Learn how to use orchids to add color to your landscape.
About the Speaker: Rich Ackerman
Rich Ackerman has lived in Fort Lauderdale for almost forty years, where he has grown a
wide variety of plants. His current interest is Florida native orchids. He caught the orchid
bug attending the World Orchid Conference in Miami in 2008.
Rich works closely with UF/IFAS Extension, Broward County, where he is a Florida
Master Gardener Volunteer, serves on the Urban Horticulture Advisory Board, and is
leader of the Broward County Native Orchid Project. Through a partnership with
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, they are restoring native orchids in the urban
environment, installing several thousand orchids every year. He also runs
browardnativeorchids.com.
He is former President of the Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society and retired from Broward
College in 2018. His work career focused on software research and development, along with
project management in computer and library information sciences.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Summer Learning Program | Speaker | Clubs & Groups |
TAGS: | Summer Learning Program |
| Mon, Jul 28 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Tue, Jul 29 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Wed, Jul 30 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Thu, Jul 31 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Fri, Aug 01 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Aug 02 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Aug 03 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
