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America’s natural landscapes have shaped human experience and national identity across the country’s 250-year history.  During this two-part program, take a one-mile walk through Virginia bluebells and other spring wildflowers on Virginius Island with a park biologist . After learning more about how the National Park Service protects and preserves native plants in parks, join author Nancy Lawson (The Humane Gardener, Wildscape) as she illustrates how you can use native plants to add beauty, solve problems, and create habitat in your own yard. 

Reservations are recommended.

Sponsored by the Harpers Ferry Park Association and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.  

1:00: Viriginius Island Walk with park biologist. One-mile, mostly level walk on park trails through spring wildflowers.

2:00: How to (Gently) Fight Plants with Plants: Enlisting vigorous native plants to reclaim habitat. Author Nancy Lawson. What’s to love about native plants that grow “like weeds”? Everything! Many species valuable to birds, bees and other wildlife lie dormant in the seedbank, just waiting to escape the mower and sprout. In this presentation, we’ll discuss how to recruit these hardy troopers to help reclaim habitat. We’ll also explore strategies for removing problematic nonnatives without harming wildlife and their habitats in the process. We’ll learn about many native groundcovers, shrubs, wildflowers, vines and trees that can help hold ground, as well as methods of gradual replacement that eventually shift the balance toward more wildlife-friendly, native-plant-filled habitats. 

Fee Information

Included with park admission