Spring & Summer 2020 Native Plant programs

Conserving and promoting New England’s native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes

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Native Plant Programs Spring & Summer 2020

ABOUT NATIVE PLANT TRUST Native Plant Trust is the nation’s first plant conservation organization 180 Hemenway Road, and the only one solely focused on New England’s native plants. Framingham, MA 01701 We save native plants in the wild, grow them for gardens and restorations, and educate others on their value and use. We are T (508) 877 7630 based at Garden in the Woods, a renowned native plant botanic F (508) 877 3658 (508) 877 6553 garden that attracts visitors from all over the world. From this flagship TTY property in Framingham, Massachusetts, 25 staff and many of our [email protected] 1,500 trained volunteers work throughout New England each year NativePlantTrust.org to monitor and protect rare and endangered plants, collect and Program catalog is published preserve seeds to ensure biological diversity, detect and control twice a year by Native Plant With our new name and our new look, Native Plant invasive species, conduct research, and offer a range of educational Trust. Members receive programs. Native Plant Trust also operates a nursery at Nasami Farm discounts on all programs. Trust is also pleased to offer new programs. Half in western Massachusetts and manages six sanctuaries in Maine, Annual membership dues start of the 120 programs this semester are brand new, New Hampshire, and Vermont that are open to the public. Native at $40 for individuals. See such as a book talk with Doug Tallamy and a Plant Plant Trust is among the first organizations worldwide to receive page 58 for information. Diversity Symposium debuting Native Plant Trust’s Advanced Conservation Practitioner accreditation by London-based Printed on recycled paper. COURTNEY ALLEN Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), which included latest publication with The Nature Conservancy. Director of Public Programs an endorsement by an International Advisory Council representing — You will also see improvements to some of our six continents. Please visit www.NativePlantTrust.org. This publication was made signature learning initiatives, including an updated possible through the generosity of Jackie and Tom Stone. curriculum for our renowned Native Plant Studies Certificate. And for the first time this summer, Table of contents ON THE COVER three of our certificate courses will be offered both Sundial lupine (Lupinus in person and online, joining our popular suite of Events pg. 06 perennis) by Dan Jaffe online learning opportunities. Online Learning pg. 10 Botany & Conservation pg. 16 As a regional organization, we strive to serve Field Studies pg. 24 audiences throughout New England. Over the Certificate Program pg. 32 past two years, we have revitalized our public programming in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Horticulture & Design pg. 38 Island, and western Massachusetts. In this Landscape Studies pg. 52 © 2020 Native Plant Trust®. catalog, you will also discover expanded offerings Children & Families pg. 57 All rights reserved. No material in this publication in Vermont, Connecticut, and Cape Cod. We Registration & Membership pg. 58 may be reproduced or used in any way without written highlight some of the most botanically rich habitats, Support pg. 59 consent. For permission, plant collections, and conserved and cultivated contact Editor, Native Plant Trust, 180 Hemenway Road, landscapes around the region – both ours and those Framingham, MA 01701. of affiliates. With an ever-developing network of Many of our programs qualify for continuing education units. partnerships and faculty, our cutting edge learning Below is a list of CEUs we offer. Visit NativePlantTrust.org/education initiatives make Native Plant Trust the top source for a list of qualifying programs. for native plant education in New England and a AOLCP - Northeast Organic Farming Association Accredited Organic model for native plant education around the world. Land Care Professionals CFE - Society of American Foresters’ Continuing Forestry Education LACES - American Society of Landscape Architects’ Continuing Education MCA - Massachusetts Certified Arborist MCH - Massachusetts Certified Horticulturist MCLP - Massachusetts CertifiedLandscape Professional NativePlantTrust.org/education 02 03 Native Plant Programs Spring & Summer 2020

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ONLINE 4/2 Public Design, Part 2 41 7/17 Natives and Cultivars 49 CONNECTICUT & RHODE ISLAND 4/14 Doug Tallamy 6 7/18 Plant Combinations 49 Plant Form + Function 10 4/21 Back Bay Conserv. 52 7/23 NE Vines 20 4/16 Nature Design Prof. 43 Plant Ecology 10 4/23 Native Herbac. Early 37 7/30 Native Herbac. Late 37 5/23 Pollinators Casey Farm 52 Plant Families 10 4/25 Arbor Day 7 8/1 Plant Poetry 20 5/16 Design for Landowners 44 2/11 Plant Evolution, Part 1 12 4/25 Plant Play 57 8/8 Coonamessett Bog 29 5/22 Native Plants and Birds 45 12 2/26 Flora for Fauna 4/28 Birds and Habitats 18 8/14 Cape Landscapes 54 6/14 Blithewold Estate 53 3/3 Floral Morphology 12 4/30 Green Industry 44 8/22 Shade Gardens 50 9/13 Botany CT Coast 30 3/24 Plant Evolution, Part 2 13 5/1 Environmental Justice 18 8/28 Gardening for Birds 50 9/26 Intro to Grasses ID 22 4/9 Gardening for Birds 13 5/3 Trillium Tours 8 8/29 Carnivorous & Parasitic 21 10/8 Native Plants and Birds 45 4/20 Plants 101 11 5/3 Trillium Workshops 8 9/9 Intro to Go Botany 21 4/20 Plants 102 11 5/6 Wildflowers of NE 35 9/12 Botany Salt Marsh 29 MAINE & NEW HAMPSHIRE 4/20 Designing with Natives 11 5/8 Twilight Trilliums 8 9/15 Horticultural Tech. 37 & VERMONT 5/9 Macomber Woods 26 9/19 Asters & Goldenrods 22 4/20 Gardening Pollinators 11 2/23 Winter Branchlet ID 16 5/13 Wild Edibles 26 9/25 Asters After Hours 9 6/17 Sanctuary: Nasami 13 4/10 Role of Cultivars 42 5/15 Eco-restorative Design 44 9/30 Cambridge Landscape 55 7/7 Water-Saving Natives 14 4/16 Residential Landscape 37 5/17 Eating Invasives 18 7/14 PCV Making & Future 14 5/2 Plainfield Sanctuary 24 36 5/18 Field ID Techniques 24 8/4 Plants Not Lawns 15 WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS 5/9 Sturgis Sanctuary 5/19 Design for Health 45 5/16 Ponemah Bog 27 8/20 Invasives Management 15 5/29 Stormwater Manag. 46 3/20 Site Preparation 40 6/5 Eshqua Bog 24 9/1 Gardening for Habitat 15 5/30 Changing Conditions 46 4/3 Meadows 1_2_3 42 6/20 Black Gum Swamp 27 6/2 Native NE Shrubs 35 4/18 Healthy Seedling Starts 43 7/9 Wetland Plants 19 6/6 Acton Arboretum 52 5/16 Ecology of Mt. Tom 27 EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS 7/18 Botany NH Coastline 28 6/11 Plant Families 34 5/31 Writing in the Garden 47 7/19 Butler Sanctuary 25 2/20 Reading Landscapes 38 6/12 Plant Diversity Symp. 9 6/13 NE Plant Communities 36 7/25 Hobbs Fern Sanctuary 25 2/21 Rare Plant Families 16 6/13 Natives South Shore 19 6/19 Right Plant, Right Place 47 7/26 Wetland Shrubs 29 2/22 Visual Garden Design 38 6/19 Container Gardening 47 6/28 Wetland Ecology 27 8/8 Flora Eastern Maine 29 2/26 Grafting Fruit Trees 39 6/20 Yards for Biodiversity 48 7/10 Framework Trees 35 9/12 Schoodic Peninsula 30 2/27 Winter Pruning 39 6/26 Harvard Designs 53 7/24 Sandy Soils 54 9/20 Coffin Sanctuary 25 2/28 Cultiv. Plant Comm. 40 6/27 Botanical Inventory 36 7/25 Ferns from Spore 49 Eastern shadbush 9/25 LaPlatte River Marsh 30 2/29 Botany Story Slam 6 (Amelanchier canadensis) 7/8 Orchids of NE 19 8/9 Yellow Composites 20 3/12 Predatory Plants 17 7/12 Sandplain Grasslands 28 8/15 Intro to Ferns 21 3/14 Rock Lichens 17 7/15 Plant Ecology 34 9/4 Understanding Soils 35 3/21 Modern Land Steward 41 7/16 Soil Solution 48 10/23Creating Fall Color 55 3/28 Liliaceae 17

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02 Events Arbor Day Join us for our fifth annual celebration of 01 New England’s trees and forests! Since 1872, this environmentalist holiday has Tales from the Field: encouraged Americans to become closer A Botany Story Slam to our trees, whether by planting them Join Native Plant Trust for an evening of for ecological health and beauty, learning plant adventure storytelling. Listen to some about tree care, or simply enjoying a walk in the woods. What better way to celebrate of the region’s top botanists, horticulturists, Arbor Day than at Garden in the Woods? and fellow plant geeks share their most riveting and hilarious tales from the field, Saturday, April 25, 2020, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. then cast your vote for the night’s best Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA storyteller! This one-of-a-kind event will Fee: Free of charge with Garden admission be moderated by Michael Piantedosi, Director of Conservation, with audience Nature’s Best Hope: A Talk and FOR ADULTS participation. Book Signing with Doug Tallamy To receive a free native tree from our tree giveaway, be sure to arrive at the start Join Doug Tallamy for a talk and book Saturday, February 29, 2020, 6-8 p.m. of the day. Then join our knowledgeable signing for his newest publication, Nature’s Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA guides for an up-close look at the Garden Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Best Hope. Recent headlines about global and our magnificent trees. Afterward, insect declines, the impending extinction observe our staff-led tree planting and of one million species worldwide, and three pruning demonstrations and have your 03 billion fewer birds in North America are a pressing tree questions answered. Finally, bleak reality check about how ineffective don’t forget to check out the new plants our current landscape designs have been and items at our garden shop! at sustaining the plants and animals that FOR CHILDREN sustain us. Such losses are not an option if Throughout the day, families can alternate we wish to continue our current standard among several guided and self-directed of living on planet Earth. The good news activities. Children can learn about the is that none of this is inevitable. Tallamy, parts of a tree as well as its life cycle and author of the acclaimed Bringing Nature life span from our teacher-naturalists at Home, will discuss simple steps that each three investigation stations. For some of us can—and must—take to reverse independent exploration, pick up a tree declining biodiversity and explain why we, quest to identify trees by their bark and ourselves, are nature’s best hope. The talk leaves, or try the meet-a-tree activity for will be followed by a book signing. a close look at the characteristics of one specimen. Finally, contribute to the grow- Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 6-8 p.m. a-tree art project, where children can make Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA an art project together! Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers)

