Daily Archives: January 19, 2019

Wednesdays, February 6 – March 13, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm – Foundations of Botanical Drawing

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Through demonstrations and tutorials, Education Director of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens (WCBG) Sarah Roche will introduce you to the traditional art and science of botanical drawing and painting. Instructional focus includes observational skills, drawing, composition, design, and watercolor techniques. For the fall, this class will focus on mixing greens, building up the intensity of a painting through washes and glazes to give complex and rich detail. Starting with studies and exercises, we will work together to complete a final painting with accurate color, texture and detail. The class takes place at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. $295 for Mass Hort and Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, $345 for general public.

Must pre-register at https://www.wellesley.edu/wcbg/learn/adult_education

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Tuesday, January 29, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Plant Collecting in Western Hubei, China

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Valued for its rich diversity of temperate flora, Hubei, China has long been a destination for Arnold Arboretum explorers, from the time of E. H. Wilson on his first Arboretum trip, to the 1980 Sino-American Botanical Expedition, and in more recent times, the 1994 North America-China Plant Exploration Consortium (NACPEC) expedition to explore the “Horticultural Heaven” of Wudang Mountain. Among Hubei’s botanical fame includes holding the remaining living wild-populations of dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) in the province’s southwest county of Lichuan. Please join Andrew Gapinski and Peter Zale on January 29 at 6:30 pm in the Hunnewell Building of the Arboretum as they share the history of exploration of the Province and tales of the their three-week Western Hubei plant collecting journey as part of the 2018 NACPEC expedition. Andrew Gapinski is Head of Horticulture at the Arnold Arboretum and Peter Zale, PhD, is Associate Director, Conservation, Plant Breeding and Collections, Longwood Gardens. Impatiens omeiana pictured below.

Fee Free, registration requested. Register at my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277.

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