From noon until 3:00 pm
At Gardens around Watertown - SEE MAP
Friends of Bees and Watertown Community Gardens present the next Life-Friendly Garden Tour: Making Our Gardens Part of Homegrown National Park.
Sunday, September 8 from noon to 3 pm. A social hour will follow at Watertown Free Public Library from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm.
We will explore how our gardens are part of Homegrown National Park.
Homegrown National Park is a national challenge raised by University of Delaware professor and best-selling author Doug Tallamy. By reducing lawn, removing invasive plants, and planting keystone native plants, we can increase habitat and enjoy nature at home. If we replaced half of what is now lawn nationwide, that could restore roughly 20 million acres -- an area larger than any single National Park -- to diverse ecosystems. For example, if you have room to plant a new tree, an oak will have immense benefit for biodiversity. Our own Garden Tour is all about using no chemicals, leaving the leaves, and adding "soft landings" under trees for overwintering insects. And anyone can help by using motion-detecting lights at night or simply turning them off.
And now the map is available!
A printable version of the map is available as a brochure here. Please refer to the online map for full descriptions of the gardens.
For details, please visit the Garden Tour page here.