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06 Events Plant Diversity Symposium Join us for the unveiling of a new analysis 04 of plant diversity in New England, Trillium Week May 3-9 presented as a collaborative report between Native Plant Trust and The In 2013, the Garden in the Woods Trillium Nature Conservancy. This symposium collection was recognized as a Nationally delves into goals and strategies for Accredited Plant Collection by the conserving plant diversity in the wake American Public Gardens Association’s of development and climate change. Plant Collections Network. Please join Through multiple interactive formats, we us for our fifth annual Trillium Week to Trillium Workshops will address what the new data analysis celebrate the beauty and variety of trilliums Join Native Plant Trust staff to learn how tells us about the current status of plant at the Garden. to expertly care for your plants. You will diversity, how it guides priorities for plant receive expert advice on how to select conservation, and what approaches are trillium species, prepare a site for planting, being used to meet conservation goals. Guided Trillium Tours and care for a plant once it’s in the ground. The Plant Diversity Symposium sheds new light on the intersection between plant Join our knowledgeable guides for an in- Sunday, May 3; Thursday, May 7; Friday, May 8; and conservation, land management, and land depth look at the Garden and our award- Saturday, May 9, 2020, 2-3 p.m. protection. winning trillium collection. Tours meet at Fee: Free of charge with Garden admission the visitor center. Friday, June 12, 2020, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Lesley University, Cambridge, MA Sunday, May 3, through Saturday, May 9, 2020, Program Code: SYM1008 1-2 p.m. Twilight Trilliums Asters After Hours Fee: $105 (Members)/$126 (Nonmembers) Fee: Free of charge with Garden admission Enjoy popular beers from local craft brewer Enjoy harvest libations while listening to Certificate: Elective: all certificates Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing and award-winning music on a beautiful autumn evening in Cosponsor wines from local vintner Aaronap Cellars : The Nature Conservancy 05 the Garden. Stroll the Garden after hours while listening to live music on a beautiful to observe the season’s stunning asters spring evening in the Garden. Stroll the (Asteraceae), goldenrods (Solidago), and Garden after hours during Trillium Week 07 cardinal flowers (Lobelia cardinalis) in the and enjoy the largest collection of trilliums evening glow. Learn about the plants used north of Delaware during their peak to create the event’s featured beverages. flowering time. Learn about the plants Included with this event are garden access, that brewers and vintners use to make entertainment, learning opportunities, and their beverages. Included with this event light refreshments. are garden access, entertainment, learning activities, and light refreshments. Friday, September 25, 2020, 6-8 p.m. Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Friday, May 8, 2020, 6-8 p.m. Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers)

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Online Learning Plants 101 Designing with Native Plants Courses Explore New England’s plant life in this This online course teaches the basics of online course. Learn what plants are, how designing with native plants and shows Plant Form and Function is self-paced, with opportunities for peer they function, and why they are essential how to incorporate native plants into the discussion, expert access for questions, to all life on earth. The course introduces garden and landscape. Discover the variety This introduction to botany covers the and in-person application with a local many of the region’s native and non-native of native plants found throughout New basics of plant anatomy and physiology instructor. plants. You can complete the course at your England and learn how to design a visually and addresses the fundamentals of the own pace. interesting landscape that also supports plant kingdom. We will take a microscopic Course access begins in summer 2020 biodiversity. You can complete the course Course access begins Monday, April 20, 2020 look at roots, stems, leaves, and their Program Code: CERO101 at your own pace Program Code: BOTO101 component tissues. We will also examine Fee: $180 (Members)/$126 (Nonmembers) flowers, fruits, and seeds and discuss Fee: $80 (Members)/$98 (Nonmembers) Course access begins Monday, April 20, 2020 Certificate: Basic Core pollination, fertilization, dispersal, and Certificate: Elective: Basic Program Code: HOR100 germination, with an emphasis on the Fee: $80 (Members)/$98 (Nonmembers) relationship between plant form and Plant Families Certificate: Elective: Basic function. This Basic Certificate online core Plants 102 course is self-paced, with opportunities What are the underlying evolutionary Delve deeper into the New England flora for peer discussion, expert access for relationships and patterns in plants? In in this online course. Learn how plants Gardening for Pollinators questions, and in-person application with a this class, we use both microscopic and change as they grow; how they interact This online course teaches how to convert local instructor. field investigation to decipher the clues to familial relationships and classifications with other species; and how geology, soils, a yard into productive pollinator habitat. Course access begins in summer 2020 of the region’s plants. You will learn land-use history, hydrology, and climate Learn about issues associated with Program Code: CERO100 botanical terms to describe plants and shape the plant communities of the region. pollinator decline and current conservation Fee: $180 (Members)/$126 (Nonmembers) flowers, the evolutionary/phylogenetic Plants 101 is a foundation for Plants 102, efforts, then explore a variety of pollinators Certificate: Basic Core basis for classification, and the identifying but is not a prerequisite. You can complete and the native plants that support their characteristics for several major plant the course at your own pace. life cycles. The course also covers basic pollinator garden design and provides families common to New England. This Course access begins Monday, April 20, 2020 Basic Certificate online core course is step-by-step instructions for selecting Plant Ecology Program Code: BOTO102 self-paced, with opportunities for peer plants and installing and maintaining these This overview of plant ecology addresses Fee: $80 (Members)/$98 (Nonmembers) discussion, expert access for questions, habitats. You can complete the course at the distribution and abundance of plants Certificate: Elective: Advanced, Botany and in-person application with a local your own pace. and their interactions with other organisms instructor. and the physical environment. We will Course access begins Monday, April 20, 2020 explore factors that affect plants as Course access begins in summer 2020 Program Code: HORO101 individuals, populations, and communities, Program Code: CERO102 Fee: $80 (Members)/$98 (Nonmembers) such as life history, resource use, Fee: $180 (Members)/$126 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: all certificates competition, and animal-plant interactions Certificate: Basic Core (e.g., pollination, dispersal, herbivory). This Basic Certificate online core course

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Online Learning Plant Evolution, Part 2 Sanctuary Update: Nasami Farm Webinars Join evolutionary biologist Dr. Lori Benoit Join Bud Sechler, Ecological Programs to learn how land plants evolved into the Coordinator, to learn about the history and Plant Evolution, Part 1 Flora for Fauna major plant groups we know today. We will critical ecological resources of Native Plant focus on the evolution of gymnosperms Trust’s most active sanctuary. This webinar This webinar addresses the human need In this webinar, you will learn current and angiosperms (conifers and flowering includes updates on recent rare plant to interact with wild plants on the regional theories on early plant evolution. We’ll plants). surveys and an invasive plant management landscape. When done in accordance with review the evidence for plant evolution plan to restore habitats at Nasami Farm. including fossils, DNA, and morphology to reciprocal conservation methods, both Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 1-2 p.m. parties (humans and plants) benefit from understand how photosynthetic organisms Program Code: BOTW313 Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 1-2 p.m. the interaction. In many circumstances, from ancient seas evolved and adapted to Instructor: Lori Benoit, Ph.D., wetland scientist and Program Code: BOTW404 reciprocal conservation has merit and is life on land. environmental consultant Instructor the historical practice humans have used : Bud Sechler, Ecological Programs Fee: $12 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) Coordinator, Native Plant Trust Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 1-2 p.m. to steward wild plant populations and their Certificate Fee: $12 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) health. : Elective: Basic Program Code: BOTW312 Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany Instructor: Lori Benoit, Ph.D., wetland scientist and Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 1-2 p.m. environmental consultant Program Code: BOTW515 Gardening for the Birds Fee: $12 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) Instructor : Arthur Haines, Research Botanist, Native Go beyond conventional bird feeders—use Certificate: Elective: all certificates Plant Trust, author of Flora Novae Angliae native plants to turn your backyard into a Fee: $12 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) diverse, year-round avian habitat! Learn 09 Certificate: Elective: all certificates what the birds of New England actually need from us and become part of the new, 08 natural approach, using planting aesthetics Floral Morphology that embrace the ecological value of native This introductory webinar familiarizes you species, variety, and untidiness. This with a working vocabulary of floral parts program addresses fruit-bearing shrubs, and with the skills to accurately describe pollinators, and birds’ feeding and nesting their position, fusion, numbers, absence, preferences. and other features used in taxonomy to identify and classify plants. Take the first Thursday, April 9, 2020, 1-2 p.m. step to correctly interpreting the structures Program Code: HORW213 we see on plants and understanding how Instructor: Chris Leahy, Overseer, Native Plant Trust they allow for plant classification. and Gerard A. Bertrand Chair of Natural History and Field Ornithology (emeritus), Mass Audubon Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 1-2 p.m. Fee: $12 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) Program Code: BOTW201 Certificate: Elective: all certificates Instructor: Arthur Haines, Research Botanist, Native Plant Trust, author of Flora Novae Angliae Fee: $12 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: all certificates

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12 Online Learning Plants Not Lawns Who says lawns need to be monocultures or only made of grasses? We can do better 10 than the default landscape material that Water-Saving Native Plants covers most of the suburban landscape. You will learn to create a rich, wildlife- Massachusetts experienced a record- friendly tapestry instead. Discover your breaking drought in 2016-2017, and water options and get inspired to change your bans in towns across the state have lawn management practices or to replace become annual occurrences. What native your lawn altogether with a variety of plants can we use that withstand drought alternatives. without supplemental irrigation? Come Tuesday, August 4, 2020, 6:30-7:30 p.m. be inspired by stunning plants with low Program Code: HORW110 water requirements and learn about the Instructor adaptations that help them perform well : Anna Fialkoff, Senior Horticulturist, Native Plant Trust under harsh conditions. The Making and Future of the Fee: $12 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) Tuesday, July 7, 2020, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Plant Conservation Volunteer Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Horticulture Program Code: HORW214 Program Instructor: Anna Fialkoff, Senior Horticulturist, Started in Massachusetts in 1993, the Gardening for Habitat Native Plant Trust Native Plant Trust’s PCV program is the Gardens are habitats, but the degree to Fee: $12 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) oldest rare plant monitoring program Strategies for Invasive Plant which they support local wildlife depends Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Management in the country. It engages conservation- on our gardening practices. When and Horticulture Invasive plants continue to be one of the minded volunteers in rare plant monitoring how we decide to clean up leaves or cut main threats to the ecological integrity of and seed collection, habitat management, plants back can affect the life cycles of natural communities and to populations of and invasive species monitoring. Since salamanders, bees, birds, moths, and 11 rare plants. Native Plant Trust’s Ecological its creation, the program has grown to a Programs Coordinator, Bud Sechler, butterflies. Our plant choices determine consortium of more than 120 professional examines different strategies to combat who visits, stays, or passes by as they look botanists and more than 500 amateur invasive plants, drawing on invasive plant for food, shelter, and places to lay eggs. volunteer botanists currently active management experiences with Native Plant Learn more from Anna Fialkoff as she Trust, the Massachusetts Invasive Plant throughout New England. In this webinar, shares her own observations, practices, Advisory Group, and the Sudbury-Assabet- and research from working at Garden in participants will learn about the history of Concord Watershed Cooperative Invasive the Woods. the PCV program, how it is run, and what Species Management Area. changes are in store for the program. Tuesday, September 1, 2020, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, August 20, 2020, 1-2 p.m. Program Code: HORW215 Tuesday, July 14, 2020, 1-2 p.m. Program Code: BOTW901 Instructor: Anna Fialkoff, Senior Horticulturist, Program Code: BOTW903 Instructor: Bud Sechler, Ecological Programs Native Plant Trust Instructor: Micah Jasny, Botanical Coordinator, Coordinator, Native Plant Trust Fee: $12 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) Native Plant Trust Fee: $12 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Fee: $12 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: Advanced, Botany Horticulture Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany

