No single view of a tree is a fixed snapshot in time that tells the complete story. Join Michael Wojtech on April 4 from 9:30 – 12:30 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, for this combination indoor presentation and outdoor exploration and discover how trees grow, reproduce, and interact with their environment across days, weeks, seasons, and years and over varying scales-from the intricate details of buds, flowers, leaves, and bark that we use for species identification to the collaborative roles of trees in ecosystems. Learn more about the function and experience the beauty of characteristics such as peeling bark, overwintering buds, lobed or toothed leaves, flowers by the thousands, and seeds that fly on the wind.
Michael Wojtech is the author of Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast. As a naturalist and educator, Michael strives to share the science and wonder of trees in an accessible and compelling fashion. He writes, photographs, illustrates, and presents programs about the structure, growth processes, and ecology of trees-including their bark, buds, leaves, roots, and wood-for audiences at all levels of experience. He is especially interested in the process of discovery and engagement, and draws his greatest inspiration from sharing the sense of wonder, awe, and the recognition of beauty that result from these investigations.
Tower Hill Botanic Garden members $42, nonmembers $56. Register at www.towerhillbg.org.
