10am Saturday February 18, 2017.

Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Brokke, Environmental Historian
“Going Wild in the Garden”

The monarch butterfly sits on top of an ancient cup plant, Silphium perfoliatum.

My yard is a combination native intermixed with hybridized and cultivar and even a few vegetable plants with hardy fruit and shrub roses. It borders the Red River. Hence, our background are the native trees of the Red River Valley. I will discuss briefly this tallgrass Red River Valley Region and then swing into the mix of native plants, which thrive well in landscape settings. I will also emphasize their importance for the native butterflies and bees of our ecological prairie.

Yellow golden alexander, Zizia aurea, fronts a Japanese peony and tall, pink *Party Hardy* rose behind it for an English cottage garden appearance.

All meetings are free and open to the public.

Also at our meeting:

9am Board Meeting

Membership Appreciation Raffle:
• VegTrug Elevated Patio Garden
• Extreme Duty Anvil Lopper
• Florian Ratchet Pruner
• The Bee Bundle with a bee house, 2 books & wildflower seeds.

Members ONLY. Buy ALL the $1 raffle tickets you want.

Refreshments served and Door Prizes.

Meetings at Parkwood Senior Living
749 South 30 Street, Grand Forks, ND.
Parking in the back. Meeting room in the lower level auditorium.