Events
Going Native: A Case For Native Plants And Native Landscapes
Date and Time
Thursday, August 8, 2019 8:00 PM
Description
Speaker: Wesley Landon, Landscape Architect, Native Edge, LLC
Native plants are the bedrock of our ecosystem and are critical to the health and resilience of the natural world and our own. Native plants provide vital ecosystem functions and have co-evolved with native plants and wildlife which otherwise could not survive without their native host plants. Tragically, traditional landscaping and horticultural practices largely focus on exotic (non-native) and highly genetically modified plants to achieve certain aesthetic function while displacing insects and wildlife that depend on their native host plants to grow and reproduce. As humans develop more and more land, this is causing pollinators and insects to disappear, which is having a cascading effect on the rest of the ecosystem. But there is hope! This talk will cover what native plants are, why they’re important, and how we can create landscapes for humans and wildlife.
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