Events

All members are welcome at chapter Board business meetings. Email chapter in advance to receive Zoom link if you wish to attend.

Explore the challenges that shifts in climate and the tendency for more extreme weather events pose to garden design, maintenance and plant health.  Learn strategies for creating garden spaces that are more resilient to our increasingly unpredictable weather.

Full-day conference includes morning coffee/continental breakfast, four speakers, lunch and a panel discussion.  This annual conference is organized and hosted by Connecticut College Arboretum and sponsored in part by Wild Ones Mountain Laurel Chapter. 

Session Topics & Speakers

Resilient Coastal Landscape Design:  A Multi-pronged Approach to Heal, Protect and Enhance Shoreline Ecosystems
Tara Mahobn VIncenta, PLA, FASLA
Artemis Landscape Architects

Climate Forward Tree Care
Christopher Roddick
Sweet Birch Land & Tree

Brave New World for a Coastal Forest
Juliana Barrett, PhD
Connecticut Sea Grant, University of Connecticut 

Rain, Rain, Go Away:  Reducing Runoff One Garden at. Time
Nicole Davis
Save the Sound

Seating is limited.  Registration: $70 ($60 for members of Connecticut College Arboretum or Wild Ones)
A limited number of free or subsidized registrations are available to students, non-profits and emerging industry professionals.  

NOTE:  Both buttons take you to the SALT conference webpage, where you will find full session descriptions, speaker bios and registration instructions.

Discover the power of ecological garden design in this free national webinar, Living in the Liberated Landscape: My Yard, with award-winning landscape designer Larry Weaner. Join us for a personal look at how dynamic, self-sustaining landscapes can emerge when we partner with nature instead of controlling it. Drawing on more than 35 years of experience, Larry will share practical strategies for designing dynamic gardens that evolve naturally, support biodiversity, and bring lasting beauty to your yard.

All members are welcome at chapter Board business meetings. Email chapter in advance to receive Zoom link if you wish to attend.

Designing with native plants isn’t just about what you grow, it’s about how you shape your space. In this hands-on workshop, Zoe Evans (Plan it Wild) and Heather Evans (Design Your Wild) guide you through the process of creating a cohesive yard plan that supports both your lifestyle and biodiversity.

Including native plants in your garden is an important way to provide food and habitat for pollinators.  You can expand your native plantings inexpensively by growing them yourself from seed.  In this workshop, we’ll discuss the germination requirements for different species and get you fully prepared for next season. You will be able to take home a plastic milk jug planter filled with a native seed selection to stratify over the winter and germinate in the spring. Proper after care of young seedlings will also be shared. Bring a one-gallon plastic milk jug if you have one.

Your instructor will be Jim Sirch, a trained Naturalist and President of the Connecticut Horticultural Society.  He recently retired from the Yale Peabody Museum. Jim is a UConn Master Gardener and board member of his local land trust and the Mountain Laurel chapter of Wild Ones. As a naturalist, he brings a deep understanding of geology, plants and wildlife and how they interact within a particular ecosystem. Jim is passionate about helping others decrease their lawn and re-wild their yard. He co-founded a native plant seed library at his local public library. Jim also authors a nature blog called Beyond Your Back Door at www.beyondyourbackdoor.com.

The program will be held in the Farmhouse.  Registration is required since space is limited.

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Details coming soon! This will be a paid webinar with all proceeds supporting the Seeds for Education Program. 

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Details coming soon! 

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