Time: 9:30-11:30 am
Place: Pleasant Valley/Jewett Preserve, Park at the Parking lot on McIntosh Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: sue.cope@lymelandtrust.org
Join Sue Cope and Wendy Hill on a walk to see the spring ephemerals, the first wildflowers to emerge in our woods. These plants are able to take advantage of the sunlight in the short time after the earth warms up and before the leaves in the tree canopy open to shade the forest floor. They then disappear back into the earth as spring progresses into summer. These beautiful delicate flowers provide an early source of nectar and pollen for bees and other insects.
Registration required. sue.cope@lymelandtrust.org
Please leave your pets at home for this event. Thank you.
Sue Cope is the Environmental Director of the Lyme Land Trust and a UConn Master Gardener. Wendy Hill is Open Space Coordinator of the Town of Lyme and Vice President of the Lyme Land Trust. Wendy and Sue are co-chairs of the Lyme Pollinator Pathway.
Before you come on the walk, you can see many of the plants we will encounter by watching our enchanting new educational video, Spring Emergence: An Exploration of Wildflowers in Pleasant Valley and Jewett Preserves with Mike Zarfos, naturalist.
