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Tag: Nectar Landscape Design Studio

  • Wednesday, July 11, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Pollinate New England Garden Installation Workshop

    Pollinate New England is an initiative to raise awareness of the steep decline in the insects, birds, and other animals that pollinate our plants and crops, and to encourage people to use native plants in their gardens to create habitat for these critical species. Attend a local, hands-on gardening installation workshop on Wednesday, July 11 from 1 – 4 with Mark Richardson, Director of the New England Wild Flower Society, and Annie White, horticultural research at University of Vermont and owner of NECTAR Landscape Design Studio, to learn about the plight of pollinators and the great garden plants native to your eco-region that best support them. Free. The workshop will take place at the South Shore Natural Science Center, 48 Jacobs Lane in Norwell, Massachusetts, which is a co-sponsor of the event. Register at http://www.newenglandwild.org/learn/our-programs/pollinate-new-england-garden-installation-workshop-ssymca-south-shore-natural-science-center

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  • Wednesday, April 5, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – How Native Plant Cultivars Affect Pollinators

    On Wednesday, April 5 at 7 pm at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway in Cambridge, Grow Native Massachusetts presents a free talk by Annie White, a Landscape Designer and University of Vermont Adjunct Professor.

    Initiatives to address pollinator decline are widespread and native plants are the preferred choice for pollinator habitat restoration. The growing demand for natives, coupled with a longstanding desire of horticulturalists for enhanced bloom, color, or other characteristics, has led to the increased selection and breeding of native cultivars. Although these cultivars are typically marketed for their ecological benefits, until now there have been no scientific studies to support or refute these claims. So are native cultivars as valuable in pollinator habitat gardens as the true native species?

    Annie White will help answer this question by sharing the results of four years of field data. Her research is groundbreaking and remarkable. She is the founder of Nectar Landscape Design Studio and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Vermont. She earned her MS in Landscape Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her recent PhD in Plant & Soil Science from the University of Vermont was focused on this exceptional new research on native plant cultivars. For more information visit http://grownativemass.org.