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15 Botany & Conservation Predatory Plants Insectivorous and parasitic plants have 13 evolved nutritional modes that differ from those in the rest of the plant world, Rare Plant Families where self-sufficiency is the norm. This class covers more familiar pitcher plants Where have all the flowers gone? Many are (Sarracenia), sundews (Drosera), and in decline; some more than others. In this dodder vines (Cuscuta) as well as lesser- class, we will gain a better understanding known groups such as the bladderworts of the most threatened New England plant (Utricularia) and broom rapes (Orobanche). families. We will assess the varied effects Learn about the habitats, unusual life cycles, and curious behavior of these New of conservation concern on plants ranging England plants. from the orchid family (Orchidaceae) to moonworts (Botrychium). In addition, we Thursday, March 12, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. will discuss actions that Native Plant Trust Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA and conservationists in the region are Program Code: BOT2317 conducting to protect the taxa most in need. Instructor: Neela de Zoysa, botanist Liliaceae and Friends Fee: $60 (Members)/$72 (Nonmembers) Join Ted Elliman for an overview of the Friday, February 21, 2020, 1-4 p.m. Certificate Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA : Elective: all certificates vibrant Liliaceae family. You will learn native and non-native species of the lily Program Code: BOT2270 Winter Branchlet Identification and allied families that are present in New Instructor: Michael Piantedosi, Director of Conservation, Native Plant Trust Woody plants such as trees, shrubs, and England, the morphological features that Rock Lichens Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) vines can be identified during dormant distinguish the different families, and the time. Winter branchlet identification Rocks are excellent places to study lichen Certificate: Elective: all certificates habitats and distribution of each species in provides a more holistic understanding of growth forms, biology, and ecology. Native the region. We cover species that still are in Cosponsor: Massachusetts Association of rock walls, cement walls, and cemetery woody plant identification and can give the lily family as well as those that recently Conservation Commissions monuments made from different rocks you more confidence in naming plants. You split from Liliaceae into other families. 14 boast a diversity of rock-colonizing lichens will learn to interpret the special branchlet common to New England. During this class, You will engage with the plants through features of woody plants that assist both in you will learn about lichen identification, a range of learning tools, including visual winter identification and in growing season reproduction and growth, and habitat presentation and examination of herbarium interactions through a stereoscope surveys. specimens. workshop and field application at local Sunday, February 23, 2020, 1-4 p.m. cemeteries. Saturday, March 28, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, Falmouth, ME Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Saturday, March 14, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Program Code: BOT3332 Program Code Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA, and field : BOT3021 Instructor : Arthur Haines, Research Botanist, Native site Instructor: Ted Elliman, botanist and author of Plant Trust, author of Flora Novae Angliae Program Code: BOT3604 Wildflowers of New England Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) Fee Instructor: Elizabeth Kneiper, lichenologist : $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany Certificate Fee: $75 (Members)/$90 (Nonmembers) : Elective: all certificates Cosponsor: Maine Audubon Cosponsor Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany : Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions

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Botany & Conservation Native Plants and Non-Native Orchids of New England Plants: South Shore Orchidaceae is one of the largest plant Delve into the plants and habitats of families in the world, and there are 50 the South Shore. Through classroom there another path? In this class, we will orchid species native to New England, from Bird Monitoring and Habitat discussion and field application, we will discuss how we can apply environmental showy lady’s slipper (Cypripedium reginae) Assemblages explore how native plants coexist in natural justice concepts to methods of conservation to rose pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides). By identifying the song of a warbling vireo habitats and what happens when plants for the benefit of life across Earth. While some species are common, many (Vireo gilvus) in a riparian stream habitat, are forced to abandon their native ranges. are of conservation concern. This session or that of a Black-throated green warbler Friday, May 1, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. This session will address plant mechanisms (Setophaga virens) in a mixed coniferous- Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA for coexistence, geographic boundaries in provides context for understanding native hardwood forest, an observer can deduce defining “native,” threats of native-invasive orchid habitats, diversity, and conservation Program Code: BOT1513 characteristics about the habitat. Monitoring hybridization, incubation periods of issues. You will learn identification Instructor: Michael Piantedosi, Director of birds in an area over a period of time can invasive plants, and differentiation between techniques, pollination strategies, and help us understand the habitat type, quality, Conservation, Native Plant Trust native, non-native, and invasive plants. life-cycle stages for native orchids. and management. This class will explore Fee: $38 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) assemblages between Massachusetts Natural Certificate: Elective: all certificates Saturday, June 13, 2020, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, 2020, 10:30 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. Community types and the bird species South Shore Natural Science Center and Jacobs Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA found in those community types, as well as Pond Conservation Area, Norwell, MA Program Code: BOT3036 structural components that are critical for Program Code: BOT2222 Managing Invasives Through Instructor: Neela de Zoysa, botanist these bird species. Instructor: Irina Kadis, botanist Eating: A Conservation Diner’s Fee: $60 (Members)/$72 (Nonmembers) Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Guide Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany Invasive species are a significant threat to Program Code: BOT5044 Cosponsor: South Shore Natural Science Center global biodiversity, and conservationists Instructor : Bud Sechler, Ecological Programs are constantly looking for new ways to Coordinator, Native Plant Trust manage their continued expansion into 16 Wetland Plants Fee : $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) native ecosystems. While traditional Spend an afternoon exploring wetland Certificate methods to control invasive species : Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany habitats, some of the most botanically have included mechanical and chemical strategies, in recent years there has been a diverse and biologically productive growing movement to see if we can control landscapes in New England. We will learn Environmental Justice invasive species by eating them. You will about numerous plants that have adapted for Botanists learn about the history of eating invasive to the rivershores, floodplains, beaver species and the merits and drawbacks of meadows, marshes, and forested seeps of In structuring conservation policies for the strategy. plant life, biodiversity is often the chief central Vermont. metric used to determine species viability Sunday, May 17, 2020, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Thursday, July 9, 2020, 1-4 p.m. in the wild. This approach to conservation Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, VT has been critiqued for providing an Program Code: BOT6102 anthropogenic bias on the value of non- Program Code: BOT3360 Instructor: Micah Jasny, Botanical Coordinator, human life. With our focus on merely Instructor: Aaron Marcus, assistant botanist, Native Plant Trust attaining biological thresholds of species’ Vermont Fish & Wildlife Service Fee: $15 (Members)/$18 (Nonmembers) viability rather than on species’ abundance Fee: $40 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) (an “ecology of the minimal”), are we acting Certificate: Elective: Advanced, Botany Cosponsor: North Branch Nature Center in an environmentally just manner? Or is

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Botany & Conservation Introduction to Ferns Introduction to Go Botany New England boasts habitats with Native Plant Trust’s Go Botany online numerous, distinct native fern species—but 17 platform is a critical tool for New for a beginner, they can look quite similar. New England Vines England native plant identification. This This survey addresses fern identification program serves as a review on field guide Vines and climbers are an ecologically techniques, biology, and ecology. Through a identification and forms a bridge between important and varied group of plants visual presentation and field application, you identification by book and identification in New England. This session covers will learn to use macro features to identify by online resource. We will use common the diversity of native vines through 50 New England’s most common fern species, climbers that vary widely in their size, form, their associated plant communities, and wildflower identification guidebooks and adaptations. You will become familiar shifts in communities due to site conditions. to review how to use a key to identify with adaptations to climbing, groups of plants, including terminology and plant Saturday, August 15, 2020, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. climbing plants, and vine identification characteristics. From there, we learn how Nasami Farm, Whately, MA, and field site tools and features. to apply similar skills to use Go Botany to Program Code: BOT3431 identify plants. Thursday, July 23, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Instructor: Randy Stone, Pioneer Valley Fern Society Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Fee: $60 (Members)/$72 (Nonmembers) Wednesdays, September 9, 16, 2020, Program Code : BOT3020 Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Instructor Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA : Neela de Zoysa, botanist Yellow Composites Fee: $60 (Members)/$72 (Nonmembers) Program Code: BOT3805 The yellow-flowered members of the Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany Instructor: Leslie Duthie, botanist Asteraceae family are ubiquitous: Carnivorous and Parasitic Plants Fee: $120 (Members)/$144 (Nonmembers) dandelions (Taraxacum), coneflower Explore the weird world of native plants Certificate: Elective: Basic (Echinacea purpurea), hawkweeds that employ nontraditional nourishment Midsummer Plant Poetry (Hieracium), lettuces (Lactuca), sow- strategies, from catching and devouring New England’s plants have inspired many thistles (Sonchus), sunflowers (Helianthus), their own prey to stealing from neighbors. 18 poets. Join us for a summer afternoon and more. But they can be confusing to With classroom discussion and field savoring these poems about Rhodora differentiate! Through a visual presentation, application, this program examines the (Rhododendron canadense), wild columbine evolution and motivations of carnivory (Aquilegia canadensis), and many more. herbarium specimens, and a field excursion, as an adaptation, distinguishing You will develop the skills to observe parts you will learn many of the yellow-flowered characteristics across and within of a flower and the habitat, to remember members of the composite family in carnivorous and parasitic families, and plants by writing about them, and to use New England, the key field features that nineteenth-and twentieth-century poems explaining the role of parasitic plants in distinguish them, and the different habitats to discuss land use change and climate their environments. change. Bring a poem to share and gather in which they occur. Saturday, August 29, 2020, 1-3:30 p.m. inspiration to compose your own poem Sunday, August 9, 2020, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. South Shore Natural Science Center and Jacobs with a walk in the Garden. Nasami Farm, Whately, MA Pond Conservation Area, Norwell, MA Program Code: BOT3701 Saturday, August 1, 2020, 2-4 p.m. Program Code: BOT3022 Instructor: Irina Kadis, botanist Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Instructor: Ted Elliman, botanist and author of Program Code: ART2010 Wildflowers of New England Fee: $38 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) Instructor: Neela de Zoysa, botanist Fee: $90 (Members)/$108 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany Cosponsor: South Shore Natural Science Center

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Botany & Conservation Robin’s plantain fleabane (Erigeron pulchellus) 19

Asters and Goldenrods Asters (Asteraceae) and goldenrods (Solidago)are autumn showstoppers, but they can be a large and complex group to identify. Through a visual presentation, herbarium specimens, and field application, you will learn several species of asters and goldenrods, their habitats, and how to use identification keys to distinguish between visually similar species by subtle characteristics.

