Please click this link to join the webinar: https://nativegardendesigns.wildones.org/webinar-link/

**This link is the best way to access the webinar and will allow you to bypass logging into the Eventbrite site the night of the event. This link will also be emailed to participants by Wild Ones leading up to the event.**

**This webinar will be recorded and available to the public on our YouTube channel in the days following the event.**

Wild Ones recently introduced seven beautiful, professional, ecoregion specific, free, native garden designs including for the regions of Minneapolis and St. Louis at nativegardendesigns.wildones.org.

We want to share with you how the designers of the Minneapolis plan (Carmen Simonet) and St. Louis plan (Susie Van de Riet) each approached this project. We invite you to join us for a free online "Meet the Designers" event on Wednesday, April 7th 6-7 p.m CDT / 7-8 p.m. EST.

A Zoom link for this event will be emailed to registrants in the days leading up to the event.

This event will be recorded and available to the public on our YouTube channel in the days following the event.

Registrants are welcome to submit their most imminent question ahead of time for the designers to answer by Friday, April 2nd to hdchair@wildones.org.

Both plans feature over 50 native species and were created with the premise that using native plants in landscaping can be beautiful and achievable for gardeners of all skillsets in terms of scope and budget as well as promote wildlife.

The designs also allow gardeners to take an incremental approach in developing their plan, adding new areas and native species as time and funds permit.

Carmen Simonet is a landscape architect with a passion for using native plants. She has over 25 years of experience providing landscape master planning and site design services for commercial developments, public parks, and private gardens. She is the owner of Carmen Simonet Design LLC and recent projects include design of a natural playscape for a child development center, consulting on the landscape design for a conservation development, designing lakeshore buffer plantings, and residential gardens seeking to replace lawn with native habitat! Carmen received her BLA and MS in landscape architecture from the University of Minnesota.

Susie Van de Riet is the founder of St. Louis Native Plants LLC, whose services include consulting, coaching, design, & education. She obtained her bachelor’s in Women’s Studies and AAS in Horticulture. She is an ISA Certified Arborist and an NAI Certified Interpretive Guide. She has a passion for native plants and has been landscaping with them since 2009. Susie has served as Education Subcommittee Chair of Grow Native! and has participated with the St. Louis Audubon Society’s “Bring Conservation Home” program as a Habitat Advisor. She is a member of Grow Native! and Wild Ones and worked as a horticulturist managing 130+ acres at Forest Park. Her last yard was Platinum Certified with the BCH program, and she has attained the same certification for her current yard. She loves sharing the benefits of native plants with others.

Wild Ones is a non-profit organization that promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities.

Some of the ways Wild Ones strives to accomplish our mission is by providing educational resources and online learning opportunities with respected experts like Wild Ones Honorary Directors Doug Tallamy, Neil Diboll and Heather Holm, publishing an award-winning journal and awarding Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Program grants to engage youth in caring for native gardens.

Wild Ones does not receive funding from the government. We must depend on membership fees, donations and gifts from individuals like you to carry out our mission of healing the earth, one yard at a time.

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