Native Plant Garden Tour: Shirley and Andy's Garden
Sat, Jul 06
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Shirley and Andy come from a background in ecology (human and non-human), and were eager to add native wildflowers and grasses to their small urban yard community.
Time & Location
Jul 06, 2024, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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About the Event
Shirley and Andy come from a background in ecology (human and non-human), and were eager to add native wildflowers and grasses to their small urban yard community. They began their native garden with about 25 seedlings (ordered from Manitoba's Prairie Originals) of half a dozen species, which they selected because they had fallen in love with them on walks in native prairies. Not many of them survived.
They reassessed and realized that they needed to plant species that would grow well in our mainly sunny, very dry yard. They also realized that, although native species are "drought tolerant", their seedlings are not and needed to be watered regularly. Throughout the next few years they added more than 20 species and over 120 seedlings, watering them through their first year, talking to them as they grew, and weeding less as less as the natives grew into the soil.
Today, they have…