Boston Flora

Category: Cape Cod & Islands

  • Wednesday, November 14, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Couture-Style French Floral Design

    The Village Garden Club of Dennis presents Yvette Viard on Couture-Style French Floral Design. The demonstration and lecture will take place Wednesday, November 14 from 1 – 4 at Our Lady of the Cape Church Hall, 468 Stony Brook Road in Brewster.  Ms. Viard studied floral design in France and has traveled the world to synthesize European influences to create elegant designs with a devoted attention to detail. She was the head designer at Winston Flowers in Chestnut Hill before opening Charlotte Design. Her creations can be seen at the MFA, Ritz-Carlton, the Four Seasons and many other fine hotels and museums in Boston. Yvette will present a short demonstration on Ikebana techniques and create 3 additional arrangements. Ms. Viard is the founder and master floral designer of Charlotte Design, and there will be drawings to benefit VGC of Dennis Scholarship and Educational Outreach Programs. $10 suggested donation. Open to the public.

  • Tuesday, November 20, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, and Wednesday, November 21 – Saturday, November 25 (excluding Thanksgiving), 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, and Sunday, November 25, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Nantucket Festival of Wreaths

    The Festival of Wreaths is the Nantucket Historical Association’s kickoff celebration for the holiday season. This community event features an array of wreaths beautifully crafted by local businesses, non-profits, schools, and organizations that are displayed during the week of Thanksgiving. Visitors can bid on their favorite wreaths in a silent auction to benefit the NHA’s year-round outreach efforts. From traditionally-decorated greens to unconventional materials, all of the Festival of Wreaths entries capture the creativity of Nantucketers! This year, celebrating the 20th anniversary, the Preview Party will take place at the Whaling Museum on November 20 from 5:30 – 7:30. A special thank you to the 2018 Festival of Wreaths Chairs, Donald Dallaire and David Handy. If you are interested in becoming a 2018 Wreath Designer, contact Stacey Stuart, Director of Corporate Development, at sstuart@nha.org. For complete information visit https://nha.org/join-give/benefit-events/festival-of-wreaths/

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  • Saturday, October 13, 10:00 am – 11:00 am – Wing Island Guided Walk

    On Saturday, October 13 at 10 am, join Archaeologist Dan Zoto and The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History for a guided walk of Wing Island, the location of the Wing Island Archaeology Project. Learn the history of the island and its varied uses throughout the millennia. Autumn brings rich color to the marshes and meadows of Cape Cod and one of the great places to soak it all in is along the John Wing Trail in Brewster. Located behind the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History on Route 6A (869 Main Street), the public parking area for the trail is located at nearby Drummer Boy Park.

    It’s an easy and beautiful walk – a little more than a mile round trip–but it packs in a lot of fun and scenery. You get to walk a plank path across the marsh, then head up onto the forested island (complete with a mini-Stonehenge-like solar calendar, and the next thing you know you’re on a beach looking at Cape Cod Bay.

    $4 CCMNH Members / $6 Non-members / Please call 508.896.3867 for reservations

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  • Saturday, September 29, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – A New View of Olde Cape Cod: How LiDAR Lights Up the Landscape

    Visit The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History on Saturday, September 29  at 1 pm for an interesting lecture entitled A New View of Olde Cape Cod: How LiDAR Lights Up the Landscape. Would you like to see the Cape’s landscape just as it was after the last major glacial advance, and in great detail? Richard Heeley will explore that landscape with a new technique, called LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging. In airborne LiDAR, pulsed laser beams are transmitted from an aircraft, bounce off solid ground, and return to the detection unit. So many pulses are sent that some always pass through vegetative cover, and the remainder is filtered out.

    Heeley will take a detailed look at the area in Barnstable and Sandwich that surrounds the Olde Fairgrounds Golf Course and the West Barnstable Conservation Area. He will also look at the entire area containing the moraine ridges that constitute the “backbone of Cape Cod,” from a little east of Bass River to Buzzards Bay–an area covering nearly two thirds of the Cape’s landmass. This will provide an overview of how the Upper Cape was constructed, and the LiDAR mapping will be supplemented with topographic mapping and cross sections available online through a U.S. Geological Survey program called “the National Map.”

    Richard studied geology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he completed a Master of Science degree in Hydrogeology specializing in glacial geology.

