PHS Flower Show Presentations

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Expand Your Gardening Knowledge

Back for its second year! Immerse yourself in our engaging speaker series, Know to Grow, which tackles hot-topics like what the future of gardening will entail – from innovative planting techniques to climate change. This educational series is free with your Flower Show ticket.

Enjoy two separate presentations from WCT Staff

March 3rd | 12-1 pm | Don’t Go With the Flow of Climate Change: Planting Beautiful Green Spaces for Healthy Waterways and Climate Resilience

Lecture by Lauren McGrath

What is the link between Flowers and Fish and how do beautiful landscapes benefit waterways? As climate uncertainty becomes a reality in the mid-Atlantic region, explore how we can plant our landscapes to create resilient ecosystems and habitats to protect our streamside communities. Understand the connection between land and water and learn how we can strategically restore the water’s edge to strengthen our ties to the landscape, from fragile headwaters all the way downstream to the powerful bays and estuaries on the coast. We all have a role to play in understanding, creating, and caring for these dynamic systems and building climate resilience in local communities. Attendees will learn more about freshwater ecosystems, riparian habitats, and what role they can play in studying, saving, and restoring this dynamic system for future generations.

March 3rd | 2-3 pm | There’s Beauty in the Brambles: How your yard can provide habitat for the birds that you love

Lecture by Blake Goll and Shelly Eshleman

Our yards provide a sanctuary for us to unwind at the end of a long day, but they also represent an opportunity to provide potentially crucial habitat for all of the species that keep our ecosystems healthy. Education Programs Manager, Blake Goll, and Motus Avian Research Coordinator, Shelly Eshleman, will discuss the many ways homeowners can employ their yards to help reverse some of the habitat loss that imperils ecosystem function and food webs today. By especially honing in on the needs of birds, we find that conservation of biodiversity becomes easier to tackle. People naturally identify with birds, such as the Eastern Towhee, which has become our focal species for preserving unpopular shrubland habitat that Shelly’s research has proven to be critical. This talk will help attendees see their yards and gardens from a bird’s eye perspective that benefits all living things.

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