“Native Plants in the Landscape” by Dave Allen, Thursday, Feb. 10

February 3, 2022 1:30 am
“Native Plants in the Landscape” is the topic of botanist Dave Allen’s Zoom presentation, Thursday, Feb. 10, noon – 1 p.m. via Zoom as part of the Clallam County Master Gardeners’ Green Thumb educational series. Photo by Dave Allen
“Native Plants in the Landscape” is the topic of botanist Dave Allen’s Zoom presentation, Thursday, Feb. 10, noon – 1 p.m. via Zoom as part of the Clallam County Master Gardeners’ Green Thumb educational series. Photo by Dave Allen

Including native plants in your garden is a beautiful way to help support pollinators, provide shelter for wildlife and offer help to problem areas in your green spaces. Discover more about how native plants can help enhance habitat values in your landscape with botanist Dave Allen Thursday, Feb. 10, from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom as part of the Clallam County Master Gardeners’ Green Thumb Gardening Tips educational series.

Dave will discuss ways to include native plants in your landscapes that are valuable in supporting insects vital to the food web and how, with correct maintenance practices, these plants can aid in supporting local wildlife populations. He believes that any effort to include native species matters, “Any small acts made to enhance habitat (both for plants and animals) is of increasing importance.” Dave will also highlight a number of plants native to the Olympic Peninsula that help create sustainable, integral landscapes which in turn provide increased habitat and aesthetic value.

Dave has worked in habitat restoration, revegetation and native plant propagation for over 35 years. He has earned a degree in botany, as well as teaching credentials in vocational agriculture (horticulture) and biology. Dave worked with an environmental consulting firm in California in 1985 performing restoration and revegetation work in various habitats such as coastal sand dunes, Monterey pine, oak woodlands, sand parkland, riparian, freshwater and saltwater marshes, vernal pools and Mojave Desert. He was also a botanist for the National Park Service and worked on the Elwha Dam removal revegetation project as well as other smaller projects for Olympic National Park. Dave established the Shore Road Nursery which focuses on growing plants native to the Olympic Peninsula.

Join by going to https://wsu.zoom.us/j/92007991742?pwd=OWxtbmNBditKd3ordjA2WEFyME9PUT09 and selecting the Master Gardener Zoom Presentation Link

Meeting ID: 920 0799 1742 Passcode: 709395

Or join by phone: 253-215-8782

The “Green Thumbs Garden Tips” education series, sponsored by the WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners, is held on the second and fourth Thursday each month through October. In November, December, and January, one lecture is offered. Scheduled presentations are subject to change. Visit the WSU Extension Clallam County website calendar for the latest information on upcoming presentations. For questions, call 360-565-2679.