Native plant seedlings, Photo by Diana Fiske
Date: Sun January 12, 2025
Time: 3:00-4:15 pm
Place: Lyme Grange Hall, 2 Sterling City Road, Lyme CT
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 Watch a slideshow to learn about the various native plants that can be grown from seed, 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 garden gloves and a good pair of scissors or sheers to cut the plastic. Other materials will be supplied.
Jim Sirch is the recently retired Education Coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is 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 also authors a weekly nature blog at www.beyondyourbackdoor.net
Co-sponsored by the Lyme Pollinator Pathway and Lyme Grange CT 147
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 Watch a slideshow to learn about the various native plants that can be grown from seed, 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 garden gloves and a good pair of scissors or sheers to cut the plastic. Other materials will be supplied.
Jim Sirch is the recently retired Education Coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is 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 also authors a weekly nature blog at www.beyondyourbackdoor.net
Co-sponsored by the Lyme Pollinator Pathway and Lyme Grange CT 147
