Native Plant Center Honored with Two Awards

Special Event Friday, September 2710am–12pm Native Perennials: Summer/

Fall12–12:45pm lunch (on your own)12:45–2:45pm Meadowscaping at home 2:45–3pm Break3–5pm Identifying and Supporting local

Wild Bees

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Bee Friendly: Garden to Attract PollinatorsPollinators provide invaluable

services, most especially in plant reproduction for food and flowers. Yet their populations are in decline. Learn how to accommodate these important creatures in the ways you maintain your gardens and landscapes at Go Native U’s Back-to-School event, Attracting and

Supporting Pollinators, September 27, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., at Westchester Com-munity College, Classroom Building, Room 100.

Discover the native plants that sustain bees and other pollinators in Native Perennials: Summer/Fall with Go Native U co-found-er Barbara Fischer. Find out how to create valuable habitats in Meadowscapingat Home with Kim Eierman, founder of EcoBeneficial. Learn to recognize differ-ent bee species and their nesting habits so you can make a difference in Identify-ing and Supporting Local Wild Bees with

Sarah Kornbluth of

the American Mu-seum of Natural History; this class may move outdoors depending on weather.

Attend one, two, or all three courses. Earn up to 6 LA-CES credits. To register, call 914-606-6830 and press 1.

The Native Plant Center will receive the Westchester Parks Foundation’s Special Recognition for Service to Parks on September 19 at the County Center in White Plains.

The Native Plant Center is being distinguished for its “dedication of 20 years to the native plants and natural landscapes of West-chester County,” and its creation and promotion of the county’s executive order calling for native plants to be used

exclusively in county parks and prop-erties. To attend the gala, call 914-231-4600 or visit thewpf.org.

In May, the New American Cottage

Garden won a Planning Achieve-ment Award from the Westchester Municipal Planning Federation. The new demonstration garden is located behind the Center’s headquarters at Westchester Com-munity College.

The Center appreciates these

prestigious acknowledgments that spotlight native plants, and is grateful to everyone who, through their services and gifts, enable such notable achievements.

The Native Plant CenterN EW S L E T T E R

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The Native Plant Center at Westchester Community CollegeSTEERING COMMITTEECo-Chairs Angel Morris • Ken UhleBrooke Beebe, Jacquelyn Bergonzi, Jan Blaire, Bob DelTorto, Nancy Dexter, Kim Eierman, Melissa Fabel, Barbara Fischer, Karalyn Lamb, Ursula LaMotte, Catherine Ludden, Guy Pardee, Heather Sandifer, Denise C.R. Santomero, Jessica A. Schuler, Carolyn Sum-mers, Phillis Warden, Elizabeth S. Wattles, Lucille Werlinich, Anthony Zaino

FOUNDERSMarybeth Weston Lobdell • Marie Smith Schwartz • Betsy May Stern

STAFFCarol Capobianco, Director Jeanne Lapsker, Garden Curator/Educator

ABOUT The Native Plant Center is a program of the Westchester Community College Foundation and the first affiliate of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

OUR MISSIONEducating people about the environmental necessity, economic value, and natural beauty of native plants in the Northeast

CONTACT The Native Plant Center

Westchester Community College 75 Grasslands Road, Valhalla, NY 10595

nativeplantcenter.org • 914-606-7870wcc.nativeplant@sunywcc.edu

FroM ThE dIrECTor

20/20 Vision: The Future Is NowAccording to the American Optometric Association, hav-

ing 20/20 vision indicates the sharpness or clarity of vi-sion at a distance. With the year 2020 just months away, The Native Plant Center appreciates the foresight of its founders while it focuses on today and prepares for tomorrow. With the new school season upon us, let’s look at these “three Rs.”

ready This year the Steering Committee, guided by the pro-bono services of leadership development consultant Dr. Gene Buccini, adopted a five-year strategic plan that aims to expand education programs and community outreach, enhance our gardens and campus landscape, and cultivate

people and revenue resources. renewal Among the many objectives in the plan is the expansion and renova-

tion of the Lady Bird Johnson Demonstration Garden (see story p. 3). On October 8, 1999—20 years ago—Mrs. Johnson and her daughters, Lynda Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson (pictured at right), attended the ded-ication ceremony of the garden in her name here at the college. Since then the garden has been teaching visitors and students about the ornamental use of native plants, while keeping the legacy of Mrs. Johnson alive. It also introduces the former First Lady to generations of students.

