Speaker: Barbara Sullivan
Learn how you can cope with climate change (heat waves, drought, flooding, shifting plant zones) by creating resilient gardens suited to your own natural ecosystems.
Gardeners can become part of the solution by designing spaces that attract and benefit native wildlife, promote healthy soil, and use sustainable, climate-friendly practices. The presentation will emphasize the use of native plants and will present alternatives to lawn grass. Attendees will learn about plants that are suited to the North Carolina Piedmont. Be encouraged, gardeners have a lot of great options for adapting to and mitigating climate change.
Copies of Barbara’s book Climate Change Gardening for the South can be purchased online in advance or in-person at her lecture.
Purchase the bundle to attend all seven lectures for the price of six (Special Event The Art of the Possible not included).
Bundle: $150/member; $210/non-members
Registration includes live presentation (in-person only), Q&A session and admission to Wing Haven’s gardens.
$25/Member
$35/Non-member
$15/Student
Meet the Speaker
Barbara Sullivan began her career as a Civil Rights attorney. During her storied career, she served as a foreign service officer in the US Embassy in Morocco. More recently Sullivan has written two gardening books both of which are published by the University of North Carolina Press. A Master Gardener, Sullivan has been a garden commentator on Public Radio, a garden speaker, and editor of Growing a Beautiful Garden. Additionally, Sullivan has designed gardens for local schools, churches, and homes in New Hanover County, North Carolina.
