Backyard Wildlife Habitat Steward and Master Gardener, Julie O'Donald will give an overview of the elements that create beautiful gardens for birds and people. Best native plants for birds and design features that create habitat will be emphasized. Photos of birds with their food plants will show how to bring nature home to any size property. Julie's personal certified wildlife habitat contains over 200 species of native plants and attracts birds, butterflies, pollinators and beneficial insects.

Active in educational community outreach, Julie volunteers for the Washington Native Plant Society, the Washington Butterfly Association, Kruckeberg Botanic Garden and the National Wildlife Federation as the team leader for the Brier Wildlife Habitat Project. Julie's garden has been featured in Pacific Horticulture, Bird Watching Magazine, The Butterfly Gardener and Sunset publications.

Tuesday, June 12 7:00 P.M.
Bellevue Botanical Garden, Aaron Education Center, 12001 Main St., Bellevue

Refreshments, Public Invited, Admission is free.
Donations are appreciated!
We've added something special to our June 12th program and annual meeting...a mini plant sale! If you are still looking for a few more plants to fill in your garden and attract pollinators, be sure to come to our June meeting. We will have a selection of trees, shrubs and herbacious plants you will be able to purchase from $3-$12. Credit cards and checks accepted. Plant list below:

Abies grandis Grand Fir
Allium cernuum Nodding Onion
Aruncus dioicus Goat’s Beard
Gaultheria shallon Salal
Mahonia aquifolium Tall Oregon Grape
Ozomelis trifida Three-parted Miterwort
Picea sitchensis Sitka spruce
Pinus monticola Western White Pine
Ribes lacustre Black gooseberry
Sisyrinchium idahoense Blue-eyed Grass
Spiraea densiflora Subalpine spirea

Proceeds from this sale benefit WNPS-CPS and its education and public land stewardship/restoration programs.

Also a reminder as this will be our annual meeting as well, we will have our election of board officers as well before our program begins. Please see our Summer, 2018 newsletter for more details: https://www.wnps.org/include/pages/files/CPS_Program/NPPSummer2018%20Print3.pdf