research The garden restoration also includes a trial re-search bed that will fulfill another wish: to engage the college’s faculty in integrating native plant instruction into curriculum. The Center and a few of the college’s biology professors are establishing the groundwork of an exciting partnership with the Chicago Botanic Garden and its nationwide Budburst initiative. The Nativars Research Project will engage our students and volunteers in observing and recording whether “nativars,” the cultivated varieties of native plants, differ from their parent species in their attractiveness to pollinators. We intend to train in the protocol and plant the bed this fall, and begin collecting data in spring.

We invite you to volunteer and contribute to these projects; please email us.A term heard recently is “plant blindness,” the inability of people to notice plants

in their surroundings. The Native Plant Center, however, has been privileged to be surrounded by people who recognize our interconnectedness with plants and have led—and will lead—us in sharing that clarity of vision with others, in 2020 and the years beyond. —Carol Capobianco

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volunteers Provide hands-on garden help

Many thanks go to the several Native Plant Center volunteers and the students and staff of the White Plains Youth Bureau’s Greening Project who worked this season to spruce up the Center’s gardens.

Among their contributions were removal of invasive plants, re-establish-ment of a rock-lined, wood-chipped path in the Bird Garden, and rescue and transfer of native plants from the res-toration project site (see p. 3) to other gardens.

If you would like to help and learn hands-on in our gardens, please email us.

The 20-year-old Lady Bird Johnson Demonstration Garden is getting a makeover.

The Native Plant Center has begun a multi-year project to renovate and expand the garden to illustrate how to incorporate native plants using sustain-able design elements such as screening, wildlife habitat, horticultural beauty, limited lawn area, and stormwater management.

The current phase will create a buffer garden between the central meadow and 300-car parking lot, a site that had been overgrown, unsightly, and never cultivated.

Once transformed, this new 11,000-square-foot area will offer additional opportunities for teaching about native plants and illustrate their usefulness as a functional feature in a well-designed landscape.

The expansion is expected to increase the number of species in The Native Plant Center’s living collection by 15 percent.

Ken Uhle, the landscape architect who designed our award-winning New

New Look Ahead for Lady Bird Johnson Teaching Garden

American Cottage Garden, created the design for the project (above) pro-bono. Volunteers, students, and contracted work crews have removed invasive trees, brush, and boulders. Grading and layout of bed lines and paths are under

go Native u Fall 2019 Classes: register Today!

Core ClassesIntroduction to Native Plants and Landscapes 2 Fri., Nov. 8 & 15, 10 am–1:30 pm (30-minute lunch break), Cla-100, $130. Carolyn Summers.

Elective ClassesBack-to-School: Attracting and Supporting Pollinators Fri., Sept. 27, 10 a.m.–5 pm. See cover story for description.

Native Plant Gardening for Migrating & Overwintering Birds Wed., oct. 2, 10 am–1 pm, Cla-100, $80. kim Eierman.

NEW! Effortless and Evergreen—Deer-Resistant Native Groundcovers Move over pachysandra, myrtle, and mulch. discover the many native ground-covers that are easy to grow, shunned by deer, and offer year-round interest. Create a living mulch that provides seasonal beauty, is beneficial to wildlife, and moder-ates soil temperature and moisture. Sat., oct. 5, 9:30–11 am, kNC-4, $40. Missy Fabel.

NEW! The Four-Season Native Garden learn which native plants extend the showiness and textural interest of your garden through fall and winter with beau-tiful foliage, striking structure, colorful branches, berries, and seed pods. Fri., oct. 11, 10 am–1 pm, Cla-100, $80. kim Eierman.

NEW! Landscaping for Higher Ecosystem Function Find out how to leverage the ecosystem function in your landscape to support wildlife and people. Fri., oct. 18–Nov. 1, 10 am–12 pm, Cla-100, $130. kim Eierman.

NEW! Maintaining an Indoor Moss Garden learn to identify common woodland mosses and proper watering techniques. Then create an indoor garden with fresh, commercially grown moss to take home. 3 Sat., oct. 19, 11 am–1 pm, kNC-2, $55 (+ $35 materials fee, payable to instruc-tor). Maria Colletti.

