Daily Archives: March 18, 2020

Thursday, April 16, 2:00 pm – Seed Propagation Workshop Postponement

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The April meeting of the Garden Club of the Back Bay was to have taken place Thursday, April 16 at 2 pm at The First Lutheran Church of Boston, 199 Berkeley Street. The event has been postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak, but we plan to hold the event in the future, and you will be notified.

Sean Halloran, Plant Propagator at the Arnold Arboretum, gives an interactive talk about sexual reproduction in plants and what that means in terms of agriculture, food security, horticulture, and also plant conservation. Using what they do at the Arnold Arboretum as an example, we will learn about seed propagation using jackfruit, an exotic fruit grown in tropical regions of the world. One unique aspect of jackfruit is its unusually large size, making it easy and fun to work with.

Wednesday, April 1, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Designing with Plant Communities – Postponed

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Grow Native Massachusetts is proud to present our 2020 Evenings with Experts lecture series. These talks at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, are free and open to all.

Join us for this April 1 talk beginning at 7 pm with Dan Jaffe, Horticulturist at Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary.

All too often, during the design process, we think of plants on an individual or species basis. Yet in the landscape, plants are constantly interacting with one another in intricate ways. What happens if we create planting plans focused on complete systems rather than collections of individuals?

Join us to learn how to create healthy, resilient plant communities that are beautiful and ecologically vibrant. Dan Jaffe will discuss how to select and combine the right species for specific site conditions, and how this community-oriented approach can be applied to plantings of all sizes.

Dan Jaffe is passionate about ecological horticulture, and enhancing the wildlife value of every landscape. Prior to joining Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary, he was the senior plant propagator at Garden in the Woods. He is the co-author of Native Plants for New England Gardens, which features his captivating photographs.

Thank you to our community partners, the Cambridge Public Library, Mount Auburn Cemetery and the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, for their support of this series.

Pacific Horticulture Society Digital Classroom – Gardeners as Superheroes

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Pacific Horticulture Society’s online learning series connects gardeners with some of the most intriguing horticultural and environmental issues of our time. Do you want to begin “gardening like the Earth depends on it”?  Tuning into these conversations is a great way to start.  You may access these lectures at any time.

The first we highlight is Gardeners as Superheroes, with Pamela Berstler, PHS’s Executive Director, and CEO of G3, Green Gardens Group. Many of us garden for a love of plants, beauty, or to soothe our psyches, but emerging science on the the importance of healthy soil and biodiversity – goals we gardeners strive for –  transforms our solitary garden practice into meaningful and necessary action to combat climate change and heal the planet. Discover how we become true gardening superheroes by following the four steps of the “Watershed Approach.”  Note that internet connectivity issues make the first few minutes of the video choppy; this resolves at 9:00. Visit https://www.pacifichorticulture.org/digital-classroom/