VO: Tour the Wild Side – Using Native Plants in Your Landscape
Wachiska Audubon Society and Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center are partnering for the 2nd annual Tour the Wild Side – Using Native Plants in Your Landscape event. Last year’s event was quite the success, with attendees enjoying and learning about a wide variety of landscapes where native plants host butterflies, insects, and birds while living side by side with lawns, vegetables, trees, and concrete!
This year’s event is Saturday August 6, 10 am – 2 pm. At the bottom are the 6 landscapes featured on the tour. There are still openings for volunteers to help welcome attendees and/or help the landowners with questions as a roving naturalist. Shifts are 10:00 am to noon or noon to 2:00 pm.
To read descriptions of the landscapes go to: https://www.wachiskaaudubon.org/_files/ugd/cd9e45_106344f896f349ebbb4c7883c3fc23d4.pdf
Addresses featured on Tour the Wild Side tour:
Tim & Carol Hinkle – 1305 Plumridge Road (near Holdrege & 148th streets)
Peg & Larry Fletcher’s Prairie (25 acres) - 1900 South 105th Street
Aldersgate United Methodist Church - 8320 South Street
Wachiska/Walt Branch Library Native Plant Garden – 6701 South 14th Street
Dave & Linda Titterington - 6324 Starling Circle
Arapahoe Community Garden - 14th & Arapahoe streets
If you can help, please email Theresa Pella at pella_t@yahoo.com or Jason St. Sauver at jason.stsauver@audubon.org with your preferred landscape and shift time.
With appreciation for all of you!
Theresa and Jason