{"id":22725,"date":"2026-05-12T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=22725"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:03:21","slug":"high-performance-low-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/event\/high-performance-low-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"High Performance; Low Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p>Presented by&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mgottawa.ca\/\">Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton (MGOC)<\/a><\/strong>, this speaker series is the perfect opportunity for members of Carleton\u2019s faculty &amp; staff community to learn from a local Master Gardener, acquire new gardening skills and knowledge, and connect with fellow gardeners across campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This series will consist of\u00a0<strong>five in-person talks<\/strong>. Each talk in the series will\u00a0<strong>begin at 12:00pm<\/strong>\u00a0and last for approximately 45 minutes, leaving 15 minutes for questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>June 11, 2026<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>High Performance; Low Maintenance<\/strong><br><strong>Presenter:\u00a0<\/strong>Lee Ann Smith<br>Topic: High Performance; Low Maintenance<br>This talk explains what makes a plant high performance, what low maintenance means, and recommends plants that meet these criteria. It provides an overall approach as well as a \u201ctop tip\u201d for how to assess an existing garden and redesign it to get the most performance with the least amount of maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-22725","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-06-11 12:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-06-11 12:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"TB","cu_event_meeting_room":"240","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"grass","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":{"title":"","url":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/gardening-speaker-series-2\/","target":""},"cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/22725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/22725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22726,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/22725\/revisions\/22726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=22725"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=22725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}