Entrance fee: Free WEBINAR.
Pre-registration is required and opens in mid-December.
Author, photographer and landscape designer Carolyn Summers will provide an informative overview of recent research showing the many ways in which native plants form the basis of the food web that supports a healthy, pollinator-rich landscape. Her talk will cover ways to minimize damage from exotic plants, including using native substitutes for a variety of traditional styles. Examples of striking, unusual native plants used in formal settings are provided along with naturalistic styles to explore the full design potential of the native flora of the Northeast.
Carolyn Summers is the author of Designing gardens with flora of the American East. Last, her photographs grace the pages of a new book, The Pollinator Victory Gardenfrom friend and Colleague Kim Eiermann. After completing her BSLA (Landscape Architecture) degree at CCNY, she began an atypical career at the Trust for Public Land, where he produced an open space report for the Harbor Heron Project, which has led conservation efforts to create an urban conservation area Staten Island. Ms. Summers continued environmental work with the New York Department of Environmental protection as the first director of the Natural Resources Agency, including Implemented a new native plant policy for all agency construction/restoration projects. After working with New York City, she joined the Natural Resources Defense Council, Initiating a regional project to conserve and restore wildlife habitat and public access in the new York New Jersey Bay. Ms. Summers is currently Associate Professor of Go Native U, a joint Westchester Community College and Native Plant Center Continuing Ed Program project (based at Westchester Community College). She and her husband recently opened theirs Landhaus, Flying Trillium Gardens and Preserve (www.flyingtrillium.com), for public tours see above that designers, gardeners and homeowners in both are inspired by the beauty of native plants Garden and natural environments to create more of it.
DO YOU WANT TO VOLUNTEER?
We would appreciate your help with greeting visitors or with gardening. Visit our website for more information https://www.mtarboretum.org/volunteer.
POSITION: Webinar hosted by Mountain Top Arboretum
DATE: Saturday January 14, 2023 TIME: 10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m
E-MAIL: info@mtarboretum.org PHONE: 518-589-3903
WEBSITE: www.mtarboretum.org
