Daily Archives: October 13, 2022

Friday, November 4 – Sunday, November 6 – American Daffodil Society Fall Forum

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The American Daffodil Society will host the 2022 Fall Forum and Fall Board Meeting (FBM) in Newport, Rhode Island at the The Newport Harbor Island Resort (formerly known as Gurney’s Newport Resort & Marina). The Fall Forum is an annual event that all ADS members and their guests are invited to attend with advance reservations. The event includes the ADS Fall Board Meeting, but it is intended to maximize the education and enjoyment of all members, at an affordable registration fee.

Registration deadline is this week (although it may be extended) but sign up today at https://daffodilusa.org/events-show-calendar/fall-symposiums/2022-fall-forum-fall-board-meeting/ The Friday speaker is Bettie Bearden Pardee, a long time friend of the Garden Club of the Back Bay. Bettie is an author, founder and editor of the luxury lifestyle website PrivateNewport.com, designer of the Parterre Bench and a national lecturer. As a Bon Appetit editor for eleven years, Bettie featured everyday sophisticates in “Entertaining in Style.” She was a host and creative producer of the PBS series, “The Presidential Palate: Entertaining in the White House.” She has also been featured for garden design in Flower Magazine and now for entertaining, for the third year in a row she is listed on “The Salonniere 100: America’s Best Party Hosts.”

Bettie’s design talents and love of landscape were put to use in the creation of her Newport retreat on Bellevue Avenue, as well as her new Parterre Bench. Her often toured gardens are documented in the Archive of American Gardens at the Smithsonian Institution and are featured in the Garden Club of America’s Gardens, Private and Personal. Her home in Newport is the inspiration for her most recent coffee table books on lifestyle and design, Private Newport: At Home and in the Garden and Living Newport: Houses, People, Style, which will be available for purchase.

Her lecture includes the newly restored “Blue Garden” whose unveiling in 1913 at the celebrated Bal Masque still resonates in the annals of Newport social and cultural history. Bettie’s lush images, played across the spectrum of stunning landscapes, captures the social pastimes, rituals and well-earned traditions of a fabled town, now celebrating its 375th anniversary.

Saturday, October 22, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm – Rare Species Require Rare Habitats

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Did you know that roughly half of the endangered terrestrial species in our region make their homes in fire-adapted ecosystems; or that bobolink need a minimum of 10 acres of open grass-dominated habitat to nest? Rare species often require more than just the right plants, they require the right ecosystem. Join Dan Jaffe Wilder, Director of Applied Ecology at Norcross Wildlife Foundation in Wales, Massachusetts for a walking tour of the Norcross grounds while he discusses some of the unique habitats that Norcross is working to build, enhance, and restore on its 8000-acre wildlife sanctuary. With an emphasis on landscape maintenance and species composition this walk-and-talk will provide attendees with details about what habitat construction looks like on the large scale as well as what tools can be used on our own home landscapes to accomplish similar goals in our own backyards. The Native Plant Trust field trip costs $30 for NPT members, $38 for nonmembers. Register at http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/rare-species-require-rare-habitats/

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Tuesday, October 18, 5:00 am – British Spa Landscapes: Edward Milner’s Buxton Pavilion Garden, Online

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The final installment of the Gardens Trust’s five part series on British Spa Landscapes takes place October 18 with Anna Rhodes speaking on 150 years of Edward Milner’s Buxton Pavilion Garden.

The Pavilion Gardens in Buxton opened in August 1871. It was created out of the need to provide entertainment, particularly on rainy days, for the thousands of people that came to the town for the ‘water cure’. In under a year, the 12-acre pleasure ground was created – including 5 bridges, 2 miles of paths, 2 cascades, 5000 plants, a bandstand, and a large cast iron pavilion. In the late 1800s the Pavilion Gardens were further extended and improved, including the boating lake, ice rink, tennis courts and a new concert hall designed by Robert Ripon Duke. The Buxton Guide of 1898 declared them – ‘the finest public gardens of any health resort in Europe’. The Gardens, which now extend to 23 acres are loved by visitors and locals alike. This talk will plot their history with particular focus on the Victorian period.

Anna Rhodes has been a curator at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery since 2010. Her research interests include eighteenth-century tourism to Derbyshire, focusing on travel journals and the picturesque tour. Recently she has been involved in cataloguing and researching the Pavilion Garden material in the Museum and working with the Pavilion Gardens to create an exhibition to celebrate their 150th year anniversary. www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/buxton-museum/buxton-museum-and-art-gallery

The individual ticket (£5 through Eventbrite) may be purchased HERE. Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and again a few hours before the talk. A link to the recorded session (available for 1 week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

Tuesday, October 18, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Hike Boston: Commonwealth Avenue Mall

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Hike Boston is a week-day day-time hiking series where we invite you to join us for a walk in one of Boston’s parks or urban wilds.

Boston Park Rangers, Urban Wilds staff, and Parks employees will provide formal and informal discussions or tours during the hikes. Some hikes may be more focused on taking a walk in the park, while others may be more informational.

This event is an interpretive program – a tour led by a Boston Park Ranger. Meet at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Arlington Street. For more information visit www.boston.gov