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SUMMARY:Beechwood Lecture: Native Plant Trends in the Nursery World
DESCRIPTION:Focus on Native and Sustainable Plants\nWednesday February 18\, 2026 | 1:30- 2:30 PM\nBeechwood Center | 44 Beach Street | No Kingstown\, RI 02852\n  \nJane Case\, owner of Blue Moon Farm Perennials will highlight newly developed and other favorite plants. \nBlue Moon Farm Perennials is home to the ” largest diversity of quality container grown perennials in Rhode Island” where the focus has always been on native and sustainable plants. Native plant guru Jane Case also developed a series of display gardens to stroll\, a pond\, a pollinator garden\, shade beds and a medicinal garden.  She is a designer of gardens and container displays. The Nursery also features shrubs\, ferns\, grasses and woodland plants. \n  \nThis lecture is offered by Beechwood Life Center and is a joint collaboration of URI Master Gardeners and RIWPS. Master Gardeners receive education credit for attending. \nThe program is free and open to the public. Registration required as space is limited. \nTo Register: Contact the Volunteer/Program Coordinator at The Beechwood Center for Life Enrichment –  401-268-1594 or malyward@northkingstownri.gov \nPlease note: \n\n\n\nRegistration is for this program only and not for future programs listed below.\nAlthough the Beechwood Garden programs are offered to members and the public\, if you have not attended past lectures and/or registered your contact information with the Beechwood Center in the last three (3) years\, you may need to provide an updated information form.  The form will be provided by Beechwood Staff at the time of the lecture. Completion of this form is required for participation in all Beechwood Programs.\n\n\n\n  \n\n  \nPreview of other programs scheduled for 2026  \n• April 15 2026: Karen Asher\, former president RI Wild Plant Society and a favorite presenter \nSpectacular Native Woodlanders: Spring Wildflowers in New England \n• August 19 2026 Hope Leeson. Field Botanists and Lecturer RISD \nBelow and Above Collective (Collaboration of Artists and Botanists). Floating Wetlands: Rebalancing Life in Freshwater Aquatic Communities \n• October 21 2026: Chris Fletcher\, Certified Arborist \n Reforestation and the Urban Forest \nWe hope you can join us! \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/beechwood-lecture-native-plant-trends-in-the-nursery-world/
LOCATION:Beechwood Center\, 44 Beach Street\, North Kingstown\, RI\, 02852\, United States
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SUMMARY:Plant It Forward - Supporting Pollinators with Native Plants
DESCRIPTION:Supporting Pollinators with Native Plants\nSpring is around the corner!  Learn how you can enhance your garden with native plants. \nEutrochium fistulosum (hollow Joe-Pye weed) with monarch\, photo DMcGrady \nThursday 19\, 2026 | 5 to 7 pm \nRogers Free Library  | 523 Hope St.| Bristol\, RI \nThe program includes Sue Theriault from RIWPS’ ReSeeding RI as well as speakers from the Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District\,  Audubon Society of RI\, and  Plant Community LLC. \n  \nEastern RI Conservation District is presenting this program. Registration is through them. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/plant-it-forward-supporting-pollinators-with-native-plants/
LOCATION:Bristol\, RI
CATEGORIES:General Event,Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2026:  Guest Speaker Arthur Haines
DESCRIPTION:How Science\, Fieldwork\, and Time Reshape Our Understanding of New England’s Flora\n\nAnnual Meeting & Guest Speaker Arthur Haines\nFebruary 28\, 2026 | 1:00 to 4:00 pm\nURI Pharmacy Building (room 170) | Kingston RI\nDriving directions\, parking\, how to find the building and lecture hall \n  \nSchedule \n• 1:00 pm – Refreshments and Fellowship \n• 1:30  pm – Short business meeting to include voting for Trustees at Large and celebrating our Lifetime Service Award recipient\, Peter Lacouture and Volunteer of the Year awardees\, Pam Matson and Denise Reniere\,  followed by the talk by Arthur Haines. \n  \nThe public is welcome to attend the full program or arrive later for the talk. \n  \nREGISTER BELOW \n\nArthur Haines: Senior Research Botanist\, Native Plant Trust \nArthur is a plant biologist specializing in the taxonomy and identification of New England tracheophytes. He is the author of Flora Novae Angliae published by New England Wild Flower Society and Yale University Press\, and several other books\, including Flora of Maine\, A New Path\, and two books on foraging/medicinal plants. In addition to his work studying advancement in plant systematics\, Arthur is an administrator for the Go Botany and Plant Share websites and a Flora of North America regional reviewer. \nThe Second Edition: Updating the Flora Novae Angliae and Changes to the Taxonomy and Conservation of Rhode Island Plants\nArthur Haines’ Flora Novae Angliae manual\, first published in 2011\, was a new resource created to update the taxonomy and assist the conservation of plants in New England.  It formed the base for names used in the online Go Botany resource and informed the last update to Flora Conservanda: New England. Fifteen years later\, the 2nd edition will again bring a summary of new information for the region’s higher vascular plants. This talk will discuss new research and discoveries in the northeast with an emphasis on Rhode Island. \n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/annual-meeting-2026-guest-speaker-arthur-haines/
LOCATION:University of Rhode Island\, Kingston\, RI
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