PDC Pollinator Festival and Second Saturday Music Series

Celebrate native pollinators with PDC!

Learn about native bees, wasps, butterflies, and more with expert guides while watching them buzz and flutter around summer blooms in PDC’s all-native botanical gardens.

• 12:00-2:00: Educational Displays in the visitor center
• 1:00-2:00: Native Bees and Basic Pollination Ecology: A Classroom Presentation by Douglas Burkett
• 2:00-3:30: Bees and Wasps Walk with Drew Chaney
• 3:30-5:00: Butterfly Walk with Devin Floyd
• 5:00-6:00: Caterpillar Walk with Courtney McLaughlin
• The festival will conclude with music by Dapper Tramps (5:00-6:00) and Uncle Henry’s Favorites (6:30-8:30) in the picnic pavilion.

Dapper Tramps is an acoustic duo with a blended style rooted in folk, jazz, blues, and bluegrass. Their song selection is a combination of familiar and original, instrumental and lyrical, and offers an alternate perspective on the eclectic genre known as Americana.

Uncle Henry’s Favorites old-time string band hails from Albemarle County, Virginia. Pete and Ellen Vigour, of White Hall, Jim Childress, from Free Union, and Mark Beall from Stanardsville, formed the band in 1985. Their album Old-Time String Band Music has won rave reviews, and the band reached a national audience with an appearance on public radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested if you plan to stay for the evening concert.

Bring a picnic lunch or dinner and spend the day celebrating the beauty of biodiversity!