Plant Select Annual Conference 2025

Join us June 26, at Denver Botanic Gardens for expert talks, award celebrations, and a day of learning, inspiration, and exploration.

About this Event


Plant Select Annual Conference 2025 | Thursday, June 26

Every year, we host an annual conference—a fun, one-day event for plant enthusiasts.

Please join us on Thursday, June 26 at Denver Botanic Gardens for engaging presentations from regional experts and a short celebration of our annual award winners. Get inspired, build your knowledge, meet fellow plant lovers and explore the gardens at your own pace.

One-day event:
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Tentative schedule: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm MT

Includes lunch in the outdoor pavilion

This event is ideal for:
Landscape professionals, plant enthusiasts, master gardeners, home gardeners, municipalities, garden center teams, botanic garden teams and others from across the Intermountain West. All are welcome.

Get inspired with presentations like:

• The RAD West: Creating Urban Landscapes With an Inspiring Sense of Identity with Emmanuel Didier of Didier Design Studio
• Thriving Together: Pollinators of the American West and the Plants They Need with Sonya Anderson of Denver Botanic Gardens and Amy Yarger of Butterfly Pavilion
• Vivacious, Vibrant and Robust Plants for the Intermountain West with Robb Smith and Nich Boynton of Edwards Greenhouse (Boise, Idaho)
• The Beauty of Adaptation: Exploring the Water Conservation Garden at Red Butte Garden and Arboretums with Guy Banner of Red Butte Garden and Arboretum

Save with the early sign-up special:

Tickets are just $75 through April 18, 2025. Regular price: $90.

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Agenda

8:30 Welcome and Plant Select Overview
Host: Ross Shrigley - Plant Select
8:55 The RAD West
Host: Emmanuel Diddier - Didier Design Studio
9:55 Break
10:10 Denver Botanic Gardens Welcome
Host: Brian Vogt - Denver Botanic Gardens
10:20 Thriving Together
Host: Sonya Anderson - Denver Botanic Gardens
11:25 Lunch & book signing

Info: Lunch at outdoor pavilion

12:30 Plant Select Annual Awards

Info: Celebrating the people and places that exemplify and further the Plant Select program.

12:55 Vivacious, Vibrant and Robust Plants for the Intermountain West
Host: Robb Smith and Nich Boynton

Info:

1:55 Break
2:20 The Beauty of Adaptation
Host: Guy Banner - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum
3:20 Closing remarks, Ross Shrigley
3:25 Explore Denver Botanic Gardens on your own.

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