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  • Saturday, October 1, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, & Sunday, October 2, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – New England Carnivorous Plant Society Show & Sale

    The award-winning New England Carnivorous Plant Society (NECPS) will again be hosting its Fall Carnivorous Plant Show at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill on October 1 & 2. Free with admission to the Garden. Featured plants will include pitcher plants from Malaysia with traps the size of softballs that are capable of eating lizards and mice. There will also be sundews from Australia ranging from the size of a dime to 12+ inches high and the ever-popular Venus Fly trap. For all native plant lovers, NECPS will also display carnivorous plants that grow locally in Massachusetts and throughout New England. Over 300 plants are scheduled to be on display and free seminars will be offered on growing and feeding carnivorous plants.


    Visit the Venus Fly Trap feeding station where you can observe up close how these plants devour insects. Plants and growing accessories will be available for purchase for both novice and experienced growers from carnivorous plant vendors and the NECPS. Society members will be present both days to explain how the plants feed, what they eat, where they live, and how they can be grown and enjoyed at home. For more information click HERE.

  • Thursday, February 3, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Predatory Plants, Online

    Insectivorous and parasitic plants have evolved nutritional modes that are unlike the rest of the plant world, where self-sufficiency is the norm. This Native Plant Trust online class on February 3 from 1 – 4 covers more familiar pitcher plants, sundews, and dodder vines as well as lesser known groups such as the bladderworts and broom rapes (pictured below). Learn about the habitats, unusual life cycles, and curious behavior of these New England plants. Led by Neela de Zoysa, the class is $45 for NPT members, $54 for nonmembers. Register at http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/predatory-plants/

  • Thursday, April 9, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Caring for Carnivorous Plants – CANCELLED

    Are you interested in pitcher plants, Venus fly traps, and sundews, but unsure how to care for one at home? Come to Tower Hill Botanic Garden on April 9 at 6:30 pm and learn carnivorous plant care techniques from Dave Sackett, the President of the New England Carnivorous Plant Society.

    The NECPS was founded in 2003 by John Phillip Jr. and their first meeting was held in Providence, RI. Since then the group has met monthly to talk about a shared passion for carnivorous plants. Tower Hill members $15, nonmembers $20. Register at www.towerhillbg.org

  • Friday, August 12, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – The Wonderful World of Carnivorous Plants

    Friday, August 12, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – The Wonderful World of Carnivorous Plants

    In this family-friendly Massachusetts Horticultural Society program on Friday, August 12 from 2 – 3:30 in the Parkman Room of the Education Building at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, the New England Carnivorous Plant Society will bring all sorts of real-live carnivorous plants for kids to touch, examine and feed. Come see tropical, North American and Australian pitcher plants, Venus flytraps, sundews, butterworts, bladderworts and corkscrew plants.

    You will event get to look at their traps up close through a microscopic display, and kids get their own Venus flytrap to take home! $15/ Mass Hort members and children $25/ non-members. Register online at www.masshort.org.  Image from meijigardens.org.

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  • Sunday, August 9, 10:00 a.m. – Botanizing Killingworth Bog

    Field trips are a long standing tradition of the Connecticut Botanical Society.  They provide an opportunity to learn about plants and habitats from some the area’s most knowledgeable botanists, and an opportunity to share your own knowledge with others.  The trips also add to the bank of knowledge of New England flora.  On each field trip. a list is made of all plant species identified, and this list becomes part of the Society’s records.  The Connecticut Botanical Society encourages the gardening public to participate in the botanizing of Killingworth Bog in Killingworth, Connecticut, led by Penni Sharp, CBS botanist.  This bog is a unique habitat for orchids, sundews, pitcher plants, and other interesting species.  Expect wet feet – boots are recommended.  For field trips, wear sturdy footwear and bring a lunch.  Sunscreen and insect repellant are also recommended.  For plant identification, you may wish to bring a field guide(s), a hand lens, and a small notebook.  Familiarity with plant taxonomy is helpful, but not required.  No pre-registration is required.  Free to CBS members.  Non-members must pay a $15 fee, which includes a one-year membership in CBS, and entitles you to join future trips this season at no additional cost.  For more information and directions, call 203-484-0134, or log on to www.ct-botanical-society.org.