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Tallamy and Weaner:
A Season by Season Guide to Plant-Wildlife Connections
Doug Tallamy, PhD & Larry Weaner, FAPLD
To support native birds and pollinators you need native plants. For those plants to thrive, you need to know how to plant, arrange, and manage them. And to optimize the wildlife benefits, those plants must provide habitat throughout the year. In this presentation, entomologist & wildlife ecologist Doug Tallamy and landscape designer Larry Weaner will illustrate an all too rare, integrated approach to habitat creation on residential properties. In an alternating series of presentations, they will connect plants, wildlife, and their specific seasonal needs to illustrate the dynamic landscapes that this integrated approach can provide. They will conclude by comparing notes on their personal experience, interacting with plants and wildlife on their respective home landscapes.
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET
Category: Home Gardener
Fee: $38
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Instructor Bios:
Doug Tallamy, PhD is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 115 research publications and has taught insect related courses for 45 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. His books include Bringing Nature Home (Timber Press 2009); The Living Landscape (Timber Press 2014), co-authored with Rick Darke; Nature's Best Hope (Timber Press 2020), a New York Times Best Seller; The Nature of Oaks (Timber Press 2021), winner of the American Horticultural Society’s 2022 book award; and his latest book How Can I Help (Timber Press 2025). In 2021 he cofounded Homegrown National Park with Michelle Alfandari (HomegrownNationalPark.org).
Larry Weaner, FAPLD founded Larry Weaner Landscape Associates in 1982 and its educational affiliate, New Directions in the American Landscape, in 1990. His nationally recognized work combines horticulture, landscape design, and ecological restoration, and spans more than twenty U.S. states and the U.K. His book, Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change (Timber Press 2016), co-authored with Tom Christopher, received an American Horticultural Society (AHS) Book Award in 2017. In 2021 he received the AHS Landscape Design Award and the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) Award of Distinction.