<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The </span></b><st1:place><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cape Cod</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Museum</span></b></st1:placetype></st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">of Natural
History in Brewster<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">Presents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Arial Bold"">At Home with Native Plants, </span></i></b><st1:place><st1:placename><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">Rain</span></i></b></st1:placename><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold""> </span></i></b><st1:placetype><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">Gardens</span></i></b></st1:placetype></st1:place><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold""> and <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><st1:place><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">Cape Cod</span></i></b></st1:place><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">’s Natural Landscape<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">With Amanda
Sloan and Tobias Wolf<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">Sunday, May
19 2 pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Contact: Julie O’Neil 508-896-3867 or </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext;"><a href="mailto:adminsupprt@ccmnh.org">adminsupport@ccmnh.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Sunday, May 19 at 2 pm the Friends of
the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will present </span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Italic"">At Home with Native Plants, </span></i><st1:placename><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Italic"">Rain</span></i></st1:placename><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Italic""> </span></i><st1:placetype><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Italic"">Gardens</span></i></st1:placetype><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Italic""> and </span></i><st1:place><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Italic"">Cape Cod</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Italic"">’s Natural Landscape</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Italic""> </span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">with Amanda Sloan and Tobias Wolf, landscape architects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Lecture
$5. Reservations are recommended. Please call 508-896-3867, Ext. 133.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Amanda Sloan </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">and </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Tobias Wolf </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">will show design strategies you can use to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%;">make
your home landscape more beautiful, inviting, and alive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Toby </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">will show how designers and
homeowners can use native plants to create<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="line-height: 150%;">habitat, purify stormwater, and
save energy, all while creating a well-grounded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="line-height: 150%;">sense of place. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Amanda </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">will focus on small-scale rain gardens for the home<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="line-height: 150%;">landscape. She will discuss how
rain gardens work, how to build them, and how<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="line-height: 150%;">to use native plants to create
rain gardens that reflect their </span><st1:place>Cape
Cod</st1:place><span style="line-height: 150%;"> setting,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%;">add
beauty, and provide bird and butterfly habitat at your home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Gardening
for Life: </span><st1:place>Cape Cod</st1:place><span style="line-height: 150%;"> Native Plants is generously sponsored by the Association to
Preserve Cape Cod (APCC).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">For further
information, contact the Museum at 508-896-3867, Ext. 133 <a href="http://www.ccm/">www.ccm</a>nh.org</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>