GardenThoughtfully - Inspiring others to create sustainable gardens for wildlife, pollinators & to increase yield

The Butterfly's Apothecary
2024-03-31 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | PA
New clinical data suggests that certain chemicals found in herbs and plants act as a natural pharmacy for butterflies, supporting their health during mating season and making some butterfly eggs unpalatable to predators. Join us to learn which herbs and plants to incorporate into your pollinator habitat, so you can help maintain butterfly health and support their lifecycle. Discover how simple changes in your garden can have a significant impact on butterfly populations and contribute to biodiversity conservation. Let’s work together to create a welcoming environment for these beautiful creatures!
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Planting for Pollinators - Ladew Topiary Gardens
2024-03-28 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Ladew Topiary Gardens, 3535 Jarrettsville Pike, Monkton, MD, United States
Join pollinator steward Heather Andrews to learn how to attract the “jewels of the garden” in your yard to increase yield and decrease pests for a sustainable garden. Heather will cover how to incorporate native plants to maximize butterfly activity in your garden, and why being a “lazy gardener” will help overwintering butterflies, bugs, moths, and birds.
Lectures will be presented in-person and virtually through Zoom. They will be recorded and available for all paid registrants to view later.
Cost per lecture:
In-person: $30 Ladew member | $40 non-member (includes pastries, coffee and tea from the Ladew Café)
Virtual: $15 Ladew member | $20 non-member
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Spring Pollinators Palmyra Garden Club
2024-03-18 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Finkenbinders Funeral Home, 2 Pine St, Palmyra, PA, United States
When:
Sunday, March 18, 2024 @ 12:25 PM
Location:
Finkenbinder’s Funeral Home
Social Room, 2 Pine St. in Palmyra, PA

Philly Home + Garden Show
2024-03-03 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | PA Farm Show Complex, 2300 North Cameron Street, Harrisburg, PA, United States
Join Pollinator Steward Heather Andrews as she shares insights on creating a low-maintenance, sustainable environment for you, your family, and pets! Discover practical tips and eco-friendly practices to foster a harmonious habitat that benefits both humans and pollinators alike. Don’t miss this opportunity to cultivate a thriving ecosystem while minimizing your environmental footprint.

Northwest Flower and Garden Festival
2024-02-15 13:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Seattle Convention Center, 705 Pike Street, Seattle, WA, United States
FEBRUARY 14-18, 2024
SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER | 705 PIKE STREET, SEATTLE, WA

Fueling Stations for Spring Pollinators
2024-02-05 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | PA

Spring Fuel Station
2023-10-17 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Hanover Garden Club, 129 Charles Street, Hanover, Pennsylvania
Join Heather Andrews of gardenthoughtfully.com and learn about what native plants you can plant successfully for fuel migratory monarchs and hummingbirds. Also, discover the best tips and tricks for attracting and hosting your pollinators in your garden.
Hosted by: Hanover Garden Club

Spring Fueling Station
2023-10-17 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Hanover Garden Club, 129 Charles Street, Hanover, Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Hanover Garden Club

Fall Fueling Station
2023-09-03 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Colonel Denning State Park Amphitheater, Doubling Gap Rd, Newville, Pennsylvania
Join Master Gardener Heather Andrews to Learn what native plants you can plant to successfully fuel migratory monarchs and hummingbirds on their journey south!

Manada Conservancy Event
2023-04-13 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Converting the Traditional Garden into a Pollinator Paradise
Do you want to convert your landscape into a sustainable pollinator haven that is suitable for birds, wildlife and pollinatores, and safe for your family? Join local pollinator gardener, Heather Andrews as she walks us through how she did just that – converting a traditional landscape to an award winning pollinator paradise.

Lunch and Learn: The Science of Butterflies with Master Gardener
2023-04-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Dickinson College, 400 w. North Street, Carlisle, PA, 17013, United States
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Have you ever wanted to host butterflies in your backyard? Come discover actionable, science-based tips you can use to attract and host the Jewels of the garden to your outdoor spaces.
Join the Center for Sustainability Education at Dickinson College in Kaufman Hall 178 from 12-1:00 pm to learn about The Science of Butterflies from Penn State Master Gardener, Heather Andrews. This is a FREE interactive workshop and demonstration. Bring your lunch and learn about butterflies, their importance in our ecosystem, and how we can help support them.
Heather Andrews is a published author, photographer, and speaker who routinely works with homeowners and businesses to create sustainable native pollinator habitats. She is a two time recipient of the “Garden of Distinction” award by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and her award winning photographs and articles have been featured in magazines and on Medium. On her YouTube Channel, Garden Thoughtfully, Heather encourages gardeners to provide wildlife habitat and fuel for native pollinators and improve vegetable yield via pollinator hedgerows/corridors.
All are welcome. No pre-registration is necessary. FREE event!

