PIEDMONT LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL SEMINAR 2023

We were proud sponsors of this year’s Piedmont Landscape Association Annual Seminar, held February 2nd at the Paramount Theatre!

This day of community gathering, sharing of ideas, and introduction to new planting and gardening techniques is a great way to kick off the spring season here in Central Virginia. It is also a great opportunity to better understand our natural world and how we interact with it.

One of the presentations by Doug Tallamy - a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware - focused on what everyone can do at home to help improve the health of our local ecosystem.

His lecture, titled Homegrown National Parks, laid out how our National Park system is not enough to sustain the native ecosystem. Thus, the concept of Homegrown National Parks is to create diverse ecosystems in our own backyards, communities, and surrounding lands by reducing lawn, planting native, and removing invasives.

We think this is a very exciting concept and dovetails very well with our own commitment to keeping our native and wild lands healthy, viable, and thriving using local resources.

Find out more about the Homegrown National Parks movement at www.homegrownnationalpark.org.