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Growing Local: Native Plants for Your Home Garden

with OSU Extension

Embrace the beauty and benefits of native plants with OSU Extensions of Cleveland and Pottawatomie Counties in this workshop dedicated to designing a native plants garden fit for your space.

Learn how to harness the power of native plants to support our local environment and wildlife in your own yard with Courtney Dekalb-Myers and Carla Smith from the OSU Extensions of Cleveland and Pottawatomie Counties. This program is an interactive, in-person workshop dedicated to planning and designing your own native plants garden with the support of experts from OSU Extension.

In order to get the most out of this workshop, select a sunnier spot of your yard that you'd like to design and come prepared with:

• photos or a rough sketch of chosen area,
• dimensions of chosen area,
• and descriptors or sample of soil in chosen area (i.e. sandy, loam, clay, typically wet, dry, etc.).

This program is a part of our PLS Reads series. This year's topic is the environment and our exploration will be guided by 3 community reads:

• The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin,
• Nature's Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy,
• and Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver.

PLS will host a number of book discussions for each of these titles and programs around this theme throughout the year, including an in-person visit by author Douglas Tallamy for our Spark a Change conversation on August 21. Check out our Events Calendar to learn more and register!

Digital and physical copies of each title are available for check out through our PLS Connect app or by visiting any of our hometown branches.

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