Native plant seedlings, Photo by Diana Fiske
Date: Sat January 21, 2023
Time: 3:00 pm
Place: Hadlyme Public Hall, 63 Ferry Road, Lyme
Contact Email:
lymepollinator@gmail.com
!!! seems it only displays well the 2nd time? ugh.
Including native plants in your garden is a great way to help pollinators. Expand your native plantings inexpensively by growing them yourself from seed. Join the Lyme Pollinator Pathway for this workshop with Jim Sirch where we’ll discover different germination requirements for different kinds of seeds and learn hands-on how to plant a plastic gallon jug filled with a seed selection to stratify over the winter. Proper after-care will be discussed.
Space is limited. Registration required: lymepollinator@gmail.com
Save your empty gallon plastic milk/cider jugs. There will be a few plastic jugs available for those without. Bring a good pair of scissors or sheers to cut the plastic. Other materials will be supplied.
Jim Sirch is the Education Coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Jim was past president and currently on the board of the Hamden Land Conservation Trust and the CT Native Plant Working Group. A certified CT Master Gardener, Jim gives talks throughout the state on gardening for pollinators and growing native plants from seed and is dedicated to helping improve backyard biodiversity. Jim was featured in the Members Making a Difference section of the Summer 2016 issue of the American Horticultural Society’s American Gardener magazine. Jim also authors a weekly nature blog called Beyond Your Back Door.
Co-sponsored by Lyme Pollinator Pathway, Lyme Land Trust, and Lyme Garden Club
Including native plants in your garden is a great way to help pollinators. Expand your native plantings inexpensively by growing them yourself from seed. Join the Lyme Pollinator Pathway for this workshop with Jim Sirch where we’ll discover different germination requirements for different kinds of seeds and learn hands-on how to plant a plastic gallon jug filled with a seed selection to stratify over the winter. Proper after-care will be discussed.
Space is limited. Registration required: lymepollinator@gmail.com
Save your empty gallon plastic milk/cider jugs. There will be a few plastic jugs available for those without. Bring a good pair of scissors or sheers to cut the plastic. Other materials will be supplied.
Jim Sirch is the Education Coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Jim was past president and currently on the board of the Hamden Land Conservation Trust and the CT Native Plant Working Group. A certified CT Master Gardener, Jim gives talks throughout the state on gardening for pollinators and growing native plants from seed and is dedicated to helping improve backyard biodiversity. Jim was featured in the Members Making a Difference section of the Summer 2016 issue of the American Horticultural Society’s American Gardener magazine. Jim also authors a weekly nature blog called Beyond Your Back Door.
Co-sponsored by Lyme Pollinator Pathway, Lyme Land Trust, and Lyme Garden Club
