Beyond Flower Gardens: Trees and Shrubs for Pollinators

If you are designing a pollinator garden, you will be happy to learn about the role trees and shrubs can play in the lives of honey bees and native pollinators and ways to incorporate them in your plans. Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy the presentation by Margery Winters at the Wilton Library on Wednesday, March 13. Winters is the assistant director and instructor at Roaring Brook Nature Center in Canton, CT and manages their native plant gardens. She is also past chairman of the Federated Garden Club Landscape Design Study Program and a Master Landscape Design Consultant.

Winters also serves as chairman on Simsbury Inland Wetland/Conservation Commission, is a member the Simsbury Open Space Committee, and the vice president of the Simsbury Land Trust. Margery has been actively involved in Connecticut’s river and land issues and worked on staff with a statewide river advocacy organization.

This lecture will also serve as the kickoff for the Community Canopy Program–Energy Saving Trees, offering residents the opportunity to buy native trees through the Arbor Day Foundation in collaboration with the US Department of Forestry.

There is no charge to attend. The program is co-sponsored by Wilton Library, the Wilton Tree Committee and the Conservation Commission in collaboration with the Wilton Garden Club, Wilton Land Conservation Trust, Norwalk River Watershed Association and Woodcock Nature Center. Registration is highly recommended. Register on the Wilton Library website or call 203.762.6334.