How Native Plant Cultivars Affect Pollinators, a talk by Annie White
When:
Wednesday, Apr 05, 2017 7:00p -
8:30p
Wednesday, Apr 05, 2017 7:00p -
8:30p
Where:
Grow Native Massachusetts at the Cambridge Public Library
449 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Innovation, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
http://grownativemass.org/programs/eveningswithexperts
Presented by Grow Native Massachusetts
Initiatives to address pollinator decline are widespread and native plants are the preferred choice for pollinator habitat restoration. The growing demand for natives, coupled with a longstanding desire of horticulturalists for enhanced bloom, color, or other characteristics, has led to the increased selection and breeding of native cultivars. Although these cultivars are typically marketed for their ecological benefits, until now there have been no scientific studies to support or refute these claims. So are native cultivars as valuable in pollinator habitat gardens as the true native species? Annie White will help answer this question by sharing the results of four years of field data. Her research is groundbreaking and remarkable.
Annie White is the founder of Nectar Landscape Design Studio and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Vermont. She earned her MS in Landscape Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her recent PhD in Plant & Soil Science from the University of Vermont was focused on this exceptional new research on native plant cultivars.
CEUs Available: APLD (1.5 credits); NOFA-AOLCP (4 credits)
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