Daily Archives: December 24, 2024

Wednesday, January 15, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Eastern – Plant Communities: Functional Plant Roles for Restorative Gardens, Online

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When designing a planting, we are creating an ecological community that will co-evolve over time. We want to give the community the ingredients – the various roles needed – to survive and hopefully thrive. Holly Greenleaf of Greenleaf Design, LLC will detail how to design for the functional roles of plants in addition to their aesthetic beauty. This Grow Native Massachusetts webinar will be held Wednesday, January 15 from 7 – 8:30 pm Eastern. $28 for Grow Native members, $38 for nonmembers. Register at grownativemass.org

Wednesday, January 22, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm – The Native Plant Trust Herbarium: Writing the Unknown

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The Native Plant Trust herbarium–an assemblage of dried, pressed plants with details about time and place of collection–contains more than 6,000 specimens, many of which are scientifically interesting, beautiful, and more than a century old. Drawing on our backgrounds in natural history, literature, and interdisciplinary writing, Native Plant Trust staff members Kate Wellspring and Giffen Maupin will facilitate a conversation about some of our herbarium’s most thought-provoking specimens. Workshop participants will then write in response to these specimens. Our writing experiments will focus on strategies for engaging with botanical texts where information is missing and questions abound. The session takes place at Garden in the Woods in Framingham on January 22 from 5 – 8, and is $51 for NPT members, $60 for nonmembers. Register at https://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/the-native-plant-trust-herbarium-writing-the-unknown/