Leach Talks 2025: A Deep Dive Into Pollination

Flowering Plant Diversity: Co-adaptation, Competition, and Cheating!

Flowers come in all kinds of different shapes, sizes, and colors, and most are pollinated by animals. It is the co-evolution of plants and their pollinators that is responsible for the size, shape, and structural diversity that we see in plants today.
This talk will help explain many of the mysteries surrounding how flowering plants have evolved to attract very specific pollinators.

Did you know that the speckles on a rhododendron flower are actually runways?
Did you know that some flowers must be forced open by birds before they can be pollinated?
Did you know that a sunflower is actually a collection of flowers? It has ultraviolet markings that point to its center.

There is so much more to know about the flowers we tend to take for granted! Join for a night of learning, desserts & wine, in a gorgeous fall garden setting.

The Leach Talks 2025 speaker series is generously sponsored by Portland Nursery.

You may also like the following events from Leach Botanical Garden:

• This Tuesday, 2nd September, 06:00 pm, After Hours Yoga in Happy Valley
• This Wednesday, 3rd September, 10:00 am, Honeybee Hikes in Happy Valley
• Next Friday, 12th September, 01:00 pm, B5 Bio Blitz in Happy Valley

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