S26S-117 Planning and Starting a Pollinator Garden
Stillwater | Registration opens 1/6/2026 12:00 AM CST
Are you concerned about our pollinators? The best way to help them is to provide plants for insects that both feed and provide habitat for them to lay their eggs. Monarch butterflies only lay their eggs on milkweed, but they sip nectar from many other flowering plants. Learn about plants that feed and host our beneficial insects like bees and butterflies. You’ll take home young plants to start your pollinator garden.
- Materials: Students will purchase their own materials (this allows those who have some or all to not have to re-purchase); list of needed items will be provided online prior to enrollment beginning.
Sara Wallace
Sara Wallace is a gardener with degrees in horticulture and plant pathology. She works as a Plant Diagnostician helping people with their plant problems. Twenty-some years ago, she was a paramedic in her home state of Virginia. Her grandmother gave her a Park Seed catalog and encouraged her to grow plants, so she started with an herb garden outside the kitchen. She read library books, practiced on many plants and started a Community Supported Agriculture organization. When she moved to Tulsa, she bought fruit plants at the Tulsa Farmers Market and was encouraged to attend the Horticulture Industries Show, where she learned that all the “plant stuff” she was practicing had a name: Horticulture. She went back to school starting at Tulsa Community College, eventually moving to OSU to complete her horticulture degree. She teaches the plant disease portion of the Master Gardener training across the state and has berries and 40 fruit trees in her backyard in Stillwater.