Seminar Dates: November 4, 2026 11:15 AM
Seminar Cost: $30.00 Register Now
Seminar Description:
Join Nicholas Staddon, plantsman and West Coast resource for terrific California plants, as he navigates us through a host of new and proven plants for our regional landscapes. This year, Nicholas will include a special section on trees, which can provide great value in the landscape for the shade they provide, helping reduce our cooling bills and more. A huge area of interest in Southern California is flowering trees. Nicholas will include a menagerie of trees that provide shade and flowers, providing your customers with a special plant for a great many years. As always, Nicholas shows terrific pictures made more valuable with excellent supporting narratives. Handouts will be provided as well as information on plant trends and cultural shifts and a listing of books and magazines relevant to the area we live in. A “don’t-miss” presentation.
Learning Objectives:
1. There are new plants in the market place each year. Learn about new and recent plant introductions.
2. Learn how to use the plants featured in the presentation together in the landscape, as well as their cultural needs.
3. Provide information and all relevant links pertaining to the plants in the presentation. Provide details of trends and cultural shifts in our profession.
Nicholas Staddon
Nicholas Staddon has been working with plant breeders, hybridizers, and professional plant explorers for 25 years, scouring the globe for new creations and discoveries in the plant world. Born in England, Staddon received credentials in Agricultural Science from Otley Agricultural College. When he first arrived in the United States, he managed garden centers in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico “…where the vistas will move your heart and the gardening will break it,” he says. Staddon went on to work for Monrovia Nursery for 27 years, 15 of which he served as the leader of the New Plant program.
Staddon resides in California working as a Horticultural Consultant and Plantsman. He is a sought-after speaker and guest for gardening television and radio shows across the United States. He works closely with professional garden writers, providing information on plants and sharing his views on garden trends and more.
Nicholas is proud to be professionally affiliated with the Royal Horticultural Society, California Plant Alliance, and AmericanHort. He is on the Board of Advisors for the Mediterranean Garden Society of Southern California, Climate Ready Landscape Plants, a USDA SCMP Project, and Cal-HIP (California Horticultural Invasives Prevention), which is a voluntary partnership to help gardeners and the horticultural industry proactively address the problem of invasive plants in the trade. He is also member of GardenComm -- a community of Garden Writers and Communicators working across the United States providing gardening information and related services.
