Sponsored by The LBA Environmental Committee and Newcomers Club
Saturday, April 16th at Beach 5, 3 - 6 p.m.
Tree planting at 2:30
Earth Day is for Gardeners of all Ages
- Tree Planting at Beach 5 from 2: 30 - 3:00 p.m. Come early and learn how to plant a tree and bare root seedlings. We will be planting several trees and bareroot seedlings on the Beach 5 peninsula to give back to Mother Earth and to our Community. Please join us at 2:30.
- Join an Ambassador from Audubon at Home and learn ways to attract wildlife to your garden. Find out how you can certify your own backyard as a Wildlife Sanctuary; this is a great summer project for the whole family! Program begins at 3:30.
- Tour the award winning RPA (Resource Protection Area) Demonstration Garden with Lake Barcroft Master Gardeners and get ecosavvy answers to all your gardening questions. Sign up for handouts on a variety of garden topics. 3 - 5 p.m.
- Join Cindy Gimbel, Director of Green Spring's Children's Programs, from 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. to learn about Earthworms, nature's own recyclers, and learn how they can help your garden.
- Plants, Plants, Plants! Find a fabulous selection of native perennials, shrubs, and trees that are looking for new homes! A small donation is requested. A few of our special offerings include:
- Spicebush with spicily fragrant leaves and bark, early spring flowers, and fall fruit that attracts a variety of birds to your garden, and if that isn't enough, it is the host of the beautiful and rare spicebush swallowtail butterfly.
- Or try a beautiful Red Twigged dogwood to spice up your winter landscape and attract birds and butterflies.
- Or be the first to own an incredible PawPaw tree with the largest edible berry in North America. This lovely small tree is the larval host for the rare zebra swallowtail.
- Or plant a giant Sycamore that can grow up to 6' a year and light up a winter landscape with its gorgeous white bark.
- Also majestic Black Oaks that thrive naturally in challenging dry soils, or the lovely small Ironwood with sinuous gray bark.
- Also beautiful perennials from the RPA garden like: Blue Phlox, Goldenrod, Beebalm, Wild Bergamot, Black-eyed Susans and much more.
- Enter our raffle, and win a beautiful flowering tree, special plants, birdhouses, gardening books, and beautiful handmade gifts and artwork.