Speaker: Nancy Buley, Director of Communications

My Educational Programs / Sessions @ Cultivate

A Baker’s Dozen of Pollinator Trees
Sunday, July 16 • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Planting for pollinators is a growing trend. Garden magazines and media channels are abuzz with information and recommendations for attracting and supporting pollinators in gardens and landscapes, public and private. Consumer awareness of the essential role that bees, butterflies, moths, spiders and other pollinators play in our ecosystem is at an all time high.Though most research for determining the best nectar and pollen sources is focused on perennials and annuals, recent studies have identified a number of tree species preferred by bees and pollinators. Gardeners can take their new-found pollinator passion to new heights by offering a season-long tree menu. This baker's dozen of native and adapted trees that take turns blooming from early spring until fall will give garden center buyers, city foresters, landscape designers and other specifiers a head start on inviting pollinator guests to the garden. National and regional resources will be shared.

Cultivating Cultivars - Urban Tree Cultivar Development
Sunday, July 16 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
It’s a long and complex journey from seed to city tree. Many hands and a decade or more are needed to grow a tree from start to finish. It takes even longer to develop, select, trial, and introduce new and improved cultivars. Bringing new and improved urban tree cultivars to market is a multi-generational effort that may take 15–30 years or more, via the collaborative efforts of plant breeders, growers, urban foresters, arboreta, and academia. A changing climate adds urgency to the search for tough, resilient, adaptable urban trees. Understanding the timeline and processes of new tree introduction and the how and why of cultivar development will help growers, retailers, designers, and specifiers plan for choosing, growing, and planting the best trees for the future urban forest.

About Our Speaker:

Nancy Buley, Director of Communications at J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co.
Nancy is Director of Communications for J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co., wholesale tree growers of Boring, Oregon, where she has been photographing, writing about, and “talking trees” for 29 years. She worked as a newspaper reporter after earning a bachelor’s degree in Technical Journalism and Horticulture from Oregon State University. A Lifetime Honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Nancy has earned national recognition for her tree advocacy and stewardship efforts including a Horticultural Industries Leadership Award (HILA) and Arbor Day Foundation's Frederick Law Olmsted Award. She was presented the Garry Oak Award by Friends of Trees, where she served on the board of directors for over a decade. A GardenComm member and a graduate of the Society of Municipal Arborists’ Municipal Forestry Institute (MFI), Nancy lives and gardens in Boring, where she co-owns and tends Treephoria, a boutique nursery, with her son, Neil.

J. Frank Schmidt & Son - Bare root and containerized shade, flowering and ornamental trees.
We are a wholesale grower of shade, flowering and specialty ornamental trees. We take pride in growing more than 500 varieties of trees and shrubs. Our products are sold to wholesale growers, garden centers and landscape construction firms across the United States and Canada.

Address: PO Box 189 Boring, OR 97009-0189
Email: talk-to-us@jfschmidt.com Contact:
Phone: 503-663-4128 FAX: 503-663-2121