Garden Professional Sections are sections of similar gardens that provide a variety of networking and information sharing opportunities for Institutional members only. Each Section has its own area of the website where it will provide useful information and opportunities for interaction among garden section members. For information about becoming a member of a Garden Professional Section, email Sarah Maietta, APGA Membership Manager at smaietta@publicgardens.org for information on joining the Association, click Join APGA Now located on the left menu bar.

Below is a brief description of APGA's Garden Professional Sections.

College and University Garden Section
The College and University Garden Section examines the ways in which college and university affiliated gardens can serve their primary audiences of faculty, students , staff, and the general public through the development of collections, educational programs, interpretation, and research efforts.

Historic Landscapes Section
The Historic Landscapes Professional Section seeks to promote the importance and understanding of historic landscapes to all professionals in the public garden community and to encourage agreement about one big idea, which is that every public garden is or will be historic in some way, either now or in the future.

Native Plants Professional Garden Section
The NANPO professional section is intended to be a resource to organizations that focus on the plants native to North America for display, collections, research, conservation, and land stewardship. This professional section is particularly of value to these organizations because of the, often unique, roles they play in their communities through: stewardship of natural lands and watershed resources; display, living collections, and/or herbaria resources focused on regional flora; involvement with in situ and ex situ efforts to conserve biodiversity; education/interpretation targeting the value of regional biodiversity; leadership in addressing issues of biological invasion and its impacts on natural systems and much more.

Small Gardens Section
The Small Garden Professional Section provides a forum for communication and problem solving issues specific to Small Public Gardens. The challenges facing smaller public gardens are often very different from those of large public gardens.

NAPCC Oak Curatorial Group
The NAPCC Oak Curatorial Group provides a forum for communication among members of the NAPCC Multi-Institutional Quercus Collection to coordinate activities and decision-making.

Warm Climate Conifer Curatorial Group
The Warm Climate Conifer Curatorial Group provides a forum for communication between institutions interested in collaborating on the development of a multi-site warm climate conifer collection and applying for NAPCC recognition.

The APGA is committed to providing networking opportunities for all of our members. If you are interested in creating a new Garden Professional Section, please contact Sarah Maietta, APGA Membership Manager at smaietta@publicgardens.org or (610) 708-3014 to learn how.