Bird & Butterfly Gardens
for Homes and Communities

Learn how to make your yard attractive to butterflies and birds. Learn how to have butterflies return to your yard year after year. Learn about sun and soil requirements and receive a plant list for
wildlife friendly plants. Examples of various successful butterfly and bird gardens will be shown. Tennessee Aquarium lead horticulturalist Christine Bock Hunt will also lead a walk of the grounds to identify various bird-friendly shrubs and flowers already planted around the Arboretum.

Seeds and seedlings will be given out.

Instructor: Christine Bock Hunt, lead horticulturalist with the Tennessee Aquarium. As a naturalist, she shares her knowledge of wildflowers, trees, uses of plants and medicinal properties.  Recently, she has been helping school groups set up Pollinator gardens and growing out flowers for butterflies. She also tags monarchs in fall on their journey south.  She enjoys sharing information about nature and flowers for gardens!

This course is an elective course and provides 4 hours toward the completion of the Certificate in Native Plants program.

Registration Policy:  As with all Certificate in Native Plants classes, class size is limited.  To give everyone the best opportunity to participate, there is a non-refundable cancellation fee of $10, with the balance refunded if you cancel at least 7 calendar days before the class will be held.  If the class is cancelled by the instructor or the CNP program, registrants will get a full refund.  

If you do not pay online, you will need to mail your check to Wild Ones-Tennessee Valley Chapter, 4918 Marlow Drive, Red Bank, TN 37415.  Please put the date of the program in the memo line as well as the last name of the person you are registering.  You will not be registered until your payment is received.