Saturday, September 19, 2020, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and Introduction to Sunday, September 20, 2020, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA, and field Grasses Identification site Join Lauren Brown, author of Grasses: Program Code: PDW4400 An Identification Guide, as she shares Instructor: Ted Elliman, botanist and author of information about the beautiful and Wildflowers of New England abundant grasses in Connecticut. Through Fee: $136 (Members)/$162 (Nonmembers) classroom and field study, you will learn Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Botany vocabulary used for grasses and practice identifying several common native 20 New England grasses using clear key characteristics.

Saturday, September 26, 2020, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Peabody Musuem of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT Program Code: BOT3523 Instructor: Lauren Brown, author of Weeds and Wildflowers in Winter, Grasses: An Identification Guide, and Grasses, Sedges, Rushes: An Identification Guide Fee: $60 (Members)/$72 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: Basic Cosponsor: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University

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Field Studies Harvey Butler Rhododendron (Cypripedium reginae) and acres of boreal spruce/fir forest dotted with beaver ponds Native Plant Trust sanctuary sites Sanctuary and unique wetlands. Come explore Native Plant Trust’s five- Plainfield Sanctuary trout lily (Erythronium americanum), and acre stand of great laurel (Rhododendron Saturday, July 25, 2020, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. purple trillium (Trillium erectum). Please maximum), the largest and northernmost Lyman, NH Join us for an off-trail adventure into a note, this moderate hike is intended for stand known in the region. We will discover Program Code: FDT4021 mixed northern hardwood-hemlock forest experienced hikers. the multitude of native plant gems on the Instructor: TBD full of spring ephemerals on Native Plant rest of our 30-acre property, from yellow Fee: $40 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) Trust’s 86-acre sanctuary adjacent to the Saturday, May 9, 2020, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. blue-bead lily (Clintonia borealis) to painted Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany Connecticut River in New Hampshire. Spot Vassalboro, ME trillium (Trillium undulatum) and from Cosponsor: New Hampshire Audubon favorites such as bloodroot (Sanguinaria Program Code: FDT9001 hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) to northern canadensis) and red columbine (Aquilegia Instructor : Bud Sechler, Ecological Programs white cedar (Thuja occidentalis). canadensis) and discover rare plants such Coordinator, Native Plant Trust as large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia Fee: $40 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) Sunday, July 19, 2020, 9:30 a.m.- 12 p.m. Robert P. Tristram Coffin grandiflora), and green-dragon (Arisaema Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany Springvale, ME Wild Flower Sanctuary Program Code dracontium). The field study also addresses : FDT9002 This sanctuary is one of seven owned by common invasives that threaten native Instructor: Heather McCargo, executive director, Native Plant Trust. Hilly woods, a brook, Wild Seed Project plants and approaches for combatting them. Eshqua Bog and 1,256 feet of sandy shore and tidal Please note, this moderate hike is intended Fee: $33 (Members)/$38 (Nonmembers) Join Bud Sechler, staff Ecological Programs marsh make up the 177-acre area, which for experienced hikers. Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany Coordinator, for a boardwalk stroll through borders lovely Merrymeeting Bay, well- Cosponsor: Wild Seed Project known for its diversity of waterfowl. Hike Saturday, May 2, 2020, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Native Plant Trust’s 40-acre fen to view Plainfield, NH our renowned showcase of showy lady’s- the mixed hardwood-conifer forest trails Program Code: FDT3017 slipper (Cypripedium reginae) and yellow along the east side of the bay to a large, Hobbs Fern Sanctuary old stand of bigtooth aspen (Populus Instructor: TBD lady’s-slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum). grandidentata) and fascinating freshwater Fee: $40 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) Experience the orchids at their peak and Come explore Native Plant Trust’s 240-acre property that boasts more than 40 varieties estuary plants that are limited to this rare Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany learn about efforts to protect their wetland of ferns, including several rare species and habitat type. Cosponsor: New Hampshire Audubon habitat from encroaching invasive plants from the forest. We will also enjoy the unusual wood fern hybrids. An enriched Sunday, September 20, 2020, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. surrounding red maple-tamarack swamp slope and ledge area host an abundance of Woolwich, ME maidenhair fern (Adiantum), bulblet fern Annie Sturgis Sanctuary and the northern hardwood forest. Program Code: FDT8029 (Cystopteris bulbifera), silvery glade fern Instructor: Bud Sechler, Ecological Programs Friday, June 5, 2020, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Join Bud Sechler, Ecological Programs (Deparia acrostichoides), as well as hepatica Coordinator, Native Plant Trust Hartland, VT Coordinator, for a hike through Native (Hepatica), bloodroot (Sanguinaria Fee: $40 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) Program Code Plant Trust’s 40-acre tract along the : FDT5007 canadensis), and spring beauty (Claytonia). Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany Instructor: Bud Sechler, Ecological Programs Kennebec River in Maine. Descend the Other features include wood fern swamp Coordinator, Native Plant Trust gully into a woodland to visit a variety of (Dryopteris cristata), with multiple species Fee: $40 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) lime-loving plants, including wild ginger of Pyrola and showy lady’s-slipper Certificate (Asarum canadense, extremely rare in : Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany Maine), bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis),

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Field Studies Ecology of Mount Tom Plants of Black Gum Swamp

21 Mount Tom is an iconic traprock ridge Come explore a series of ancient wetlands nestled between Easthampton and with rare old-growth black gum (Nyssa Wildflowers of Holyoke. Learn about this upland forest’s sylvatica) trees and chestnut (Castanea) Macomber Woods distinctive geology, glacial history, and stumps and learn how to identify historical rare plant communities on a hike to the disturbances in the landscape. Though Macomber Woods is an oasis with an summit. Please note, this challenging hike the group stays on trails, muddy feet are a upland forest, a babbling brook, and is intended for experienced hikers. distinct possibility! wooded wetlands. The exceptional stonework and century-old wisteria vines Saturday, May 16, 2020, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, June 20, 2020, 1-4 p.m. Easthampton, MA Vernon, VT and rhododendrons have flourished from Program Code Program Code decades without human interference. : FDT2072 : FDT5020 Saunter through the woodland and Instructor: Yoni Glogower, urban forester, MA Instructor: Yoni Glogower, urban forester, MA Department of Conservation and Recreation Department of Conservation and Recreation discover spring wildflowers in bloom, Fee: $53 (Members)/$60 (Nonmembers) Fee: $40 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) including Indian cucumber root Certificate Certificate (Medeola virginiana), pink lady’s-slipper : Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany : Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany (Cypripedium acaule) and jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum). Rhodora of Ponemah Bog Wetland Ecology Saturday, May 9, 2020, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Framingham, MA Ponemah Bog, a three-acre kettle-hole Explore different wetlands and their plant pond encircled by a floating mass of compositions as we wander through the Program Code: FDT1006 sphagnum moss, is the centerpiece of a muddy and mossy trails of East Leverett Instructor: Roland Boutwell, naturalist 75-acre sanctuary. It is easily accessible Meadow. We will learn to identify wetland Fee: $60 (Members)/$72 (Nonmembers) Wild Edibles by a boardwalk that includes three spur plants and different types of wetlands, and Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany trails to three viewing platforms. On discuss the importance of wetland ecology. Cosponsor Join wild plants expert Russ Cohen for a : Massachusetts Association of this field study, you will learn to identify We may also see aquatic invertebrates. Conservation Commissions walk through Acton Arboretum, where wetland species, including a bog orchid he highlights more than 80 species of Sunday, June 28, 2020, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. 22 (Plantathera) and insectivorous plant edibles. You will discover new favorite Leverett, MA species. native edibles, tools to identify them, and Program Code: FDT8055 appropriate ways to utilize them in your Saturday, May 16, 2020, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Instructor: George LoCascio, naturalist own landscapes. Amherst, NH Fee: $40 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) Program Code : FDT1092 Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 1-4 p.m. Instructor: Roland Boutwell, naturalist Acton, MA CoSponsor: Massachusetts Association of Fee: $53 (Members)/$60 (Nonmembers) Conservation Commissions Program Code: HDT4010 Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany Instructor: Russ Cohen, author of Wild Plants I Have Known…and Eaten Cosponsor: New Hampshire Audubon Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Field: all certificates

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Field Studies Wetland Shrubs Flora of Eastern Maine With its varied wetland habitats, Philbrick- We will study some of the iconic plant Cricenti Quaking Bog is an excellent field species of Acadia National Park, building site for examining shrubs that grow in and experiences, case studies, and management our identification skills in the field. This Sandplain Grasslands around wetlands. We will explore 15 to 20 techniques. field study will be flexible according to native New England wetland shrubs, plus a Sandplain grasslands are exemplary plant student interests and is appropriate for all few that grow in higher and drier habitats. biodiversity hotspots in the northeast, Sunday, July 12, 2020, 1-3 p.m. learning levels. Please note, this moderate and Massachusetts has many of the best Crane Wildlife Management Area, Falmouth, MA Sunday, July 26, 2020, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. hike is intended for experienced hikers. remaining examples of these delightful Program Code: FDT9010 Philbrick-Cricenti Quaking Bog, New London, NH ecosystems. These grasslands require Instructor: Christopher Neill, senior scientist, Saturday, August 8, 2020, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Program Code careful management, whether they are Woods Hole Research Center : FDT4045 Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park, Winter Harbor, ME privately owned or owned and protected Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Instructor: Roland Boutwell, naturalist Program Code: FDT8047 by conservation organizations. Ecologist Certificate: Field: Advanced, Botany Fee: $53 (Members)/$60 (Nonmembers) Instructor: Jill Weber, botanist Christopher Neill will lead a walk Cosponsor: Woods Hole Research Center Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany Fee: $66 (Members)/$75 (Nonmembers) through Cape Cod’s largest sandplain Cosponsor: New Hampshire Audubon grassland, located at the Crane Wildlife Cosponsor: Maine Audubon Management Area, a botanically rich and Botany of the visually stunning site. Crane WMA is a New Hampshire Coastline Coonamessett Bog prominent example of successful efforts Botany in the Salt Marsh Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge is Restoring a river to its natural flow and to protect and expand sandplain grassland Barnstable Great Marsh is an integral part located along the eastern shore of New fish passage is a complex process after with management by fire, mowing, and decades of human modification. Along the of the ecologically significant 3,800-acre Hampshire’s Great Bay in the town of mechanical clearing of woody vegetation. Coonamessett River, we will appreciate Sandy Neck salt marsh and barrier beach Newington. The refuge protects more Neill will detail his recent efforts to create a the 2.2 miles of free-flowing streams, system. Join Director of Conservation than 1,000 acres along the seacoast for Sandplain Grassland Network of grassland witness the improved access for herring Michael Piantedosi to explore this critical migratory birds and other wildlife. One managers and researchers to share to spawning habitat at Coonamessett coastal ecosystem and learn about its of the longest stretches of undeveloped Pond, and discuss the restoration of 56 resident flora. shoreline along the bay, it consists of mud acres of former cranberry bogs to natural flats, salt- and freshwater marshes, swamps, wetlands using seeds collected by Native Saturday, September 12, 2020, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. 23 ponds, streams, woodlands, and fields. Plant Trust. Join us as we revel in the flora Barnstable Great Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary, Join Director of Conservation Michael of Coonamessett Lower Bog and study Barnstable, MA Piantedosi as we explore this diverse refuge the process of using native plant seeds to Program Code: FDT8041 and learn about its dynamic flora. restore wildlife habitat. Instructor: Michael Piantedosi, Director of Conservation, Native Plant Trust Saturday, August 8, 2020, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, July 18, 2020, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Newington, Falmouth, MA Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany NH Program Code: FDT8056 Program Code: FDT8045 Instructor: Michael Piantedosi, Director of Instructor: Michael Piantedosi, Director of Conservation, Native Plant Trust Conservation, Native Plant Trust Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) Fee: $40 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany

