Boston Flora

Month: March 2010

  • Thursday, March 11, 6:30 – 8:00 pm – Spring into Action

    Learn to green your home with simple, sustainable actions at this practical lecture to be held Thursday, March 11, from 6:30 – 8:00 at the Boston Nature Center, 500 Walk Hill Street in Mattapan.  The Massachusetts Audubon Society  notes that spring is on its way, and you should add a little green to your spring season.  Learn how to reduce your energy bill on hot days while still staying cool.  Discuss the best environmentally friendly household cleaners, and learn tips about the best green practices for indoors and outdoors.  Find out what you can do right now to “green” your home.  Preregistration is required.  Free for Mass Audubon members, $6.00 for non-members.  Family rate $12.00.  For more information, call 617-983-8500, or email bnc@massaudubon.org.

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  • Monday, March 8, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm – The Inner Beauty of Flowers

    The exhibition entitled The Inner Beauty of Flowers, a collaboration between the Botanic Garden of Smith College, retired radiologist Merrill C. Raikes MD, and University of Massachusetts physics professor Robert B. Hallock, will be shown in the Church Exhibition Gallery of the Smith College Lyman Plant House beginning Saturday, March 6, and will run through September 30, 2010.  Join others for an exploration of light, vision, x-rays and flowers, extending the range of our perception, at the opening reception on Monday, March 8, from 7 – 9.  X-rays open up a new world of the interior structure of objects.  Merril Raike’s superb floral radiography reveals an unseen world of delicacy and beauty.  For more information, log on to www.smith.edu/gardens/Home/events.html.

  • Through March 31 – Susan Hiller: What Every Gardener Knows

    Smith College presents an audio installation in the Palm House in the Lyman Conservatory, presented in collaboration with the Smith College Museum of Art.  This electronically timed carillon plays music composed by internationally renowned artist Susan Hiller.  Originally commissioned for the exhibition Genius Locii in Stadtpark Lahr, Schwarzwald, Germany in 2003, the piece is based on Mendel’s theory of inherited traits in plants.  Hiller’s musical version of Mendel’s code reiterates and celebrates the variety and richness of genetics and inheritance patterns that characterize all living things.  You may listen at www.smith.edu/gardens/Home/events.html.

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