CEU Tracking

A summary of Continuing Education Units available in the Western Region.

This page is under construction and will be updated regularly…

2019

[1.5 CEU] Effects of a Changing Climate on Trees and Shrubs, Logan Collier (January 29th, Portland, OR)

2018

[1 CEU] “Painting with Perennials: a Landscape Artist’s Perspective” with Bobbie Schwartz, FAPLD – APLD Oregon (February 5th, Portland, OR)
[8 CEU] GardenPRO Conference (February 9th, Seattle, WA)
[1 CEU] Landscape LED Lighting Systems, David Ferron (March 6th, Portland, OR)
[2.5 CEU] Using Retaining Walls in the Landscape, Bjorn Nordquist (March 15th, Portland OR)
[0.5 CEU] Mutual Materials Plant Tour, Mutual Materials (April 10th, Portland, OR)
[3.0, half day/4.5, full day CEU] The Watershed Approach: Designing Drought Resilient Landscapes (November 10th, Portland OR)

2017

[6 CEU] “Quality Construction Begins with Great Design” – APLD Washington Symposium (March 13th, Seattle, WA)
[5 CEU] “A Watershed Approach to Landscape Design” – APLD Colorado (March 15th, Westminster, CO)
[3 CEU] “A Triptych on Trees: What Designers Need to Know About the Largest Plants in the Garden” with Scott Clifton, Catherine Mushel and Sean Hogan – APLD Oregon & ANLD (April 1st, Portland, OR)
[3.5 CEU] “Soil School” with the West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District (April 8th, Portland OR)
[3 CEU] “Showcasing a Designed Landscape – Photography for Portfolio and Website” – APLD Washington (May 18th – May 19th, Seattle, WA)
[1 CEU] Landscape Lighting Lunch & Learn with David Ferron of Unique Lighting – APLD Oregon (May 24th, Portland, OR)
[1 CEU] “Right Paint, Right Place: Paints and Coatings in the Landscape” with Brian Keil, Sherwin Williams – APLD Oregon (June 21st, Portland, OR)

[up to 10 CEU] OSU International Master Gardener Conference (July 10th – 14th, Portland, OR)
- The following were approved for 1 APLD CEU each:
  - Full Frontal Gardens
  - Fifty Shades of Blue
  - Multi- Dimensional Vegetable Gardening
  - Creating and Managing a Plant Community
  - The Forgotten Elements of Good Design
  - Ten Years of Rooftop Gardening in Portland
  - A World of Clematis
  - Where Ecology Meets Horticulture: Designing Plant Communities
  - Great Plant Picks as a Model for a Regional Plant Selection Committee
  - Better Vertical Vegetable Gardening
[1 CEU] “Managing Soil Erosion” with Kevin Jenison, ACF West – APLD Oregon (July 26th, Portland OR)
[12 CEU] G3 – Soil Summit (August 8th, Los Angeles, CA)
[3.75 CEU] “Mixing it Up – Landscape Design Principles Meet Permaculture Principles” with Carrie Preston and Marisha Auerbach – APLD Oregon (August 19th, Portland OR)

[up to 14 CEU] OAN FarWest Trade Show (August 23rd – 25th, Portland, OR)
- The following sessions are approved for 1 CEU each:
  - Foodscape Revolution – Ecology & Sustainable Management
  - Underutilized Plants for the Northwest Landscape
  - Scale Management
  - The Importance of Food in the Garden Center
  - The Morton Arboretum’s New Plant Development Program
  - Conservation Biological Control and Biopesticides for Nursery IPM
  - Roundup: The Situation in Europe
  - Biocontrol Mindsets
  - Honing in on the Best Plant Combinations
  - Worker Protection Standards: Training for Employers
  - The Dry Lush: Drought Tolerant Plants for Pacific Northwest Gardens
  - Machinery Innovations for Field Grown Nursery Productions
  - Mythbusters: Greenhouse Biocontrol Management for Specialty Crops
  - Hot New Plants: Cutting Edge Garden Plants for Cutting Edge Retail
  - The Growers Guide to Mycorrhizal Fungi: You Better Learn This Stuff
  - Plant Protection of Greenhouse Insect and Mite Pests
  - Plants from Across the Pond
  - Management and Prevention of Boxwood Blight
  - Soil Erosion Solutions
  - The Future of Plant Breeding is NOW
  - Plants for Now and the Future
  - Getting Tough on Pests (While Staying Soft on Pollinators)
  - Successful Sustainable Landscape Practices
  - What’s New from Oregon State Plant Breeding?
  - Biocontrol of Thrips in Greenhouse Crops: Advanced Session
  - Critical Ecology: The Importance of Biodiversity in the Landscape

