The Hometown Habitat film crew ended their West Coast tour with a visit to Wild Ones Center. Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes is a non-profit that promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through native plant communities. Their goals are to provide information about native plant landscaping and help strengthen communication between those interested in using native plants.
Build a simple native bee home on July 12 w/ the Greenbelt Forest Preserve in Greenbelt, MD. http://t.co/mHpFRoqRxh #baybroadcast — CCLC (@ChesapeakeCLC) July 11, 2014
Monarch Sister Schools Program is partnering up with Chesapeake Natives Inc. for a volunteer gardening day. To provide a helping hand for our native pollinators come out to Chesapeake Natives Nursery on Saturday, April 26th, from 9:00am-1:00pm. Help pot up seedlings and plugs. These plants will be used at schools and garden centers this Spring.
Attend Brookside Garden’s first Trees Matters Symposium on Nov 12 to learn from some of the country’s leading experts about innovative efforts to plant, protect and preserve trees in urban and suburban settings. This year’s speakers include Paul Meyer of the Morris Arboretum and Eric “T” Fleisher of Battery Park City Parks Conservancy. Trees Matter 2012 is ideal for landscape industry professionals, designers, engineers and project managers.
All are invited to a garden open house and native plant sale to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Chesapeake Ecology Center. The event will be held September 15 at the Adams Academy in Annapolis, MD. Native plant sales help support on-going maintenance and improvements to the 30 Native Plant Demonstration Gardens and Sites at the CEC, which are a public resource for all!