Seed Collection & Cleaning Workshop: Native Plants

Name: Seed Collection & Cleaning Workshop: Native Plants
Start: 2024-10-05T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-05T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Crandall Public Library

Schedule

Sat Oct 05 2024 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Crandall Public Library | Glens Falls, NY

Event will be at the Holden Room on the 2nd floor of Crandall Library.
Learn how to collect and store seeds from native plants! And learn how to contribute seeds to our upcoming Native Seed Swap in late November. Both events are free and open to the public.
Why use native plants?
1) Easy maintenance: Plants that originated in our region of New York are adapted to our region's climate and soil types.
2) Restores ecosystem: Aside from the European honeybee, there are hundreds of species of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators native to our region that rely on native plants to properly feed their larvae and themselves. The seeds of these plants and the greater variety of larvae they support also attract a greater variety of birds. Additionally, many native plants have root systems that help to absorb and filter water in the soil, and some species even fixate nitrogen in the soil.
Featured plants at the Collect & Cleaning workshop will include: Echinacea (purple coneflower), blazing star, goldenrod*, aster*, butterfly milkweed, rose/ swamp milkweed, yarrow, cardinal flower, blue lobelia, spotted horsemint, partridge pea, columbine*, lanceleaf coreopsis*, false sunflower*, smartweed*.
*The seed species marked with an asterisk were locally sourced in the Queensbury/ Glens Falls area.
All species except the partridge pea are perennial.
The yarrow, blue lobelia, spotted horsemint, false sunflower, partridge pea, and smartweed parent plants flowered in their first year.