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  • Friday, September 9, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Online Orchid Growing Workshop

    You don’t need a greenhouse to grow orchids. On Friday, September 9 at 4 pm, learn the essentials to achieve success on your windowsill, from selecting the right plants to proper lighting, watering, fertilizing, and re-potting.

    This online workshop is taught by Historic New England’s Greenhouse Manager Lynn Ackerman. The session will conclude with a Q&A.

    Registered participants will receive a discount on plants at Historic New England’s Lyman Estate Fall Orchid Sale, scheduled for September 11-13.

    The link for the Historic New England webinar/workshop will be sent to registered participants in a separate email.

    $20. Register at https://my.historicnewengland.org/6792/10815

  • Friday, April 10 – Sunday, April 12, 9:30 am – 4:00 pm – Spring Orchid Sale – Postponed

    Shop the Lyman Estate Greenhouses’ selection of hundreds of orchid plants, including Cattleyas, Laelias, Paphiopedilums, and Phalaenopsis from April 10 – 12, 9:30 am – 4 pm. Species and hybrid plants that are budded and blooming are available.

    Let our gardening experts help you choose the right plants for your home. Historic New England’s Garden and Landscape members receive a 15% discount on purchases at the greenhouses. Free admission. Please call 617-994-5913 for more information. The address is 185 Lyman Street in Waltham.  Sponsored by Historic New England

  • Saturday, November 9, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Beginning Orchid Growing Workshop

    You don’t need a greenhouse to grow orchids. Learn the essentials to achieve success on your windowsill, from selecting the right plants to proper lighting, watering, fertilizing, and re-potting. The Historic New England class will be held at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses, 185 Lyman Street in Waltham, on November 9 from 10 – noon, and costs $30. Advance tickets required. Please call 617-994-5913 for more information.

    Miltoniopsis Hybrids

  • Saturday, November 16 – Sunday, November 24 – Costa Rica: Exotic Flora and Fauna

    Join Pacific Horticultural Society November 16 – 24 for a unique opportunity to tour the eco-tourism capital of Central America. As one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, Costa Rica boasts cool cloud forests, lush riverbanks, exotic waterfalls, and tropical dry forests.

    We’ll visit private gardens and botanical gardens that support some of the highest density of rare flora and fauna in the world. Our itinerary includes Wilson Botanical Gardens, Nectandra Cloud Forest, and Las Cruces Biological Station. We’ll also visit Chester Skotak, a world-renowned author and bromeliad hybridizer, who has led numerous plant collecting expeditions throughout Central America. A must-see, of course, is the Else Kientzler Garden where we will see a spectacular collection of orchids as we walk along the trails of this gorgeous garden. Included in Else’s garden is Costa Rica’s national flower, pictured below, known locally as guaria morada (Guarianthe skinneri), sometimes referred to as the Easter orchid. Approximately $4,000 per person, $708 single supplement.

    For complete itinerary details and information about booking this trip click www.sterlinggardentours.com/costarica2019

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

    You don’t need a greenhouse to grow orchids. Learn the essentials to achieve success on your windowsill, from selecting the right plants to proper lighting, watering, fertilizing, and repotting. Taught by Greenhouse Manager Lynn Ackerman on Saturday, November 10 from 10 – noon at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses, 185 Lyman Street in Waltham.

    $20 Historic New England members, $25 nonmembers. Register at www.historicnewengland.org

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  • Sunday, August 12, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Meditations in Ink: Asian Brush Painting – Orchids

    Students in this Massachusetts Horticultural Society workshop on August 12 from 10 – 4 will learn the art of Asian Brush Painting and focus on the orchid. This workshop is for those interested in learning and using the traditional tools and techniques of Asian Brush Painting (aka “sumi-e” in Japan). Through step-by-step instructor demonstrations and hands-on brushpainting projects using the “Four Treasures” (bamboo brushes, handground ink, inkstone, and rice paper) you will explore this ancient and elegant art and leave class with two completed works.

    NO ART EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. Against a backdrop of meditative music, this workshop is your doorway to the exciting yet contemplative world of Asian art!

