Name: Native Plants for Native Bees & Butterflies: Creating Garden Habitat
Start: 2025-04-19T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-04-19T15:00:00-07:00
Location: 600 128th St SE, Everett, WA, United States, Washington 98208

Native Plants for Native Bees & Butterflies: Creating Garden Habitat

Celebrate Native Plant Appreciation Month at the Northwest Stream Center!
Explore the world of native bees. Learn about the landscape practices they depend on and their preferred native plants. This program will show the steps needed to convert lawn into habitat while adding vibrant color and visual interest to your garden.
Community Habitat Steward, Julie O’Donald, will share photos featuring native bees and the flowers that attract them. She will describe how to create a garden where pollinators thrive and will explain ways to incorporate native flowering shrubs and wildflowers into the landscape. Landscape features that promote healthy pollinator populations and provide nest sites will also be discussed.
Native Plants for Native Bees & Butterflies: Creating Garden Habitat
Saturday April 19th, 1PM-3PM
The Northwest Stream Center
600 128th St SE,
Everett, WA 98208
Admission:
AASF Members: $8
General Admission: $10
In addition to volunteer work as a Native Plant and Wildlife Habitat Steward, Julie has been trained as a Master Gardener and as a citizen scientist with the Xerces Society.

Julie’s personal certified wildlife habitat garden contains over 200 species of native plants and has been successfully attracting birds, butterflies, pollinators, and beneficial insects for more than 25 years. It has been featured in Pacific Horticulture, The Butterfly Gardener, Bird Watching Magazine and Sunset publications. In 2012 and 2013, the rare Western bumble bee was found in Julie's pollinator garden.
Active in community educational outreach, Julie volunteers for the Washington Native Plant Society, the Washington Butterfly Association, Kruckeberg Botanic Garden, the National Wildlife Federation and the Adopt-A-Stream Foundation.