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Tag: Norfolk County Agricultural High School

  • Saturday, May 16, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Identify Your Landscape Plants – Cancelled

    On May 15 at 10 am, join the Massachusetts Horticultural Society at the Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, for a botany and plant morphology review, and walk the grounds to learn how to identify common plants in your landscape.

    This seminar will be a fast paced review focusing on the identification and placement of ornamental landscape plants & natives, to encourage sustainable landscape design practices. This offering will introduce species of the common native and non-native ornamental plants used in landscape architecture, horticulture, and urban forestry in New England. This seminar will approach plant identification from a horticultural perspective, covering basic plant morphology and botany to aid in the understanding of plant identification, also touching on the horticultural, cultural, and environmental requirements of each plant in relation to practical application.

    Instructed by Nicole Forsyth, Norfolk County Agricultural High School Plant Science Instructor & Alumni. Workshop fee is $60 for Mass Hort members, $80 General Admission. Register online at www.masshort.org. In view of the continuing Covid-19 situation, please check the Mass Hort website for updated cancellation information before going.

  • Wednesdays, September 30 – November 4, 6:00 – 9:00 pm – Invasive Plant Species ID and Eradication

    This six session course will begin with a segment on the identification of the most common invasive plant species encountered in woodlots, fields, gardens, and similar sites. Appropriate management and control techniques will be discussed, as will commercially available herbicides. The understanding of invasive plant species dynamics and proper control techniques gained in this course will enable gardeners and landscapers to safely, effectively, and economically keep unwanted plants to a minimum. The course will be held at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, Massachusetts, each Wednesday evening beginning September 30 through November 4, from 6 – 9 pm, and will be taught by Mike Nelson, Norfolk County Agricultural High School.  Tuition is $400 for Tower Hill members, and $445 for non-members.  The non-member fee includes a one year individual Tower Hill Botanic Garden membership, since if you’re forking out the big bucks you should at least be a member, which will entitle you to many other great discounts and opportunities.  To register, log on to www.towerhillbg.org before September 23.

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