2016

[1.25 CEU] “Wild Things: Designing for Life” with Amy Whitworth of Plan-It Earth Design – APLD Oregon (January 20th, Portland OR)
[1.5 CEU] “The iPhone Gardener” lecture with David E. Perry – APLD Oregon (April 21st, MJCC, Portland, OR)
[3.5 CEU] “The iPhone Photographer” workshop with David E. Perry – APLD Oregon (April 22nd – 23rd, MAC, Portland OR)

[up to 26 CEU] OAN FarWest Trade Show (August 25th – 27th, Portland, OR)
- The following sessions are approved for 1 APLD CEU each:
  - Plants with Style
  - New Tools of the Trade: Insecticides and Fungicides for Ornamental Crops
  - Underutilized Plants for the North
  - Plants with Promise
  - Nematodes for Problem Pests in Nursery & Greenhouse
  - Management of Soilborne Pathogens in Nursery Production
  - How to Manage Pests While Protecting the Pollinators
  - Bringing Back Grandma’s Plants
  - Dig Into Soil Health for Home Landscapes
  - A Roadmap to Better Plants: Case Studies in Cotoneaster and Mockorange
  - Containers, Pots with a Purpose – The Exciting World of Container Culture
  - Diamides, a New Class of Insecticides for Ornamental Plant Production
  - Regional Plant Selection Programs with National Impact
  - Fragrance in the Air
  - Selling Wellness: Cultivating the Relationship between Gardening and a Healthy Lifestyle
  - Sharpen Your Diagnostic and Identification Skills through a Review of Recent Disease Problems
  - Sanitation, Pest Identification and Crop Monitoring
  - You’ve Got a New Plant – How Do You Choose What to Market and Why?
  - Three Critical Keys to Successful Water Treatment
  - Plants that Save the World
  - Inspiration and Creativity, Taking Cues from Nature
  - Bio-Control Quality – Know What You Are Getting
  - Early Biocontrol: Starting BCA’s in Propagation, Starting with a “Clean” Plant and Understanding Life Cycles
- Approved for 1.5 APLD CEU:
  - Sustainable Landscape Management
- The following are approved for 1 APLD Business CEU each:
  - Marketing in the Digital Age: Reaching Today’s Time Starved Consumers
  - Homestyle Merchandising; Marketing to Generation Me
  - The Changing Dynamics of Garden Retailing
  - Social Media & Digital Communication Learning Exchange
  - The Inner Secrets to Double Your Memory
  - Employment Law Today: The Wild, Wild West
  - Establishing a Design/Build Department in a Garden Center
  - We’re Still Trying to Sell An 80’s Message in the 21st Century
- The following are approved for 1.5 APLD Business CEU each:
  - Chasing Spring: A Walk Through History and Life with Ernest Wertheim
  - Pursuit of Leadership
  - How to Create Outrageously Effective Marketing Materials
- Approved for 2 APLD Business CEU:
  - Build a Website that Delivers Results You Can Measure

2015

[up to 23.5 CEU] OAN FarWest Trade Show (August 27th – 29th, Portland OR)
- The following is approved for 1.5 APLD CEU:
  - Looking Outside the Garden for Planting and Design Inspiration
- The following sessions are approved for 1 APLD CEU each:
  - Customer Service Touchpoints
  - New Diseases on the Horizon
  - Must Be Present to Win!
  - Contained Joy
  - Diagnostics: What’s Wrong With My Plants
  - The Top 5 Trends for 2016 That You Were Not Thinking About
  - Foodscaping
  - Water-borne Pests and What You Can Do About Them
  - Gardening in Modern Times: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
  - How to Dominate Your Market Niche
  - Right Plant, Right Place: Best Native and Adapted Plants for Here
  - Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy Annuals
  - Using Your Website to Help Meet Business Objectives
  - Home Ground – Forming Regional Identities with Native Plants
  - Designing and Gardening with Ferns
  - Beyond Time Management: How to Get Twice the Work Done in Half the Time
  - Native Plants: Addressing Today’s Market Needs and Desire
  - Designing with Conifers: Making the Best Choices for Year- Round Interest in Your Garden
  - Lean and the Power of Continuous Flow
  - Good Design, Better Business
  - Tips for Writing Good Marketing Copy and Designing Great Signs and Advertising

CEU Tracking

A summary of Continuing Education Units available in the Western Region.

