The Village of Bronxville’s Green Committee presents a special evening with landscape experts Bram Gunther and Leslie Needham. Learn how to achieve a beautiful yard that is healthy and beneficial for your family, neighbors, pets and the planet.
Your Yard, Reimagined The truest sign of a healthy yard is the life it supports: the full range of essential insects, microscopic soil dwellers, wild bees and birds. With this life comes direct benefits to you: carbon captured and stored in your plants, stormwater managed by the roots and soil of your habitat. Bram Gunther will share techniques his firm Plan it Wild uses to integrate native plants into lawns and gardens. Learn to think beyond “mowing & blowing,” reduce pesticides and other harmful practices and, instead, reintroduce native plants. Find out your yard’s Wildr Score™ and come away with a practical tool set to begin restoring nature in your backyard. The goal isn’t perfection — it’s progress.
Perfection Reimagined: Embracing the New Gardening Ethos What makes a garden beautiful? This age-old question is evoking new answers as gardeners everywhere deal with shifting realities, from extreme weather to crashing populations of pollinators and birds. It can be overwhelming. Yet, embracing these challenges can allow us all to be active agents of positive change. Leslie Needham will share her healthy garden practices and design principles, illustrated with images of her many projects, including her own garden – River Hills.
Presentations will be followed by audience Q&A.