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Spring Greetings from Woodland Wildflowers

Instructor: Meredith Gallogly, Manager of Programs, Grow Native Massachusetts
Every spring we are greeted by a beautiful bouquet of flowers blooming throughout our woodlands. Many of these plants emerge early to soak up the sun before the forest canopy has fully leafed out. Though delicate in appearance, they are quite tough and adaptable. Join Meredith to get to know some of these flowers, and learn how to incorporate them into a designed landscape.

Workshop

When:

May 12 | 5:30 - 7:45pm

Where:Middlesex Fells Reservation, Medford, MA

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Our 2020 Native Plant Sale (Pending)

Our sale is being re-evaluated this year due to the cornonavirus outbreak. Date is tentative.
Our annual native plant sale offers you a very large selection of species with thousands of plants available. Given the current public health crisis, we are working to change the format of the sale this year to a pre-order only process with scheduled pick-up times. Stay tuned for updates and date adjustments.

Special Event

When:

June 20 | All day

Where:Waltham Field Station, 240 Beaver Street, Waltham

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- An Ecosystem Approach
  
  Native Plants are the Foundation
  Improving the biodiversity of our landscapes— specifically stemming the significant declines in insects, birds, and millions of species worldwide— requires re-establishing native plant landscapes. It also requires a commitment to ecological landscaping. But what is that? To us, it means gardening by working with ecological processes— leaving leaf litter and decaying plant stems as essential habitat for insects, understanding inherent soil and climate conditions, choosing the most appropriate native species for our site. There is so much to consider! Learn more about our philosophy here.
  
  An Ecosystem Approach
- Native Plant Highlight
  
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  Mayflower: A Herald of Spring and Our State Flower
  Mayflower or trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens) is much beloved for its fragrant flowers, which bloom early in spring. This species adorns the top banner of our website, and we chose it for many reasons. It grows throughout the Commonwealth and was selected a century ago to be our state flower. Beautiful, small but tough in its own way, it was also used medicinally by Native Americans. Its history, winding from relative abundance, to threatened status, and now legal protection, is emblematic of the challenges that so many of our native plants face.
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- Our Goal
  A Clearinghouse for Information
  We built this website for you— to make information about native plants, and the practice of smart ecological landscaping, much more widely available. We consider ourselves an "open source" nonprofit. Through this website and so many of our other programs, we offer tons of free information— access to resources, lectures, videos, ideas, and inspiration. Our goal is to change the world, to help all of us as humans better understand ourselves as part of a complex organic system, to make ecology more mainstream, and to include you in our community.
  
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- New And Noteworthy
  
  Nature's Best Hope
  
  Douglas Tallamy
  
  Timber Press, 2020
  
  Just published in February!
  
  This newest book by Doug Tallamy makes it very clear why all of us have an essential role to play in saving life as we know it on planet earth. But rather than dwelling in doom and gloom, he emphasizes the joy of taking action, and reminds us of the tremendous capacity for resilience that our ecosystems have when given the means to recover.
  
  Tallamy is one of the most original and persuasive present-day authors on conservation. — E.O. Wilson
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Upcoming Events

Spring Greetings from Woodland Wildflowers

Our 2020 Native Plant Sale (Pending)

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Native Plants are the Foundation

Mayflower: A Herald of Spring and Our State Flower

Our Goal

A Clearinghouse for Information

Welcome!

Nature's Best Hope

Douglas Tallamy

Timber Press, 2020

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