Designing Native Plant Gardens 2 Tues., oct. 22 & 29, 7–9 pm, kNC-3, $90. lynn Becker.

way. The goal is to install trees and shrubs this fall and perennials in spring before continuing with other phases of the project.

To volunteer or contribute to the proj-ect, please email us.

For all course descriptions and instructor information, visit our website. Most classes approved for LA-CES credits. To register, call 914-606-6830 and press1. A percentage of tuition supports the work of The Native Plant Center.

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The Native Plant CenterSpring Landscape Conference

april 25, 2020

21st Annual Native Plant Sale Westchester Community College

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Ms. Brenda QuinnMs. Joyce reedMr. Ben reiterMs. Margaret rickettsMr. aaron ricklesMs. Jennifer ringstadMs. leslie rjeiliMs. Beth rosenMr. keith russoMs. Michelle SamaMr. & Mrs. William

SampsonMs. harriet SavitzMr. austin SchatzMr. Mike SchottMr. ron SchulhofMrs. diane ScialoMs. doris SeidlitzMs. laura SeitzMs. diane SheppersonMs. diana SimpsonMs. Sarah SimsMs. Bonnie SnyderDr. Carol SommerfieldMs. Jennifer SonenklareMs. Joanna StraubMr. & dr. kenneth SuhMs. Emeline SwansonMs. Toni SzeinukMr. Bruce ThelenMs. Susan ThorsonMr. david TrainorMs. Marj TrainorMrs. Justine TroiaMs. Terry udolfMr. & Mrs. Walter urbanMr. James van develdeMrs. drusilla van hengelMr. & Mrs. Stuart vaughnMr. Mark vergariMr. Sergei vorobyevMs. dorsey WaxterMs. Sandra WeberMr. John WehrMs. lori WileMr. daniel WolffMr. Mark WomackMs. Elizabeth WoodsMs. Jessica WoolfMs. kris WyciskMr. david yongMs. Pamela ZahnMs. Elisa ZazzeraMr. & Mrs. donald Zirkleanonymous (1)

In Honor of Laura BlauJohn & Sandra BlauElizabeth B. CarltonCynthia deCarloleslie henshawMitchell rubinBernard & lisa Selz

In Honor of Barbara Fischer

Patricia Bavekathleen Wilson & Bernard

groeneveld

In Honor of Patricia H. Keesee

Thomas W. keeseeTwink & Jim Wood

In Honor of Angel Morris

deborah BoillotNancy J. haneman

In Honor of Denise Santomero

Susan P. Burke

In Honor of Carolyn Summers

Edith & Michael BlairPatricia Jones

lucy r. Waletzky, M.d.Pamela h. Zahn

In Honor of Phillis Warden

Catherine & george daubek

In Honor of Lucille Werlinich

Joseph CatalliSusan l. Cohenles & Toby CrystalJennifer & Bud gruenberg Joanne landaulisa Mitznerharry & Marjorie Phillipsyvonne & leslie Pollackkathleen h. Turnergreg & kathiryn Werlinich

In Memory of Lady Bird Johnson

luci Baines Johnson & Ian Turpin

The robb Family

In Memory of Maxine Jewel Kaplan

Brooke Beebekathleen Weinberger

In Memory of Patricia H. Keesee

Brooke Beebeallison & Billy Biedermanlaura BlauBrown advisoryanne P. CabotCarol Capobiancoleslie Cecil & Creighton

MichaelFrancie & John downingMargot & John ErnstBarbara Fischerdeane a. & John d. gilliamElizabeh keesee henry laura & kathryn hoenig laura kaplan richard & dee lawrence C. yorke lawson Carolyn h. Mahar and

the hartfordsMarilyn & Scott McCall david & Sara PottengerMargaret Purcell-albergrusticus garden ClubColleen SorteBetsy & Wally SternTrailhead Capital llCFrances & Stuart vaughnMary v. & Frank C. Watson dorsey Waxterlori WileTwink & Jim Woodleigh ann & donald Zirkle

In Memory of Marybeth Weston Lobdell

Carol Weston

In Memory of Ron UhleJohn Baker

In-KindBedford Post Farmhouse

restaurant laura BlauEugene BucciniCaramoor douglas huntCatherine luddenPerennial gardensJessica & Jim SchulerMartha Stewartken uhle

Friends… Continued

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