HOW TO CREATE A NO-FUSS WILDLIFE POND
With Pat Sutton
November 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Frogs, toads, and dragonflies all need freshwater ponds for egg laying to create future generations. Even a tiny pond will attract and support them. Learn what a true wildlife pond is and how simple it is to create – with no need for running water, filters, fish, and all the fuss. Pat will share the basics of how to create a wildlife pond and, even more importantly, how to maintain it so that wildlife benefits. Learn which native plants to add to the pond (and which problem plants to avoid). Don’t make the same mistake that others have made by creating a pond for exotic fish that supports little else. In a true wildlife pond, expect to attract and watch the amazing life cycle of huge green darner dragonflies or count a growing population of leopard frogs, green frogs, and gray treefrogs that find your pond as if by magic. Look forward to the child-like wonder and joy of looking for and finding young gray treefrogs that have emerged from your very own pond and taken up residence on insect-rich, native nectar plants in your garden! Create it and they will come!
Directions: For our classroom meetings this fall, we are back in Stockton’s Unified Science Center but one floor higher than last year – now in Room 346. See the campus map below. The closest parking spots are in Lots #4 and #5, which share the same entry off Vera King Farris Drive, the main drive on campus. Parking Lot #5 is made easy to spot by the mural of two ospreys on the Sports Center wall.