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Learn How to Propagate Native Plants from Seed

Audubon Rockies & Wild Ones presents a comprehensive look at propagating native plants from seed.

Native landscaping is so beneficial in many ways, but it is also a very special (and easy!) way of gardening itself! In this talk you will learn how to propagate your native seeds, either in a controlled environment to later transplant out in the field, or sow directly in your soil to see all the new surprises coming up in the growing season. Attend this talk to learn more about the lives of seeds themselves from when plants set seed, to when and how to collect, as well as the different methods to break dormancy whether they are in containers or in the ground. You will experiment with what materials you will need and examine what kind of prep and maintenance is necessary to pull together the garden of your dreams that you helped nurture and create. Remember, it is never too early to think spring!

AGENDA

4:30 Doors Open & Sign-In

5:00 Opening Remarks Thank participants for coming and overview of todays program and venue logistics.

5:05 About Wild Ones Organization Deb Lebow, Wild Ones

5:10 About Audubon Rockies Organization & Introduce Speaker Jamie Weiss, Audubon Rockies

5:15 - Presentation Gary Meis, Harlequin Gardens
How to find and collect seeds.
How to clean the seeds you collect, and should you?
How to treat your seeds for optimum sprouting.
How to keep your plants alive when small.
Alternatives to growing natives, without seeds.
How and where to plant your new babies for long term survival.

6:45 Q&A

7:00 Wrap Up/Final Remarks

BIOGRAPHY Gary Meis is the plant propagator for Harlequin Gardens has been a professional wholesale grower of native shrubs, trees and perennials in the Colorado region for the last 35 years. He has collected seeds and propagated plants his whole life, and grew his first cutting at the age of 4.