Description
Balance ecological value with your preferences in your garden! Learn how to select native plants that will suit your conditions and support birds and beneficial insects. Amy Meltzer will discuss:
- Assessing your site and planning your garden
- Matching your site conditions with plant characteristics
- Choices for starting a native plant garden
- Finding affordable native plants
- Caring for your new plants
- Adapting your garden to climate change
This is a hybrid event. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants 1 hour before the event. The in-person event will take place in the Learning Lab.
Amy Meltzer is co-chair of the steering committee of the Mass Pollinator Network, is an active member of Grow Native Massachusetts, and is on the Research Team of Elders Climate Action. She is a long time resident and gardener in Cambridge, and has been researching and growing native plants for over twelve years.
The City of Cambridge does not discriminate, including on the basis of disability. We may provide auxiliary aids and services, written materials in alternative formats, and reasonable modifications in policies and procedures to people with disabilities. For more information, please email, library@cambridgema.gov, 617-349-4032 (voice), or via relay at 711.
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