Events

 “Native Plant Garden Design: The Power of Our Compassionate Landscape” Presented by Maggie Reilly

Maggie will discuss the importance of planting native plants to preserve healthy, biodiverse ecosystems and create compassionate landscapes.  Beautiful, well-designed native gardens and home landscapes can enrich our lives and the lives of those around us. Maggie will show how to use native plants in traditional garden design, creating gardens that respect and sustain all living things; plants, pollinators, wildlife, and humans.

In addition to her gardening skills, Maggie is also an environmental engineer. She works on nature-based stream and floodplain restoration projects that exclusively use native plants. Gardening became an integral part of her life while growing up on the banks of the Raquette River in northern NY. As an adult, she has focused on garden design and the study of plants, taking many garden design and horticulture courses. She and her husband John are putting compassionate landscape techniques into practice, transitioning their gardens to include mainly native plants.

The Hamilton College Saturday Arboretum Series is free and open to the public. It is both in person and via Zoom. Taylor Science Center Kennedy Auditorium, Map #44 (parking behind Ferguson House off of North Road, Map #48). To register for Zoom, or to see campus map, visit https://www.hamilton.edu/arboretum/calendar. Zoom registration may not be available until a few days before the event.