Lakelands Master Gardeners

Bird Gardens to be featured at Native Plant Society's Fall Native Plant Sale! Local flora and fauna need each other - Even a modest increase in native plant cover significantly increases the number and species of breeding birds! Also, native plants have the advantage of having adapted to local soil types and climate conditions. Wildlife lovers will want to make a special stop at a featured Bird Garden station planned for the upcoming South Carolina Native Plant Society Fall Plant Sale. Upstate Chapter President and retired Clemson professor Bill Stringer will be on hand to offer expertise and advice for those wishing to develop landscapes that are especially attractive to birds. You will learn which plants produce flowers/berries that birds consume, which plants provide habitat for birds, and which plants are the best hosts for insects that birds eat!
Felicity Henderson, a local landscape designer, will offer free design consultation at the sale to help you create gardens that are beautiful to you and the birds! She will inspire you with photos of native gardens with a focus on color and proportion. With our new credit card shopping option, you can design, purchase, and plant your bird garden all in the same weekend! In addition to plants that attract birds, we will have some end-of-season discounts from suppliers as well as fall perennials, grasses, shrubs, evergreens, vines, trees and edibles. And fall is the perfect time to plant so that roots can get well established during the cool months!