This page is under construction and will be updated regularly…

2019

2018

2017

Full Frontal Gardens

Fifty Shades of Blue

Multi- Dimensional Vegetable Gardening

Creating and Managing a Plant Community

The Forgotten Elements of Good Design

Ten Years of Rooftop Gardening in Portland

A World of Clematis

Where Ecology Meets Horticulture: Designing Plant Communities

Great Plant Picks as a Model for a Regional Plant Selection Committee

Better Vertical Vegetable Gardening

Foodscape Revolution – Ecology & Sustainable Management

Underutilized Plants for the Northwest Landscape

Scale Management

The Importance of Food in the Garden Center

The Morton Arboretum’s New Plant Development Program

Conservation Biological Control and Biopesticides for Nursery IPM

Roundup: The Situation in Europe

Biocontrol Mindsets

Honing in on the Best Plant Combinations

Worker Protection Standards: Training for Employers

The Dry Lush: Drought Tolerant Plants for Pacific Northwest Gardens

Machinery Innovations for Field Grown Nursery Productions

Mythbusters: Greenhouse Biocontrol Management for Specialty Crops

Hot New Plants: Cutting Edge Garden Plants for Cutting Edge Retail

The Growers Guide to Mycorrhizal Fungi: You Better Learn This Stuff

Plant Protection of Greenhouse Insect and Mite Pests

Plants from Across the Pond

Management and Prevention of Boxwood Blight

Soil Erosion Solutions

The Future of Plant Breeding is NOW

Plants for Now and the Future

Getting Tough on Pests (While Staying Soft on Pollinators)

Successful Sustainable Landscape Practices

What’s New from Oregon State Plant Breeding?

Biocontrol of Thrips in Greenhouse Crops: Advanced Session

Critical Ecology: The Importance of Biodiversity in the Landscape

2016

Plants with Style

New Tools of the Trade: Insecticides and Fungicides for Ornamental Crops

Underutilized Plants for the North

Plants with Promise

Nematodes for Problem Pests in Nursery & Greenhouse

Management of Soilborne Pathogens in Nursery Production

How to Manage Pests While Protecting the Pollinators

Bringing Back Grandma’s Plants

Dig Into Soil Health for Home Landscapes

A Roadmap to Better Plants: Case Studies in Cotoneaster and Mockorange

Containers, Pots with a Purpose – The Exciting World of Container Culture

Diamides, a New Class of Insecticides for Ornamental Plant Production

Regional Plant Selection Programs with National Impact

Fragrance in the Air

Selling Wellness: Cultivating the Relationship between Gardening and a Healthy Lifestyle

Sharpen Your Diagnostic and Identification Skills through a Review of Recent Disease Problems

Sanitation, Pest Identification and Crop Monitoring

You’ve Got a New Plant – How Do You Choose What to Market and Why?

Three Critical Keys to Successful Water Treatment

Plants that Save the World

Inspiration and Creativity, Taking Cues from Nature

Bio-Control Quality – Know What You Are Getting

Early Biocontrol: Starting BCA’s in Propagation, Starting with a “Clean” Plant and Understanding Life Cycles

Sustainable Landscape Management

Marketing in the Digital Age: Reaching Today’s Time Starved Consumers

Homestyle Merchandising; Marketing to Generation Me

The Changing Dynamics of Garden Retailing

Social Media & Digital Communication Learning Exchange

The Inner Secrets to Double Your Memory

Employment Law Today: The Wild, Wild West

Establishing a Design/Build Department in a Garden Center

We’re Still Trying to Sell An 80’s Message in the 21st Century

Chasing Spring: A Walk Through History and Life with Ernest Wertheim

Pursuit of Leadership

How to Create Outrageously Effective Marketing Materials

Build a Website that Delivers Results You Can Measure

2015