Daily Archives: April 10, 2024

Tuesday, April 16, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern – Planting for Pollinators: How to Find the Right Native Plants for Your Area, Online

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There’s no going wrong with native plants — from increasing biodiversity to requiring less maintenance, these plants benefit the health of the environment as well as the wildlife that depends on them. Native plants are also a particularly valuable source of food for pollinators, and pollinator gardens can have a positive impact on the local community as well as local wildlife.

With Native Plant Month and Earth Day approaching, it’s the perfect time to start adding native, pollinator-friendly plants to your corporate gardens. However, it can be challenging to know which plants are native for your specific location. Since 1973, the National Wildlife Federation’s Garden for Wildlife program has worked to simplify the plant selection process by connecting people to their local native plants. In this free webinar on April 16 at 1 pm Eastern, Garden for Wildlife CEO Shubber Ali will share how corporate native plantings have a positive impact not only on the ecosystem, but also on the community, employees and the company’s bottom line.

What you’ll learn:

  • Why it’s important to garden for wildlife, specifically pollinators
  • How to determine the right native plants for your area and where to source them
  • Tips for incorporating native plants into a corporate setting

Who should take this webinar:

  • Corporate conservation programs interested in  using native plants
  • Companies that want to use native landscaping to support the biodiversity of their community
  • Anyone interested in supporting pollinators in their area

Register at www.wildlifehc.org

Tuesday, April 30, 5:00 am – 6:30 am Eastern (but recorded) – Medieval Gardens, Online

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This five week online course from the Gardens Trust will be suitable for anyone curious about gardens and their stories – whether absolute beginners or those with some garden history knowledge. Running from April 14 – May 14, the course aims to help participants recognize important eras, themes and styles in mainly British garden history from the earliest times to today, grasp something of the social, economic, political and international contexts in which gardens have been created and find greater pleasure in visiting historic gardens. You can sign up for whole series or dip into individual talks. There will be opportunities to discuss issues with speakers after each talk, and short reading lists for further exploration.

Week Three on April 30 is Medieval Gardens with Katie Campbell. Little archaeological evidence remains of the gardens created between the fall of the Roman empire and the rise of the Renaissance a millennium later; luckily, illustrated prayer books and calendars from the period provide lush and detailed images which can teach us much about the medieval garden. While utilitarian plots of the peasantry focused on root vegetables and cereals, religious institutions like the ninth century St Gall monastery provided medicinal herbs and flowers for the altar as well as food for paupers and pilgrims. Meanwhile royals cavorted in pleasure grounds like those at Woodstock where Henry II wooed his mistress amid elaborate labyrinths and water gardens. This talk will explore the range and evolution of the medieval garden.

Katie Campbell is a writer and garden historian. She lectures widely, has taught at Birkbeck, Bristol and Buckingham universities; she writes for various publications, and leads art and garden tours. Her most recent book, Cultivating the Renaissance (Routledge, 2021) , explores the evolution of Renaissance ideas and aesthetics through the Medici Tuscan villas. Her previous book, British Gardens in Time (Quarto, 2014), accompanied the BBC television series. Earlier works include Paradise of Exiles (Francis Lincoln, 2009), looking at the late nineteenth century Anglo-American garden-makers in Florence, Icons of Twentieth Century Landscape Design (Frances Lincoln, 2006) and Policies and Pleasaunces (Barn Elms, 2007), a Guide to Scotland’s Gardens.

For tickets, visit www.eventbrite.co.uk Ticket holders can join each session live or view a recording for up to 2 weeks afterwards. £8 each or all 5 for £35 (Gardens Trust members £6 each or all 5 for £26.25) Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days (and again a few hours) prior to the start of the first talk (If you do not receive this link please contact us), and a link to the recorded session will be sent shortly after each session and will be available for 2 weeks.