Boston Flora

Tag: White Mountains

  • Saturday, October 15, 3:30 pm – Mardi & The Whites Screening

    Native Plant Trust, the nation’s first plant conservation organization and the only one solely focused on New England’s native plants, is pleased to announce that it will screen the documentary Mardi & the Whites on Saturday, October 15, at 3:30 pm at Garden in the Woods in Framingham.  A film made and directed by Paula Champagne, featuring Dorchester resident Mardi Fuller, Mardi & the Whites chronicles the deep relationship that outdoorswoman Mardi Fuller has built with New Hampshire’s White Mountains, which has also been complicated by the overwhelmingly white hiking and outdoors community.  

    Mardi says that she is “thrilled to share my experiences as a Black outdoorswoman with this audience, at such an iconic local garden venue, and in partnership with Native Plant Trust, an organization committed to land stewardship and community education. My hope is that my story will shed light on patterns of exclusion in outdoor institutions and lead audience members to consider ways they might participate in the movement to improve access to nature for marginalized groups. I’m looking forward to a meaningful conversation and I know I will be inspired by the setting.” 

    The screening will be followed by a conversation and reception with Mardi, and attendees are welcome to arrive early at Garden in the Woods and enjoy a stroll through the garden before the program. To register for this event, please visit www.NativePlantTrust.org.  Garden in the Woods is located at 180 Hemenway Road in Framingham, Massachusetts.

  • 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, March 4, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Wild Orchids of New England

    On Wednesday, March 4, from 7 – 8:30, Grow Native Massachusetts will sponsor a free talk by Bill Brumback, Director of Conservation, New England Wild Flower Society, to be held at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway in Cambridge.

    Did you know that New England is home to more than 50 species of native terrestrial orchids? Although not so showy as the tropical orchids of the florist trade, our hardy species have fascinated botanists for centuries.

    Adapted to specific habitats from Maine’s northern woodlands to the sands of Nantucket, these orchids are fascinating in their diversity and their adaptations. Discover more about our New England orchids, their haunts, their peculiar lifestyles, their rarity, and their pollination systems. Learn which ones are cultivated in the nursery trade and adapted to gardens, and how we can conserve all of these species.

    Bill Brumback has worked for the New England Wild Flower Society for several decades. His contributions to the conservation of our region’s flora are extensive, and his work to propagate and protect Robbin’s cinquefoil in New Hampshire’s White Mountains led to its recovery and subsequent removal from the U.S. Endangered Species list. He has been studying the rare native orchid, small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides), for thirty years and claims that he still doesn’t understand it.