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Tag: MA Field guide to invasives

  • Tuesday, September 9, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Controlling Invasives at Home

    Take control of your home landscape with information and tips from an invasive-plants expert, on Tuesday, September 9, from 10 – 2 at Garden in the Woods.  This class will cover about thirty of the most common invasive plants in the local landscape.  Through discussion, lecture, examination of herbarium specimens, and a visit to a local invasives control site, you will learn to recognize non-native invasive plants and understand the features that make them so disruptive to natural ecosystems.  The class will discuss management techniques for many of these species on the home and landscape scale.  The Invaders issue of the New England Wildflower Society’s magazine and the MA Field Guide to Invasives will be available for purchase at a discount.  Alliaria petiolata pictured below. The instructor is Ted Elliman, Senior Botanist, and the fee is $66 for NEWFS members, $80 for nonmembers.  Register at www.newfs.org.

  • Sunday, April 17, 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm – Invasives: ID, Ecology, and Control

    Get a head start on invasive control this year by learning to identify invasives in the early season. This New England Wild Flower Society course, co-sponsored by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, provides an introduction to about 40 of the most common invasive non-native plants in our local landscapes. Through lecture, discussion, power-point presentation, herbarium specimens, and a walk outside at Garden in the Woods in Framinham, become familiar with identification clues as well as the habits of a number of these plants that are so disruptive of natural ecosystems. Discuss management techniques for many of these species, on both a home and a landscape scale. The “Invaders” issue of the Society’s magazine as well as the Field Guide to Invasive Plants in Massachusetts will be available for purchase at a discount.  The session will take place Sunday, April 17 from 12:30 – 4:30, and will cost $48 for members of the sponsoring organizations, $58 for non-members.  Register online at www.newfs.org.