Are you interested in using native plants in your garden? Learn how garden pros make native plants shine in the garden and what you can do to make your garden beautiful AND environmentally friendly. In this talk, we will go over specific professional planting and maintenance techniques that you can master to care for your plants and avoid the dreaded "messy looking" native plant garden. Planning and maintenance techniques we will explore include simple planting design and layout rules, how to select the right plant for the right place, and pruning techniques to manage plant growth and habit.

This program will be presented by Chelsea Ruiz, who has a deep and varied background in horticulture. She earned her Bachelor of Science in horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the past, she performed research trials at Longwood Gardens, trained in the rose gardens at Chicago Botanic Gardens, worked for organic farms, and evaluated native plants at North Creek Nurseries, a wholesale native plant nursery. She now resides in Virginia helping to care for a 5,000-acre historic private estate that contains a mixture of formal gardens, meadows, farmland, and managed forest.

Payment/Attendance notes:

• This event is free to members, $5 for visitors.

• Those who wish to create or renew membership may do so via PayPal on the Membership page of this website.

• Guests and members without a PayPal account may send a check payable to Narberth Area Garden Club to Elisabeth Burns, Membership Chair, 420 Merwyn Rd, Merion Station PA 19066. If you think your check may not be received by the date of the event, please call 484-270-8281 and leave a message with your name and email address.

• This event will be held via Zoom only. A meeting link will be sent to all current members and paid visitors the day before the meeting. Sign in begins at 6:40 pm. If you are not sure if your membership is current, please call 484-270-8281 and leave a message with your name and email address.