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Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
This workshop is SOLD OUT!
Back by popular demand!
Just in time to plan for the fall planting season, the Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension will offer a workshop on Landscaping for Pollinators and Other Wildlife on Friday September 13, 2024. The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center in Pittsboro. See photos from the Fall 2023 Workshop and Native Plant Sale at the bottom of this page.
Chatham County Agricultural Extension Agent Debbie Roos will share lessons learned during her 16 years of experience designing and managing the popular Pollinator Paradise Demonstration Garden in Pittsboro that features over 225 species of perennials, 85% of them native to North Carolina. Debbie will talk about design principles but focus on the practical such as winning plant combinations and the best pollinator plants for each season. Participants will be given the tools to create a basic pollinator garden design that can be planted at their farm or home landscape.
Topics include:
- General Guidelines for Pollinator Gardens
- Debbie’s Top 25 Native Pollinator Plants
- Beyond Pollinators: Planting for Birds, Herps, and other Wildlife
- Tools for Selecting Plants
- Designing your Garden
- Winning Plant Combinations
- “Wild” Pollinator Gardens
- Garden Installation and Maintenance
- Resources
The workshop will include hands-on pollinator garden design practice.
The workshop will conclude with a native plant sale featuring our four Chatham County native plant nurseries:
Pre-registration is required. The deadline for registration is September 4. The cost for the workshop is $60 and includes a light breakfast, catered lunch, and extensive handouts created as tools to help with plant selection and garden design.
Click here to register for this workshop. This workshop is SOLD OUT. Email Debbie to be added to her email list for future workshop opportunities.
About the Speaker:
Debbie Roos has been the Sustainable Agriculture Agent for the Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension for 25 years where she is responsible for programming in the areas of commercial vegetable production, organic production, pollinator conservation, and beekeeping. Debbie worked for three years as an Agroforestry Extension Agent and Technical Trainer for the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa, and later completed graduate degrees in applied anthropology and horticulture at the University of Florida. Debbie delivers educational programming to growers through regular workshops and webinars and her award-winning Growing Small Farms website. Debbie is passionate about pollinator conservation and created a demonstration Pollinator Paradise Garden that is used for education and outreach. In 2019 Debbie received the Governor’s Conservation Achievement Award as the Wildlife Conservationist of the Year from the North Carolina Wildlife Federation.
Workshop Feedback
When this workshop was last conducted in the fall of 2023, 100% of participants said they felt prepared to design, plant, and maintain their own pollinator garden as a result of what they learned.
Here’s a sampling of what participants said about Debbie’s Landscaping for Pollinators workshop in 2023:
- The workshop gave me the knowledge and tools to apply blooming season, texture, color, and layers to landscaping design.
- The handouts are priceless! They’ll be something to constantly refer to.
- I really enjoyed all the practical, accessible instruction and recommendations around how to go about designing a garden and the chance to work on a design while all that was fresh in mind.
- The workshop gave me a much greater appreciation of the diversity of pollinators and some of their requirements. I think this will help me create a better habitat in my yard.
- I am excited about the detailed information you gave about the plants that will help me choose what is appropriate for my landscape, space, sun exposure, color, seasons, all of that and the suggestions for how to manage it. I can’t wait to design and modify my gardens based on the information learned in the workshop!
Contact Debbie Roos if you have any questions about the workshop.
Participants from the Fall 2023 Pollinator Workshop working on their garden designs. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Growing Wild Nursery and Rachel’s Native Plants at the native plant sale. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Mellow Marsh Farm at the native plant sale. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Dutch Buffalo Farm at the native plant sale. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Visit the Pollinator Paradise Garden website to view snapshots from the garden through the seasons. Below are a few photos of the garden.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pollinator Paradise Garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
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