Kim Kaulas – Sales Techniques for Landscapers
Maria Smithburg, Roz Reed, and Kim Kozimor – Designing Rooftop Gardens
At Chihuly exhibit at Garfield Park
Longshadow ornaments and gardens tour
Ball Seed tour and summer picnic
Northwind Perennial Farm tour and lunch at Barbara Berrend's
Annual meeting – Brainstorming with 4 subcontractors (prairie, woodworking, paving,
and pools)

2001

Tour of Trudy Temple's garden
Tour of Mettawa Manor
Anderson Gardens tour
Art in the Garden – Wood St. Gallery
Bruce Caris – Business Plan in a Day
Shirley Remes – How to get our work published

1997 – 2000

John Brookes – Evening at Pam Duthie's
Panel discussion -- Estimating, Installation, and Communicating w/Clients
John Beaudry -- Pruning
Chicago Wilderness at Field Museum
Tom Vasale -- Pricing and Collecting the Landscape Job
Tour and lunch at Craig Bergmann's nursery
Sharing at Tim Thoelecke's office – portfolio, forms, etc.
David Douglas, American Brick Paving
Kris Bachtell at Morton Arboretum -- woody plants
Leo Kelly -- woodworking, garden structures
Marcy Stewart Pysiak -- Landscapes for Older Homes and tour of Pinetum at Morton
Arboretum
Halquist Quarry tour
Maria Smithberg – Beauty and Color in the Winter Landscape
Roz ReedŐs home -- catered meal and sharing of ideas
Marcy Stewart Pyziak -- her garden, a client's garden, and Possibility Place Nursery
Janet Kennedy -- Business Insurance
Anderson Garden tour
Vicki Nowicki -- Integrating native plants into residential design
Bradd Easton -- Legal Issues of Partnerships, Contracts, etc. at Peggy Notebaert
Museum
Roz Reed -- Designing for Lighting at Oak Park Conservatory
Client Skits (performed by LDA members) and Business Practices discussion (led by
LDA members)
Dean MacMorris -- tour of his lighting projects combined with summer BBQ
Using the Internet for your business
Ted Wolff -- Urban Landscapes at Garfield Park Conservatory
Greg Speichert -- Aquatic and Wet Gardens for Shade