August 29, 2009 - Boston Flora

Tuesday, September 22, 6:30 – 8:30 pm – Introduction to Botany

August 29, 2009 by Boston Flora

Learn botany from dedicated instructor and plant nomenclature specialist Kanchi Gandhi. Among the topics to be explored: plant cells and tissues, anatomy and morphology, reproduction, nutrition, growth and development, plant diversity, evolution, classification, and nomenclature. This course, offering both lecture and laboratory activities, introduces botany to new students or serves as a refresher course. Required text: Botany for Gardeners by Brian Capon. Contact the Arboretumâ€™s bookstore (617.384.5209) for book availability. Sessions continue Tuesdays September 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3 and 10, all 6:30 – 8:30 at the Arnold Arboretum.Â Fee $180 for members of Arnold Arboretum or New England Wild Flower Society, $215 for nonmembers. Register now! Fee will increase to $225 member, $270 nonmember on September 1.Â Log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu to sign up.

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Tuesday, September 15, 6:30 – 8:30 pm – Design a Native Mixed-Border Garden

August 29, 2009 by Boston Flora

The Trustees of Reservations is sponsoring an illustrated lecture and workshop at Long Hill Horticultural Center in Beverly, Massachusetts on Tuesday, September 15, from 6:30 – 8:30 pm.Â You’ll learn how to artfully combine shrubs and small trees with a selection of perennial and annual herbaceous plants, and to create a border garden with four seasons of beauty.Â Horticulturist and landscape designer Laura Eisner will illustrate basic design principles you can apply to planning and planting a mixed border of any size and shape.Â Also covered will be a range of native North American plants that thrive in borders.Â Along with plant attributes and drawbacks, Laura will talk about those difficult areas where your plants never seem to thrive and she will discuss which plants will do well there.Â Co-sponsored with the New England Wild Flower Society.Â Members of the Trusees or NEWFS $25, nonmembers $30.Â Registration required.Â Contact bzschau@ttor.org.Â Log on to www.thetrustees.org for directions.