Life in Your Wild Garden with Laura Beaty [via Zoom]

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Thursday, February 11, 2021
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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Growing numbers of gardeners are incorporating native plants into their landscapes in an effort to mitigate the growing loss of pollinators and leafeaters.  This loss is global and compromises interactions in a natural habitats worldwide. Here at home, many gardeners have been surprised by what they are observing in their wild gardens. Join us to see inside a wild garden — then look deeper into yours.

Laura Beaty

Laura Beaty has been working in the great outdoors since she was old enough to hold a rake. She earned a degree in history followed by a degree in horticulture, and worked nearly 20 years for the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the National Parks Conservation Association.

Laura is VNPS Horticulture Chair and serves as the propagation chair at the native plant beds at Green Spring Gardens. She is a popular speaker about native plants to Master Gardener candidates at Green Spring Park, local garden clubs, and occasionally, propagation workshops at the chapter’s beds.

Laura is converting her own property to a “modified meadow,” which includes some trees and shrubs—all native plants. She hopes that her plant installations will soon become easy maintenance. But as all gardeners know, a garden is a life-long labor of love.

VNPS programs are free and open to the public.

 

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