Go Wild about Native Plants with RIWPS Members & Friends Social & Potluck Luncheon Join us for visual wild plant storytelling and socializing. This is an opportunity to mingle with […]
Practical Tree Care Amidst Today’s Challenges Ames Kaiser, career arborist, will discuss practical tree care in the context of extreme drought and rain, high winds, current invasive pests, existing monocultures, […]
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf Join RIWPS members to discuss this award winning book. "This is the fascinating story of a […]
We are canceling this program and hope to reschedule it when the conditions for gathering together make more sense. Organic Worm Composting Monique Bosch from Wiggle Room Organic Worm Composting […]
For the safety of all at this time RIWPS has cancelled our in person Annual Meeting on March 28th. We plan to invite the speaker, Dr. Susan Barton, to speak at our fall meeting. NOTE TO MEMBERS: The Annual Meeting is our yearly business meeting at which we vote for board members and officers, present […]
Trillium cernuum, nodding trilium. DMcGrady Discover early spring flowers on trails deep in the Arcadia Management Area on this easy walk with wildlife biologist Denise Poyer, recently retired after 25 years with the Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association. We will wander south on Sand Trail to look for Indian cucumber root (Medeola virginiana), Doll’s- eyes (Actaea pachypoda), […]
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Wild Honeysuckle Nicholas Farm Management Area Nicholas Farm covers a total land area of 1429 acres. The area is dominated by forest cover consisting of deciduous forest (688 acres) and evergreen forest (369 acres). Much of the conifer cover is pitch pine forest as a result of the dry soils which occur throughout the area. […]
Great Swamp (photo L Gould) Join Brian Maynard, RIWPS Treasurer and URI Field Botany instructor, at the Great Swamp Management Area in South Kingstown. The Great Swamp trail system traverses a variety of distinctive New England habitats including Red Maple – Deciduous Shrub Swamp, Atlantic White Cedar – Hardwood Swamp and Oak - Holly Forest. […]
Huge selection of wildflowers, ferns, shrubs and trees for all growing conditions