Fortifying the Living Seed Bank Native plants are vital to restoring our landscape, but where are we getting our plants from? Join us for a talk by Sefra Alexandra about […]
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 South Kingstown. As we will amble along a wetland we hope to see plants of swamps, bogs and open water, such as Chamaedaphne calyculata (Leatherleaf), […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Canada-mayflower, DMcGrady On this walk with biologist Denise Poyer, we will discover early spring flowers deep in the Arcadia Management Area. We will first wander south on Sand Trail to […]
On May 7 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. find our Early Native Plant Sale, featuring spring ephemerals and early bloomers, at Casey Farm in Saunderstown. Click here for more details about […]
Join Doug Mcgrady for the first of his Plants & Their Places Series to explore Boston Hollow in Ashford, CT. Boston Hollow is part of the Yale-Myers Forest in Ashford. […]
Sin and Flesh Brook meanders through eighty-acres of Tiverton’s signature coastal oak-holly forest adjacent to the Fort Barton Revolutionary War Redoubt. The stream’s loveliness belies its curious name given to it following a bloody encounter between a Quaker preacher and a band of Pocasset natives during King Philip’s War. That harsh memory has been replaced […]
Our June 4 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m The Best Native Plant Sale in Rhode Island will be held at URI Cooperative Extension Center Botanical Garden. This is our largest sale. Choose […]