Designing Meadows and Naturalized Landscapes for Volunteer Groups
Sat, Nov 16
|DeKoven House/The Rockfall Foundation
Feeling fatigued in your efforts to promote pollinator friendly landscapes? Learn how you can make these plantings successful in a setting where volunteers are the designers and maintainers!
Time & Location
Nov 16, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
DeKoven House/The Rockfall Foundation, 27 Washington St, Middletown, CT 06457, USA
About the event
(THIS IS A FREE EVENT Signing up for a ticket is the way we keep count of who is coming)
Meadow plantings and other naturalized landscapes are often considered a beautiful answer to the call for eco-wise native plantings. Yet, some down-to-earth thinking may be required to make these plantings successful in a setting where volunteers are the designers and maintainers. Scale, proximity to visitors, sightlines, plant height, colors, pathways, edges, seating, signs, pre-existing vegetation, standards of care, water, disposal, and maintenance will be covered. This session focuses on creating the place and the project, not individual plant selections. The presentation will be followed with a workshop for participants to ask questions, discuss challenges, and share problem-solving strategies.
BONUS: Free packets of locally harvested native plant seeds will be available!
This program is being presented by Kathy Connolly, a landscape designer who specializes in naturalized designs, low-impact
landscape techniques, and native…