Designing with Native Plants
“Native plants are important for biodiversity and should be incorporated into every garden. But how does this change your garden design, or garden practices? If you have limited space, how can you use it most effectively to both support biodiversity and to be beautiful?“
After working with nonprofits for 42 years, helping them to improve service to the community by adapting their business models, Maud Lyon became an avid gardener over the past 25 years. She completed the Master Gardener course in 2014 and began to focus exclusively on native plants in 2020, inspired by Doug Tallamy and other authors of the growing native plants movement. Her own native plants garden in St. Clair Shores, now in its third season, is 95% native, including 127 native species of perennials, shrubs, and trees and over 1,850 plants. To share what she has been learning, Maud has become a frequent speaker on the topic. Maud is also vice-chair of the Belle Isle Conservancy Board. She is also currently administering Forgotten Harvest’s Partner Agency Capacity Grant Program helping food pantries in Metro Detroit improve access to healthy foods.
Friday, September 15 at 1:00 p.m. in the War Memorial Dining and Reception Rooms.
Enjoy a sumptuous Tea, catch up with friends, find out our judges’ top three designs for 2023, and learn how to creatively add native plants into your garden from our featured speaker.
Registration: admission is free to members and non-members, advanced registration requested. Please register no later than Wednesday, September 6 by email at gpgardencenter@outlook.com or call (313) 499-0743.