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What Native Plants for Your Landscape? (RIWPS Plant Sale Volunteers)

North Kingstown Free Library 100 Boone Street, North Kingstown, RI

This program is the first of two, specifically designed for the volunteers at our May and June plant sales.  This class is a valuable learning opportunity for our volunteers to pass onto the public. Volunteers will learn how to use native plants to create beautiful, well-balanced, and thriving landscapes. Backyards represent opportunities for our native plants, animals, birds, and […]

General Meeting & Guest Speaker

URI, Coastal Institute (Weaver Auditorium) 1 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI, United States

Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) with Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele), photo Randi Eckel Randi Eckel: Native Plants & the Creatures That Love Them A discussion of who eats what!  Which plants […]

Go Wild about Native Plants with Fellow RIWPS Members & Friends

Rhode Island Historical Society, Aldrich House 110 Benevolent Street, Providence, RI

January Social & Luncheon Potluck Style Please let us know if you are coming!  Scroll down to RSVP. Turks-cap lily (Lilium-superbum), photo DFisher Several members will share their experiences and […]

March Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker

URI Pharmacy Building, Room 170 7 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI

Plants are Better than Mulch! Senna hebecarpa (northern wild senna), photo DJaffe We have a strange relationship with mulch in America. Landscaping often means a sea of red mulch dotted […]

NATIVE GARDENS – Trinity Rep & RIWPS

Trinity Rep 201 Washington Street, Providence, Rhode Island

NATIVE GARDENS RIWPS & Trinity Rep invite you to A Special Afternoon at the Theater Enjoy Native Gardens a play about two couples with different gardening styles. One loves elaborate English gardens and the other loves native plants and wildflowers. They all agree that the chain link fence separating their yards has got to to! Everyone starts […]

General Meeting & Lisa Lofland Gould Lecture

URI Pharmacy Building, Room 170 7 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI

Rare Plants of New England and their Conservation Bill Brumback, Conservation Director, New England Wild Flower Society, will talk about rare species of the region, reasons for their rarity, and the […]

Free

Exhibit – Entwined: Botany, Art and the Lost Cat Swamp Habitat

John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence

Entwined: Botany, Art and the Lost Cat Swamp Habitat Exhibit Gallery, John Hay Library, Brown University January 10, 2019 through April 30, 2019 This exhibition is a unique collaboration between […]

Free

General Meeting & Lecture

John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence

Botanical Art: The History of Botanical Art from Early Times to the Present  Botanical art, with its rich history and high standards, has always informed and promoted botany and the […]

Annual Meeting & Lecture

Tiverton Public Library 34 Roosevelt Ave, Tiverton, Rhode Island

 The Memory of Trees & Insights on the Ecology of Forests How will forests in the northeastern U.S. respond to a hotter climate? The simple answer to this question is […]

Tour Brown University Herbarium

Providence, RI

Please note.  This program is also offered on March 29.  We are pleased that we are able to offer another session of this program.   Brown University Herbarium offers a priceless […]