Date/Time
02/20/2024
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location
Autumn Grove Park
1365 Lydia Avenue West, Roseville
Looking Forward to a Livelier Landscape
Indigenous plant-based landscapes. The best is yet to come…
Presented by Alan Branhagen
Executive Director of the Natural Land Institute in Rockford, Illinois
On line presentation by Minnesota Chapters of Wild Ones, with co-host Big River Big Woods. Hosted on Zoom with an in-person watch party at Autumn Grove in Roseville. Zoom link.
We are members of Wild Ones because we need Nature close by to enrich our lives. This program provides some additional ideas about how we can capture the spirit of our place and bring more nature into our landscapes. Insects run the world after plants. Learn about some keystone plants to nurture more insects and create a more sustainable landscape. Know maintenance that embraces Nature to create a flourishing ecosystem: what does it take to have a diversity of bees, butterflies and moths at one’s home? Lastly, have faith in a seed, understand that plants migrate and know if you plant it they (nature!) will come. Let’s have fun and bloom where we’re planted!
About the speaker:
Alan Branhagen is the Executive Director of the Natural Land Institute in Rockford, Illinois: one of the nation’s first land trusts and organization whose founder, George Fell, started the legally protected concept of nature preserves beginning with the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission 60 years ago. NLI has been responsible for protecting over 18,000 acres of natural land, mainly in Northern Illinois.
Alan was Director of Operations at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul (America’s 15th largest public botanical garden) from 2017-2023 where he managed Horticulture, Plant Curation, and Natural Resource Management of the 1,200-acre site as well as its over 200,000 square feet of Facilities.
Alan has a Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from Iowa State University and a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University. He is an all-around plantsman and naturalist specializing in birds, butterflies, botany, and planning and design with nature. He is the author of 3 books: The Gardeners Butterfly Book, Native Plants of the Midwest and The Midwest Native Plant Primer.