Wellington Garden Club will meet on Monday, April 4 at 9:30 a.m. at the Wellington Community Center, located at 12150 W. Forest Hill Blvd. The guest speaker will be Susan Lerner, director of horticulture at the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, who will speak on plant propagation and seed saving.
As interest in Florida’s indigenous plants grows, there is an increasing desire to learn how to propagate favorite and hard-to-find native plants. This presentation will explore how to multiply a native plant collection using various methods — seeds, cuttings and “volunteer” seedlings.
Lerner is the manager of the Preservation Foundation’s green spaces, including Pan’s Garden in Palm Beach, the first all-native botanical garden in Florida. Her focus is environmental and landscape stewardship as an educator of school children and adults, and as a native plant consultant with the Town of Palm Beach. In 2017, Lerner was honored with the Earth Steward award from District X of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs.
The community is invited to join the club for coffee and a plant raffle beginning at 9:30 a.m., followed by the presentation at 10 a.m. Visitors are asked to check in at the guest table.
To reserve a spot, contact Maria Wolfe at tcacad_registrar@yahoo.com.
Wellington Garden Club, founded in 1981, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating its members and the public in the fields of gardening, horticulture, floral design, landscape design, conservation of natural resources and civic beautification; and instilling in youth the love of gardening and the respect and protection of the environment. For more information, visit www.wellingtongardenclub.org.