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Field Studies Gray’s sedge (Carex grayi)

Habitats of the Botany of the Connecticut Coast Schoodic Peninsula Explore the special coastal habitats of the 900-acre Hammonasset Beach State Park We will explore an exciting variety of and Natural Area Preserve to learn the flora habitats on the breathtaking Schoodic and ecology of tidal marsh, dune, and near- Peninsula, such as maritime spruce- shore upland habitats. Participants also fir, coastal headland, salt marsh, and visit a tidal marsh restoration site within Jack pine-broom crowberry woodland. the park. Botanical highlights on this field study Sunday, September 13, 2020, 12:30-3:30 p.m. include coastal communities and rare arctic Hammonasset Beach State Park, Madison, CT plant species that reach their southern Program Code: FDT8050 range limit in this area. Please note, this Instructor: Lori Benoit, Ph.D., wetland scientist and moderate hike is intended for experienced environmental consultant hikers. Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany Saturday, September 12, 2020, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park, Winter Harbor, ME Program Code: FDT9012 LaPlatte River Marsh Instructor: Jill Weber, botanist Join us at the LaPlatte River mouth to learn Fee: $66 (Members)/$75 (Nonmembers) what makes its wetlands one of just eight Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany wetland complexes in Vermont with Class I wetland status. We will explore a diversity Cosponsor : Maine Audubon of floodplain forests, sand beaches, marshes, and rich uplands. LaPlatte River Marsh Natural Area is filled with numerous 24 rare and unusual wetland species, including plants in the Beggar-ticks genus (Bidens) and in the sedge family (Cyperaceae).

Friday, September 25, 2020, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. LaPlatte River Marsh, Shelburne, VT Program Code: FDT9011 Instructor: Aaron Marcus, assistant botanist, Vermont Fish & Wildlife Service Fee: $53 (Members)/$60 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Field: Basic and Advanced, Botany Cosponsor: North Branch Nature Center

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Certificate Program

Since 1987, Native Plant Trust has The Basic Certificate track familiarizes students with The Advanced Certificate tracks encourage cultivated one of the most comprehensive the plants of New England, emphasizing structures, students to apply their plant knowledge in a Botany skills, and processes. We highly recommend + Conservation specialty or a Horticulture + Design Native Plant Studies programs in the beginning with the Foundations courses, which specialty. To enter an Advanced track, students country. Our new, updated curriculum, introduce students to native plant vocabulary, must complete the Basic Certificate or have launching in February 2020, sets a morphology, physiology, ecological context, enough experience to qualify for a Basic Certificate. clear path for students to build on the evolution, and relationships. This knowledge is We recommend beginning with the Foundations applied to following courses. All Basic Certificate courses, which provide context for the field or fundamentals of the field in interactive core courses are now offered every semester. landscape application. All Advanced core courses ways, while maintaining program flexibility are offered every year. and increasing frequency of offerings. The Basic: new curriculum also guides students to Advanced Botany + Conservation: Advanced Horticulture + Design create products over the course of the Foundations: certificate, so they may have final portfolios Foundations: Foundations: Plant Form and Function to demonstrate the topics they are qualified Conservation Biology Landscape for Life to address in whatever context they choose. Plant Ecology New England Plant Communities History and Principles of Landscape In addition, for the first time, we are also Plant Families offering the Basic Certificate Foundations Plant Systematics Design core courses in an online format. (See our Plants and Their Habitats: Horticultural Techniques Online Learning section). Field Conservation: Wildflowers of New England Field Identification Techniques Building Your Plant Palette: Whether you are interested in taking Native New England Shrubs Botanical Inventory Methods and Residential Landscape Design classes for fun, to add breadth and depth Framework Trees of New England to your existing knowledge and skills, or Techniques Native Herbaceous Plant Materials: to advance your career, our self-paced Specialty: Wetland Identification and Delineation Early Season certificate programs in Native Plant Studies Native Herbaceous Plant Materials: Understanding and Managing Soils Seed Conservation offer a unique opportunity to learn about Late Season the region’s flora. Students enrolled in Two Electives (one Botany, one Specialty: Native Woody Plant Materials our certificate programs learn to identify, Horticulture) cultivate, and conserve native New England Invasive Plants: Identification, Specialty: plants while gaining a greater appreciation Application: Documentation, and Control for their ecological importance. Students Propagation Two Studies (one Field, one Landscape) Two Botany Electives also actively participate in ongoing public Two Horticulture Electives Community Service: 15 hours and private efforts to preserve and restore Application: native New England flora. Final Portfolio Two Field Studies Application: Enrollment in the Certificate Program is Community Service Leadership Project: Two Landscape Studies not required to register for a certificate 25 hours Community Service Leadership Project: core course. However, please be aware Final Portfolio 25 hours that courses are designed for the level of Final Portfolio certificate students.

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Certificate Courses Wildflowers of New England Framework Trees of New England Basic Core This course provides a comprehensive 25 introduction to spring-blooming native Forests are a dominant feature of the New plants, including their identification, England landscape. This course covers Plant Form and Function ecology, and conservation. We explore New the history, changes in composition, and This introduction to botany covers the England’s native plants in a field setting ecology of the region’s forest from the Ice basics of plant anatomy and physiology and at Garden in the Woods by studying key Age through European settlement. We addresses the fundamentals of the plant identification features of flowers, leaves, kingdom. We will take a microscopic look and stems, family characteristics, growth explore the impact of past natural and at roots, stems, leaves, and their component patterns, pollinators, seed dispersers, and human disturbances on the landscape tissues. We will also examine flowers, habitats. You will learn basic botanical and learn how current forestry practices fruits, and seeds and discuss pollination, shape forest communities. You will learn fertilization, dispersal, and germination, skills and tools to identify wildflowers, with an emphasis on the relationship pollination and coevolution of flower to identify native trees, their habitats, and between plant form and function. structure and design, habitats and ecology, their communities. and conservation concerns. Offered exclusively online this semester Friday, July 10 and Saturday, July 11, 2020, Wednesdays, May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2020, 12:30-3:30 p.m. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Certificate: Basic Core Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Nasami Farm, Whately, MA, and field sites Program Code: BOT3000 Program Code: BOT3200 Instructor: Neela De Zoysa, botanist Instructor: Yoni Glogower, urban forester, MA Plant Ecology Department of Conservation and Recreation Fee: $216 (Members)/$264 (Nonmembers) This overview of plant ecology addresses Fee: $252 (Members)/$308 (Nonmembers) Certificate the distribution and abundance of plants : Basic Core Certificate: Basic Core and their interactions with other organisms and the physical environment. We will Plant Families explore factors that affect plants as What are the underlying evolutionary Native New England Shrubs individuals, populations, and communities, relationships and patterns in plants? In Understanding and Shrubs vary widely in size, shape, color, such as life history, resource use, this class, we use both microscopic and Managing Soils competition, and animal-plant interactions field investigation to decipher the clues to bark, flower, and fruit. This course (e.g., pollination, dispersal, herbivory). familial relationships and classifications introduces you to 50 native New England This one-day intensive explores the biotic of the region’s plants. You will learn shrub species, emphasizing plant and abiotic components that create native Wednesdays, July 15, 22, 2020, botanical terms to describe plants and soils and explains how these factors inform 10:20 a.m.-4:30 p.m. identification, family characteristics, and flowers, the evolutionary/phylogenetic Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA, historical plant uses. local flora. We will take a closer look at soil basis for classification, and the identifying and field sites structure and soil biology in miniature lab characteristics for several major plant Tuesdays, June 2, 9, 16, 2020, 6:30-8:45 p.m. and Program Code: BOT1003 experiments. families common to New England. Sundays, June 7, 14, 2020, 9 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. Instructor: Jennifer McCarthy, division chief Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA, Friday, September 4, 2020, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (emerita), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Thursdays, June 11, 18, 25, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and field sites Nasami Farm, Whately, MA England District Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Program Code : BOT3300 Program Code: HOR3604 Fee: $216 (Members)/$264 (Nonmembers) Program Code: BOT2260 Instructor : Roland Boutwell, naturalist Instructor: Alexis Doshas, Propagator and Facilities Certificate: Basic Core Instructor: Neela De Zoysa, botanist Fee: $270 (Members)/$330 (Nonmembers) Coordinator, Nasami Farm, Native Plant Trust Fee: $216 (Members)/$264 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Basic Core Fee: $108 (Members)/$132 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Basic Core Certificate: Basic Core

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Advanced Core, Horticulture & Design

