Seminar Dates: November 12, 2025 3:00 PM
Seminar Cost: $45.00 Register Now
Seminar Description:
Join Nicholas Staddon, Plantsman and consultant to the Southwestern Region of the United States for some 30 years. 
Nicholas will present on new and recent plant introductions as well as foundation plants, important to any and all landscapes. Plants that are key to the southern California landscape matter not if used in a commercial or residential setting. The presentation will include trends in the United States and overseas, as well as reading and other suggestions to help you be more successful than you are already today. Inspiring pictures and narrative, supported with a good sprinkling of British humor. As always Nicholas provides a handout to add to the takeaway value of the time you spend with him.
Learning Objectives:
1. Every year there are new plants in the market place. 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 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 to proactively address the problem of invasive plants in the trade. He is member of GardenComm. A community of Garden Writers and Communicators working across the United States providing gardening information and related services.
