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Grow Native Series
How To Build a Native Forest In Your Front Yard

Learn about why and how to use native Virginia plants in your landscape

If you’ve heard that using native plants in your yard helps improve the environment for everyone, but are not sure why or how to do that, this series of webinars brings you up to speed on ways to turn your home garden into a native-friendly, sustainable and resilient habitat for birds and other wildlife.

This virtual series is presented via Zoom.

$10 covers the entire series. Attend each program or pick and choose your topics. Another series will be offered this fall to help you continue your efforts and prepare for the winter.

The Plant Virginia Natives Landscaping with Natives webinar series is coordinated and funded, in part, by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program through grants from the NOAA Office for Coastal Management to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

The webinar is also being sponsored and hosted by Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and Blue Ridge PRISM.

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Date:
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Event Details

Grow Native Jim McGloneNovember 9, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. 
How To Build a Native Forest In Your Front Yard

Jim McGlone

Learn about forest layers and how to select species for your front yard forest.  Also learn about what to look for when buying a tree or shrub and how to plant them when you get them home.

 

 

 

 

 

Jim McGlone has a PhD in Human Ecology (aka Economics) from Virginia Tech and a Master’s Certificate in Environmental Law and Policy from the USDA Graduate School. He has taught economics at Virginia Tech, Ohio State and Northern Illinois University, and done research at the Economic Research Service of the USDA. A self-taught naturalist and ecologist, he has managed the natural resources of a 500 acre park in Fairfax County and is currently an Urban Forest Conservationist with the Virginia Department of Forestry in Northern Virginia. He and his wife have been practicing conservation landscaping since 2005 and eliminated turf grass from their property in 2008.

 

 

 

Banner photo above courtesy of Jan Newton

 

Grow Natives Series