The Garden Club of the Back Bay continues its 2016/2017 investigation into The Prehistoric Garden with a meeting and lecture on Wednesday, November 9 on Introduction to Ferns, at 10 am at The College Club of Boston, 44 Commonwealth Avenue. Beautiful and flowerless, ferns are among the most ancient plants in the world. Learn to distinguish among the most common ferns of New England through lecture and examination of fresh plant material. Don Lubin will be our featured lecturer. Don has been growing ferns since 1980, and doing field identification since 1991. He reset the fern labels at the Garden In The Woods in Framingham, and has led workshops and field trips since 1998 for the New England Wild Flower Society and others, previously with co-teacher Ray Abair of Middleboro MA. Don has found uncommon ferns and donated more than 100 specimens to herbaria, including a few state and many county records, mainly to the New England Botanical Club collection at the Asa Gray Herbarium at Harvard University. Don assisted Cheryl Lowe and Elizabeth Farnsworth in their revision of Boughton Cobb’s Field Guide to Ferns. Club members will receive notification of the meeting. If you are not a Club member but wish to attend, please email info@gardenclubbackbay.org.
