Please Note; If you wish to obtain your LA CES CEU Credit, you must provide your license number below, then complete this live class in its entirety and pass a quiz. Once your attendance is recorded and the quiz is completed and passed, your results will be uploaded to the LA CES website.

For those Landscape Architects that are not members of LA CES, then you will receive a certificate of completion and you will be able to send this to your chapter/association for credit.

Webinar Information
Shrubs and hedges are an important component of our landscape. Learn how to reduce wind, create microclimates, improve soil retention, and attract more wildlife using old and new design strategies.

We will also look at soil types that work best for various plant species using east and west coast plant suggestions. E.g. Plant that grow best in sandy soils with occasional salt spray.

Learning Objectives

1. Reduce wind and create more microclimates
2. Improve soil retention
3. Attract more wildlife

Students who take this course can receive a special signed copy of her book Shrubs & Hedges at a discounted price of $30 including postage. https://www.evamonheim.com/book.html or Call 215-870-6520.

Eva Monheim
Professional Horticulture Program
Longwood Gardens

Eva Monheim is the author of Shrubs & Hedges: Discover, Grow and Care for the World’s Most Popular Plants. An award-winning educator, she’s an instructor at the globally famous Longwood Gardens for the Professional Horticulture Program and is a faculty member at The Barnes Arboretum at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Professionally trained, Monheim holds degrees from the Pennsylvania State University in horticulture and art, a degree from Arcadia University in English literature, a certified arborist through International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), a master floral designer through Florists Transworld Delivery Association (FTDA), photographer, and artist. Monheim’s articles, designs, and photographs have appeared in national, regional, and local magazines, and newspapers. Her post graduate education in horticulture at the University of Reading, in England, has given her a global appreciation of garden design and environmental sensitivity. Eva was an assistant professor of instruction at Temple University in the department of landscape architecture and horticulture for over twelve years where she taught thirteen different subjects in undergraduate and graduate programs and was an early adaptor of teaching online. Monheim is currently a principal at VEE – Verdant Earth Educators, LLC. Her breadth of knowledge in the industry is vast which comes through in her work. Eva’s extensive teaching experience has empowered hundreds of students who are now leaders in the commercial and public sectors of the green industry.

In addition to her horticultural work, Monheim is also a Reiki Master Teacher.