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Winter Lecture Series: Creating Habitat in Small Spaces
New Hope , Pennsylvania - The theme of the 2005 Winter Lecture Series is Creating Habitat in Small Spaces. As wild areas are subsumed by development, our yards – no matter how small – make an increasingly significant contribution to a healthy and diverse ecosystem. By understanding natural plant communities and regional landscape patterns, we can partner with nature to create beautiful gardens that also offer habitat for local wildlife. In this series of lectures, you’ll learn about the importance of native plant gardens in providing habitat for native insects, including butterflies, and wildlife that depends on them. You’ll find out how to add diversity to your yard with a low-cost, low-tech pond, a small meadow, and native carnivorous plants. Discover how to design a small native garden. Learn how to attune your garden chores to nature’s rhythms and begin to experience your personal landscape – large or small – as a unique component of our regional landscape. Join us and explore how what you do at home makes a difference.
The Winter Lecture Series features a slide presentation by a regionally renowned expert from 2 to 3 p.m. every Sunday afternoon, January 9 through February 27. All lectures are held at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve Visitor Center, 1635 River Road (PA Rt. 32), 2.5 miles south of New Hope, Pennsylvania and convenient to I-95. For directions, call (215) 862-2924 or click here.
The fee for each lecture is $10 for non-members and $8 for Preserve members and fulltime students. (Special January 30th lecture offered free, compliments of Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve.) Educational program fees include admission to the Preserve. Pre-registration accepted; call (215) 862-2924. Walk-ins welcome as space permits.
Fee: Preserve members and fulltime students: $8.00 per lecture; Non-members, $10.00 per lecture. Special January 30 lecture FREE, compliments of Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve. Educational program fees include admission to the Preserve. Memberships can be purchased on the day of any lecture and daily at the Preserve.
All lectures are held at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve Visitor Center, on 1635 River Road (PA Rt. 32), 2.5 miles south of New Hope, Pennsylvania and convenient to I-95. For further directions click here or call the Preserve (215) 862-2924.
Before or after the lecture, enjoy a walk on trails through our woods, meadows, along Pidcock Creek and a pond. In the Visitor Center, pick up free trail maps, watch birds from the comfort of indoors, enjoy exhibits, get free information about gardening with native plants, and peruse books in our library. The Visitor Center also is home to the Platt Museum of mounted birds, nests and eggs, and the Twinleaf Shop, where nature-themed books and t-shirts can be purchased.
For more information about the speakers and topics for Winter Lecture Series or other programs at the Preserve, see the Calendar of Events at www.bhwp.org or contact the Preserve at (215) 862-2924 or by e-mail at bhwp@bhwp.org.
Press Contact: Nancy Beaubaire, Director of Communications (215) 862-2924
Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve
P.O. Box 685
New Hope, PA 18938
Phone: (215) 862-2924 Fax: (215) 862-1846
E-mail: communications@bhwp.org
www.bhwp.org
Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve is managed by the Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve Association Inc., in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
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