Gardens as Pollinator Habitat: Limitations, Potential, and Context
Together, flowering plants and flower-visiting insects make up a third of the Earth’s species. This NDAL talk, will trace the relationship between flowers and insects from the primordial forests of the Cretaceous to your backyard garden. Along the way, Douglas Sponsler will discuss the limitations and potential of gardens as pollinator habitat, and explore how gardening might be reimagined as a cooperative, landscape-scale practice that could change the ecological meaning of cities and suburbs.
Time: 14:00 EDT/ 18:00 GMT
https://learning.ndal.org/courses/gardens-as-pollinator-habitat-2023