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Featured Events

PAST EVENTS

Annual Plant Sale
Kingston, RI
June 2, 2007
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Over 300 "GoWILD!" on RIWPS 2008 Garden Tour!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Eleven amazing and unique gardens in beautiful Southern Rhode Island and a perfect sunny June Saturday draws a sellout crowd to the RI Wild Plant Society biennial garden tour. Thank you to all who attended this glorious garden tour to support the RIWPS many educational and conservation programs. Congratulations to the Garden Tour Committee on a job well done, and thanks to the gardeners who shared their wonderful gardens.
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HARVEST DINNER & AUCTION
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Yawgoo Bakes
Slocum, RI
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WE WELCOME people of all botanical abilities at our events. Beginners or experts, amateurs or professionals ... we all come to enjoy and learn about wild plants.


Rhode Island Wild plant Society RIWPS ANNUAL PLANT SALE
Best Native Plant Sale in Rhode Island!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
9 am - noon, rain or shine
RIWPS Members Only Shopping 8:30-9:00 AM
URI's East Farm on Rte. 108
South Kingstown, RI
DIRECTIONS - NEW LOCATION!

Featuring wildflowers, ferns, perennials, native shrubs, pond plants and much more! Plus a SILENTAUCTION of rare and collectible plants 'til 10:30 am.

Some of the native plants that will be available ...

  • Baneberry (Actea alba)
  • Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
  • Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
  • Ginger (Asarum canadense)
  • Black Cohosh (Cimicifuga Americana)
  • Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucillaria)
  • Bleeding Heart (Dicentra exima)
  • Shooting Stars (Dodecatheon meadia) white
  • Trout Lilies (Erythronium americanum)
  • Sweet Woodruff (Galium odoratum)
  • Sharp Lobed Hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba)
  • Bluets (Houstonia caeureulea)
  • Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis)
  • Dwarf Iris (Iris Cristata) Purple
  • Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla)
  • Turks Cap Lily (Lilium superbum)
  • Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
  • Blue Cardinal Flower (Lobelia siphilitica)
  • Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
  • May Apple (Podophyllum peltatum)
  • Solomon's Seal (Polyganatum biflorum)
  • Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
  • False Solomon's seal (Smilacina racemosa)
  • Foamflower (Tiarella cardifolia)
  • Trillium grandiflorum (white)
  • Trillium luteum (Yellow)
  • Trillium erictum (Red)
  • Labrador Violet (viola labradorica)

Ferns ...

  • Maidenhair (Adiantum pedantum)
  • Hay-Scented Fern (Dennstaedtia punctiloba)
  • Leatherwood (Dryopteris marginalis)
  • Toothed Wood (Dryopteris spinulosa)
  • Sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
  • Royal (Osmunda regalis)
  • New York Fern (Parathelypteris novae-boracensis)
  • Christmas (Polystichum acrostichoides)
  • Netted Chain Fern (Woodwardia areolata)

 

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and protection of Rhode Island's native plants and their habitats.

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