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Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Native Grasses and Sedges – Smart Choices for Better Landscapes
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesLooking for strategies to boost your landscape’s ecological impact? Join us for a look at plant-based solutions to common landscape challenges. Rather than oceans of mulch and vast expanses of turf grass, try using use native grasses and sedges. These extraordinary plants help preserve and build the soil, outcompete weeds, and offer a host of ecosystem benefits. Discover how greener grasses help build better landscapes and communities.
Nature Tales: Flower Power
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesGet ready to stop and smell the flowers! Join us for a flower-themed story hour filled with colorful tales, songs, and activities that celebrate the beauty of blooms. Afterward, we'll set off into the gardens for a flower scavenger hunt. Come dressed for the weather and prepared to take a walk!
This family-friendly program has been designed especially for children ages 3–7. Free, but registration is required.
Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Finding the Fabulous Ordinary, a book talk by Georgann Eubanks
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin writer Georgann Eubanks for an introduction to her latest book from UNC Press, The Fabulous Ordinary: Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South. Georgann and photographer Donna Campbell traveled across seven states to find the seasonal joys of ecosystems in the Southeast. These ordinary destinations and events include a half a million purple martins roosting on an island in a South Carolina lake, the bloom of 30 acres of dimpled trout lilies in a remote Georgia forest, gnat larvae that glow like stars on the rock walls of an obscure Alabama canyon, and the overnight accumulation of elaborately patterned mots on the side of a North Carolina mountain cabin. These phenomena and others reveal how plants, mammals, amphibians, and insects are managing to persevere despite pressures from human invasion, habitat destruction, and climate change. All of the destinations in the book are publicly accessible and can provide memorable family activities, especially with children.
Nature Tales: Animal Mommies
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesCelebrate Mother’s Day with a fun-filled story time all about animal mommies and their babies! We’ll start with sweet and silly stories about the ways animal moms care for their young. Then search for frog and salamander eggs in the ponds and discover how these moms help their little ones get their start.Come dressed for the weather and prepared to take a walk!
This family-friendly program has been designed especially for children ages 3–7. FREE, but registration is required.