Developing A Pollinator Garden
2023-04-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Brownstone Masonic Lodge, Governor Road, Hershey, PA, United States
Join Heather Andrews in person to discuss ancient techniques that increase the presence of ”good bugs” and reduce pest pressure. We will discover planting techniques that attracts the right pollinator to your garden to increase yield by incorporating science that you can use in your own backyard to have a low maintenance, high yield garden!

Outdoors Online The Health and Mental Benefits of Gardening
2023-03-23 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | PA
Learn which plants to grow to support a peaceful mind, to brew a calming tea, and to benefit pollinators and the world beyond your garden’s borders.

Wildlife Wednesday
2023-03-15 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | PA
Blinded Me with Science: Beautify Your Backyard by Attracting Butterflies
Have you ever wanted to host butterflies in your backyard? Discover actionable, science-based tips you can use to attract and host the Jewels of the Garden to your outdoor spaces.
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Outdoors Online Spring Fueling Station
2023-02-23 18:30 - 19:45 (America/New_York) | PA
Learn about ‘keystone’ native plants and common host plants for butterflies and moths, how to strategically design your garden for maximum pollinator activity, and why delaying sprin clean-up helps overwintering wildlife.

Live Interview with Patterson Webster! Click to Register!
2023-01-19 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | PA
Hey Thoughtful Gardener!

Live Interview with Patterson Webster!
Hosted by Heather Andrews
Join Patterson and The Thoughtful Gardener on the 19th of January at 12PM EST to discuss her new book, Autobiography of a Garden, about the creation and development of her historic property into a world class garden.

Winter Lecture Series: Backyard Pollinator Oasis
2023-01-15 13:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | PA
Join pollinator expert Heather Andrews in this virtual discussion on how to create a sustainable organic oasis that will invite in an army of good bugs to reduce pest pressure and improve your veggie and fruit yield.

TRAVELING FOR GARDEN INSPIRATION
2022-10-18 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Colonial Park United Church of Christ, 500 Devonshire Road, Harrisburg, PA, 17109, United States
Lessons to implement in your own backyard
Harrisburg Garden Club

CITIZEN SCIENTISTS AND THE BUTTERFLY
2022-10-02 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Jaharis Recital Hall at Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA, 19041, United States
Citizen Scientists and the Butterfly-Meet the Mavericks, Mavens, and Miracles That Revealed Their Secrets
Heather Andrews is an award-winning garden designer, published author, and photographer who creates native and sustainable pollinator habitats. Join her to learn how to make your own backyard a pollinator paradise, with a combination of scientific research and practical tips. She will use the GROW method; finding your green thumb, creating your refuge, optimizing your garden, and attracting wildlife to talk you through transforming your space into an oasis for both pollinators and you.
This hybrid event is a partnership sponsored by Haverford College Arboretum, the Hardy Plant Society, and Henry Botanic Garden. At 1:00 p.m. there will be a free campus tour given by Haverford College Arboretum horticulturists. This lecture will take place in the Jaharis Recital Hall at Haverford College Arboretum, followed by a reception. There is also the option of attending virtually via zoom. For those who will be joining virtually the event link and password will be emailed prior to the event.
Speaker Biography: Heather Andrews is a published author, photographer, traveler and speaker who routinely works with homeowners and businesses to create sustainable native pollinator habitats. She grew up as one of 12 grandchildren in North Carolina, and often took walks on her Granddaddy Andrews acre garden, where she learned about pollinators and increasing yield. Her childhood chores included weed pulling in her Daddys rose garden, which she did not appreciate at the time.
During the growing season, you will find her in her monarch waystation, Cat-a-pillar Haven, videoblogging on her new YouTube Channel, Garden Thoughtfully. She encourages gardeners provide wildlife habitat and fuel for native pollinators and improve vegetable yield via pollinator hedgerows/corridors. She combines information from her career in clinical research to guide her messaging, and routinely creates actionable video content to enable gardeners to create a pollinator paradise in their own backyard. She often sends milkweed seeds and shares native plants with gardeners throughout North America to help create native butterfly habitat, and support the endangered monarch butterfly.
She is a two time recipient of the “Garden of Distinction” award by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society for Her Monarch Waystation, Cat-a-Pillar Haven in 2020, and for a pollinator Garden she designed for the Historic Craighead House in collaboration with the Penn State Master Gardeners of Cumberland Her award winning photographs and articles have been featured in magazines and on Medium.
Most recently, she is collaborating with Gardening know how on a 5 part butterfly gardening course. Information can be found at https://learn.gardeningknowhow.com/courses/butterfly-garden
To follow her educational videologs, she can be found on her new educational gardening channel on youtube, GardenThoughtfully.

