Garden Workdays

New to gardening? Get some hands-on experience at our monthly garden workdays, where we cover seasonal gardening basics like converting lawn to garden beds, wildlife-friendly garden maintenance, and labor- and cost-saving measures. This is a great space to ask questions in an informal environment. Register below!

  • August Workday - Staking | Sun, 8/2 | 1 - 3 PM

    In August, we'll be demonstrating a few ways to manage taller native plants in your garden by staking! We'll also tackle a few routine maintenance tasks around the garden.

    Register here 

  • Free Native Plant Day | Sun, 9/28 (NEW DATE) | 2 - 6 PM

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    This annual event is part giveaway (while supplies last!) and part educational workshops. This year, we'll be offering a Native Gardening 101 workshop - the basics of planning, planting, and maintaining your first native garden - to help you get started and avoid rookie mistakes.

    Register here 

Educational Programs

Want to learn more about the natural world and how to invite it into your yard? This year, we'll be presenting at events throughout Northeast Ohio. Come see us, and bring a friend!

  • Presentation: A Garden 10,000 Years in the Making | Lakewood Public Library | Wed, 8/20 | 7 PM

    Learn the ages old natural history behind the native plant-wildlife connection and find out how to bring this microcosm of nature into your yard. The act of gardening becomes deeply rewarding when the plants that one grows support a world of pollinators, birds, and other organisms. This is the promise of gardening with native plants. Co-founder Dave Tomashefski will tell you what you need to know to have a garden that is not only beautiful, but also buzzes and flutters with life.

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  • Pollinator Town @ MGCC Fall Seminar | Independence, OH | Sat, 9/20 | 8:15 AM - 3:30 PM

    Join us at the Master Gardeners of Cuyahoga County 2025 fall seminar: Gardening for a Healthier Yard and Community. This all-day seminar includes a keynote Speaker and three sessions, continental breakfast, and a boxed lunch. Dave will be presenting on winter shelter for pollinators and insects, exploring the garden as though it were a city of pollinators with habitat features that we, the gardeners, can provide.

    Register here 

  • Soft Landings Gardens for Birds @ the Headlands Birding Festival | Mentor, OH | Sat, 9/20 | 3 PM

    We're proud sponsors of the annual Headlands Birding Festival! Dave will be among several speakers presenting at this event, which includes bird walks at several local hotspots and Meadow City native plants in the vendor area. Planting a native "soft landings" garden beneath a tree is one of the best ways to support biodiversity in your yard. Learn how these gardens feed birds by boosting caterpillar populations in this compelling presentation.

    Registration opens on 8/1 

Info tables

Come say hi and get some free native plant advice at the events below! We won't be selling plants, but we would love to chat with you.

  • Waterloo Arts Fest | Collinwood, Cleveland | Sat, 9/13 | 12 - 7 PM

    The annual Waterloo Arts Fest takes place just down the road from the nursery, in the artistically vibrant Waterloo Arts & Entertainment District. Over the past twenty four years the festival has grown but it has always remained grounded in community and fresh with local art.

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