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Category: Meeting

  • Tuesday, October 13, 3:00 pm – Wednesday, October 14, 4:00 pm – New England Garden Clubs’ 10th Annual Meeting

    The Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont will host the New England Garden Clubs’ Tenth Annual Meeting: Our Vermont Green Mountains: Fostering the Birth of the Republic, in Killington, Vermont on October 13 and 14.

    As we mark the 250th anniversary of our country’s founding, we will fill our conference sessions with patriotic spirit and gardening joy. Join us at the Killington Grand Resort Hotel to connect with friends, new and old! We promise an engaging program of fun and inspiring sessions. And plan to be wowed by Vermont’s unparalleled fall foliage.

    Please visit https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/negc-10th-annual-meeting to register for the meeting, then register directly with Killington Grand Resort Hotel using this link.

  • Wednesday & Thursday, July 22 & 23 – Northeast Miniforest Summit: Root to Canopy: Growing the Miyawaki Method, Live and Online

    The Bio4Climate Annual Miniforest Summit on July 22 and 23 brings together municipal leaders, researchers, designers, educators, students, scientists,
    and community members to exchange research, emerging questions, and field-based experience. Registration is now open for the 2026 Northeast Miniforest Summit: Root to Canopy: Growing the Miyawaki Method

    Across the Northeast and beyond, communities are planting and stewarding miniforests in schoolyards, parks, campuses, farms, urban spaces, and other underused landscapes.

    This year’s Summit brings together practitioners, researchers, educators, community leaders, and forest stewards to share lessons, refine practices, and explore how miniforests can restore ecological function and reconnect people with place.


    The goals of the summit are to:
    Create long-term regional infrastructure
    Accelerate and expand knowledge of miniforests
    Build community
    Create momentum to build a thriving miniforest network across the Northeastern United States and beyond

    Learn more and register at https://bio4climate.org/

  • Friday, July 17 – 2026 Woody Plant Conference

    Join fellow gardeners, designers, horticulturists, and plant enthusiasts for the 2026 Woody Plant Conference at Scott Arboretum & Gardens on Friday, July 17.

    This full-day conference brings together leading voices in horticulture, ecology, arboriculture, and landscape design to explore woody plants that thrive in the Mid-Atlantic region and how we can use them more thoughtfully and effectively in our landscapes. Topics include climate-adapted tree selection, invasive species, edible landscapes, beech leaf disease, oak ecology, and international garden design perspectives.

    Featured speakers include:

    • Jenna Bachman, Gardens & Grounds Manager at Awbury Arboretum
    • Melissa Finley, Thain Senior Curator of Woody Plants and Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden Curator at the New York Botanical Garden
    • Eliza Greenman, Savanna Institute
    • Oliver López, bilingual environmental educator, naturalist, and visual storyteller
    • Patrick McGinty, Garden Manager at Stoneleigh: a natural garden
    • Kevin Parris, Instructor of Horticulture, and the Arboretum Director at Spartanburg Community College
    • Kevin Philip Williams, Manager of Horticulture at Denver Botanic Gardens

    For complete information and registration details visit https://www.woodyplantconference.org/

  • Saturday – Wednesday, August 1 – 5 – Botany 2026: Biodiversity at the Boundaries

    The countdown to Tucson is on, and The Botanical Society of America and its cosponsors cannot wait to see all of you at Botany2026 (August 1-5) in Tucson, Arizona.

    Whether you are presenting your latest research, exploring the incredible Sonoran Desert on one of our field trips, diving into hands-on workshops, or simply reconnecting with your botanical community, this is going to be a meeting to remember.

    And speaking of not wanting to miss out, the exhibitor hall has completely sold out, meaning you will have a packed floor full of exciting opportunities, resources, and conversations waiting for you.

    Registration is open now!

    Come for the science. Stay for the community. We will see you in Tucson.

    Register now at https://www.xcdsystem.com/botany/program/QCq9cvK/index.cfm

  • Friday, May 29, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – What’s Next for Boston’s Coastlines?

    Boston’s climate future is being shaped right now — and your voices are needed in the room.

    Join Boston Harbor Women of Color Coalition for its May Monthly Meet-Up, an inspiring and interactive evening where BHWOCC members – the experts, the storytellers, the ones whose neighborhoods and daily lives are impacted most by the effects of climate change in our city – lead the way on waterfront resilience, climate planning, and community-powered solutions.

    Together, we’ll get an exclusive briefing from the City of Boston Climate Resilience Team, and explore the future of Boston’s waterfront through conversations around the Boston Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) Study — a major partnership between the City of Boston and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect neighborhoods from coastal flooding and climate impacts.

    This is not just a presentation — it’s a call to action!
    You have the answers. Your lived experience, cultural resilience, your community expertise is what shapes real solutions.

    This is YOUR space to:
    • Ask the big questions
    • Share your lived experience and personal expertise.
    • Build public comments at our “Craft Your Own Public Comment” station to directly influence public-facing climate resilience tools launching Summer 2026.

