Daily Archives: February 19, 2019

Thursday, March 7, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Get Ready! The Spring Garden

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On March 7 at 7 pm at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, Garden Speaker Cheryl Monroe will cover important topics of the season such as: what to prune now and why, tool sharpening (demonstration and bring yours too!), flower bed cleanup and evaluation, transplanting, lawn care, pest control (voles, winter moth, and scale), houseplant basics, bulb care, and bare root plants.

Get through this busy season informed, prepared, and ready for whatever Mother Nature throws your way. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society lecture is $12 for Mass Hort members. $20 general admission. For more information visit http://masshort.org

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Friday, March 1, 6:45 pm – Floristic and Climate Change on Mount Desert Island, Maine

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Dr. Nancy M. Eyster-Smith, Associate Professor Emerita, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, will address the New England Botanical Club on Friday, March 1 at 6:45 pm in the Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102) of the Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge, on Celebrating Edward Lothrop Rand, NEBC Corresponding Secretary for 25 Years. Additionally, Dr. Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Postdoc, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine will address Floristic and Climate Change on Mount Desert Island, Maine, from the Champlain Society to Acadia National Park’s Centennial. Free and open to the public. For more information visit http://rhodora.org.

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