Have you ever seen a terrarium built from native evergreens? Now's your chance to make one for your own holiday table. In this workshop learn how to make and cultivate a mini-ecosystem with native evergreen plants. Your terrarium will be an actual living mini-cultivating garden to be enjoyed throughout the winter and either planted outdoors […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]