Certificate Courses Horticultural Techniques Native Herbaceous Plant Good horticultural practices form the Materials: Early Season Advanced Core, Botany & Conservation backbone of any successful garden, and Over the course of the spring, we examine understanding how to apply these practices a wide variety of native plants for gardens Program Code New England Plant Communities : BOT2000 is the first step toward becoming a and discuss each plant’s cultural and habitat Instructor: Leslie Duthie, botanist horticulturist. We will discuss how to select For a relatively small region, New England needs as well as its importance to wildlife. Fee the right plant for the right place and how We will address 90 species, along with tips boasts an astonishing variety of plant : $216 (Members)/$264 (Nonmembers) to plant and care for native plants. You will for growing these species. You will learn to Certificate: Advanced Core, Botany communities, ranging from freshwater and learn proper techniques for transplanting, identify native plants in the New England tidal wetlands to coastal dunes, grasslands, preparing soil, mulching, watering, and gardening palette, become familiar with forests, and montane. We study the pruning as well as maintaining, winterizing, each plant’s appropriate use, and identify and preparing the garden for the next dominant canopy, structure, range, and Botanical Inventory each plant’s role in the ecosystem to attract growing season. pollinators and other wildlife. characteristic species of each community Methods and Techniques and then apply this knowledge in the This one-day intensive begins by covering Tuesdays, September 15, 22, 2020, 1-3 p.m. Thursdays, April 23, May 7, 21, June 4, 2020, Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA field. You will learn how soil, topography, the fundamentals of field preparation, 12:30-3 p.m. Program Code: HOR3600 moisture, geological conditions, glaciation, Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA including the use of field guides, aerial Instructor: Horticultural staff, Native Plant Trust and historical use affect the vegetation of Program Code: HOR1000 photography, GIS (geographic information Fee: $72 (Members)/$88 (Nonmembers) each community. Instructor: Leslie Duthie, botanist system) resources, sampling strategies, and Certificate: Advanced Core, Horticulture Fee: $180 (Members)/$220 (Nonmembers) preparation of field data forms. Next, we Saturdays, June 13, 20, 2020, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Certificate: Advanced Core, Horticulture Nasami Farm, Whately, MA, and field sites will conduct an extensive field inventory Program Code: BOT4000 of the flora on nearby conservation land, Residential Landscape Design identifying and recording the species Instructor: Lori Benoit, Ph.D., wetland scientist and This multi-session course teaches and Native Herbaceous Plant environmental consultant we encounter and putting into practice applies the landscape design process in Materials: Late Season Fee: $216 (Members)/$264 (Nonmembers) the methods discussed. You will learn personal spaces. Our workshop sessions Certificate: Advanced Core, Botany botanical survey approaches and methods focus on design methods using site analysis Over the course of the mid to late summer, techniques and schematic design tools. we will examine a wide variety of native Cosponsor: Massachusetts Association of for cataloguing the vascular plants on We will first address overarching design plants for gardens and discuss each plant’s Conservation Commissions conservation land. concepts and then discuss criteria for plant cultural and habitat needs as well as its Saturday, June 27, 2020, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. choice and placements within that context. importance to wildlife. We will address and Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA You will learn to create and implement base provide tips for growing 80 species. You maps, site analysis, concepts and elements, will learn to identify native plants in the Field Identification Techniques Program Code: BOT2050 spatial relationships, plant palettes, client New England gardening palette, become Equip yourself with the skills and confidence Instructor: Ted Elliman, botanist and author of preferences, and communication of your familiar with each plant’s appropriate you need to identify native plants in Wildflowers of New England own design final product. use, and study each plant’s role in the the field. We will learn how to use field Fee: $126 (Members)/$154 (Nonmembers) ecosystem in terms of attracting pollinators Thursdays, April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 2020, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. guides and professional keys, observe Certificate: Advanced Core, Botany and other wildlife. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME floral structures, recognize reliable family Cosponsor : Massachusetts Association of Program Code: HOR3999 Thursdays, July 30 and August 27, 2020, characteristics, and become familiar with Conservation Commissions Instructor: Cheryl Salatino, landscape designer, 12:30 p.m.-3 p.m. botanical Latin. Dancing Shadows Garden Design and MA- Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA certified horticulturist Program Code: HOR1050 Mondays, May 18, June 1, 8, 2020, Fee : $260 (Members)/$320 (Nonmembers) Instructor 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. : Leslie Duthie, botanist Certificate: Advanced Core, Horticulture Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Fee: $90 (Members)/$110 (Nonmembers) Cosponsor: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Certificate: Advanced Core, Horticulture

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28 Horticulture & Design Grafting Woody Plants: Fruit Trees 26 Grafting is the technique of joining parts Reading Landscapes: of separate plants in such a manner that Place as Creation and Reflection they unite and continue their growth as one. Learn basic principles of grafting Join Courtney Allen, landscape historian with an overview of different types of and Director of Public Programs at Native dormant-season grafts. Arnold Arboretum Plant Trust, for a journey to discover propagator Sean Halloran will provide the layers of our relationships to our step-by-step instructions so that you can surroundings. Together, we delve into practice both cleft and side veneer grafts why and how we define and understand using apple root stock. Simple aftercare place through the lenses of history, design, will be required until the graft can be experience, and memory. This talk is a Seeing is Believing: A Visual planted out in the spring. Registrants will primer on how to “read” landscapes in our need to sign an Assumption of Risk and Garden Design Workshop daily lives, and what those landscapes can Release in order to participate in this class. reveal about us. Many of us get stuck when we want to create something new in the landscape. Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 20, 2020, 1:30-3 p.m. Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston, Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Because we live in a three-dimensional MA world, we can’t visualize images drawn Program Code: LEC2001 Program Code: HOR3077 on paper. This collaborative, hands-on Instructor: Courtney Allen, landscape historian and Instructor: Sean Halloran, plant propagator, Arnold Director of Public Programs, Native Plant Trust workshop offers a different approach Arboretum Winter Pruning Fee: $23 (Members)/$27 (Nonmembers) to exploring space, views, light, and Fee: $48 (Members)/$58 (Nonmembers) Proper pruning of trees and shrubs plant selection. Fun, fast, and free-form Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, improves their health and structure Horticulture strategies are used to stimulate the Horticulture while enhancing their appearance in the imagination. Come to get unstuck. Cosponsor: Arnold Arboretum of Harvard landscape. Gain hands-on experience and 27 University learn basic pruning principles, including Saturday, February 22, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA how to make proper cuts, when to prune

Program Code: HOR4047 29 different species, and how to select and Instructor: Cheryl Salatino, landscape designer, maintain tools. Dancing Shadows Garden Design, and MA Thursday, February 27, 2020, 1-3 p.m. certified horticulturist Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Fee: $68 (Members)/$81 (Nonmembers) Program Code: HOR1213 Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Instructor Horticulture : Anna Fialkoff, Senior Horticulturist, Native Plant Trust Cosponsor: Ecological Landscape Alliance Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: Basic

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32 Horticulture & Design A Holistic Guide for the Modern Land Steward

30 Based on decades of landscape project Cultivating Your Plant experience, this land care guide will address Communities regenerative design, green infrastructure, resilient landscapes, adaptive strategies, and Your backyard has a unique plant building your own toolbox and rule book. community based on the ecology and You will reconnect with your land practices geology of the area. In this three-part and their impact. Appropriate for both workshop, learn to identify appropriate professional and personal development. native plants and groupings for your site and create a personalized plant palette Saturday, March 21, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and design that is beautiful and enhances Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA biodiversity. Leave the workshop inspired Program Code: HOR8029 to integrate science and art in your garden. Instructor: Trevor Smith, lead designer, Land Escapes Fee: $60 (Members)/$72 (Nonmembers) Fridays, February 28, March 6, 13, 2020, 1-4 p.m. Site Preparation for Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Landscape Transformation Horticulture Program Code: HOR3607 Cosponsor: Ecological Landscape Alliance Instructor: Staci Jasin, landscape designer Many people consider reducing lawns, converting hayfields, cleaning out weed Fee: $135 (Members)/$162 (Nonmembers) Navigating Public Design, Part 2 Certificate: Elective: all certificates patches, and otherwise transforming landscapes into pollinator gardens Community spaces can be impactful and Cosponsor: Ecological Landscape Alliance 33 or meadows with native plants. Site rewarding, but they require a different preparation is critical, but it is often mindset and approach from singular client-designer projects. In this half-day 31 overlooked in the quest for a finished appearance. This primer covers planning, workshop, we will build on the stakeholder timelines, and online sources of site collaboration processes to focus on vision- information. You will also learn some tips driven partnerships and fundraising. We on how to do critical chores, including a will also address design thinking, and the comparison of weed removal methods. obtsacles to and solutions for creating outdoor spaces of meaning and beauty. Friday, March 20, 2020, 1:30-4 p.m. Nasami Farm, Whately, MA Thursday, April 2, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Program Code: HOR8028 Program Code: HOR8031 Instructor: Kathy Connolly, landscape designer, Speaking of Landscapes, LLC Instructor: Staci Jasin, landscape designer Fee Fee: $38 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) : $60 (Members)/$72 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: Advanced, Horticulture Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Horticulture Cosponsor: Ecological Landscape Alliance

30 Nantucket serviceberry 31 Running groundsel NativePlantTrust.org/education 32 Labrador tea 33 Idea Garden at 40 (Amelanchier nantucketensis) (Packera obovata) (Rhododendron groenlandicum) Garden in the Woods 41 Native Plant Programs Spring & Summer 2020

36 Horticulture & Design Nature-Based Design for Professionals

34 Renowned landscape designer Edwina Von Meadows 1-2-3 Gal will present a review of nature-based design and its role in client engagement Learn how native plant meadow-making toward important environmental action. differs from other forms of horticulture. Edwina will address fundamentals using We will discuss site selection, community examples from her projects and her own and social factors, site preparation, plant garden. She will also introduce her new selection, planting, and what to expect in initiative: “Two Thirds for the Birds” calls years 1, 2, and 3. This one-day intensive on the landscape profession to plant native is appropriate for all learning levels, and plants and to use more ecologically sound extensive resource material is provided. management methods. This presentation The Role of Native Plant will be followed by a walk through the Friday, April 3, 2020, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cultivars in Landscape Design Nasami Farm, Whately, MA surrounding landscape for a group and Habitat Restoration Program Code: HOR8001 discussion about nature-based design Instructor: Kathy Connolly, landscape designer, Native plant species are often challenges and solutions. Tips and Techniques for Speaking of Landscapes, LLC recommended to provide optimal foraging Thursday, April 16, 2020, 1-4 p.m. Healthy Seedling Starts Fee: $90 (Members)/$108 (Nonmembers) and nesting habitats for pollinators, birds, New Canaan Nature Center, New Canaan, CT Healthy plants and gardens begin with Certificate: Elective: Advanced, Horticulture and other wildlife. The growing demand for Program Code: HOR8033 healthy seedlings. Come learn some basic native plants, coupled with the horticulture Instructor: Edwina Von Gal, landscape designer yet critical propagation techniques for industry’s desire for plants with unique 35 and founder, Perfect Earth Project successful seedling starts. We begin with a characteristics, has led to the increased Fee: $54 (Members)/$66 (Nonmembers) brief overview of propagation terminology breeding and availability of native cultivars Certificate: Elective: Advanced, Horticulture and science and continue in the or “nativars.” But do native cultivars Cosponsor: New Canaan Nature Center greenhouse with hands-on demonstrations provide the same valuable habitat as the and experience. Plan to get your hands straight native species? Dr. Annie White dirty and leave with some healthy native will share her field research on this topic seedling starts! and discuss the complex benefits and 37 challenges of using both native species and Saturday, April 18, 2020, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. native cultivars in landscape design. Nasami Farm, Whately, MA Program Code: HOR3132 Friday, April 10, 2020, 1-2 p.m. Instructor: Alexis Doshas, Propagator and Facilities University of Vermont, Burlington, VT Coordinator, Nasami Farm, Native Plant Trust Program Code: HOR1091 Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) Instructor: Annie White, lecturer, University of Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Vermont Horticulture Fee: $13 (Members)/$15 (Nonmembers) Cosponsor: Ecological Landscape Alliance Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Horticulture

