As part of Winter Speaker Series hosted by the Friends of the Living Prairie Museum, Dr. Jason Gibbs from the University of Manitoba will be providing an exciting presentation on the wild bees of Manitoba. Information below:

January 25 – The Wild Bees of Manitoba, Dr. Jason Gibbs, University of Manitoba – REGISTER ONLINE

Bees are recognized as critically important pollinators. But how many bees do we actually recognize? Manitoba’s diverse bee fauna will be reviewed, including but not limited to leafcutter bees, sweat bees, cuckoo bees and oil bees.

For more information on this event or other upcoming presentations in the series, visit the Living Prairie Museum website.

Linda Dietrick, PNGG member, Master Gardener, and former editor of The Prairie Garden, including the 2020 issue, Inspired by Nature, will be the guest speaker for the final meeting of the Prairie Naturals Gardening Group.

Popular projects like Douglas Tallamy’s Homegrown National Park and the David Suzuki Foundation’s Butterflyway call on gardeners to help create habitat for threatened pollinators by planting native plants. The talk will focus on high-priority natives that we should incorporate into our garden designs. It will also help identify those non-natives that may have less ecological value. What that leaves are the many plants that, while they may not be native to our region, can still provide multiple ecological benefits.

The webinar is on Thursday, January 13, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CST. 

Click here to register!

The Prairie Naturals Gardening Group is hosting a webinar on appreciating tall grass prairies in the winter. Guest Speaker Cindy Crosby, an Illinois resident, will explain how tall grass prairies can support birds, pollinators and mammals during the winter.

To register for this exciting webinar, click here. 

On November 5, The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) Manitoba Chapter is hosting a free webinar with Dr. Diana Bizecki Robson, Curator of Botany at the Manitoba Museum, where she will share her research findings on some of the rarest plants in Manitoba - including Western Silvery Aster and Hairy Prairie-clover. 

She will also discuss her discovery of a new, endemic species of water-lily, why some plants are rare, and how we can protect them to ensure they’ll be around for years to come.

Click here to register for the webinar!

Here are some great upcoming webinars organized by the Prairie Naturals Garden Group. Click on each link to find out more!

• Oct 21: Lyndon Penner - Designing with Native Plants 
• Nov. 18: Native Plants for Gardens and Prairie Restoration with John Morgan 
• Dec. 16: December Delights of the Tall Grass Prairie - Cindy Crosby