Native Plant Sale Native Plant Sale Dates: May 11, June 8, July 13, August 10 & September 28, 2019 9:00am – 1:00pm 2210 N Mason Montgomery Rd Adventure is blooming at the Cincinnati Zoo’s Bowyer Farm and Wetland! Join Zoo staff and Bowyer Farm master gardeners for an adventurous day filled with native plants, pollinators and wetland perusing! Learn about the land’s history and take a piece of it home from the Native Plant Sale. Bowyer Farm houses a 24-acre reclaimed wetland and an abundance of wildlife. The wetland serves as a home or stopover point for hundreds of birds, and the 15 new beehives are home to thousands of honeybees that help pollinate the entire ecosystem! See the farm, hike the wetland, and learn about the Zoo’s future plans for this thriving oasis. Then, begin an oasis of your own! The plant sale events are listed below: Native Plant Sale – Native plants, including ones found throughout the Bowyer Farm ecosystem, will be for sale. Cash, check, and credit card are accepted. Bowyer Farm is located at 2210 Mason-Montgomery Road, Lebanon, OH 45036. Please note that this is a working farm and ecosystem. Questions? Please email Brian Jorg or Chase Bodkin. Pollen Nation Celebration Pollen Nation Celebration June 8, 2019 9am-1pm Bowyer Farm: 2210 N Mason Montgomery Rd Come see what all the “buzz” is about! Coinciding with our Native Plant Sale, the Pollen Nation Celebration will be an opportunity for fun engagement, interactive stations, education tours of the wetlands and observation of the hives. Guests will be able to speak to our very own Pollen Nation experts to learn how they too, can positively impact and help save the honeybees right in their own backyards. Tours: 10am – Wetlands and Prairie 12pm – Apiary *Wear comfy shoes! And it is a rain or shine event. The Pollen Nation Celebration is presented by Klosterman Baking Company Travel to the English Gardens & Chelsea Flower Show Travel to the English Gardens & Chelsea Flower Show May 18th – May 25th, 2019More Information If you crave an out-of the-ordinary travel experience, travel with the Cincinnati Zoo! Our trips are adventurous, educational, intimate and fun. All our tours are escorted by zoo naturalists who are very knowledgeable, friendly and well-traveled. Come with us on an exciting wildlife adventure! This botanical journey of English Gardens and Chelsea Flower Show will be led by the Cincinnati Zoo’s own award-winning and nationally renowned Director of Horticulture, Steve Foltz. This unique and coveted experience will fulfill your craving for all the botanical beauty your heart desires. Plant Trials Day Symposium Plant Trials Day Symposium August 29, 2019 Easily the premier purely garden plant symposium anywhere near here, this 8th annual Plant Trials Day Symposium will feature a lineup that we’ll put up against any. Seriously. You will get to hear Michael Dirr, hands down, the world’s top woodies expert; Bill Thomas, Director of Chanticleer Gardens, one of the world’s best public gardens; Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator and Director of Outreach at the Denver Botanical Garden, which is one of a scant handful of gardens that might be the equal of Chanticleer. Stay tuned for other speakers we cannot announce yet. Sure, these “other” speakers could be slouches. With the three we’ve named, no one would care. You’d still come. You know that. We know you know that. And, yet, I can promise you they ain’t no slouches! That’s how we roll! $99, includes parking, admission, and food. Social hour afterwards. CEUs pending. Register early. This program will sell out! Purchase Tickets Time: Registration 8:00AM to 9:00AM | Talks 9:00AM to 5:00PM | Social Hour 5:00PM to 6:00PM. Location: Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Schott Education Building, Frisch’s Theater Parking: Main Zoo Parking Lot on Vine Street. Contact [email protected] for handicapped parking instructions. Cost: Full Price: $99.00 | Volunteer: $30.00 | Student: $30.00 Contact [email protected] for student tickets Native Plant Symposium Native Plant Symposium November 9, 2019 Wow. Just wow! Listen to this symposium lineup. Larry Weaner, author of one of the most important garden books in the past decade, Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change, will be speaking at the CZBG’s Native Plant Symposium. Arguably, the only other recent book with potentially greater impact has been Doug Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home. It’s a shame we couldn’t get him. But, wait. We did get him! Doug Tallamy will also be speaking! But good things always come in threes, so why not another author and native-plant-world giant? Maybe somebody like Larry Mellichamp? Or, why not him? Yep. Him too. Are you kidding me? Then what? Does it matter? Well, our good friend from Mesker Park Zoo, Paul Bouseman, will give a talk on native landscaping in the ‘burbs. Paul is a humorous, likeable, and incredibly knowledgeable speaker. We still have a few slots to fill, but, really, why? Isn’t this enough? But we’ll announce them soon. $99, includes zoo admission, parking, and a full day of food and drink. Even a social hour afterwards. CEUs pending. Purchase Tickets Time: Registration 8:00AM to 9:00AM | Talks 9:00AM to 5:00PM | Social Hour 5:00PM to 6:00PM. Location: Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Schott Education Building, Frisch’s Theater Parking: Main Zoo Parking Lot on Vine Street. Contact [email protected] for handicapped parking instructions. Cost: Full Price: $99.00 | Volunteer: $30.00 | Student: $30.00 Contact [email protected] for student tickets