6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Registration (Reynolds Hall)
6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Plant Vendor Set Up (Ramsey Center)

Wednesday, July 23

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast 
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Field Trips 1-11 and Hybrid Trips 1-4
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Plant Vendor Set Up
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Field Trip Dinner (third floor Ramsey Center)
5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Registration (Reynolds Hall)
5:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. Bus Shuttle
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Weeds for Your Needs: Celebrating Native Plants.Their Stories, Songs, and Lore, Doug Elliot
9:00 p.m.. – 10:00 p.m. Student Forum: Conference Planning and Structure for  Students, Megan Gordon
9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Book and Plant Sales

Thursday, July  24

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 12 noon Hybrid trips 1-4 continue
8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Registration (Ramsey Center)
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Mountain Heritage Center Open

8:30 a.m. – 12 noon Workshops 
A. Southern Appalachian Plant Communities, Jenny Lellinger and Helen Smith
B. Marketing and Selling Your Nursery Crop, Bill Jones 

8:30 a.m. – 12 noon Walks:        
Walk 1.  Campus Tree ID Walk, Robert Wyatt
Walk 2.  Cullowhee Creek Restoration, George Morris
Walk 3.  Vendor Plant Walk:  ID, Habitat, and Growing Available Plants, Meredith Clebsch and John Strawn               

11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Bus Shuttle
12 noon – 1:00 p.m. Lunch 
1:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.   Welcome, Ed McDowell
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.   The Myth of Progress, Towards a Sustainable Future, Tom Wessels  
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. The Cherokee World Garden at the South Carolina Botanical Garden, Karen Hall
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. The Carolina Landscape Survey, Tom Goforth
4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Scholarship Introductions, Miegan Gordon
4:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m. Bus Shuttle
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Dinner

Thursday Evening
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Book Sales and Plant Sales
7:00 p.m.—8:30 p.m. Time and Terrain, Part One of the PBS Series Appalachia, Jamie Ross
8:30 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.  Poster Session 1   
8:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Book Signing, Book Sales, Plant Sales, Meet the Speakers/Networking
8:30 p.m. – 10:30  Bus Shuttle

Friday, July 25

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
7:45 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Bus Shuttle
8:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Announcements 
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.   Dogwoods and Other Creatures, Don Shadow
9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.    Poster Session 2
 
10:30 a.m. – 12 noon Concurrent Sessions
A.   Vascular Flora of the Blackland Prairies and Associated Vegetation     of Georgia, Lee Echols
 B.   How to Manage Growth and Protect Natural Resources in the South, Brad Wyche
C.   Drought Resistant Plants:  It’s a Matter of Design, Tracy Traer

11:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Bus Shuttle
12 noon – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Plant Sales and Book Sales
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. How Plants Deal With Stress, Dan Jones
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
D.  Islands of Desert in a Forest Sea: Flora and Vegetation of  Granite Outcrops in the Southeastern United States, Robert Wyatt
E.  The Hope Garden: A Wonderful and Diverse Teaching Garden at Pickens Elementary, Marge Moon
F.  A Floristic Approach to Native Plant Conservation in a Public Garden, Keith Tomlinson
4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Bus Shuttles
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Plant Sales and Book Sales

Friday Evening
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Picnic (no dinner at cafeteria)
8:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m. Music/Regional Network Session
8:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.     Native Plant Chat Session, Reynolds Hall, Margie Hunter
9:30 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. Bus Shuttle
                   
Saturday, July 26

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Steering Committee Report, Ed McDowell
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Plantsman Award, Ed Clebsch
9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Production of Native Plant Species to Meet a Regional Demand of a Growing Market, Ron Wik
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Plants of Promise
11:30 a.m.   Final Announcements  
11:30 a.m.–12 noon Final Plant Sales, Pick up plants from holding area
12 noon   Conference officially closes