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  • Lisa Lofland Gould Lecture: Native Plant Supply Chain

    NOTE.  Page updated on November 12 with NEW LOCATION OF THIS PROGRAM Thomas Ryan Auditorium, Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences (CBLS) Upstairs Lobby and Lecture Hall 120 Flagg Road […]

  • ReSeeding RI – Class offered by the Native Plant Trust

    The program below, on our Reseeding RI initiative, comes from the class offerings of the  Native Plant Trust.  The registration link takes you to their website. In 2022, Rhode Island Plant Society (RIWPS) began ReSeeding Rhode Island, an initiative to increase the availability of ecotypic seed and plants within the state. In this session, you […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Planning for Residential Turf Resilience Organically

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

    On Wednesday, February 21, 2024 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm, join Dana Millar, owner of Dana Designs, at Beechwood Center, 44 Beach Street, North Kingston. Organically grown turf is not only stronger, but also more resistant to environmental stressors. Dana's approach is to work harmonious with nature, using a bottom-up approach to lawn care through […]

  • ReSeeding RI: Replenishing Native Plants – a URI Master Gardener Program

    Online

    The program below is from the URI Master Gardener Program. It is free and open to the public. Join Dave Vissoe, University of Rhode Island Master Gardener 2017 Hall of Fame and RI Wild Plant Society Vice President, as he takes you on a visual journey of ReSeeding RI from its inception and vision to […]

  • 2024 Annual Meeting & Presentations

    RIWPS annual meeting will take place from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at the Fellowship Hall of the Kingston Congregational Church, 2610 Kingstown Road Kingston, RI on Saturday, March 23, 2024.  […]

  • Tour the Brown Herbarium

    Tour Brown University Herbarium on April 1 from 10 to 11:30 am.  The Brown Herbarium is located on the second floor of the Biomedical Center, 171 Meeting St, Providence.   […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Gardening with Ferns

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

    Ostrich Fern, photo GGardner Gardening With Native Ferns   On Wednesday, April 17, 2024 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm, join Karen Asher, native plant specialist and former president of Rhode Island Wild Plant Society, at Beechwood Center, 44 Beach Street, North Kingston to learn about our native ferns. Ferns are ubiquitous here in Rhode Island, let's […]

  • Shannon Kingsley, botantist for ReSeeding RI will speak about this initiative at Transforming the Landscape Symposium

    Providence

    Rhode Island Audubon's spring symposium Transforming The Landscape focuses on how to become part of a sustainable community and support our native species by creating beautiful pollinator habitat at home. The keynote speaker Dr. Doug Tallamy, Professor and Chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware is well known for his […]

  • 2024 Spring Native Plant Sale

    On May 11, 2024, starting at 9 am, find us at the Casey Farm, Farmers Market, 2325 Boston Neck Road, Saunderstown. For details about this sale and our other plant […]

  • Following the Seasons at Haile Farm Preserve

    Anne Raver, will lead three walks along the trails of the Haile Farm Preserve in Warren, with an eye to how a landscape changes with the seasons.  Join us on […]

  • 2024 Best Native Plant Sale

    Find our largest selection of plants at this sale on June 1, 2024 at the URI Botanical Gardens, Kingston All details about this and our other sales can be found […]

  • Plant Identification Workshop

    University of Rhode Island, Kingston RI

    Join botanist Elizabeth Dickson for a workshop on how to key wildflowers using Newcomb's and GoBotany. Bring a copy of Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, a hand lens, and your cell phone, […]

  • Beechwood Lecture – Gardening with Pollinators

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

    Eutrochium fistulosum (hollow Joe-Pye weed) with monarch, photo DMcGrady On Wednesday June 26, 2024 from 2 to 3 pm join Barbara Donnelly at the Beechwood Center for Life Enrichment, 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown. Barbara is the owner of Red Horse Farm, a small farm in Exeter. Barbara raises and sells annuals, perennials and herbs […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Growing and Enjoying Herbs

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

    Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) with Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele), photo credit Randi Eckel On August 28, 2024 from 2 - 3 pm join Debbie Brodie, a Master Gardener since 2007 and Master Composter since 2008, to consider gardening for herbs and pollinators, diversifying your garden and providing food for yourself and the pollinators!  She […]

