Saturday Garden Seminar
Featured Speakers -
* Dragons, Damsels & Hummers: Learning, Loving & Luring The beauty and unique behaviors of dragonflies, damselflies & hummingbirds are incredibly interesting and useful, especially in the home garden habitat. In this program, you will learn more about these charming and helpful creatures including their natural history and ideas for how to attract them to the home garden habitat. Judy Semroc is the founder of Chrysalis in Time, the first Ohio chapter of the North American Butterfly Association. She also serves on the board of the Ohio Ornithological Society and the Ohio Biological Survey.
*How Not to Kill Your Houseplants. Learn how to become a better houseplant parent by rejecting rampant myths, learning the core basics of plant care, and making your own observations. It’s time to go back to the basics and cut our all the myths that are proliferating online about plant care. Raffaele Di Lallo is the author of Houseplant Warrior:
*Plant by Numbers: Protecting Pollinators One Garden at a Time. One in every three bites of food we take can be traced back to animal pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Who are these vital creatures, what exactly do they do, and how are they threatened? This program will feature OSU’s Plant by Numbers program, with six themes using native perennials in simple garden designs to attract pollinators. The Plant by Numbers garden guides include garden strategies and “garden-worthy” plants to support these important creatures. Denise R. Ellsworth directs pollinator education programming through the OSU Dept. of Entomology, a position she has held since 2012.
*Ohio’s Amazing Bats: What They Do for Us – What We Can Do for Them. Bats provide numerous little-known benefits to humans and their presence is imperative to both healthy ecosystems and our food production. In this presentation learn about bats and their taxonomy. Review the impact of White Nose Syndrome and the conservation status of Ohio’s bats. Todd will discuss bat research methods including new techniques now being used in the Discover Bats Ohio research project. The presentation will conclude with a recipe for a healthy backyard ecosystem. Native plants and insects such as mosquitoes, skink bugs and other unwanted pests provide a continuous diet bats find so delectable.
Todd Cartner has degrees in both Mechanical and Computer Science and worked for nearly 40 years in Northeast Ohio as an engineer, scientist, and clinical research director. Both Todd and his wife (Ann) are Ohio Certified Volunteer Naturalists (OCVN). The presentation will conclude with a recipe for a healthy backyard ecosystem. Native plants and insects such as mosquitoes, skink bugs and other unwanted pests provide a continuous diet bats find so delectable. Bats do so much for us – so let’s talk about what we can do for them! Todd Cartner has degrees in both Mechanical and Computer Science and worked for nearly 40 years in Northeast Ohio as an engineer, scientist, and clinical research director. Both Todd and his wife (Ann) are Ohio Certified Volunteer Naturalists (OCVN).
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