PGMS Looking to Hit a Home Run with Boston Seminar and Site Visit!

Schedule | Site Tours | Class Topics | Hotel Info | Registration |Sponsors

Take a mini vacation with The Professional Grounds Management Society! PGMS will be going to Boston on July 22-23 and we want YOU to be there for the second stop in our 2010 Regional Grounds Management Seminars & Site Visitations Series.

Designed to provide grounds managers with the hard-to-find opportunity to gain knowledge, ask questions, and network with their peers, this interactive program will feature education seminars on must-know topics as well as behind-the-scenes tours of area grounds management programs including an exclusive tour of Fenway Park. PGMS is expecting this to be a popular event so don't wait, register now!

Schedule:

Thursday, July 22, 2010

  • 11:40 a.m. Boarding the bus at the Red Roof Inn Woburn, Mass.
  • Noon Bus Departs the Red Roof Inn destination; Fenway Park, Boston, Mass. Box Lunch will be served
  • 1:30 p.m. Tour of Fenway Park
  • 3 p.m. Bus departs Fenway Park
  • 3:45 p.m. Tour of Mount Auburn Cemetery
  • 5:30 p.m. Bus departs Mount Auburn Cemetery
  • 6:30 p.m. -7:30 p.m. Arrive Red Roof Inn for Appetizers
    Note: Dinner is on your own

Friday, July 23, 2010

  • 6:40 a.m. Boarding the bus at the Red Roof Inn Woburn, Mass.
  • 7 a.m. Bus Departs the Red Roof Inn destination; Arnold Arboretum
  • 8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. -Continental Breakfast Lecture Hall Arnold Arboretum
  • 8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Invasive Plants, Identification, Control & Suppression
  • 9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Break for vendor observation
  • 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Hardscape Options-Sustainable Stones
  • 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break for vendor observation
  • 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Green Roof Design
  • 11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Break for vendor observation
  • 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Dealing with difficult people
  • 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
  • 1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Landscape Management Plan of the Arnold Arboretum
  • 1:45 p.m. - 4 p.m. Tour of the Arnold Arboretum with "Woody Plant Health Care."
  • 4:30 p.m. Bus departs Arnold Arboretum, return to Red Roof Inn

Special Site Tours include:

  • Fenway Park
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery

This site visit tour is being sponsored by Collins Tree Service.

  • Arnold Arboretum

    This site visit tour is being sponsored by Turf Products Corporation.

Featured Class Topics:

  • Invasive Plants, Identification, Ecology & Control
  • Hardscape Options
  • Green Roof Design
  • Dealing With Difficult People

Hotel Information:

Red Roof Inn
19 Commerce Way
Woburn, MA 01801
781-935-7110
www.redroof.com

$74.99/night
Please use the reservation code B238PROFES when booking your room.
The cutoff date is June 21, 2010.


Registration Information:

PGMS Members: $115
Nonmembers: $140
*SGM Certificate Program: $10
(The SGM program fee is in addition to the site visit registration fee.)

Registration is now closed.

PGMS Would Like to Thank the Following Sponsor of This Event:

David Mailhot Enterprises  
Hillsboro Ford Inc. logo
Knowles Industrial  
MB Tractor & Equipment
Pleasant View Gardens, Inc


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