    Bruce Iverson is an artist who has specialized in Asian Brush Painting since 1972 with master brush painters Jean Shen, Ning Yeh, and I-Hsiung Ju. He has exhibited in group and juried shows throughout the United States and has had several one-man shows in New England. He has traveled to China for a deeper understanding of the context of brush painting and is a juried member of the New Hampshire Art Association. His work is grounded in a three thousand year old tradition in which the tools, techniques and philosophy of this Asian art form have had a lifelong resonance. Additional information about Bruce can be found at his website http://www.iversonarts.com

    Instructor will provide supplies. Students must provide their own lunch and beverages.

    $160 Mass Hort members, $200 general admission. The class will be held in the Putnam Building at the Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. Register online at http://www.masshort.org/eventdetail/676/meditations-in-ink-with-bruce-iverson?filter_reset=1

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  • Friday, February 9 – Sunday, February 11 – New Hampshire Orchid Society Show

    New Hampshire Orchid Society Show is being held February 9 – 11, 2018 at the Courtyard by Marriott, 2200 Southwood Drive, Nashua, NH. Judging is being held on February 9, 2018 at 8:30 AM. For complete information contact Brenda Campbell at bbcampbell139@comcast.net.

  • Friday, April 7, 6:45 pm – Native Orchids and Mycorrhiza: Ecologically Complex Interactions

    The New England Botanical Club will host its 2017 Distinguished Speaker Dr. Dennis Whigham, Senior Botanist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and North American Orchid Conservation Center, on Friday April 7, beginning at 6:45 pm. He will speak on Native Orchids and Mycorrhiza: Ecologically Complex Interactions.

    The Orchidaceae is a species-rich family of flowering plants with more than 30,000 known taxa globally. Like most terrestrial plants, orchid species interact with mycorrhizal fungi, but unlike most plants, there is little evidence that the interactions are mutualistic. Most research indicates that orchids manage the plant-fungal interactions and they consume the fungi as sources of carbon and other resources. Dependency on fungi has evolved in a number of orchid lineages to a complete dependency on fungi resulting in many species being completely mycoheterotrophic. Understanding orchid-fungal interactions is not only interesting, but it is key to orchid conservation because all orchids have, at least, one life history stage that is completely depending on fungi.

    Dennis will focus on native orchids of the U.S. and Canada to describe the ecological challenges that remain obstacles to a more complete understanding of orchid-fungal interactions. He will link issues related to orchid ecology to a Smithsonian-initiated continental-scale effort to use an ecological model to conserve native orchids through a collaborative effort that is being developed by the North American Orchid Conservation Center (NAOCC). Dennis will describe how members of the New England Botanical Club have already provided important support for NAOCC and how members can become engaged in the only effort to assure the survival of an entire plant family at a continental scale. Meetings at Harvard University are held in Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (door to right of Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance).  Free and open to the public.  Image from www.wabash.edu.

  • Friday, November 4, 12:30 pm – 5:00 pm, Saturday, November 5, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, and Sunday, November 6, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – World of Orchids

    Tantalize all your senses at the Massachusetts Orchid Society’s annual orchid show to be held November 4 – 6 at Mahoney’s Garden Center in Winchester. Exotic displays of blooming orchids from around the world will fill the 10,000 square foot greenhouse to showcase the World of Orchids theme. Guests can delve deeper into these staggering beauties by attending a talk by the Orchid Collection Specialist at the Smithsonian Institute, Tom Mirenda. He will speak on some unique topics within orchid pollination in a talk he calls Orchid Sex 101. The show will feature something for every level of enthusiast, from beginner to advanced, including hourly tours of the displays, plant raffles, seminars and educational events, vendors of specialty orchids and growing supplies, and orchid art. The fee is $10 per person, and MOS members and children under 8 attend free. A portion of the proceeds will help fund MOS, a non-profit organization.

    On Friday, November 4, judges from the American Orchid Society will judge and award the best plants in the show, placing ribbons on the winners. The show officially opens at 12:30 to the public and remains open until 5 pm. Saturday hours are 10 – 5, and Sunday 10 – 4. Mahoney’s is located at 242 Cambridge Street in Winchester. For more information visit www.massorchid.org/show or call 781-729-5900.

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

    Historic New England will sponsor a class in Beginning Orchid Growing at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses in Waltham on Saturday, November 12, from 10 – noon.  $20 for HNE members, $25 for nonmembers.  Registration is required – call 617-994-5913.  No experience necessary – winter is a great time to explore the wonderful world of indoor plants.