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Love plants? How about butterflies and New York City’s amazing native bees? Join Newtown Creek Alliance and the Friends of MASE Park to care for the meadows in the park and on nearby Paidge Ave! Over the last few years, we’ve planted thousands of flowering native plants in these locations to provide habitat and support for our native pollinators and we’d love your help in caring for them.
Curious about NYC’s last frontier in underutilized spaces – green roofs – how they operate, function, and perform? Do you also love plants and the insects and birds they support? Join Newtown Creek Alliance to care for the green roof meadows at Kingsland Wildflowers!
At Kingsland Wildflowers, we want some of the seeds our plants produce to fall into the green roof soils, to grow into future blooms, but some are collected and shared. We’ll show you how to know when the timing is right to harvest wildflower seeds, how to sort and separate them and how to save them and prepare them for planting in your own garden. We’ll send you home with seeds of your own so bring some small jars if you’ve got them on hand, we also have plastic-free bags you can bring them home in too. This workshop will be led by NCA’s education and horticulture team.
Even in the best-kept garden plants need to be replaced, moved, divided, and given special attention. We’ll dig into the properties of green roof soil, root systems, and a few other elements to consider when caring for systems long term. We’ll look closely at some of these components and do some actual planting so be prepared to don some gloves and get dirty after a brief presentation by NCA’s education and horticulture team.
In this hands-on workshop, we will give a detailed overview of the common plants that can make up, and disrupt, a productive pollinator habitat on a green roof. Participants will learn about the benefits that particular flowers and grasses provide, and the animals that benefit from their symbiotic relationships. The workshop will be led by NCA’s education and horticulture team. A brief presentation will be followed by a hands-on activity.