  • Following the Seasons at Haile Preserve – Fall Walk

    Warren, RI

    Anne Raver’s series of three walks along the trails of the Haile Farm Preserve in Warren, focuses on how the landscape changes with the seasons.  We invite those who participated […]

  • Beechwood Lecture Series: A Panel of Gardening Experts to Answer Your Questions

    Get your  Questions Answered Eutrochium fistulosum (hollow Joe-Pye weed) with monarch, photo DMcGrady On Wednesday October 16, 2024 from 2 to 3 pm bring your gardening questions to our panel of experts. The panel includes Kevin Alverson, Landscape Architect who donates some of his time to the design and management of the Jules A. Cohen […]

  • Identifying Common Invasive Plants Walk – Narragansett

    Asian Bittersweet, photo from Invasive Plants: The Threat They Pose  On 26 October 2024, from 1:30 to 3 pm, Tom Hoagland, President, Friends of Canonchet, and Alan Woodmansee, Master Gardener, […]

  • SE New England Native Seed Exchange

    SE New England Native Seed Exchange November 10th, 2024 3:00 - 6:00 pm  Tillinghast Place, Barrington RI 231 Nayatt Rd, Barrington, RI 02806 Rhode Island Wild Plant Society (RIWPS) & […]

  • Growing Native Plants from Seeds – Winter Sowing

    Saunderstown, RI

    Winter Sowing Native Plants On January 4, 2025 from 10 to 11:30 the Willet Free Library, Saunderstown is offering a program on winter sowing. Learn all about growing native plant from seeds and get hands-on-experience sowing native plant seeds.  Now is the time to sow!  All native seeds can be sown in the fall through […]

  • Growing Native Plants from Seeds – Winter Sowing

    Saunderstown, RI

    Winter Sowing Native Plants On January 11, 2025 from 10 to 11:30 the William Hall Library in Cranston is offering a program on winter sowing. Learn all about growing native plant from seeds and get hands-on-experience sowing native plant seeds.  Now is the time to sow!  All native seeds can be sown in the fall […]

  • Growing Native Plants from Seeds – Winter Sowing

    Saunderstown, RI

    Winter Sowing Native Plants On January 18, 2025 from 11 to 12:00 the Newport Public Library, Newport is offering a program on winter sowing. Learn all about growing native plant from seeds and get hands-on-experience sowing native plant seeds.  Now is the time to sow!  All native seeds can be sown in the fall through […]

  • Native Seed Winter Sowing Workshop

    Native Seed Winter Sowing Workshop Join the Aquidneck Land Trust, Rhode Island Wild Plant Society (RIWPS), and Middletown Public Library in this hands-on workshop and learn how to turn your […]

  • Growing Native Plants from Seeds – Winter Sowing

    Saunderstown, RI

    Winter Sowing Native Plants On January 25, 2025 from 10 to 11:30 at the Cross' Mills Public Library, Charlestown, learn all about growing native plant from seeds and get hands-on-experience sowing native plant seeds.  Now is the time to sow!  All native seeds can be sown in the fall through January. In fact, seeds of […]

  • Winter Sowing Native Plants

    Chepachet, RI

    Winter Sowing Native Plants February 4 | 6 - 7 pm Harmony Library, Chepachet RI   Interested in learning how to grow your own native plants?  Our team will provide gardeners with the materials and information needed to winter sow native plants.  Gardeners will sow seeds into a gallon milk jug and will be provided […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Backyard Ecology

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

    Backyard Entomology: Who’s Who in Your Garden’s Ecosystem Wednesday February 19, 2025 | 2:00 – 3:00 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street | No Kingstown, RI 02852 Speaker: Pam Gilpin, Estate Gardener and Certified Horticulturist Insects play an essential role as  pollinators, predators and recyclers of decomposing animal and plant material. They are of […]

  • Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker

     Experience the Lure of Observing Plants in Wild Places Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker March 1, 2025 | 1:00 to 4:00 pm URI Pharmacy Building (room 170) | Kingston RI […]

  • RIWPS Member Event: Virtual Book Discussion – Crossings

     Virtual Book Discussion (for RIWPS members only) Book: Crossings Discussion date: Sunday 16 March, 3:00 to 4:00 While the days are still short and the temperatures near freezing, let's read and […]

  • Calling plant enthusiasts!

