Within living memory, museums have favored stately, showy, sterile gardens. Expansive lawns were dotted with Asian specimen shrubs and flowers. Now, some museums have reimagined their gardens as an extra exhibit, using native plants to teach visitors about local ecology.
In the fall of 2022, the Laurel Museum planted their existing beds with plants native to our region. Jimmy Rogers, garden project manager for Laurel for the Patuxent, will share how the design came together, how the plants function (both structurally and ecologically), and how residents can use the same approaches in their own gardens.