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Horticulture & Design Native Plant Design Native Plants for Native Birds for Human Health Explore diverse habitats in southern Native plants have great applications to Connecticut and learn to identify plants Building the Green Industry Friday, May 15, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. human health. Using a multi-perspective and the birds that depend on them. Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA lens, this session focuses on therapeutic Through classroom discussion and field Based on his article, “Sus-tain-a-bil-i-ty: Program Code: HOR4224 landscape research, design principles, and application, we will address ways to Discovering the True Definition, Defining Instructor: Staci Jasin, landscape designer specific plant properties. Come learn the create landscapes with both aesthetic and the New Paradigm,” Trevor Smith shares his Fee: $60 (Members)/$72 (Nonmembers) theories behind healing landscapes and ecological value to attract wildlife. The award-winning approach to collaborations, Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, elements of healing gardens that you can spring session focuses on flowers, shrubs, community outreach, and professional Horticulture integrate into your own projects. We will and trees as nectar and insect sources training as a map to secure the green Cosponsor: Ecological Landscape Alliance also address native plants’ edible and for birds; the fall session concentrates on infrastructure we need and to build a medicinal benefits, as well as how native berry-producing shrubs and trees and on green industry workforce. You will learn plant design enhances habitat and a wider seed-producing perennials and annuals. opportunities, challenges, and strategies to Nature-Based Design human health system. guide your own projects in the green industry. Friday, May 22, 2020, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. for Landowners Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. New Canaan Nature Center, New Canaan, CT Thursday, April 30, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Renowned landscape designer Edwina Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Program Code: HOR4243 Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Von Gal will present an introduction to the Program Code: HOR5021 Instructor: Frank Gallo, environmental educator Program Code: HOR8030 and bird expert basic principles of nature-based design, Instructor: Staci Jasin, landscape designer Instructor: Trevor Smith, lead designer, Land Fee: $63 (Members)/$77 (Nonmembers) Fee: $60 (Members)/$72 (Nonmembers) Escapes including examples from her projects and Certificate: Elective: all certificates her own garden. This presentation will be Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) followed by a walk through the surrounding Horticulture Cosponsor: New Canaan Nature Center Certificate: Elective: Advanced, Horticulture landscape for on-site application of these Cosponsor: Ecological Landscape Alliance 38 principles. Edwina will also introduce her Thursday, October 8, 2020, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. new initiative: “Two Thirds For the Birds” New Canaan Nature Center, New Canaan, CT challenges all gardeners to plant more Program Code: HOR4244 Eco-restorative Garden Design natives, to use more ecologically sound Instructor: Frank Gallo, environmental educator What does it take to create a conservation management methods, and to prevent and bird expert and restoration landscape project in your further loss of wildlife. Fee: $63 (Members)/$77 (Nonmembers) own backyard? In this half-day workshop, Certificate: Elective: all certificates Saturday, May 16, 2020, 1-4 p.m. we will explore the principles and specific Cosponsor: New Canaan Nature Center New Canaan Nature Center, New Canaan, CT steps to keep you engaged and confident Program Code: HOR8034 in small-scale projects. You will learn tips, Instructor: Edwina Von Gal, landscape designer techniques, and a well-defined process for and founder, Perfect Earth Project transforming a small plot land to a native Fee: $54 (Members)/$66 (Nonmembers) plant landscape. Topics cover everything Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, from removing invasives to analyzing the Horticulture site, conserving resources, and enhancing Cosponsor: New Canaan Nature Center aesthetics and wildlife habitat.

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41 Horticulture & Design Writing in the Garden Writers from Emily Dickinson to Edith Wharton and Eudora Welty have found 39 their gardens to be wellsprings of sensory Our Future with Water: experience that stimulated their writing. Stormwater Management In this two-hour workshop, visit the fields Strategies and designed gardens at Nasami Farm and write spontaneously in response to Based on decades of experience, this prompts—verbal or visual cues provided stormwater management guide will address by the workshop leader—inspired by the surroundings. No previous writing rain harvesting, permeable pavements, experience required. Please bring a green roofs, bioswales and rain gardens, notebook, pen or pencil, and water. Dress and tree planting. You will learn simple for the weather. methods to capture and reuse stormwater Sunday, May 31, 2020, 1-3 p.m. and to slow stormwater runoff for the Nasami Farm, Whately, MA healthiest plants and landscapes. Program Code: ART2009

Friday, May 29, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Instructor: Jane Roy Brown, Writer-Editor, Native Plant Trust Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Landscape Design for Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Program Code: HOR2001 Changing Site Conditions Instructor: Trevor Smith, lead designer, Land Right Plant, Right Place How do we embrace and work in alignment Escapes with landscape changes? Moreover, in what Join a workshop discussion of native plant Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) Container Gardening instances should we alter site conditions, selection, site assessment, and methods Certificate: Elective: Advanced, Horticulture Kick those petunias to the curb and create and how can we do so in a sustainable for choosing the right plant for the right a container that lasts the entire growing Cosponsor: Ecological Landscape Alliance place. Native plants offer a higher rate of way? In this workshop, we will learn how season as a show-stopping statement. Join to create specific garden design outcomes Anna Fialkoff to learn about all things success, as these plants are well-suited for 40 using shapes, sizes, and plant varieties. containers, watch a short container-making the Northeastern climate, soil conditions, This advanced design session includes a demonstration, then tour through the plant and environment. They require less sales area with Anna’s guidance to pick the set of hands-on exercises to challenge our maintenance and fertilizer, and permit most beautiful native plants and perfect more time to enjoy the garden. Native perspectives and to instill flexibility in our combinations for your own container approach. gardens. Compost and potting soil are plants also support a healthy ecosystem, provided; plants available for purchase. including pollinators and birds. Saturday, May 30, 2020, 1-4 p.m. Please bring your own container with a Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA drainage hole in the bottom. Friday, June 19, 2020, 1-3 p.m. Program Code: HOR8032 Nasami Farm, Whately, MA Friday, June 19, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Program Code Instructor: Cheryl Salatino, landscape designer, : PDW4001 Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Dancing Shadows Garden Design, and Instructor: Alexis Doshas, Propagator and Facilities Program Code Massachusetts certified horticulturist : HOR2952 Coordinator, Nasami Farm, Native Plant Trust Instructor: Anna Fialkoff, Senior Horticulturist, Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Native Plant Trust Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Horticulture Horticulture Certificate: Elective: Basic

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Horticulture & Design Native Species, Cultivars, Structural Plant Combinations and Selections: What’s the Memorable gardens and sustainable landscapes create a strong impact using 42 Difference? structural shrubs and trees. These essential “What is a native plant? How do I decide Managing Yards for beauties provide both ambiance and what is best for my garden and for the Plant Biodiversity organizing principles in the landscape. This environment?” This session will help you Suburban yards can support remarkably workshop explores which native plants work answer these frequently asked questions. high plant biodiversity. How homeowners well together, and how and why. Wet feet, You will learn about the nuances that dry shade, part sun – we will address the manage their yards largely determines distinguish cultivars from native plant options for a spectrum of site conditions. the plant composition of these expanding selections and the implications for the We will also take a walk to observe plant ecosystems. In this talk, Woods Hole garden and beyond. combinations and their growing conditions Research Center ecologist Christopher in a botanical garden setting. Neill describes findings from a one-of- Friday, July 17, 2020, 1-3 p.m. a-kind, nationwide research project that Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Saturday, July 18, 2020, 1-4 p.m. Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA examined the flora, soils, microclimates, Program Code: HOR1090 Program Code: HOR1532 insects, and birds in suburban yards Instructor: Uli Lorimer, Director of Horticulture, Instructor Native Plant Trust : Cheryl Salatino, landscape designer, in six metropolitan regions across the Dancing Shadows Garden Design, and United States, including Boston. Neill will Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Massachusetts certified horticulturist address how suburbanization does or does Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) Horticulture not homogenize residential landscapes Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Soil: The Solution Horticulture compared with the natural areas that Beneath Our Feet Cosponsor: Ecological Landscape Alliance surround these cities. He will connect this 43 new research to ways that homeowners can This session discusses soil history, soil modify their yards to support native plants composition, soil health, soil’s impact on and wildlife, and how Native Plant Trust plants’ health, soil’s role in sustainability Growing Ferns from Spore and Woods Hole Research Center’s new and combatting climate change, and more. Join us and learn easy methods for growing collaboration shares the research with a We will provide you with the information ferns from spores for your home. This broader audience. needed to use soil regeneration to capture class covers the morphology, life cycle, and carbon, reduce flooding and drought vegetative propagation of ferns. You will Saturday, June 20, 2020, 1-3 p.m. conditions, and grow healthy plants also learn spore collection and storage Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA techniques, and tips on how to identify resistant to disease and stress. Program Code: HOR4242 when spores are ripe. Before you know it, Instructor: Christopher Neill, senior scientist, Thursday, July 16, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. you’ll have your own sporophytes! Woods Hole Research Center Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Saturday, July 25, 2020, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Fee Program Code: HOR3803 : $23 (Members)/$27 (Nonmembers) Nasami Farm, Whately, MA Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Instructor: Trevor Smith, lead designer, Land Program Code: HOR3130 Escapes Horticulture Instructor: Leslie Duthie, botanist Cosponsor: Woods Hole Research Center Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) Fee: $38 (Members)/$45 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: all certificates Certificate: Elective: Basic and Advanced, Cosponsor: Ecological Landscape Alliance Horticulture

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Horticulture & Design Black bugbane (Actaea racemosa)

44 Shade Gardens: Embracing the Dark Side Creating lush and vibrant gardens in the shade tends to frustrate even the best gardeners. How do we infuse more color, adventure, and intrigue into those spaces? The mood, plants, and conditions act as our guide. This workshop blends site-specific assessment, design strategies, and plant options to help enliven your imagination. Bring your project to participate in a flash design collaboration.

