Selecting Plants for Climate Change
Description
Landscapers, professional gardeners, designers and urban planners: learn about selecting plants for the future climate with Tessa Kum from Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
Climate change is occurring at a rate that far outstrips any species ability to adapt. Shorter lived plants can be easily managed and their species replaced as the climate changes beyond their tolerance levels, but for long-lived plants such as trees, this rate of change is a significant challenge.
We need to plan decades ahead so that the trees we plant today do not merely survive but thrive in an unprecedented climactic future. Tessa Kum will discuss landscape succession and the far future planning involved in the development of the Australian Drylands Walk at Melbourne Gardens.
This event is free for members of SGA's Green Gardening Professionals program. You can become a GGP member here: https://www.sgaonline.org.au/seeking-professionals/ggp-membership-benefits-and-join/
About Tessa Kum:
Tessa Kum provides specialised horticulture and landscape succession assistance to the Horticulture Team at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Gardens, and administers for the Climate Change Alliance of Botanic Gardens.
She has contributed to such projects as the newly developed Australian Drylands Walk in Melbourne Gardens, the Living Collections Plan Melbourne Gardens, the development of the Climate Assessment Tool (https://cat.bgci.org), the Landscape Succession Toolkit (https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/initiatives/climate-change-alliance/tools-and-products/), and provides outreach and education on climate adaptation to botanic gardens, arboreta and interested institutions.
What you will learn
- Succession planting for a changing climate
- Examples of plant selection from a case study
- Learn from Tessa's experience advising botanic gardens arboreta and other organisations
What you will get
- Knowledge to use in your work as a landscape, gardening or urban design professional
What to bring
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What to wear
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Appropriate for
Professional gardeners and landscapers, urban designers, sustainability professionals and students.
Sustainable Gardening Australia (SGA) is a not-for-profit non-government organiation dedicated to achieving a healthy biodiverse planet.
Its driving purpose is to:
- Encourage, educate and enable home and professional gardeners to adopt sustainable gardening practices to protect or enhance the natural environment;
- Provide information, education and undertake research about the natural environment;
- Reconnect people to the natural world through gardening; and
- Ensure an understanding of the impacts that gardening decisions about chemical and resource use have on the natural environment well beyond their neighbourhood.
Your Teacher
About Tessa Kum
Tessa Kum provides specialised horticulture and landscape succession assistance to the Horticulture Team at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Gardens, and administers for the Climate Change Alliance of Botanic Gardens. She has contributed to such projects as the newly developed Australian Drylands Walk in Melbourne Gardens, the Living Collections Plan Melbourne Gardens, the development of the Climate Assessment Tool (https://cat.bgci.org), the Landscape Succession Toolkit (https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/initiatives/climate-change-alliance/tools-and-products/), and provides outreach and education on climate adaptation to botanic gardens, arboreta and interested institutions.
Cancellations & Refunds
If the organiser cancels the class:
You are entitled to a full refund.
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Terms & Conditions
SGA’s Booking Conditions
- Bookings are considered final once payment is made and no refunds will be given for non-attendance.
- If there are insufficient numbers for an event it may be cancelled or postponed by SGA. If this is the case, you will be notified and given the option of either a full refund or a transfer to a different SGA event of equivalent value.
- Please arrive 10 minutes before the scheduled starting time for registration and seating