Bringing The Savanna Home:  How to Add Native Plants to a Part-Sun Garden

West Cook Wild Ones shares information with landowners about how important their landscaping choices are. We share our ideas, skills, and knowledge with others so that their yards can be hospitable to other animals. Working together, we all can ensure the continuation of ecosystem benefits we receive from healthy, beneficial animal and plant populations.Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities. Wild Ones is a not-for-profit environmental education and advocacy organization.

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Discover how to use native savanna plants in your part sun-part shade garden.

We are excited to invite you toBringing the Savanna Home: How to Add Native Plants to your Part Sun-Part Shade Gardenby Julia Bunn of The Spirited GardenerJulia promises us a two-fold lesson in creating a savanna rain garden. Using the savanna as a natural model, we will learn how to choose native plants for part sun/part shade conditions, and learn how to manage rain water at the same time. Julia designs landscapes with ecological function (eco-function) in mind by combining pollinator gardens and rain gardens. She will guide you in accomplishing the same using plants native to northern Illinois.Speaker bio:Julia Bunn, has been owner of <a href="https://www.spiritedgardener.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Spirited Gardener</a> since 2007. Julia started out with an Ornamental Plant Certification from the Chicago Botanic Garden, and quickly became more interested in the way Nature's ecological systems could build more beautiful eco-functional gardens for homeowners, especially for managing rainwater. She has workshoped with Rick Darke (The Living Landscape: Designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home garden), Darrel Morrison (Landscape Architect who worked with the Chicago Botanic Garden's Barbara Brown Nature Preserve), and Gerould Wilhelm (Co-author of Flora of the Chicago Region). She has presented talks for Wild Ones, ILCA's Impact Conference, Illinois Green Alliance, Chicago Botanic Garden and other. On weekends she can often be found walking through the Forest Preserves with her husband, always hoping to learn more from our wild world.

This event is Part 3 in our 4 part series Bringing Native Plant Communities Home.Please watch the recording or register for these related programs:March 20: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XDrnuTl9Os" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Woodland, Savanna, Prairie: How Native Plant Communities Fit In Your Garden by Iza Redlinski</a> (click link to view recording)April 10: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xdnqf0cS1U" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bringing the Woodland Home by Roy Diblik of Northwind Perennial Farm</a> (click link to view recording)June 12: Bringing the Prairie Home by Drew Reaves of Save the Prairie Society (registration coming soon)Banner Photo Credit: Stephanie Walquist

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