Boston Flora

Category: Meeting

  • Tuesday, June 15, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Back Bay/South End Groundwater Long Term Action Plan

    The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is pleased to announce a Community Meeting to discuss the current MBTA Back Bay/ South End Groundwater Long Term Action Plan.

    The MBTA General Manager will be in attendance and the project staff will provide an overview of the proposed Action Plan and schedule.

    A question and answer period will follow.

    The Meeting is scheduled for:

    Tuesday June 15, 2010
    6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
    10 Park Plaza
    2nd Floor Conference Room #4
    Boston, MA

    The MBTA urges all interested parties to attend. The meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities. If assisted listening devices and / or interpreters are needed, please call Massachusetts Relay Service and request (617) 222-3752.

    For more information, please call (617) 222-6757.

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  • Tuesday, June 15, 6:00 pm – The Friends of Copley Square Annual Meeting

    The Annual Meeting of The Friends of Copley Square will be held Tuesday, June 15, beginning at 6:00 pm in the Orientation Room of the Boston Public Library (McKim Building), 700 Boylston Street, Boston.  A slate of Officers and Directors will be presented by the Nominating Committee for election.

    The Friends of Copley Square has been inactive during the past few years, and a new and energized Board hopes to expand the membership roster in order to continue providing extraordinary care for this highly visible park .  For more information, log on to http://friendsofcopleysquare.org.

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  • Sunday, June 20 – Thursday, June 24 – 2010 Joint Field Meeting of the Northeast Section of the Botanical Society of America, the Torrey Botanical Society, and the Philadelphia Botanical Club

    The 2010 Field Meeting of the Northeast Section of the Botanical Society of America, the Torrey Botanical Society and the Philadelphia Botanical Club, to be held Sunday, June 20 – Thursday, June 24 will explore the Botany of Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Participants will stay at Buxton School in the heart of Williamstown, down the street from the famous Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and Williams College. This is a lovely country setting with hiking trails close by.

    Accommodations are in the school dormitory rooms in the main building and two other buildings on campus. Men and women will have separate facilities either by building or by floor. Most rooms will have two, three or four occupants and bathrooms are shared. Private rooms for singles or couples will be hard to come by, but we may be able to arrange something depending on the registration number. Also, if anyone would prefer a private room with bath, the Williams Inn is just down the street and will have rooms available for $125 single and $145 double (plus tax) per night. For this, you make your own arrangements. All your meals would be at Buxton.

    Buxton has the reputation of having very good meals using local produce when available. The price of the field meeting will be $350 including four nights lodging and meals from Sunday night thru Thursday breakfast. Linens are included. Without room, price is $225.

    Field trips, by bus, will include Mt. Greylock (below), the highest mountain in Massachusetts with its own unique sub-alpine boreal forest and rare plants, and Bartholomew’s Cobble, National Natural Landmark, where “you’ll find one of North America’s greatest diversity of fern species” and many interesting plants amid the unusual geology of the cobbles. Other trips will depend on the best botanical locations at the time. There will be a variety of evening lectures. For further information, contact Chairperson Nan Williams at nnwrowe@gmail.com, (413) 339-5598, or download the invitation at www.ct-botanical-society.org.

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  • Monday, June 7, 3:00 pm – Annual Meeting of the Friends of Horticulture

    The Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony of the Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture will take place on Monday, June 7, beginning with a reception at 3:00 pm, followed by a program at 4:00 pm, where Sarah Roche, Certificate in Botanical Art and Illustration Director, will speak on Botanical Art Today.  For more information, and exact campus location of the meeting, call 781-283-3094, or email horticulture@wellesley.edu.

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  • Tuesday, May 25, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Celebrating the Esplanade’s 100 Years of Nature, Culture and Recreation

    You are cordially invited to attend The Esplanade Association’s Ninth Annual Meeting Tuesday, May 25 at The Hampshire House, 84 Beacon Street in Boston.  The theme of this year’s meeting is “Celebrating the Esplanade’s 100 Years of Nature, Culture and Recreation,” with Keynote Presentation by Tupper Thomas, Administrator of Prospect Park and President of the Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, New York. For those of you who missed Ms. Thomas’s speech at the Boston Committee’s Spring meeting in April, here is another chance to hear a truly inspirational, forward thinking, and down to earth practical leader in her field talk about the challenges faced by parks throughout urban areas.  The General Meeting begins at 5:30, and a Member Reception follows at 6:30.  RSVP to Justin Burke by May 20 at 617-227-0365, or email jburke@esplanadeassociation.org.

    The business to be conducted at the meeting includes consideration and voting on amendments to the bylaws of the Association to change the position and title of Board President to Board Chair.

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Frameworks for the Future: Activities, Circulation, Wayfinding and Landscape

    On May 12, 2010, you are invited to join The Esplanade Association and the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to review and comment on proposed improvements to the Charles River Esplanade. These suggested changes, made by the Esplanade 2020 Project and conceptual in nature, are meant to both improve the visitor experience and raise the ecological and aesthetic standards of the riverfront park. Team leaders of the Esplanade 2020 Design Group will present, and there will be ample time for community feedback and questions.

    Frameworks for the Future: Activities, Circulation, Wayfinding, and Landscape
    An Esplanade 2020 Public Meeting
    Wednesday, May 12, 6-8:30pm
    Boston Public Library, McKim Lower Level Conference Room

    Presentations at the public meeting will include: Overview of the Esplanade 2020 Project (John Shields, AIA, President of SheildsDESIGN); Activities (John Stebbins, AIA, LEED AP, Principle Emeritus of Cambridge Seven Associates); Circulation (Anthony Pangaro, Principle of Millennium Partners – Boston, Architect, former Manager of Boston’s Southwest Corridor Project); Wayfinding (Mark Favermann, Architect, President of Favermann Design); and Landscape (Craig Halverson, FASLA, President of Halverson Design Partnership).

