Date: October 8, 2024

Time: 2:00 p.m.

Location: Polk County Public Libraries, Saluda Branch

Speaker: Carrie Blair, founder of Tree Lovers School

Join us to learn about trees! Carrie Blair, founder of Tree Lovers School, will discuss ways to help you identify trees by their various characteristics, their habitats, branch patterns, leaves, flowers, seeds, thorns, buds, and leaf scars. She’ll also teach some of the terms you should know when learning about and discussing trees.

Carrie Blair has passionately studied the plants of the mid-Atlantic for over four decades. She served as the president of the Virginia Native Plant Society, Piedmont Chapter and she was a board member for 25 years. She has led hundreds of plant walks for Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, she was a docent of the State Arboretum of Virginia, a Virginia and North Carolina Master Gardener, a Master Naturalist, a member of the North Carolina Native Plant Society – Land of the Sky, she belongs to the Western Carolina Botanical Club, and the Georgia Botanical Society.

Through her work with Tree Lovers School, Carrie provides botany education and landscape assessments, as well as custom classes, plant walks, and field trips for schools and other groups. She loves teaching people where to find nature’s hidden treasures while inspiring appreciation of the natural beauty of our region.

The Saluda Library Speaker Series programs are made possible thanks to our partnership with the Polk County Public Libraries Systems and a grant from the Polk County Community Foundation.

Contact Pam Torlina, pam@conservingcarolina.org, with questions or for more information.