April 13, 2013 - Boston Flora

Saturday, April 27, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Transplanting Shrubs and Planting Small Ornamental Trees

April 13, 2013 by Boston Flora

Learn by doing in this hands-on shrub and tree planting/transplanting workshop at Berkshire Botanical Garden on Saturday, April 27, from 10 – 1. All aspects of successful planting will be demonstrated, and participants will assist in transplanting a multi-stem shrub and planting a small tree. Learn how to successfully transplant shrubs by correct timing and placement and techniques designed to create minimal disturbance and ensure smooth transition to a new site. Consider the differences between bare-root, container-grown or balled-and-burlapped trees and understand the importance of siting. $35 for BBG members, $42 for nonmembers.Â Register on line at www.berkshirebotanical.org.Â Bring gloves and dress for weather.

Ken Gooch is the Forest Health Program Director for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Additionally he is a Massachusetts Certified Arborist and teaches arborculture at the Garden.Â Image from www.organicconnectmag.com.

Wednesday, April 24, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Plants of New England: A History in Deep Time

April 13, 2013 by Boston Flora

Andrew Knoll,Fisher Professor of Natural History and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, and Curator of Paleobotanical Collections, Harvard University Herbaria, will speak in the Hunnewell Building of the Arnold Arboretum on Wednesday, April 24, from 7 – 8:30, on Plants of New England: A History in Deep Time. Celebrated as a land of marble and granite, the bedrock of New England also includes patches of sedimentary rock that document ancient landscapes and vegetation. From Earthâ€™s deep Precambrian past dominated by bacterial photosynthesis, through the early history of land plants and tropical coal swamps of the Carboniferous Period, and on to warm temperate forests of 25 million years ago and conifer forests established as ice age glaciers melted, New England rocks and fossils shed light on our regionâ€™s deep photosynthetic past. Free for Arboretum members, $10 nonmembers.Â Register on line at www.arboretum.harvard.edu.