MK Nature Center Auditorium, Idaho Fish and Game
600 South Walnut Avenue (behind Fish and Game Headquarters)
7 p.m. Thursday, April 21, 2005
Urban Landscape Restoration Using Native Plants
Steve Paulsen, restoration ecologist and Loasa Chapter president, tells why “water conservation the native way” is the byword of Conservation Seeding & Restoration, Inc. The 3-year-old firm, of which Paulsen is an owner, uses native plants and low-water turfgrasses to restore landscapes on large and small scales. Paulsen will describe his approach to both design and stewardship, display his work, and discuss how five-year “stewardship contracts” commit many of his clients to stabilizing their landscapes. “There’s tons of interest and more all of the time,” he says. “We offer an entirely new plant palette that ironically has been here for millennia.”
10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, April 23
Annual Native Plant Sale
(also at the MK Nature Center)
This long-ingly awaited annual event, co-sponsored by the Idaho Earth Institute, will feature such garden-worthy species as small-leaved pussy-toes, prairie smoke, Munro globemallow, serviceberry, oakleaf sumac, bitterbrush, blue/firecracker/shrubby penstemon, and MANY more. Donations of natives from members’ landscapes should broaden the selection considerably. To help during the sale or to make offerings from your own garden, contact Ann DeBolt before April 23 at tortugaland at aol dot com or 384-1244 in Boise.