Wild Garden Party – Putting Together Seed Starting Kits

Riverside, RI

Our December 4 Wild Garden Party we be putting together seed starter kits at the home of Sally Johnson in Riverside, RI, starting at 1 pm. Bring your salad containers, responsibly collected native seeds, extra plug trays, and lunch bags.  We will supply other materials as needed (based on our discussion on November 9). It […]

Go Wild about Native Plants – Potluck Luncheon (for members) Postponed

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

DUE TO THE MOST RECENT COVID CONDITIONS, THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL A DATE LATER IN 2022.  Join us for a Potluck Luncheon. Let's enjoy spending time with fellow native plant enthusiasts.  Brian Maynard, long time RIWPS member and URI professor, Department of Plant Sciences and Entomology, will also be sharing his perspectives in a […]

How Native Plant Cultivars Affect Pollinators – Lisa Lofland Gould Lecture

Webinar

How Native Plant Cultivars Affect Pollinators This lecture was originally scheduled in November.  It has been rescheduled for Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 3:00pm. The webinar will now be via a Zoom Webinar platform. If you registered for the original session you need to reregister.  New registrations are also welcome. Click here to REGISTER Native […]

Beechwood Lecture: Rhode Island BioBlitz (Cancelled)

Beechwood Center 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI, United States

All Master Gardener indoor programs have been called through March 1. The program will be rescheduled. Community-Based Science and the Biodiversity in Our Backyards Even in Rhode Island, the plainest pieces of land can be home to a thousand species of animal and plant.  BioBlitz is an effort by volunteers to count as many species as […]

Book Discussion: Entangled Life (Member Event)

Online

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Come join us in a discussion of the fascinating book, Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake on February 27, 2022 at 2 PM. Entangled Life comes to us from the award-winning author and biologist, Merlin Sheldrake, who beautifully shares his love of […]

Welcome Spring Walk at the Great Swamp WMA

South Kingstown, RI

Round-leaved Sundew, DMcGrady Are there plants in bloom this early in the Spring? We will find out as we stroll along a trail at Great Swamp Wildlife Management Area in […]

Book Discussion: Uprooted A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again (Member Event)

Online

Come join us for a discussion of the Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again by Page Dickey on Sunday, April 3 at 2:00 pm. When Page Dickey moved away from her celebrated garden at Duck Hill in upper state New York, she left a landscape she had spent thirty-four years making, nurturing, and loving. […]

First Thursday Botanizing Walk at Lincoln Woods State Park

Lincoln, RI

Welcome to our first walk of the 2022 First Thursday Botanizing series. Forester and long-time RIWPS volunteer Paul Dolan will guide us through an area in Lincoln Woods State Park in Lincoln, RI. Named in honor of Abraham Lincoln,  Lincoln Woods was part of the Quinsnicket parcel, developed as a woodlot by industrialist and inventor […]

Free

Beechwood Lecture: Ecosystem Gardening with RI Native Plants

Beechwood Center 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI, United States

Join Karen Asher to learn how to use native plants to create beautiful, well-balanced and thriving landscapes. Turn your backyard into a bio-diverse refuge for the plants, birds, pollinators and animals that share our planet. This talk will focus on wildflowers for a variety of conditions. Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) with Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria […]

Rites of Spring Adventure in Arcadia Management Area

Exeter, RI

Epigaea repens (trailing-arbutus), DMCGrady Enjoy a rite of spring  on a short hike to see the early blooming trailing-arbutus (Epigaea repens) in the Arcadia Management area. It has been thriving […]