

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Visualizing the Native Garden: A Practical Design Tool for Planning Gardens
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Title:
March Chapter Program
Social : 6:30 to 7:00 pm
Meeting and Program : 7:00 to 8:15
Free and Open to Public

Visualizing the Native Garden: A Practical Design Tool for Planning Gardens

Many native gardeners have extensive plant lists—but translating those lists into cohesive garden designs is another challenge. This presentation introduces a unique, illustration-based native plant design tool that offers a fresh, hands-on approach to garden planning. Unlike traditional paper or digital layouts, this novel visual system allows gardeners to visually test layouts, experiment with layering, and evaluate bloom progression in a more intuitive way. After introducing this intuitive design process, we will go through a design scenario for a small, city garden with plenty of flowers and short grasses in the increasingly popular mixed style of gardening. 

Dustin Demmer founded the native plant nursery Blazing Star Gardens 13 years ago with a mission to bring native plants back into our communities. By promoting practical, low-maintenance strategies, he works to make native gardening accessible to beginners and experts alike. He is especially known for his use of short sedges and grasses as the structural backbone of a garden—so much so that one customer once remarked their design had “too many grasses,” even though Dustin had already reduced them by half of what he typically recommends.
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- **Event Categories**: contests, meetups
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 97

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Minneapolis
- **state**: MN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Richfield Community Center
- **lat**: 44.87606
- **long**: -93.27872
- **full address**: Richfield Community Center, 7000 Nicollet Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55423-3116, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Wild Ones Twin Cities, Minnesota (https://allevents.in/org/wild-ones-twin-cities-minnesota/7563870)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Richfield Community Center, 7000 Nicollet Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55423-3116, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Wild Ones Twin Cities, Minnesota
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** contests, meetups
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Visualizing the Native Garden: A Practical Design Tool for Planning Gardens ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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