Loxahatchee April General Meeting-The Nature of Plants with Caig Huegel Register

Date and Time:
Mon, Apr 20, 2026; 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM  (Eastern)

Organized By: Loxahatchee Group

Location: Mounts Botanical Gardens, 531 N Military Trl, West Palm Beach, FL 33415, USA

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APRIL MEANS EARTH DAY!

For our April Earth Day celebration, Sierra Club Loxahatchee Group has joined the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society to bring celebrated environmentalist Craig Huegel to the east coast for a few days of enlightening discussions, guided walks and presentations. Our combined April General Membership meeting is set for Monday, April 20 from 6:30 -- 8:30 p.m. We begin the evening with food and music and time to meet and greet friends. Craig's presentation is "The Nature of Plants," a topic which will include some surprising, cutting edge information. 

Enjoy a lively talk by Craig Huegel, well known author, ecologist, educator, and gardener. Craig is renowned for his entertaining speaking style and dynamic delivery. He offers a depth of knowledge gleaned from 34 years of experience in native plant and wildlife education, restoration and gardening.

Craig’s specialty area is the plant-animal interaction and for our program, he will share how "plants are far from being passive creatures but have adapted complex strategies to cope with the world around them. In a way, plants and animals are really not much different from each other. They just approach challenges differently."

Craig is well known in Florida as an expert in the design of wildlife-attracting landscapes. He has written six books on Florida native plants, including native plant landscaping for wildlife, gardening with wildflowers, and landscaping with native plants in the shade. He lectures widely across the state of Florida on the use of native plants in ecologically beneficial, sustainable landscapes.  
Craig maintains an active, in-depth online blog on native Florida wildflowers and his experience in converting residential landscapes to native dominant systems. 
As a faculty member of the University of Florida/IFAS, Craig co-founded the Cooperative Urban Wildlife Extension Program and established the Florida Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program. He also established the Pinellas County Environmental Lands Division and served as Division Administrator for 12 years.
Along his other activities, Craig currently serves as Director of University of South Florida Botanical Gardens in Tampa.