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Environmental Landscaping: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards Invite birds and butterflies into the home garden! Program & Talk, Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:00 to 9:00 PM Brighton Town Hall auditorium, 2300 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY 14618.
Can your yard become a sanctuary for birds and butterflies? Would you like to convert a traditional yard to a wildlife habitat? Would you like to “give back” to the earth some of what has been taken away? Late winter is a prefect time for planning your spring and summer garden. Our program will feature techniques to transform your garden into a more natural environment. Even a modest beginning will be rewarded. A National Wildlife Federation “Backyard Wildlife Habitat” video will explain how habitats have been established by individual homeowners, by schools and by large corporations. Sara Rubin, our wetlands co-chairperson and habitat gardener, will speak about her small certified Backyard Habitat, and will give an illustrated presentation on what is needed for successful habitat, such as food, water, cover, rock, wood, and brush piles and the use of native plants. Specific information like the very best plants to attract songbirds, hummingbirds, butterflies, amphibians and other animals will be discussed. Whether you have sandy soil or clay, sun or shade, suggestions for plantings abound. Small garden ponds draw frogs breeding in the spring, and drinking water for birds in the summer. Do you like to see butterflies in your garden? Would you even like to raise butterflies? With the proper larval and nectar food plantings you can! And place-based plantings, more native shrubs, trees and herbs, can usher in a new era of less pesticide and herbicide use. Laura Arney will introduce a new concept from Michigan, “Rain Gardens”. By taking advantage of a depression in the yard or constructing a low area, these rain gardens, planted with native wetland plants, help recharge the ground water, reduce run-off into storm drains, and become valuable habitat themselves.
* Sources for native plants, titles of helpful books and publications and other information will also be available.
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