Join Growing Wild South Hadley with their free lecture and PERENNIAL PLANT GIVEAWAY! Hope to see you there.
Plant giveaways include New England Aster, Monarda (Bee Balm), and Foxglove Beard Tounge.
Over the last few weeks, many of us have taken great pleasure in the beauty of blossoming flowers around us. At the same time, buzzing bees and butterflies are seeking out and feeding on the nectar of these flowers’ blooms. The importance of supporting pollinators in our backyards and gardens has been in the mainstream media for almost 15 years. We’ve learned a lot about pollinating butterflies and bees, and their needs, during that time.
As part of the Growing Wild South Hadley project sponsored by the Conservation Commission, Larri Cochran will present “Designing Pollinator Supporting Gardens 2.0” on Thursday, May 29, from 6:30- 8pm, at the South Public Library. In this workshop she will discuss the latest updates on designing gardens to attract and best support pollinators, and how to use native plants in formal landscape designs, plant containers, and all your other gardens. Following her talk, there will be plant giveaways.
Larri Cochran is a certified horticulturist and Landscape for Life Trainer, a long-time Board member of the Western Massachusetts Master Gardener Association, and co-director of the Northampton Community Garden. Her planting plans are designed to provide 4-season support for pollinators, birds and other native animal species. She teaches design workshops throughout the region and designs/manages habitats for clients in both urban and rural settings.