A Talk In The Garden: Fall-Blooming Native Plants
2022-08-14 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Craighead House, 318 East Old York Road, Carlisle, PA, 17015, United States
A Talk In The Garden: Fall-Blooming Native Plants
Join Penn State Master Gardener Heather Andrews, a native plant and butterfly expert, for a discussion about the importance of fall-blooming native plants in the garden for the fall migration of birds, butterflies, and other insects, and which plants are the best for our area. Heather has been instrumental in helping design and plant our native plant gardens around Craighead House.
CRAIGHEAD HOUSE 318 E. OLD YORK ROAD,
CARLISLE, PA 17015
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2-3PM

GardenDC Podcast Episode 115: The Dreaded Spotted Lanternfly
2022-08-13 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | PA
In this episode, we talk with Heather Andrews, The Thoughtful Gardener, about dealing with the spotted lanternfly. The plant profile is on Blackberry Lily and we share what’s going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events.

Creating a Pollinator Paradise In Your own Backyard
2022-06-21 19:00 UTC | PA
Creating a pollinator paradise in your own backyard
Join Heather Andrews, The Thoughtful Gardener, as she shares the secrets she learned from her Grandfather Andrews in his North Carolina garden, combined with pearls from garden research that will enable you to create an oasis for wildlife and your family. Heather will show us how to welcome the “royalty” of the butterfly kingdom into our own gardens by creating the perfect oasis for the Monarch Migration.
Heather Andrews is an author, photographer, traveler and speaker who works with homeowners and businesses to create sustainable native pollinator habitats. During the growing season you will find her in her Monarch waystation, Cat-a-pillar Haven, video blogging on her YouTube Channel, Garden Thoughtfully. Heather is a two-time recipient of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s “Garden of Distinction” Award for her Monarch waystation and for a pollinator garden she designed for the historic Craighead House in conjunction with the Master Gardeners of central Pennsylvania. Her proposal “The Resurgence of Pollinator Hedgerows – Using Science to Create a Pollinator Oasis in Your Own Backyard” was accepted at the 2021 International Master Gardeners Conference.

Registration for this program will close at 4:00 PM on the day of the program.
This program is eligible for 1.0 Rutgers Master Gardener CEU.
The program will be recorded, but available only to people who register for it.
Cost: $10 members / $15 non-members

Location: VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM

Host Pollinators on Your Porch!
2022-06-04 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Homestead Gardens, 743 West Central Avenue, Davidsonville, MD, 21035, United States
Hey Thoughtful Gardeners!
Join Master Gardener Heather Andrews as she demonstrates the creation of 2 pollinator pots- one to attract and host butterflies, and another to attract hummingbirds! You will learn what types of plants you will need need to attract and feed pollinators, so you can have the jewels of the garden on your front porch.

17th Annual Lower Allen Township Gardeners Gathering
2022-04-30 10:00 - 13:00 UTC | Lower Allen Community Park4075, Lisburn Road, Mechanicsburg
April 30, 2022
10 am
Lower Allen Community Park 4075 | Lisburn Road, Mechanicsburg (Rain or Shine)

Spring Garden Success: How to grow more food by creating a pollinator paradise
2022-04-19 10:00 UTC | Harrisburg Garden Club, 500 Devonshire Road, Harrisburg, PA, 17109, United States
April 19, 2022
10 am
Harrisburg Garden Club Colonial Park United Church of Christ 500 Devonshire Road
Harrisburg, PA 17109

Fueling the Spring Monarch Migration-How to prepare your yard to host the jewels of the garden
2022-03-31 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | PA
This event will be on March 31, 2022, Thursday at 4PM EST for this free virtual program brought to you by Heather Andrews and learn about maximizing the spring yield of your garden and to provide habitat for wildlife going into the winter months. Your garden can be an oasis for pollinators all year by implementing “shoulder season” plantings and Heather will walk us through the steps to do this in a beautiful way!
Gardens and Tonic is a series of virtual webinars with horticulture professionals. Grab your favorite beverage and join Julie Jenney from the Scott Arboretum and a featured horticulture professional for plant-related topics, adventures, and stories – as well as design-focused talks on private and public gardens. Time will be set aside to answer your questions. Registration is free but required. Participants must have Zoom downloaded on their computer and be comfortable using it. The webinar link will be included in the confirmation email received after registering online.

Why you should create a pollinator oasis in your yard that will minimize pests and maximize yield
2022-03-22 10:00 UTC | Reading Public Museum, 500 Museum Rd, Reading, PA, 19611, United States
