Gardening with Native Plants: Garden Design and Maintenance Field Trip

Council Bluffs Public Library and Pottawattamie Conservation have teamed up to offer a FREE 4 class series focused on giving you the confidence and background knowledge you need to grow a beautiful native garden that supports wildlife and provides benefits to you and your community. Gardening with Native Plants is a free, four-part class.

Garden Design with Lucky Toad Restorative Gardens  Getting the right plant in the right location is the key to a successful native garden. This session will meet at the Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau, where we’ll tour their native plantings with Nick Bonham from Lucky Toad Restorative Gardens, who built the garden from the sod up. Nick and Mark Eckstrom, Executive Director of the Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau. Bonham and Eckstrom will share their experiences building the garden from the sod up, including design elements, preparing the site, selecting species for the site conditions, and native garden maintenance. 

(In case of inclement weather, this class will be moved to Meeting Room B.)

Register HERE for this class or visit www.councilbuffslibrary.org to register for each class. 

Contact Info: Elisa Cruz

Email: ecruz@councilbluffslibrary.org

Phone Number: (712) 323-7553

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