Events

To RSVP and get directions, please reply to Hart Hagan at [email protected].

Here is Jacquelyn's description of her property.

I live on a scant half acre lot on the golf course in Hunting Creek, in Prospect.  I spent 10 years gardening 'traditionally,' although I always loved, admired, and planted native plants.  Once I attended Doug Tallamy's first lecture in Louisville, I became a devoted native plant grower.  I gradually expanded my front yard and backyard garden beds, and replaced many alien plants with natives,  in an ongoing transformation.  Three years ago  I was cited by the City of Prospect for growing 'weeds' in my front yard.  A two year battle ensued, which ended when the City dismissed all charges and fines ($50/day for 2 years) on the eve of a District Court case I brought challenging my nuisance 'conviction' by the Code Enforcement Board.  Subsequently, the Mayor of Prospect appointed me to a committee  tasked with revising the weed ordinances, and now Prospect has a progressive (although not ideal) ordinance for gardens.  Come see this famous/infamous garden, which contains about 100 species of native plants and was the subject of 2 Courier Journal articles, one of which went national.