"Gardening for Life"
Lecture: Gardening for Life
Thursday, February 12, 7:30 pm
Science Center 101
Join us for our first collaboration with Swarthmore College’s Environmental Studies program and hear Doug Tallamy speak on the importance of our landscaping choices in improving biodiversity. With as many as 33,000 species imperiled in the U.S., it is clear that we must change our approach to landscaping if we hope to create homes and food to improve our local biodiversity. Native plants will play a key role in the restoration of our living spaces because only natives provide the coevolved relationships required by animals. By supporting a diversity of insect herbivores, native plants provide food for a large and healthy community of natural enemies that keep herbivores in balance and our gardens aesthetically pleasing.
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Feb 12, 2009
from 08:30 PM to 09:30 PM |
| Where | Science Center 101, Swarthmore College |
| Contact Name | Elizabeth Haegele |
| Contact Phone | 610-328-7339 |
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Also at Scott Arboretum:
"Nature's Narratives: Bringing Nature Home
Tuesday, February 10, 5 to 6:30 pm FULL
Scott Arboretum's Horticultural Library
Join the book discussion group "Nature's Narratives" as they discuss Bringing Nature Home. Doug Tallamy, an entomologist at the University of Delaware, wrote Bringing Nature Home as a manifesto to suburban gardeners to help them make decisions based not just on their garden’s appearance, but also how their gardens affect biodiversity and populations of insects, birds, and other mammals. Join us for the discussion of his book just two days before Doug Tallamy joins us at the Scott Arboretum for a lecture on February 12, 2009 at 7:30pm!"