    Free with Museum Admission

    For more information please call: 508-896-3867, ext. 133, or visit http://www.ccmnh.org/Events/A-New-View-of-Olde-Cape-Cod

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  • Saturday, September 22, 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm – Hoppy Fall Festival

    Celebrate fall and the resurgence of small craft brewers at Heritage Museums and Gardens in Sandwich on Saturday, September 22 from noon – 5 at the Hoppy Fall Festival. The event features beer tasting from local and hyper-local breweries. Staff from each brewery are on hand to answer questions about their beers and brewing processes, plus you can indulge in fare from local food trucks while you enjoy your drinks in an autumn biergarten at the largest public garden in southern New England! Visitors can also enjoy fun, backyard games and commemorate the day by taking a photo with a display of living hops grown at Heritage.

    Tasting Tickets: $35 Heritage Gardens Members; $40 Non-Members. Price includes museum admission. Must be 21+ and valid ID is required to enter the event. Buy tickets online at https://heritagemuseumsandgardens.org/event/hoppy-fall-festival-2/

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  • Wednesday, September 19, 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm, and Thursday, September 20, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – It’s Elementary – Back To School

    Village Garden Club of Dennis presents It’s Elementary – Back to School, a small standard flower show, on Wednesday, September 19 from noon – 4 and Thursday, September 20, from 10 – 4, at the West Dennis Graded (sic) School, 67 School Street in Dennis. The two story Greek Revival building was built in 1867, and is the only one of five schools built by the town in that period to survive. In the 1920s the building also served as a polling place and a site for town meetings. It was converted for use as a community center in the 1950s. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The show will include many categories of both horticulture and floral arrangements. A $5 donation is suggested.

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  • Wednesday, September 12, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Island Hopping: Landscape Design Lessons from Manhattan to Maine

    Patrick Cullina is an award-winning horticulturist, landscape designer, photographer, lecturer, and planning consultant with nearly twenty-five years of experience in the landscape and green infrastructure fields. The Polly Hill Arboretum, in conjunction with SBS:The Grain Store, are pleased to host Pat for a September 12 lecture at PHA, in which he will discuss design lessons through the lens of his current work. His talk will cover site design and plant and material selection with a particular focus on current projects in New York City, along Boston Harbor, on Long Island, and on a private island off the coast of Maine. Topics will include ecological inspirations from the coastal plain and other maritime environments and the roles they play in design choices.

    Pat has served as founding V. P. of Horticulture and Operations for New York City’s High Line, as Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s V.P. of Horticulture, Operations & Science Research and as Associate Director of the Rutgers University Gardens in affiliation with the school’s department of landscape architecture and the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science. His current practice is dedicated to the creation, development, establishment and maintenance of transformational living landscapes through the innovative integration of plants and management strategies, often in collaboration with some of the world’s leading architects, landscape architects and planners.

    The lecture begins at 5:30, and is $5 for PHA members, $10 for nonmembers. Call 508-696-9426 to register in advance.

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  • Friday, September 14 – Sunday, September 16 – Vascular Plants of the Americas: A Searchable Database

    On September 14 – September 16, at the September meeting of the New England Botanical Club, Dr. Carmen Ulloa, Missouri Botanical Garden, will present Vascular Plants of the Americas: A Searchable Database, that includes 124,993 species. This will be a joint meeting with the Botanical Club of Cape Cod and the Islands (BCCCI) to celebrate their 20th anniversary. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution meeting space has been reserved, and field trip planning with BCCCI is underway. For updated information visit http://rhodora.org.

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  • Sunday, August 26, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Botany in the Salt Marsh

    Barnstable Great Marsh is an integral part of the ecologically significant 3,800-acre Sandy Neck salt marsh and barrier beach system. Join Michael Piantedosi on Sunday, August 26 from 10 – 1 to explore this critical coastal ecosystem and learn about its resident flora. This New England Wild Flower Society outing is $28 for NEWFS members, $35 for nonmembers, and is an easy to moderate walk. Register online at http://www.newenglandwild.org/learn/our-programs/botany-in-the-salt-marsh

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  • Thursday, August 2, 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Summer Soiree at Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary

    Join the Massachusetts Audubon Society on Thursday, August 2 from 5:30 – 9:30 at Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, 345 Bone Hill Road in Barnstable for a Chef’s Tasting featuring fresh, locally and sustainably grown seasonal food, prepared by distinguished local chefs. Dining will be followed by a live auction, dancing, celebrating, and relaxing under the stars. Celebrate with us the natural beauty and local communities of Cape Cod.

    All proceeds benefit Long Pasture’s conservation and education programs throughout the Mid and Upper Cape. Tickets are $125. Purchase online at https://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/wildlife-sanctuaries/long-pasture/news-events/summer-soiree

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