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. […]

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 […]

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 for years in this same spot on a gravelly roadside bank just off the Mt. Tom Trail. We may see other early wildflowers beginning to […]

First Thursday Botanizing Walk – Ben Utter Trail

Ben Utter Trail Head H7X3+6J, Exeter, RI

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 look for Indian cucumber root (Medeola virginiana), dolls-eyes (Actaea pachypoda), Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) and many other ephemeral flowers.  There is a wonderful patch of nodding trillium (Trillium […]

RIWPS Early Native Plant Sale 2022

Casey Farm 2325 Boston Neck Rd, North Kingstown, RI

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 this sale and our other sales as well as resources to help you choose the right plants for your garden. 

Plants & Their Places – Boston Hollow

Ashford, CT

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. It’s a rift about 100 ft deep and 1.3 miles long.  A scenic dirt road runs its length. Lysimachia borealis (starflower), Ashford, CT (DMcGrady) Most […]

First Thursday Botanizing Walk – Sin and Flesh Brook Natural Area

Tiverton, RI

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 […]

The Best Native Plant Sale in Rhode Island 2022

URI Kingston, RI

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 from an extensive range of wildflowers, grasses, shrubs and more. Click here for more details about this sale and our other sales as well as […]

Beechwood Lecture: Detecting and Treating Plant Pathogens

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

Heather Faubert from the Plant Sciences and Entomology Department at the University of Rhode Island will talk about how to detect and treat some of the common - and not so common plant pathogens that we may find in our landscapes.  She will also discuss additional measures we can take to help our plants.  If […]