On the evening of Thursday the 23rd of May, beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly public meeting, and Will Ryan (of the Academy of Natural Sciences) will talk about local plant ecology, in a lecture titled ‘Investigating Geoedaphic Meadows, Glades, and Grasslands in Southeastern Pennsylvania’.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
On the evening of Thursday the 25th of April, beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly public meeting, and Anthony Aiello (of the Morris Arboretum) will talk about history and horticulture, in a lecture titled ‘Japanese Flowering Cherries: A 100-Year-Long Love Affair’.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
Assorted remains are sorted, to tell a story of Bartram’s Garden:
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/unearthing-botanical-legacy-one-seed-time
On the evening of Thursday the 28th of February, beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly public meeting, and Doug Sponsler (of Penn State) will talk about urban plants and their pollinators, in a lecture titled ‘Bees and Urban Flora: Exploring the Trophic Ecology of Ornamentals, Remnants, and “Weeds” in the City’.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
Maintaining a landscape deep with both history and present purpose involves extensive planning, expertise, and management:
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/keeping-campus-trees-all-6800-them-healthy-and-vibrant
To read more about this historic locale, see here:
On the evening of Thursday the 15th of November, beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly public meeting, and Jill Jonnes (Jilljonnes.com ; author of numerous books, in including “Urban Forests”) will talk about plants and history, in a lecture titled “The Strange But True Story of the Dawn Redwood”.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
A Rock Wren was recently located nearby to Philadelphia, and – as is so often the case – there is a rich historic link to be found, connecting our current landscapes to what, and who, was here before:
https://matthewhalley.wordpress.com/2018/10/05/rock-wrens-in-pennsylvania/
