Partnering With Native Plants
Rick Darke presents Putting Wildness to Work in the Living Landscape at Triton College on February 11th, 2017 at the West Cook Wild Ones conference.
“No garden is an island. And no plant exists on its own. Everything is part of the living landscape.””
The 2nd West Cook Wild Ones conference The Beautifully Natural Garden: Partnering With Native Plants hosted Rick Darke and Heather Holmes at Triton College on February 11th, 2017. Rick Dark, an award-winning landscape architect and co-author with Doug Tallamy of The Living Landscape, presented Putting Wildness to Work in the Living Landscape. Rick lead a visually stimulating and very thought provoking presentation on how landscapes are interconnected and that we can create the beauty of "nature" in our own yard. By doing so we reduce maintenance, reduce carbon emissions, increase biodiversity and create an interconnected environment based on relationships between plants and animals. Special thanks to Pam Todd and all of the West Cook Wild Ones volunteers who helped.
Heather Holmes, author of Pollinators of Native Plants, presented about how to consider native bees in our landscapes. Heather owns a Minnetonka-based landscape design and consulting firm specializing in pollinator landscapes and native landscape restorations. She is currently working with the University of Minnesota Extension faculty on a three year study to determine the types of native bees that visit cultivated blueberries in Minnesota.
