Fundamentals of Garden Layers with Benjamin Vogt
Pottawattamie County Conservation Office, Pottawattamie County
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Benjamin Vogt will help us to "use Nature to create
resilient and beautiful landscapes that bring the prairie home".
Learn more
about incorporating native plants into your gardens during our next
virtual Speaker Series event with Council Bluffs Public Library on
Thursday, May 13th at 7:00 p.m.
Register at this link: ZOOM Registration Link
Presenter Benjamin Vogt is owner of Monarch Gardens LLC, a
prairie-inspired design firm based in Lincoln. He speaks nationally on garden
design and environmental ethics and for over 5 years wrote an award-winning
native plant column at Houzz which garnered over 3 million readers. Benjamin is the author of the books A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for An Uncertain Future and the forthcoming Prairie Up: An Introduction to Nature-Based Garden Design (2022).
This program will be virtual, please register to receive a
zoom link.
However, those in the Council Bluffs area can watch the zoom meeting
in Meeting Room B at the Council Bluffs Public Library, located at 400 Willow
Avenue in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Contact the library to reserve your seat
at (712) 323-7553.
This event is free, pre-registration is required to attend
as space is limited, walk in participants will not be admitted.
This program is
part of our adult education programming, we ask that participants be age 14
& over please. For questions not answered online please call
712-545-3283.
If you attend the Zoom screening at the Council Bluffs
Public Library:
Attendees are required to wear a mask for the entire
duration of the program
Overall attendance numbers have been reduced to facilitate
social distancing
Pre-registration is required to attend, walk in participants
will not be admitted
Attendees must sign a waiver before participating
There will be no reception or speaker meet & greet
following the presentation
The 2021 Speaker Series is a programming series, held in
partnership with the Council Bluffs Public Library, designed for teens &
adults to provide them with an opportunity to learn from and interact with
various authorities in the fields of conservation & environmental science.
Programs are free & will last approximately 1 hour.
Free will donations are gratefully accepted and will support
continued programming opportunities in Pottawattamie County.
Pottawattamie Conservation has received a grant award of $
1,350.00 from Humanities Iowa, a state-based affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities, in support of a project called “Speakers Series
2020 - 2021”.