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  • Friday, August 12 – Saturday, August 13 – American Conifer Society Northeast Region Meeting

    The American Conifer Society will venture to Southwest New Hampshire August 12 and 13 to take in 4 private gardens around the Keene area in August 2016. NH boasts natural beauty – mountains, farming, granite, forests and water and this natural scenery is the backdrop for these four gardens. We will explore a garden in cultivation for 45 years, two in cultivation for 25 years and a new 10 year old garden. In addition to conifers, beech and perennials, we will view a sugaring house, natural cranberry fens (floating bog), farmstead built in 1790’s and a newly built medieval style manor house complete with stonework by renowned mason, Dan Snow. Stay a few days and take in Brattleboro, Vermont, the White Mountains of NH or hike Mt. Monadnock.

    The Conference, taking place at The Courtyard by Marriott, 75 Railroad Street in Keene,  begins at 3 pm Friday and that evening’s dinner speaker is Kris Fenderson, who will present Gardening in the Same Spot for 45 Years: Lessons and Triumphs. On Saturday, buses leave at 8 am for Grout Hill, and at 10:15 the trip to Woodland Farms begins. At 12:15 there will be three guided tours of Distant Hills Garden, including floating fens, sugar house, and Monarch butterfly fueling station. For complete information and registration, visit http://northeast.conifersociety.org/events/event/ne-regional-meeting-new-hampshire/

  • Wednesday, November 3, 10:00 am – Bog Gardens

    Instructor Priscilla Purinton of the New England Carnivorous Plant Society will speak at The Garden Club of the Back Bay’s monthly meeting on Wednesday, November 3, beginning at 10 am at The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue. Learn to create a  bog habitat for your garden or patio with rare and interesting plants.  Bogs are unique habitats saturated with acidic, low nutrient water that would spell death for most plants.  However, they support a surprising diversity of unique flora that can grow nowhere else.  You will learn how to create a good soil mix, what plants do well (and why) in bog situations, and will also learn how to keep your bog flourishing for years.  The program is free, but reservations are required – email info@bostonflora.com.  An optional lunch will follow the meeting ($20 members of GCBB, $25 for non-members), for which reservations must be made no later than October 29.  Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive written notice of this meeting.

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  • Saturday, April 24, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Create a Mini Bog

    Instructor Priscilla Purinton of the New England Carnivorous Plant Society will conduct a hands-on workshop at Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Saturday, April 24, from 1 – 3 pm.  Priscilla will be a featured speaker of The Garden Club of the Back Bay in November, 2010, and here is a chance to get down and dirty with her! Create a miniature bog habitat for your garden or patio with rare and interesting plants.  Bogs are unique habitats saturated with acidic, low nutrient water that would spell death for most plants.  However, they support a surprising diversity of unique flora that can grow nowhere else.  Wow your friends with this most unusual container garden filled with carnivorous plants, rushes and other bog endemics.  Participants will be provided with all materials and plants, and will learn how to create a good soil mix, what plants do well (and why) in bog situations, and will also learn how to keep the mini bog flourishing for years.  Tower Hill member price $40, non-members $43.  To register, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Saturday, April 10, 12:30 pm – Bog Rebuild

    New England Carnivorous Plant Society members will be rebuilding the two carnivorous plant bogs in the greenhouse at Roger Williams Park Botanical Center (www.providenceri.com/botanical-center/ on Saturday, April 10, beginning at 12:30 pm.  Visitors are most welcome – find out how simple and fun it is to set up and maintain a carnivorous plant bog.  The workshop will run for approximately three hours, and is free and open to the public.

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