WHPS Program: Creating Pollinator Habitat in the Community - the Northeast Wisconsin Pollinator Corr

Name: WHPS Program: Creating Pollinator Habitat in the Community - the Northeast Wisconsin Pollinator Corr
Start: 2025-11-19T18:30:00-06:00
Location: Olbrich Botanical Gardens

Schedule

Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Olbrich Botanical Gardens | Madison, WI

IN PERSON & ON YOUTUBE: Speak Mark Konlock is Director of Horticulture at the Green Bay Botanical Garden. Mark will share the efforts that the Green Bay Botanical Garden, the Green Bay Conservation Corps, and other groups have been partnering on to connect insect habitat in the Green Bay area. He will show the larger scale plantings the Garden has been working on, on and off the grounds of GBBG and how we are connecting plants and people throughout our community. Learn how you too can make a difference by adding plants native to Wisconsin to your garden, area parks, or anywhere you can get the buy-in to make change happen!
Konlock has bachelors’ degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Horticulture from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He was a consulting engineer for 3.5 years. Realizing engineering was not his passion, he returned to college to study horticulture. He served briefly as an Extension agent in Walworth County, WI, worked at a wholesale greenhouse, evaluated seed germination tests, labored on a fruit research farm, and created a yard waste recycling program in Waukesha County, WI, before taking his current position as Director of Horticulture at GBBG.
Konlock has worked at GBBG for 20 years. During his tenure, the Garden has developed an additional 14 acres into acres into gardens and facilities growing to 25.5 acres. He has helped with design, construction, planting, and care of the King Shade Garden; Jenquine Pavilion, Overlook and Garden; the Baer Perennial Garden; the Schneider Family Grand Garden; the Bell Children’s Garden and other projects. He and his staff have increased the plant collection to 4,339 taxa (different kinds of plants) and 101,169 plants. The Garden is an All-America Selections trial garden for in-ground ornamentals from seed as well as an American Rose Trials for Sustainability ® trial garden. The most recent projects of Green Bay Botanical Garden are growing the Garden into the community by planting offsite pollinator habitats in conjunction with the City of Green Bay’s Conservation Corps. Mark has judged the Wisconsin Landscape Contractors Association awards, is a Judge for All-America Selections and wrote one of the “Hot Plant” features for Wisconsin Gardening magazine.
Social hour at 6:30PM, presentation begins at 7PM. A link to the presentation will be emailed to members. This program is available both in person and as a livestream for WHPS members. A recording will be made available to WHPS members after the event via e-mail.
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