Thursday, November 3, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Sustainable Practices for Managed Landscapes

Managing our environment responsibly is a challenge that requires us to make philosophical and behavioral changes. In his work over the past 25 years, Eric T. Fleisher has developed protocols to help our landscapes recover from the harmful impacts of industry and chemicals. He will describe the design and implementation of a sustainable landscape management program, using the highly trafficked public spaces at Battery Park City and the campus at Harvard University as models. Fleisher’s programs avoid the use of toxic chemicals and significantly reduce the use of nitrogen in the landscape. His techniques focus on encouraging natural nutrient cycling systems through proper soil management and plant care. This Arnold Arboretum lecture will be held in the Hunnewell Building on Thursday, November 3, with refreshments served at 6, and lecture at 6:30. Offered with the Boston Society of Landscape Architects
Free to Arnold Arboretum and BSLA members; $25 General Admission. Students: call 617-384-5277 to register for free.  You may register online as well, https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/info.aspx?EventID=1#November.

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Saturday, November 19, 9:00 am – 11:00 am – Victorian Holiday Ornaments

Imagine yourself in an earlier time and capture the feeling of the past.  Use lace, glitter and ribbon to bring the look and feel of the Victorian era to life.  This Gibson House Museum child’s workshop will be held Saturday, November 19, from 9 – 11 at the Gibson House Museum, 137 Beacon Street.  Each child will create a keepsake Victorian Ornament.  The workshop is designed for children ages 7 – 9 years, and the cost is $35 per child.  Advance registration is requested.  For more information, call 617-267-6338, or email gibsonhousedirector@gmail.com.

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Saturday, November 19, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Beginning Orchid Growing Workshop

You don’t need a greenhouse to grow orchids. Success can be achieved on your windowsill. Learn the essentials of growing orchids: media, light, water, temperature, fertilization, selection and repotting are taught by Lyman Estate Greenhouse Manager and horticulturist, Lynn Ackerman. This workshop will take place Saturday, November 19, from 10 – 12 at the Greenhouses, located at 185 Lyman Street in Waltham. $30 for Historic New England members, $35 for non-members. To register, call 781-891-1985.

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Tuesday, November 8, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The Flipside of Biological Invasions: The Positive Social Impact of Working with the Asian Longhorned Beetle

On Tuesday, November 8, the Cambridge Entomological Club will present Michael Bohne, Forest Health Group Leader of the US Forest Service, Durham Field Office, who will, improbably, resuscitate the image of the Asian Longhorned Beetle with his lecture entitled The Flipside of Biological Invasions: The Positive Social Impact of Working with the Asian Longhorned Beetle. The talk is free and open to the public. The meeting is readily accessible via public transportation. Parking is available in the Oxford Street Garage with advance arrangement, as described here, or (usually but not always) at spaces on nearby streets. Everyone is also welcome to join us for dinner before the talk (beginning at 6:15 PM) at the Harvard Law School cafeteria, on the second floor of Harkness Commons.

CEC meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month from October through May. The evening schedule typically includes an informal dinner (6:15 to 7:15 PM) followed by our formal meeting (7:30 – 9:00 PM) in MCZ 101, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University. The latter begins with club business and is followed by a 50 minute entomology related presentation. Membership is open to amateur and professional entomologists.  For more information, email CEC President Jessica Walden-Gray at jessisoutside@gmail.com.

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Friday, November 4, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Art Afield

Fruitlands Museum invites you to join them Friday, November 4, from 6 – 8 for a sale of landscape paintings by 2011 Artist-in-Residence Jill Pottle, as well as original art that has been donated to Fruitlands.  All proceeds benefit the museum and its programs.  Enjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvre, beer and wine at this free event. RSVP required by October 1.  Call 978-456-3924, x 292, or email mdelaney@fruitlands.org.

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Sunday, November 6, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Birds of the Americas

Boston-based photographer Eduardo del Solar will be showing his nature photography in an exhibit entitled Birds of the Americas at Joppa Flats Education Center, 1 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport, Massachusetts from November 6 through December 31. The public is cordially invited to meet the artist at a free gallery reception on Sunday, November 6, 2:30-4:00 pm. A portion of all purchases made during the exhibit helps to support the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Joppa Flats.