    Friday, May 29. 6–8 pm at 15 Necco St, Boston, MA
. Free – rsvp HERE.

  • Thursday – Saturday, August 27, 28, & 29 – The Beth Chatto Symposium 2026: Connections Through Time

    The 2026 theme of the Annual Beth Chatto Symposium, Connections Through Time, will explore how plants, people and landscapes are shaped by interconnections and temporal relationships, in the past, present and future.

    Over three days, we will he hosting a range of presentations, conversations, discussions and workshops which will encompass new and innovative best practice, science and research within gardening, horticulture, ecology, design and landscaping, highlighting approaches that benefit to the environment, wildlife and humans, and that help confront the challenges of the climate and biodiversity emergencies, and ensure social justice.

    The event takes place at the Ivor Crewe Lecture Theatre at University of Essex, Park Road, Colchester. Full information may be found at https://www.bethchatto.co.uk/symposium/symposium-2026/

  • Thursday, May 21, 10:30 am – 12:00 noon – Invasive Pests New & Old: What to Watch For This Year

    Join The Sterling Garden Club on May 21 at 10:30 am for a free lecture from Elizabeth Barnes, MA Department of Agricultural Resources.


    The signs and symptoms of invasive pests are often in plain sight but go unrecognized too late. These non- native organisms from insects to blights, impact a wide range of New England gardens, forests, meadows and roadsides. Elizabeth will explain how to find these pests and what to do if you discover them. Learn how to recognize and identify signs of several area pests and how you can help to reduce the pests’ impact and spread. The program will be held at American Legion Hall, 32 School Street in Sterling. Please pre-register by May 19 by emailing SterlingGardenClub1934@gmail.com

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  • Friday, October 1 – Sunday, October 3 – The Historic Role of American Plants in British and Irish Gardens

    Join the Northern Ireland Heritage Gardens Trust for a weekend in October at its Annual Conference, to be held at the Brandon House Hotel in New Ross, County Wexford. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence, this conference aims to highlight how North American plants have profoundly shaped Ireland’s gardens, evolving from the exotic, treasured specimens brought back from the early colonies to the staples of modern prairie-style popularized by Piet Oudolf.

    Pioneering expeditions in the 17th century, such as thos of Tradescant to Virginia, brought back the tulip tree, swamp cypress, plhlox, asters, and Virginia creeper, while collectors in the following century such as John Bartram and Peter Collinson introduced maples, magnolias, and rhododendrons amoung many others, fostering a trend for “American gardens”.

    The 19th century exploration of the Pacific Northwest by collectors such as David Douglas, Thomas Coulter, and Theodor Hartweg, introduced many more new tres and shrubs, their transport helped by the invention of the Wardian case, all of which have made an enduring impact on Ireland’s parks and gardens. The conference will visit the JF Kennedy Arboretum, established in 1968, which has one fo the most comprehensive and significant collections of woody plants in the world,

    For complete information on cost and registration visit https://www.nihgt.org/events/27/thurs%2D1%2Doct%2D2026%5F2026+annual+conference/

  • Friday, May 8, 9:00 am Eastern – Mid-Atlantic Plant Research Conference, Live & Online

    Plants in the mid-Atlantic region, as well as the Northeast, are facing new challenges to their survival, growth, and reproduction due to a variety of threats, including land use change, habitat loss, climate change, and more. Invited speakers will address new research in plant science that can help us understand the challenges at hand in our wetland and coastal regions, including mechanisms of plant resistance and adaptation, and possible solutions.

    Speakers will include:

    Morgan Gostel, Director of Plant Science, Morris Arboretum & Gardens
    LeeAnn Haaf, Director of Estuary Science, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary
    Dr. Jay Kelly, Co-Director, Center for Environmental Studies, Raritan Valley Community College
    Erin Lacour, Biologist, John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge
    Patrick Megonigal, Associate Director for Research, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
    Catherine Seavitt, Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania

    The program will be held in person at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens; live virtual attendance is also available. Please indicate ‘In-Person’ or ‘Virtual’ attendance at registration. Lunch is provided to all attendees. Visit https://www.morrisarboretum.org/see-do/events/mid-atlantic-plant-research-conference

  • Wednesday, April 22, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Brookline Greenspace Alliance Annual Meeting

    The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Brookline GreenSpace Alliance will be held on Wednesday, April 22, 5:30–7:30 PM, at Boston University’s Wightman House, at the corner of Monmouth Street and Hawes Street. BGSA members and the public are invited.

    Carl Zimba, who has prepared a study of the Muddy River in partnership with the Muddy Water Initiative, will speak on “Low Water and High Hopes: Olmsted and the Mudflats in the Muddy River.”

    Please email info@brooklinegreenspace.org to let us know if you plan to attend the Annual Meeting and whether you are a BGSA member. There will be light refreshments. Nonmembers may attend the meeting but may not vote. If you are not sure of your membership status, please email info@brooklinegreenspace.org to inquire.