    March 20 from 6 - 8 pm Chop - Culinary House of Providence 211 Washington Street Providence, RI 02903 RIWPS is excited to co-host an in-person social event with Providence Green […]

  • First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Snake Den Park

    Johnston, RI

    Join Christopher Modisette, State Resource Conservationist for the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Warwick, RI, from 10 to noon on April 3, 2025 for our first walk of the season. We […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Get to Know the Rare Plants in Rhode Island

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

    GET TO KNOW THE RARE PLANTS OF RHODE ISLAND Wednesday April 16, 2025 | 1:30- 2:30 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street | No Kingstown, RI 02852 Sabatia kennedyana (Plymouth rose-gentian), South Kingstown, RI. State Endangered, photo DMcGrady Although small in size, Rhode Island has a wide range of ecological habitats that support a […]

  • Botanizing Adventure (Member Event)

    Beaver River Field Visit Members can find details about this event in an email to them on March 26 (via Constant Contact) If you are a member and did not […]

  • Ecosystem Gardening with RI Native Wildflowers

    Ecosystem Gardening with RI Native Wildflowers Come to a RIWPS presentation on April 22, 2025 at 6 pm for a talk at the East Greenwich Library 82 Pierce Street, East  […]

  • Pollinator Night

    Pollinator Night at the Glass Station April 24th, 2025 | 6-7:30pm Glass Station | 446 Main Street | South Kingstown RSVP required - see link below Join the URI Bee […]

  • Find RIWPS at Transforming the Landscape Symposium

    Transforming the Landscape Supporting Native Plants and Pollinators Audubon's 2025 Transforming the Landscape symposium will feature workshops and lectures with scientists, master gardeners, and environmental organizations including RIWPS. Take advantage […]

  • First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Grills Wildlife Sanctuary

    Bradford, RI

    Early blooms. Erythronium americanum ssp. americanum (American trout-lily), Grills, Westerly, RI Join biologist Denise Poyer on May 1 from 10 am to noon to discover early spring flowers at the […]

  • 2025 Spring Native Plant Sale

    On May 10, 2025, starting at 9 am, find us at the Casey Farm, Farmers Market, 2325 Boston Neck Road, Saunderstown. For details about this sale and our other plant […]

  • Edible Treasures -Trott-Perry Land Preserve

    Join a beginner-friendly, educational plant walk led by Keri Brule at Trott-Perry Land Preserve in Scituate, Rhode Island. This easy, accessible walk will take place mostly along an open field. […]

  • Spring in Arcadia: Ben Utter Trail

    Exeter, RI

    doll's eye, white baneberry (Actea pachypoda), photo KAsher Join biologist Denise Poyer on May 16 from 10am to noon on the Ben Utter Trail in Exeter RI. We will discover […]

  • Ecosystem Gardening with RI Native Wildflowers

    Ecosystem Gardening with RI Native Wildflowers May 20, 2025 | 5:30 pm A pollen-dusted Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus) on Lilium superbum (Turk's-cap lily) Rhode Island Historical Society| Aldrich […]

  • First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Simmons Mill Pond

    Little Compton, RI

    Join Roger Greene on June 5, 2025 from 10 am to noon to explore Simmons Mill Pond Management Area in Little Compton, RI. We’ll take a walk along the historic […]

  • Walk – Wild Urban Plants of the Pawtuxet River

    Join botanists Peter Del Tredici and Brian Maynard for an urban ecology walk on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, from 10 a.m. to noon, along the Pawtuxet River and through Oxboes […]

  • Plant Identification Workshop

    Hone your botanical observation skills and learn to identify plants! Join botanist Elizabeth Dickson for a workshop on how to key wildflowers using Newcomb's and GoBotany. Bring a copy of […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Mushroom Hunting – Summer Session

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

    Mushroom Hunting: Summer Session Wednesday August 20, 2025 | 1:15- 2:45 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street | No Kingstown, RI 02852 On August 20, 2024 from 1:15 to 2:45, join Ryan Bouchard and Emily Schmidt from the Mushroom Hunting Foundation at the Beechwood Center for Life in North Kingstown, RI to learn about […]