Eduardo del Solar finds that spending time inside as a technology teacher in Boston contrasts nicely with his extracurricular interest: to get outside in nature, find wildlife, wait for the best light, and take photographs. Born and raised in Lima, Peru, del Solar has been working since 2007 on a photographic series of American birds in such locations as his native country, Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands, Canada, and, of course, New England. He is currently working with Goldenrod, an environmental agency at Plymouth Long Beach, where he is photographing birds through an entire year of seasonal changes. “As a photographer, providing artistic and technical renditions of species across the Americas is my primary goal. For this exhibit I have included a few endemic species from these places I have visited as well as some of my favorite images from the Goldenrod project,” says del Solar.

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Tuesday, November 15, 10:00 am – Bonsai Lecture and Demonstration

Ikebana International presents a Bonsai Lecture and Demonstration by Todd Hansen and Lydia Cruz of Sanctuary Bonsai Nursery, East Hartford, Connecticut, on Tuesday, November 15, beginning at 10:00 am at the Espousal Center, 554 Lexington Street, Waltham, Massachusetts.  Guests are welcome.  The fee to attend is $15.  For directions and more information, visit www.ikebanaboston.org.

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Thursday, November 17, 6:00 pm – 8:15 pm – The Enduring Design Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. on the Nation’s Capital

Landscape historian Arleyn A. Levee examines Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.’s impact on Washington, D.C. and its environs, in this Historic New England event co-sponsored with Friends of Fairsted, to be held at Wheelock College, 43 Hawes Street in Brookline beginning with a reception at 6 pm and lecture at 7 pm on Thursday, November 17.  For more than fifty years, Olmsted and his firm designed and advised to help create a capital city of monuments and green space worthy of the modern American nation.  Free, but registration requested.  Email friendsoffairsted@gmail.com to sign up.  Image courtesy of Olmsted National Historic Site.

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Saturdays, November 5, 12, 19, and December 3, 9:30 am – 11:30 am – The Art of Botanical Drawing

Explore the beauty and variety of plant forms using pencil, paper, watercolor, and colored pencil during adult drawing classes at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Taught by artist and educator, Erica Beade, this four-week course will introduce botanical drawing techniques through close observation and practice with contour, gesture, foreshortening, shading and color. All skill levels are welcome. The four-week series meets November 5, 12, 19 and December 3, from 9:30 am to 11:30 am in the Harvard Museum of Natural History. (Please note: There will be no class on November 26.) $140 non-members; $126 members (10% discount) Class sizes are limited and advance registration is required. Call 617.495.2341 or email reservations@hmnh.harvard.edu. Payment confirms registration. You may cancel up to two weeks before class and receive a refund less a $30 fee. After that time, no refunds can be made. A full refund is issued if the Museum cancels the program.

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Tuesday, November 1, 7:00 pm – The La Farge Christ Preaching Window

John La Farge’s Christ Preaching (1883) –newly returned to Trinity Church after a multi-year restoration–is Trinity Church’s crowning glory and one of the artist’s most significant windows. Julie Sloan, consultant to the restoration, will explore the window’s history, design, and restoration and La Farge’s relationship to Trinity Church in a lecture to be held Tuesday, November 1 beginning at 7 pm.

Julie Sloan is one of the leading stained-glass consultants in North America. She is the author of Conservation of Stained Glass in America and is adjunct professor of historic preservation at Columbia University, where she has taught stained glass restoration since 1985. Ms. Sloan’s conservation projects include Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, New York; H. H. Richardson’s Trinity Church in Boston; Harvard University’s Memorial Hall; Princeton University’s Chapel, and the State Houses of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Her conservation and research projects have won many awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel Kress Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and the Arts & Crafts Fund.

Tickets: $10 per person, available at The Shop at Trinity (206 Clarendon St.) or by phone 617.536.0944 x225. Questions: Kathy Acerbo-Bachmann, kacerbobachmann@trinitychurchboston.org.

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