FREE SPEAKER SERIES: Planting with Purpose, Native Plants
Schedule
Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 09:30 am
UTC-05:00Location
Merriam Community Center | Merriam, KS
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Zach Callaway, who owns KC Native Landscapes, a native plant-based landscaping business serving the K.C. metro area, plans to talk about how native plants can be problem solvers in the landscape. His program is titled “Planting with Purpose: An Intentional Approach to Plant Selection.” The general theme is that we pick our garden plants for multiple reasons (aesthetics, site conditions, functional purpose, maintainability, and ecological role), and that the right native plant can serve all of these purposes.
Expect to see photos of examples from projects. The heavy focus will be on the ecological and maintainability benefits, and ways to use native plants in the place of common cultivars and exotic varieties.
Callaway has practical experience and advice-gathering from the region’s local grower community. When he was the program manager at After the Harvest, a local gleaning nonprofit, he visited dozens of local farms and community gardens. When helping to prep a site, harvest, or do winter clean up with these growers, it was a crash-course in all of the different techniques and approaches you can take in each part of the growing season.
Come early for coffee, treats and socializing!
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Where is it happening?
Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St,Merriam, Kansas, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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