2023 Webinar: Ferns – The Green Wonders of Nature

AUGUST 23, 2023 — FERNS – THE GREEN WONDERS OF NATURE

Often times by the dog days of summer, some plants in the garden are looking weary.  These plants may need some help — or even needed deadheading.  It’s possible, with enough heat, a wholesale cutting back is required.

Ferns, though, are surprisingly hardy.  As delicate as they might look texturally from the moment of their first emergence in spring, it is always surprising how even in the height of the heat, they are incredibly tough and resilient.  This session will focus on including ferns in your garden and specifically, what the native ferns can do to enhance the beauty and increase the resiliency of your design.  Uli Lorimer of Native Plant Trust, will tell us some fern lore and some fern care, and even how they reproduce so we can propagate more of them ourselves.

This session will focus on including ferns in your garden and specifically, what the native ferns can do to enhance the beauty and increase the resiliency of your design.

Presenter Bio

Uli Lorimer has made a career of working with native plants. He was longtime curator of the Native Flora Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and in 2019 became Director of Horticulture at Native Plant Trust, the former New England Wild Flower Society, and America’s oldest plant conservation organization, founded in 1900.

As Director of Horticulture, Uli oversees facilities and operations at the Native Plant Trust’s Garden in the Woods and Nasami Farm, a nursery dedicated to research and propagation of native New England plants. He has more than 20 years of experience working with native plants in public gardens with previous positions at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Wave Hill, and the U.S. National Arboretum.

Continuing Education Credits are being sought for this program.