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Know Your Niche

Right Plant, Right Place in the Residential Garden

Josh Zingg, an arborist and permaculture designer, will talk about ecological niches, and discuss how you can choose plants that will flourish in your landscape.

This talk will explore the residential landscape in the context of ecological niche, which means the particular set of circumstances in which certain plants and plant communities can thrive. By understanding which niches in the natural world the conditions of your individual site most resemble, you can choose the plants that will flourish in your landscape. Beyond the basics of sun, water, and soil, he will discuss the different ways plants interact, above and below ground, through the seasons, and throughout their individual life-cycles to form healthy communities. He will provide example combinations that work in the most common niches of the residential landscape as well as make suggestions for further reading.

Please also join Josh on Saturday, May 18th from 10:00-12:00pm for a Hands on Gardening Skills class (an alley in Bexley TBD).

This program is in partnership with Green Bexley's Love Your Alley program, and generously funded by the Bexley Community Foundation.

If you would like to receive an email reminder about this event, please register.  Join us in person, or live stream this program on BexleyLibrary.org/TV.

Speaker Bio
Josh Zingg is an ISA Certified Arborist and a Certified Permaculture Designer who has worked all over the Columbus metropolitan area. He has been associated with Scioto Gardens informally for years and came on board officially at the start of 2021. He offers consultation and personally leads all field work for Scioto Gardens Site Services.

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