Photo by Larry Weaner Landscape Associates
Native Landscaping 101
A Free, In-Person Program for Home Gardeners
Presented by Larry Weaner and Sara Weaner Cooper
Less weeding? Check.
Less watering? Check.
Less fertilizer? Check.
Less ongoing cost? Check.
More biodiversity? Check.
More personal engagement with the natural world? Triple check.
Part One: Presentation at Wissahickon Valley Public Library, Blue Bell, PA
Monday, September 8th, 2025 | 6:00 - 7:45 PM ET
Learn the basics to this landscaping approach with award-winning Landscape Designer Larry Weaner. Participants will learn how ecology-based landscaping differs from traditional gardening including site-adapted native plant selection, nursery purchasing guidance, and light-touch planting and management techniques.
Sara Weaner Cooper will share the latest updates about her home front landscape, an experimental yet highly successful organic lawn-to-meadow conversion that was featured in the BBC in 2025 and The New York Times in 2024.
Register by: Monday, September 8th, 2025
You’ll never look at gardening the same way again.
Instructor Bios:
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Larry Weaner, FAPLD founded Larry Weaner Landscape Associates (based in Glenside, PA) in 1982 and its educational affiliate, New Directions in the American Landscape, in 1990. His nationally recognized work combines horticulture, landscape design, and ecological restoration, and spans more than twenty U.S. states and the U.K. His book, Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change (Timber Press 2016), co-authored with Tom Christopher, received an American Horticultural Society (AHS) Book Award in 2017. In 2021 he received the AHS Landscape Design Award and the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) Award of Distinction.
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(NDAL). In 2024 NDAL received the American Horticultural Society (AHS) Award for Horticultural Innovation. Her and her husband Evan Cooper’s home landscape was featured in a BBC article in 2025 and The New York Times article in 2024. Sara has presented about their lawn-to-meadow transition for the Ecological Landscape Alliance’s Annual Conference, Grow Native MA, and the Southern Adirondack Audubon Society. Sara holds a M.A. in anthropology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a B.A. in anthropology and education from Bryn Mawr College. One of her long-term goals is to work with educators & students on transdisciplinary, eco-cultural curricula.
“Excellent as always!”
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