** HOME SWEET SANCTUARY **

 Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 6 PM in Wood Library, Canandaigua, NY

Third floor Ewing Room

Noreen Riordan of Birdsong Landscape Design is an ecological landscape designer, professional gardener and ISA Certified Arborist looking for opportunities to reach out to the gardening community to spread the word about home gardening for and with nature. Her presentation titled Home Sweet Sanctuary makes the case for keeping some of the plants you may already have as well as how and why to carefully select natives to improve the ecology of the property.  This event is free and open  all.

The weather outside was frightful yet Noreen ventured down from Henrietta to share her presentation with nine others.  She was a wealth of information and encouraging to start with what you have towards getting rid of lawn and inviting pollinators and habitats over time.  

Here are some resources Noreen shared with us:

            BRAIDING SWEETGRASS Robin Wall Kimmerer

BRINGING NATURE HOME DOug Tallamy
WORDS THAT COME BEFORE ALL ELSE Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force
FINDING THE MOTHER TREE Suzanne Simard
THE HUMANE GARDENER Nancy Lawson
TO SPEAK FOR THE TREES Diana Beresford-Kroeger
NOAH’S GARDEN Sara Stein
PRAIRIE UP Benjamin Vogt
THE NORTHEAST PLANT PRIMER Uli Lorimer
NATIVE PLANT AGRICULTURE Solomon Gamboa and Austin Miller

             ladybird johnson wildflower center: www.wildflower.org