Redbud Native Plant Nursery

Learn great native plant combinations for shade and what will stand up to our four-legged (and white-tailed) friends.Join us at Redbud to kick off your weekend with an afternoon Yard Talk by Gregg Tepper, Horticulturist at Laurel Hill. Gregg will take your questions and shed light on what works in all types of shady conditions. Learn great native plant combinations and what will stand up to our four-legged (and white-tailed) friends. Gregg Tepper is a professional horticulturist, lecturer, consultant, and lifelong native plant enthusiast. He is currently horticulturist at the Arboretum at Laurel Hill and West Laurel Hill Cemeteries in

Summer Solstice: A Horticultural Therapy Exercise in MindfulnessIn honor of the arrival of summer, we will be pairing ourselves with a plant partner of our choice, learning to observe in a present, mindful sense with a quiet meditation, as well as a drawing, journaling, and printmaking exercise with our chosen plant material. In this workshop, we will discuss plant appreciation versus plant blindness, and work to make ourselves more aware of the flourishing green world around us. Attendees will be making prints with paint and brushes.Kate Irvine is a trained horticulturist and mixed media artist with a Bachelor of Science

Join us as we learn about aphids, their unusual lives, and their many cool predators in this walk and talk with naturalist Sam Nestory.Despite their small size, aphids rarely go unnoticed in the garden because where there's one aphid, there's likely hundreds! But despite their vast numbers, aphids rarely pose a significant threat to our native plant gardens, because they are one part of a larger, fascinating ecosystem. Join us as we learn about aphids, their unusual lives, and their many cool predators in this walk and talk with naturalist Sam Nestory. Samantha Nestory is the engagement manager and naturalist

Join us as for a demonstration using native plants for container gardening.Interested in attracting birds, butterflies and beneficial insects to your garden but short on space or time? In this workshop you’ll learn easy, take-home tips to assemble pollinator friendly containers using low maintenance native plants for sun or shade.Join us in the nursery yard as Marcia Tate demonstrates using native plants to make show stopping container displays. Marcia Tate is a garden designer, coach, photographer, teacher & writer specializing in native plants and regenerative gardening.Marcia is vice-president of the board of directors and active member of Friends of Glen

Learn great native plant combinations for shade and what will stand up to our four-legged (and white-tailed) friends.Join us at Redbud to kick off your weekend with an afternoon Yard Talk by Gregg Tepper, Horticulturist at Laurel Hill. Gregg will take your questions and shed light on what works in all types of shady conditions. Learn great native plant combinations and what will stand up to our four-legged (and white-tailed) friends. Gregg Tepper is a professional horticulturist, lecturer, consultant, and lifelong native plant enthusiast. He is currently horticulturist at the Arboretum at Laurel Hill and West Laurel Hill Cemeteries in

Join us as we learn about aphids, their unusual lives, and their many cool predators in this walk and talk with naturalist Sam Nestory.Despite their small size, aphids rarely go unnoticed in the garden because where there's one aphid, there's likely hundreds! But despite their vast numbers, aphids rarely pose a significant threat to our native plant gardens, because they are one part of a larger, fascinating ecosystem. Join us as we learn about aphids, their unusual lives, and their many cool predators in this walk and talk with naturalist Sam Nestory. Samantha Nestory is the engagement manager and naturalist

In this workshop, we will explore the important role of soil as the foundation of all life while creating a take-home trinket bowl.In this workshop, we will explore the important role of soil as the foundation of all life while creating a take-home trinket bowl made with leaf, flower, and other natural object imprints. We’ll talk about the utilization of clay throughout many cultures and work on a mindfulness exercise while collecting plant materials to press into our clay trinket bowls. We will also discuss the potential cognitive, sensory, physical, emotional and educational benefits of horticultural therapy practices through workshops

Discover perennials that bloom in September, October, and November, and provide a late season nectar source for pollinators.Discover perennials that bloom in September, October, and November, and provide a late season nectar source for pollinators. Keep your gardens buzzing by incorporating these plants into your landscape as the temperatures begin to cool down. Sunset Farmstead is a wholesale plant nursery, sustainably growing landscape ready material that provides food source and habitat to pollinators. Carrie Stanker is a Landscape Architect and co-owner of Sunset Farmstead. She has worked in the landscape industry for 25 years in a variety of roles. Her

Bring flower power to your late-season garden!Bring flower power to your late-season garden! Get tips on species suited to sun and shade, moist or dry conditions. Be inspired to incorporate these ecological beauties in your space to support a diversity of insects and birds. Michelle Detwiler is a wildlife gardener, PA Master Naturalist, and owner of Wild About Native Plants — an ecological design and consulting business helping property owners and public space stewards create resilient living landscapes by incorporating native plants. IG @wildaboutnativeplants