Tag: native plants
Plants: Native, Non-Native and Invasive at Hempstead Public Library April 23rd at 7!
Long Island needs its native plants. Without them, we lose our local wildlife. Most of what is available for sale, however, are non-native. Non-native plants provide little sustenance for our local creatures. They weren’t adapted to feed from them, that’s our bees, or birds, or butterflies. Worse, we have to contend with invasive plants, some…
Dix Hills Garden Club
Marshall Brown, Co-Founder of the Long Island Conservation Alliance, will be speaking on native plants, invasive plants, and ecosystem services i.e. the importance of biodiversity, food webs, and soil health. March 18th, 2026 6:30pm – 8:45pm HHHC Library – Lecture Hall Visit the Dix Hills Garden Club website for more info on how to join.
Long Island’s Ecosystems: Past, Present and Future?
Join us for a discussion on Long Island’s Ecosystems: Past, Present…. and Future? On April 16th, 2026, at 7pm, Marshall Brown, President of the Long Island Conservation Alliance, will be talking about Long Island’s Ecosystems at the Cold Spring Harbor Library
Buy Tyska Native Plants At Plantstock!
Buy your native plants from Dan Tyska, especially the obscure ones!
Mother Nature Day
Come to SMLI on May 10th for Mother Nature Day! Come see how we are working to restore Nature at Leeds Pond Preserve! Get Mom some native pollinators for Mother’s Day! A day for mothers, for family, and for nature!
Beautification in Bay Shore: Talking Native Plants
Bay Shore Beautification, an organization newly formed to bring green practices and native greenery to the community, is hosting a public discussion of how that could be achieved, whether in the community’s parks and public spaces or in one’s own yard.
Plantstock! Buy Native Plants For Your Fall Plantings. Learn About Them Too!
Buy native plants at Plantstock! Learn about them, about native meadows, about the invasive plants now threatening Long Island and its native habitats, meet fellow plant people, become part of e GROWING movement!
The Right To Native Plants
Increasingly, people are challenging local zoning laws and home owner’s association rules governing how one maintains one’s yard, asserting our right to native plants