  • 2025 Fall Native Plant Sale

    On September 6, 2025, from 10 am noon,  find us at the Pawtuxet Village Farmer's Market, 60 Rhodes Place, Cranston, RI Note: Members Presale 9 am to 10 am   Not […]

  • First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Neutaconkanut Hill Park

    Providence, RI

    On October 2, 2025  from 10 am to noon, join Joe Jamroz, environmental enthusiast and advisory board member for the Neutaconkanut Hill Conservancy. We will  explore parts of this conserved […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: – Misunderstood Arboricultural Practices: Getting it Right

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

    GETTING IT RIGHT MISUNDERSTOOD ARBORICULTURAL PRACTICES Wednesday October 15, 2025 | 1:30- 2:30 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street | No Kingstown, RI 02852 photo DMcGrady Tree expert, Chris Fletcher, will discuss commonly misunderstood practices for caring for your trees including pruning, root collars, wood chip mulch, irrigation, cabling practices and root invigoration practices […]

  • Test Associated Event

    Fort Barton Lawton Ave & Highland Rd, Tiverton, RI, United States

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  • Identifying Common Invasive Plants Walk – Narragansett

    Asian Bittersweet, photo from Invasive Plants: The Threat They Pose  On 26 October 2025 from 1:00 to 3 pm, Tom Hoagland, President, Friends of Canonchet, and Alan Woodmansee, Master Gardener, […]

  • 2025 SE New England Native Seed Exchange: Sharing, Learning and Connecting

    Tillinghast Place 230 Nyatt Rd, Barrington, RHode Island

    RIWPS' initiative ReSeeding RI will be participating in this event! SE New England Native Seed Exchange - November 9, 2025 12:00 - 3:00 pm  Tillinghast Place, Barrington RI 231 Nayatt Rd, Barrington, RI 02806   The SE New England Native Seed Exchange is for anyone interested in native plants, including folks who are new to […]

  • Native Seed Winter Sowing Workshop (Middletown, RI)

      Native Seed Winter Sowing Workshop Join the Aquidneck Land Trust, Rhode Island Wild Plant Society (RIWPS), and Middletown Public Library in this hands-on workshop. Learn how to turn your […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Native Plant Trends in the Nursery World

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

    Focus on Native and Sustainable Plants Wednesday February 18, 2026 | 1:30- 2:30 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street | No Kingstown, RI 02852   Jane Case, owner of Blue Moon Farm Perennials will highlight newly developed and other favorite plants. Blue Moon Farm Perennials is home to the " largest diversity of quality […]

  • Annual Meeting 2026: Guest Speaker Arthur Haines

    University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

    How Science, Fieldwork, and Time Reshape Our Understanding of New England’s Flora Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker Arthur Haines February 28, 2026 | 1:00 to 4:00 pm URI Pharmacy Building […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Pollinating the Planet on an Individual Basis

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

    Bottle gentian with bumblebee Pollinating the Planet on an Individual Basis Wednesday April 15, 2026 | 1:30- 2:30 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street  | North Kingstown, RI 02852 Steve Burke, president of the Rhode Island Beekeepers Association, has been a beekeeper for over 30 years. He teaches the Association’s yearly training program for beekeepers and […]

  • Pollinator Night at the Glass Station (South Kingstown)

    South Kingstown, RI

    Local Bees: Pollinating Native Plants and Agricultural Crops Limited free spaces available, RSVP required. RSVP is through the Glass Station.  CLICK HERE Join the URI Bee Lab, Rhode Island Wild […]

  • RIWPS Spring Native Plant Sale

    Casey Farm, Saunderstown, RI 2325 Boston Neck Road, Saunderstown, RI, United States

        Find all details on our Native Plant Sale Page

  • Edible Treasures: Trott-Perry Land Preserve Spring 2026

    Scituate RI

    Enjoy the Beauty of Spring -- Discover the Edible Treasures Growing Right at Our Feet Join a beginner-friendly, educational plant walk led by Keri Brule at Trott-Perry Land Preserve in […]

  • Workshop: Plant Identification in the Classroom

    URI, Kingston, RI

    Hone your botanical observation skills and learn to identify plants! Join botanist Elizabeth Dickson for a workshop on how to key wildflowers using Newcomb's Wildflower Guide and GoBotany. Bring a […]