Knowing Native Plants
Knowing Native Plants: Trees in Winter
Although this time of year the trees are dormant, they exhibit many interesting botanical features. Ed Lignowski will explain how to identify native deciduous trees and shrubs using buds, twigs, fruit, bark and shape as your only clues. Discover what these trees are doing to prepare for spring and how flowing sap is used to make maple syrup. Pre-registration required. Presentation/discussion will be followed by an outdoor tour.
Knowing Native Plants: Signs of Spring
Meet the early flowering plants—including snow trillium, skunk cabbage and hepatica—and learn how they have adapted to this potentially harsh time of year. We will attempt to identify spring-blooming species from shoots just beginning to poke through the soil. Presentation/discussion will be followed by an outdoor tour.
Exploring Nature
Bagels and Birds for Beginners
If you’ve wanted to start watching birds, but don’t know where to begin, here is a great opportunity for you. While we sip coffee or tea and munch on fresh bagels, we will cover how to use binoculars and learn the basics of field identification through visual and behavioral cues. Then we will head outdoors to use our new-found knowledge in the field. Please bring binoculars if you have them. Advanced registration and payment by March 12 required. Photo credit Jean Barrell.
Knowing Native Plants: Signs of Spring
Meet the early flowering plants—including snow trillium, skunk cabbage and hepatica—and learn how they have adapted to this potentially harsh time of year. We will attempt to identify spring-blooming species from shoots just beginning to poke through the soil. Presentation/discussion will be followed by an outdoor tour.