
There are no prerequisites for the first level course. The one-day classes are intended to be useful to the public as well as professionals in the field, according to Carol Feldman, a Dallas area landscaper who chairs the steering committee which designs curriculum and coordinates the classes.
CEU hours are available for landscape professionals and advanced training hours are available to Master Gardener and Master Naturalists.
The classes teach best practices for native plant landscaping and habitat preservation and introduction. The format is a combination of classroom instruction and outside fieldwork. Each day-long class is taught adjacent to a natural area so we can provide instruction in native plant identification, including trees, shrubs, forbs and grasses, their use in the landscape, as well as common exotics found in the landscape. At each level students are introduced to fifty plants.
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