Join us for “Native Plants in the Landscape” presented by Dave Allen from Shore Road Nursery.

Find a direct link to the Zoom presentation here.

The Zoom Meeting ID is: 920 0799 1742
Passcode: 709395

Including native plants in your garden is a beautiful way to help support pollinators, provide shelter for wildlife and offer help to problem areas in your green spaces. Discover more about how native plants can help enhance habitat values in your landscape with botanist Dave Allen Thursday, February 10, 2022, from noon to 1:00 p.m. via Zoom as part of the Clallam County Master Gardeners’ Green Thumb Gardening Tips educational series.

Dave will discuss ways to include native plants in your landscapes that are valuable in supporting insects vital to the food web and how, with correct maintenance practices, these plants can aid in supporting local wildlife populations. He believes that any effort to include native species matters, “Any small acts made to enhance habitat (both for plants and animals) is of increasing importance.” Dave will also highlight a number of plants native to the Olympic Peninsula that help create sustainable, integral landscapes which in turn provide increased habitat and aesthetic value.

Dave has worked in habitat restoration, revegetation and native plant propagation for over 35 years. He has earned a degree in botany, as well as teaching credentials in vocational agriculture (horticulture) and biology. Dave worked with an environmental consulting firm in California in 1985 performing restoration and revegetation work in various habitats such as coastal sand dunes, Monterey pine, oak woodlands, sand parkland, riparian, freshwater and saltwater marshes, vernal pools and Mojave Desert. He was also a botanist for the National Park Service and worked on the Elwha Dam removal re-vegetation project as well as other smaller projects for Olympic National Park. Dave established the Shore Road Nursery which focuses on growing plants native to the Olympic Peninsula.

Green Thumb Education Series Presentations are held from 12 to 1 pm on the second and fourth Thursdays of most months. Talks are currently only being offered by online streaming, due to current social distancing concerns with COVID-19. Please see instructions for accessing the live stream. Presentations and associated printed materials will be archived on the local articles and archived presentations portion of our website. These events are free, but donations to help support the WSU Clallam County Extension Master Gardener program are appreciated.