Daily Archives: May 8, 2011

Monday, May 23, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – The Allure of Orchids

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Why do so many people collect and obsess about orchids?  Botanical artist and botanist Carol Govan has been researching and drawing the orchids in the Wellesley College Ferguson Greenhouse collection, and has many images to present: orchids that look like pterodactlys, cow horns, slippers, oxen yokes, and other fabulous shapes and colors.  She has stories to share about orchid mania and the wars among unscrupulous nurseries and plant hunters.  From ecology and botany to literary references and representation in botanical art, Carol will reveal an orchid’s allure.  Come to the Wellesley College Botanic Garden to hear Carol (a popular past Garden Club of the Back Bay speaker) on Monday, May 23, beginning with tea at 2 and the illustrated lecture at 2:30.  $10 for WCFH members, $15 general public. To register, log on to www.wellesley.edu/WCFH.

Saturday, May 14, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Bedford First Parish Annual Plant and Craft Fair

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The 58th Annual Plant & Craft Fair, to be held Saturday, May 14, from 10 – 3 at the First Parish on the Common, 75 The Great Road, (Route 4/225 Exit from Route 95/128) Bedford, Massachusetts, features a wide selection of heritage perennials from members’ gardens, specialty annuals, nursery-grown native plants along with hearty locally-grown annuals, perennials, veggie 6-packs and tomato plants, herbs for cooking or to enhance your garden, and shrubs. Come early for the best plants and stay on the Common to peruse the crafts and enjoy the day. You’ll also find more than fifty crafters on the Common as well as a traditional cook-out lunch, an outstanding bake sale and fun for the family: Live music by the Yankee Doodle Dixieland Band, a petting zoo featuring Bedford 4-H kids and their animals, professional face painting and a strolling Transcendentalist to round out the day.  Yes, we said a strolling Transcendentalist – try to find that in the parking lot at Home Depot!

The Annual Plant & Craft Fair is a fundraiser for Bedford’s First Parish on the Common and its work in the community. Free.  For more information, log on to www.uubedford.org/plantfair, email plantfair@uubedford.org, or call 781-275-7994.