This month the native gardens are getting greener and blooming and our many native plants are busy supporting lots of pollinators and birds.  So, now is a good time to plan your walks through the gardens to discover the many sights and smells or stroll for some exercise with nature.  Also, there are a couple of noteworthy events coming up this month for your consideration — which are listed below.

UPCOMING GARDEN EVENTS

If you are looking for a good chance to get involved in the gardens, make some friends, and learn about land stewardship and native plants, our next scheduled community workday is Saturday May 16th (Note: Our Workday always happens on the 3rd Saturday of every month).  You can also sign up at the front desk to become an active garden volunteer (NOTE: That plus attending a workday will earn you a free Marshall Native Gardens cap).  See the workday logistics and more details below.

Upcoming Activities Scheduled:

• Saturday, May 16th at 9:30am will be our monthly 3rd Saturday Community Workday and “”garden party“. We will be joined by the Teens of Madison County and Project Challenge. We are mulching our garden beds, installing a praying mantis sculpture, and continuing to work on the Medicinal Garden. Then, at noon we will have lots of finger foods and refreshments for all our volunteers. If you are looking for a good chance to get involved in the gardens, make some friends, and learn about land stewardship and native plants, we hope you can join our many volunteers for this always fun Saturday event — they are always family friendly too.
• Saturday, May 30th at 10:30am circle the date so as not to miss our presentation by John VanVoorhis. John is an experienced groundskeeper, home brewer, and semi-professional photographer.  Watch our webpage space for a poster relating to this presentation event and much more at marshallnativegardens.org      

Thanks for your ongoing interest and support for the native gardens. We hope you will come out to enjoy a walk through the native gardens and learn about our collections of native plants. And, that you will consider one or more of our upcoming structured events to be worthy of your time and will join us for service and fun!  If you have questions, please feel free to contact us at Madison.County.Gardens@gmail.com.

Our upcoming presentations and garden volunteer events list below as follows. View the full calendar, below. Note that we include events that are by invite only on this calendar.

Calendar