Name: Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Native Grasses and Sedges: Smart Choices for Better Landscapes
Start: 2025-04-10T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-10T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 100 Old Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, North Carolina 27517

Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Native Grasses and Sedges: Smart Choices for Better Landscapes

With Shannon Currey, Education and Outreach, Izel Native Plants
Thursday, April 10
12-1 p.m.
Hybrid: In-person and on Zoom
Free!
Register: https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-30061f3d0000470da58c2074622b8d83
Looking for strategies to boost your landscape’s ecological impact? Join us for a look at plant-based solutions to common landscape challenges. Rather than oceans of mulch and vast expanses of turf grass, try using use native grasses and sedges. These extraordinary plants help preserve and build the soil, outcompete weeds, and offer a host of ecosystem benefits. Discover how greener grasses help build better landscapes and communities.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Shannon Currey is a horticultural educator with Izel Native Plants. She’s worked in the nursery trade since 2006 and has established herself as an expert on grasses and sedges, with a focus on native species. She has shared her knowledge in nationally published articles and traveled the country speaking to professional organizations, community groups, and at public gardens. She currently serves on the North Carolina Plant Conservation Program Scientific Committee, advises organizations on horticultural programming, and has served on the Boards of the Perennial Plant Association and the Perennial Plant Foundation. Shannon lives in Durham, North Carolina and loves exploring the native flora everywhere she goes.