Chapel Hill –On Sunday, April 2 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. the North Carolina Botanical Garden will host plant ecologist Lisa Wagner for the Garden’s annual Evelyn McNeill Sims Native Plant Lecture, Designing with Native Plants: A Naturalistic Approach. Wagner will discuss creating sustainable and enjoyable gardens with native plants and how an ecologically balanced, natural garden can provide sustenance for you and the other inhabitants of your site.
Lisa Wagner served as director of education at the South Carolina Botanical Garden at Clemson University for over two decades. She leads frequent presentations and classes on topics such as gardening for nature, creating a native woodland garden and native plants for pollinators. A plant ecologist by background (Ph.D. in Botany, UC Berkeley), she is involved with neighborhood greening efforts, sustainable gardening and naturalistic garden design. Her blog, Natural Gardening reflects her observations about gardening and the natural world.
Every spring the Garden offers the Evelyn McNeill Sims lecture focusing on native plants and their conservation and ecology. The lecture series was initiated in 2000 with a gift from Botanical Garden Foundation Board member Nancy Preston in honor of her mother, Evelyn McNeill Sims.