CRC Watersheds Assoc & Penn State Brandywine Lecture

Mark Gormel, Native Plant Horticulturist, February 12

On Sunday, February 12, 2012, Chester Ridley Crum Watersheds Association (CRC), Penn State Brandywine, and your municipality will host Mark Gormel, native plant horticulturist and consultant, as he presents “Native Plants, Birds, Bees, Butterflies, and Healthy Watersheds- What’s the Connection?” Mark is the Horticultural Coordinator for Brandywine Conservancy and a well-known lecturer and nature photographer. His talk will illustrate the critical relationships between specific native plants and the wildlife and habitat zones they support. Learn strategies for creating environmentally sound gardens in which wildlife, birds and butterflies will thrive.

The program will take place from 2 pm to 3:30 pm in the Tomezsko Building Auditorium at the Penn State Brandywine campus located at 25 Yearsley Mill Road, Media (off of Route 352 in Middletown). The program is free and open to the public. Please contact CRC at 610-892-8731 or crc [at] nni [dot] com to preregister, since space is limited. For more information, please see www.crcwatersheds.org.