Top Annuals for your Cutting Garden
Join us to learn how to make flower arrangements with cut flowers with Guest Speaker Laura Beth Resnick from the Butterbee Farm! You can have an abundance of blooms in your cutting garden all season long! You’ll learn Butterbee Farm’s favorite flowers to grow, from classics like zinnias and celosias to the weird and wonderful monkey balls. You’ll learn varieties to grow, harvest techniques, and tips for success.
Bio
Laura Beth Resnick is the founder and owner of Butterbee Farm, a four acre flower farm in Pikesville, Maryland. Following sustainable, organic practices, Butterbee Farm provides locally grown flowers for florists, flower lovers, and weddings in Maryland and Washington, D.C. A leader in the nationwide flower farming community, she serves as the Secretary of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers and writes for their quarterly magazine. Laura Beth also mentors new growers through Future Harvest’s Beginning Farmer Training Program. She speaks regularly at conferences and arboretums including the United States Botanical Garden, on topics from starting a cutting garden to growing great dahlias.
https://www.butterbeefarm.com/
Join us and learn how to use the iNaturalist app in this informative talk by Guest Speaker, Deborah Barber, member of the Maryland Native Plant Society and Director of Land Management for the Maryland/D.C. Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
Get a kick out of learning about the iNaturalist app.
- Use the Compare function to find out what’s in an area based on visual similarity, taxonomy, or occurrences.
- Learn to do bulk identifications and precise identifications.
- Use the filter to look for…anything in the world.
You will benefit most if you have the iNaturalist app set up with a user account on your laptop or smartphone. This will give you a chance to try some of the tricks Deborah will share. The iNaturalist app is quite easy to download and it’s free.
Registration is required.
About iNaturalist
iNaturalist is a not-for-profit program unlocking the world’s biodiversity for curiosity and conservation. It’s free to use, but not free to operate.
Read about it here and view this nice short video: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/about.
You can download the app here: https://www.inaturalist.org/