Keynote speaker Alan Branhagen, director of horticulture at Powell Gardens, will be introducing his new book, Native Plants of the Midwest (Timber Press).
Schedule:
- 1-3 PM – tour the Whitmire Wildflower Garden and visit exhibits
- 3 PM – social, music, light food and refreshments
- 4 PM – keynote address by Alan Branhagen
Exhibitors include:
- Conversations with native plant expert & acclaimed author Alan Branhagen
- Live music in the Garden: Nathan Gilberg, Matt Rowland and Friends
- Face-time with SNR horticulture staff in the Whitmire Wildflower Garden
- Flower arrangements & bush honeysuckle control with SNR horticulture staff
- Butterfly host plants with Wild Ones St. Louis
- Backyard consults with Audubon’s Bring Conservation Home
- Monarch butterflies and home garden soil tests with MO Master Naturalists
- Native landscape solutions with Grow Native!
- Food for birds with Wild Bird Rehabilitation
- Insect hotels with Perennial
- Bush honeysuckle tables with Dale Dufer
- Pottery and throwing techniques with The Art Center at Gilbergs
- Asian carp nuggets and real lemonade served by SNR Horticulture Volunteers
- Wine by the glass or bottle with Edg-Clif Vineyard
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP to Besa Schweitzer at besa.schweitzer@mobot.org
Free willow seedlings (prairie, sandbar and diamond) to the first 100 attendees. Doug Tallamy says 456 species of caterpillars feed on willow!!
This will serve as our October meeting.