Saturday, August 22, 2020, 1-4 p.m. Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Program Code: HOR1214 Instructor: Cheryl Salatino, landscape designer, Gardening for the Birds Dancing Shadows Garden Design, and Go beyond conventional bird feeders—use Massachusetts certified horticulturist native plants to turn your backyard into a Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) diverse, year-round avian habitat! Learn Certificate : Elective: Basic and Advanced, what the birds of New England actually Horticulture need from us and become part of the new, Cosponsor: Ecological Landscape Alliance natural approach to meeting their needs using planting aesthetics that embrace the 45 ecological value of native species, variety, and untidiness. This program addresses fruit-bearing shrubs, pollinators, and birds’ feeding and nesting preferences.

Friday, August 28, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Program Code: HOR4228 Instructor: Chris Leahy, Overseer, Native Plant Trust and Gerard A. Bertrand Chair of Natural History and Field Ornithology (Emeritus), Mass Audubon Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Certificate: Elective: all certificates

44 Bunchberry 45 Eastern bluebird by NativePlantTrust.org/Programs 50 (Chamaepericlymenum canadense) Deborah Bilfulco 51 Native Plant Programs Spring & Summer 2020

Landscape Studies New Takes on Historic Harvard University projects. We will then Landscapes: Blithewold visit Harvard’s Science and Engineering Center (SEC) to tour the newly installed Often, gardeners think they must choose landscape and see the implementation Fee between archetypes of the wild, native Tracing Conservation History: : $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) of the arboretum’s recommendations. plant garden and the formal, classic garden, Back Bay Certificate: Elective: all certificates STIMSON landscape architects will also but there are ecologically friendly ways Cosponsor: Historic New England discuss the role of the SEC landscape Who and what inspired current practices to create an elegant effect. Explore the project in the evolution of Harvard’s and perspectives in plant protection? Walk extensive grounds at historic Blithewold, campus and key design factors such the journey of the conservation movement which includes an arboretum, cutting Acton Arboretum Plant Walk as stormwater management, landform at the turn of the twentieth century. Learn garden, nursery, and meadow. On this orientation, and surface materials. about historic local efforts and their impact Gain insight into the plants and gardens tour, we will discuss the delicate balance on the national conversation right at Native of Acton Arboretum with Acton resident of values involved in managing a historic Friday, June 26, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Plant Trust’s birthplace. and Senior Horticulturist for Native Plant landscape and teach you different ways to Boston, MA Trust Anna Fialkoff. This local, volunteer- Program Code Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 1:30-3 p.m. replicate the visual sophistication of these : HDT5008 Boston, MA maintained Arboretum is a great place to gardens using native plants. Instructor: Glen Valentine and Joe Wahler, observe native and non-native plants in Principals, and Ryosuke Takahashi, Associate, Program Code: BOT5207 both cultivated and naturalized settings. Sunday, June 14, 2020, 1-3 p.m. STIMSON Instructor: Courtney Allen, landscape historian and Bristol, RI Fee: $60 (Members)/$72 (Nonmembers) Director of Public Programs, Native Plant Trust The Arboretum hosts a variety of habitats Program Code and gardens including a rain garden, a : HDT5005 Certificate: Landscape: Basic and Advanced, Fee: $23 (Members)/$27 (Nonmembers) wildflower woodland garden, mixed Instructor: Gail Read, horticulturist, Blithewold Horticulture Certificate: Landscape: all certificates perennial borders, specimen trees, and a Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Cosponsor: Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and Boston Society of Landscape bog, complete with boardwalks and trails Certificate: Landscape: Basic and Advanced, Architects for easy access. Horticulture Planning for Pollinators: Cosponsor: Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Casey Farm Saturday, June 6, 2020, 10-11:30 a.m. Arboretum Acton, MA Native pollinators and the local plant Program Code: HDT4011 biodiversity they promote are critical to 45 Instructor: Anna Fialkoff, Senior Horticulturist, food production. Utilizing the community Harvard Designs: Arboretum Native Plant Trust farm space at historic Casey Farm, this and Science Complex Fee: $23 (Members)/$27 (Nonmembers) interactive workshop guides you in how to Join us for a landscape study of two Certificate: Landscape: Basic and Advanced, choose native plants that encourage native Horticulture Harvard University landscapes—Arnold pollinators, thereby building healthier Arboretum and the Science and local ecosystems. The class is geared 44 Engineering Complex—designed by the toward edibles plots but can be applied to award-winning landscape architecture ornamental gardens as well. firm STIMSON. This program follows the landscape architecture process from Saturday, May 23, 2020, 1-3 p.m. Saunderstown, RI planning to implementation. We begin Program Code: HDT8052 at Arnold Arboretum, discussing the Arboretum’s role in selecting plants for all Instructor: Gary Casabona, RI State Biologist, USDA

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48 Landscape Studies Tracing Landscape History: Cambridge

46 What can the presence (or absence) of Gardening with Sandy Soils greenery teach about the layered history of a place? Together, we walk and analyze the When your garden site is full sun with changing landscape, guided by evidence sandy soil, you need plants that can thrive from significant trees in the neighborhood. in tough conditions. Dan Jaffe, author and The discussion addresses local inhabitants’ photographer of Native Plants for New relationship to native plants over England Gardens, leads a walk through generations. some of the driest sites at Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary and offers a sand-specific native Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 1:30-3:30 p.m. plant palette. Cambridge, MA Program Code: HDT8050 Friday, July 24, 2020, 1-3 p.m. Upper Cape Landscapes Instructor: Courtney Allen, landscape historian and Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary, Monson, MA Creating Fall Color Join landscape architects from award- Director of Public Programs, Native Plant Trust Program Code: HDT1502 winning STIMSON for a landscape Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) New England native flora boasts amazing Instructor: Dan Jaffe, horticulturist, Norcross study of their Falmouth public design Certificate: Landscape: Basic and Advanced, fall foliage plants. The diversity of species Wildlife Foundation and author of Native Plants for gems. We begin on the 100-acre Quissett Horticulture provides great choices for any site and New England Gardens Campus at the heart of the Woods any size. Join Dan Jaffe, author and Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Hole Oceanographic Institution, where photographer of Native Plants for New Certificate: Landscape: Basic and Advanced, we will see innovative, ecologically England Gardens, for a walk through Horticulture 49 sound projects demonstrating the some of the most beautiful fall foliage at Cosponsor: Norcross Wildlife Foundation Institution’s commitment to making their Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary and learn how environmental ethic visible through the to choose native plants for fall foliage in built landscape. From there, we will explore your own landscapes. STIMSON’s Teaticket Park grassland 47 Friday, October 23, 2020, 1-3 p.m. habitat and Gateway Park wetland Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary, Monson, MA restoration. Program Code: HDT1503 Friday, August 14, 2020, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Dan Jaffe, horticulturist, Norcross Falmouth, MA Wildlife Foundation and author of Native Plants for New England Gardens Program Code: HDT5009 Fee: $30 (Members)/$36 (Nonmembers) Instructor: Edward Marshall and Joe Wahler, Principals, STIMSON Certificate: Landscape: Basic and Advanced, Horticulture Fee: $45 (Members)/$54 (Nonmembers) Cosponsor: Norcross Wildlife Foundation Certificate: Landscape: Basic and Advanced, Horticulture Cosponsor: Boston Society of Landscape Architects

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Plant Play School Programs Bring the little ones for nature-inspired Bring your child’s class to experience the stories, songs, and crafts! Stories are magic of Garden in the Woods! Native geared for children ages three to eight. Plant Trust offers four distinct, plant- Afterward, children are invited to explore centered programs that meet the state the local flora and fauna in the Garden, science curriculum standards for pre-K play in the Family Activity Area, or pick through Grade 4. Teacher-naturalists lead up a Scavenger Hunt card and take a walk the students on an hour of inquiry-based through the woods. learning through a variety of habitats to build critical thinking skills. Visit Saturdays, April 25, May 9, 23, 30, June 13, 20, July NativePlantTrust.org for more information. 11, 25, August 8, 22, 2020, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA Seeing Green—Pre-K and Kindergarten Instructor: Elaine Kessler, professional storyteller Exploring Plants and their Homes—Grades 1 and 2 and children’s educator Plant Survival and Adaptation—Grade 3 Fee: Free of charge with Garden admission The Life of a Plant—Grades 3 and 4

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Registration The Native Plant Trust is a leader in conservation and horticulture programming, pioneering models such as the first independent field botany certification program. Public education is key to conserving the Please visit NativePlantTrust.org/education to register for region’s native plants and to ensuring the health and diversity of our our programs. Visa and MasterCard accepted. For questions landscapes. Native Plant Trust offers hundreds of unique public programs regarding registration, call (508) 877-7630, ext. 3303. each year, including:

ADVANCE REGISTRATION is required for all fee-based programs and is * Adult learning opportunities at Garden * Regional initiatives such as Pollinate accepted on a firstcome, first-served basis upon full payment. Early in the Woods, Nasami Farm, six native New England registration is encouraged; programs with insufficient registration may plant sanctuaries, and additional * Continuing education for professionals be cancelled five business days before the scheduled start date. If your locations throughout New England in relevant fields requested program is filled, please add yourself to the waiting list; if space * Online learning through courses, becomes available, you will be contacted according to your position on the * School programs at Garden in webinars, and digital tools waiting list. No refunds or transfers can be given for withdrawals within the Woods a week of the program start date, for programs already in progress, or for class sessions you have not attended. THANKS FOR SUPPORTING DONATE ONLINE Your gift today will help grow awareness NativePlantTrust.org/fundprograms EQUAL ACCESS If you need assistance or special accommodations, and knowledge about the importance DONATE BY PHONE call (508) 877-7630, ext. 3303, at the time you register or as soon as possible of native plants in their habitats and in (508) 877-7630 x3802 thereafter. cultivated landscapes.

For a full description of member benefits, please visit our website Membership or call (508) 877-7630 x3104 NativePlantTrust.org/support For immediate discounts on programs, join or renew when you register. Members help conserve and promote the region’s native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes. Volunteer Opportunities MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS INCLUDE: MEMBERSHIP LEVELS: Become part of the movement to conserve and promote New England’s * Discounts on educational programs * Individual $40 throughout New England native plants by volunteering with Native Plant Trust! The Public * Individual with Garden Access $55 Programs team is currently seeking Community Outreach Volunteers * Annual subscription to Native Plant Trust publications * Family/Friends $75 throughout New England. Community Outreach Volunteers support Native Plant Trust by sharing about the organization’s work and resources * Monthly member e-newsletter * Contributor $115 at events (such as meetings and fairs) in their local areas. If you are active * Discounts at a wide range of regional and * Supporter $250 in your local community, attend or are on the planning committee for large mail-order nurseries through our Nursery Partner Program and our Garden Shops * Sustainer $500 events related to Native Plant Trust’s mission, and enjoy sharing resources with the public, consider becoming a Community Outreach Volunteer. * Access to member-only on-demand * Conservation Circle $1,000 webinars For more information and to apply, visit NativePlantTrust.org/about/ volunteering * Invitations to special members’ only events

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