    The Esplanade 2020 Project is an initiative of The Esplanade Association, in collaboration with DCR, which is crafting a shared vision for the future of the Charles River Esplanade. In celebration of the park’s Centennial Anniversary, the Esplanade 2020 Project is suggesting visionary but realistic changes to the park that will elevate it to its intended status as a world class destination over the next ten years and beyond. Guided by community feedback collected at a series of public meetings, a core group of architectural, planning, and horticultural professionals is working to analyze current park conditions and make suggestions for substantial park improvements. Esplanade 2020 is an inclusive project, and broad community participation is encouraged.

    For more information about Esplanade 2020, or to RSVP, please visit www.esplanadeassociation.org or contact Chris Murton at 617.227.0365 or cmurton@esplanadeassociation.org.

  • Tuesday, May 25, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm – Metro East & Metro West District Annual Meeting

    The Garden Club of the Back Bay, Inc. is a member of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Metro East District.  The Annual Meeting of Metro East and Metro West District Clubs will be held Tuesday, May 25, from 10:30 am – 1:30 pm at Elm Bank in Wellesley.  The meeting will feature a floral demonstration by a designer from Winston Flowers, along with a boutique, lunch and raffle.  The price for members of Metro East and Metro West clubs is $35 per person, and guests may attend for $40 per person.  To register, send a check payable to GCFMA Inc to Alisa Billings, 12 Woodridge Road, Dover, MA 02030, and please note your garden club affiliation, if any, on your check.  Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive a notice, with car pooling information, in the mail soon.  Photo below by Karen Harvey Cox.

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  • Thursday, July 22 – Saturday, July 24 – American Horticultural Society National Children & Youth Garden Symposium

    Register today for the 2010 American Horticultural Society National Children & Youth Garden Symposium, to be held July 22 – July 24 in Pasadena, California.  The Symposium’s theme is “The Vitality of Gardens: Energizing the Learning Environment.”  Featured keynote speakers include Alice Waters, chef, author, and proprietor of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, and the founder of The Edible Schoolyard.  Also, meet Sam Levin, one of six co-founders of Project Sprout, an organic, student-run garden on the school grounds in Massachusetts, and Roger Swain, familiar to many American gardeners as the genial host for 15 years of the popular PBS television program The Victory Garden.  The Symposium is hosted by the Descanso Gardens, Garden School Foundation, the Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Kidspace Children’s Museum, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, and the University of California Common Ground Garden Program. For more information, log on to www.ahs.org.

    The restoration we seek in gardens is more essential than ever, but gardens are also sources of healthy food, environmental protection and personal fulfillment. The garden can be an incubator for fostering engaged citizens. For children and youth, a garden can be a science lab, art studio, kitchen, gathering place, theater of the imagination, a special place to explore the world.

    Come learn how to create and use gardens to provide dynamic environments for experimentation, social engagement, self-expression, and connection to the natural world. Hear from youth, the adults in their lives, and national experts about the vital role of gardens in the lives of today’s youth.

    As a symposium attendee you will participate in the only national symposium that explores the positive impact of gardens in the lives of children and youth, meet and learn from leading youth garden experts, receive useful and relevant project, curriculum, design and garden management ideas, explore the gardens and programs of the Symposium hosts, participate in 3 dynamic days of workshops, lectures, poster sessions and field trips and network and share your own expertise with children’s gardening advocates from across the nation. The early full registration fee is $330 (AHS members $290) before June 1, and $350 thereafter.   Lodging is available at the Westin Pasadena Hotel (the location of the sessions) at a discounted special rate of $155/night for reservations made by July 9.  Call the hotel at  866-837-4181 and ask for the National Children & Youth Garden Symposium room block.

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  • Friday, May 7, 6:30 pm – Seventy Years of Change in the Flora of One New England County

    Dr. Robert Bertin, Professor and Department Chair, Biology Department, College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, will address the May 7 meeting of the New England Botanical Club at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts, beginning at 6:30 pm. His lecture is entitled Seventy Years of Change in the Flora of One New England County. For specific directions log on to www.newfs.org.

    The sponsor, The New England Botanical Club, which originated in 1895, is a non-profit organization that promotes the study of plants of North America, especially the flora of New England and adjacent areas.  The Club publishes the journal Rhodora, holds monthly meetings during the academic year, maintains an herbarium of more than 253,000 sheets, has a small library, and annually grants a graduate student research award.  An office for the Club is maintained at the Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, and you may reach the office at 617-308-3656 for membership information, or log on to www.rhodora.org.  Regular member dues are $50 annually, and a family rate, including a copy of Rhodora, is $60.  Student membership costs $25.

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  • Monday, May 3, 5:00 pm – The Friends of the Public Garden 40th Anniversary Annual Meeting

    The Friends of the Public Garden cordially invites you to its 40th Anniversary Annual Meeting on Monday, May 3, beginning at 5:00 pm at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street.  The featured speaker will be The Honorable Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston.  Celebrate with The Friends as His Honor declares May 3 Friends of the Public Garden Day in Boston.  RSVP by April 28 to 617-267-7366, or email friends@harronandassociates.com.  Painting below by T.A. Charron, from Copley Society’s Fresh Paint 2006.

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