Presentation: Headwaters Circle of the Springs Garden
The Garden is the focal point in the Headwaters Sanctuary Upper Field location. Constructed in 2018, the site is an 80-foot diameter native pollinator garden with sixteen planting beds and sixteen paths. The current native plant scheme, conceptualized in 2019, supports local and migratory wildlife and entices visitors to consider native plants in their own landscapes. Over 31 butterfly species were surveyed within the Garden and surrounding Sanctuary forest in October 2022. Last fall, a new Garden Path to the site and an Observation Loop around the Circle Garden were constructed.
Garden design, composition, and maintenance strategy will be presented by Patrick McGuire, Headwaters Volunteer Field Leader and Trail Monitor. Mr. McGuire became a Headwaters Board Member in 2023.
Mr. McGuire is retired from the Navy, where he was a Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman. He also retired from his position as Program Director for a Cardiovascular Technology Program in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Pat has been a Certified Texas Master Naturalist for the past 4 years. Together with his wife Becky, he volunteers with the Salsa Squad and at the Headwaters Sanctuary weekly. He also volunteers with the Great Texas Wildlife Trail Program, a citizen scientist project with TPWD that documents the distribution of wildlife in particular locations. Pat is a member of the Native Plant Society of Texas and has completed the four-class, Native Landscape Certification Program and Landscaping for Birds class offered by NPSOT. Pat and his wife Becky have transformed their one-acre+ property in Lytle, Texas into a wildlife habitat by planting more than 100 different species of native plants!
Film Screening: Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscape
A new documentary produced by the Beatrix Farrand Garden Association and directed by Stephen Ives, Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes, follows award-winning public garden designer Lynden B. Miller as she sets off to explore the remarkable life and career of America’s first female landscape architect—Beatrix Farrand. Farrand was responsible for some of the most celebrated gardens in the United States and helped create a distinctive American voice in landscape architecture. Although she created gardens for the rich and powerful, including John D. Rockefeller, Jr., J.P. Morgan, and President Woodrow Wilson, she also was an early advocate for the value of public gardens and believed strongly in the power of the natural world to make people’s lives better. Through the documentary, Miller journeys to iconic Farrand gardens, engaging designers, scholars and horticulturists in a spirited dialogue about the meaning and importance of this ground-breaking early 20th-century woman. Lynden Miller’s experience as New York City’s most prominent public garden designer is woven into a wide-ranging biography of Farrand’s life and times." www.beatrixfarrandgardenhydepark.org
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