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Saturday, June 02, 2012
Annual Spring Picnic-2012
(Starts 10:00 A.M. and lasts till we're all pooped!(Ok, probably till about 3 P.M.))
Event Sponsor: NC Native Plant Society
Note: Important Change!
Picnic June 2 at Hagen-Stone Park.
Annual picnic Saturday, June 2, Hagen-Stone Park, Guilford County;
10:00 program with lunch and plant auction to follow.
Don’t miss this one!!
We will be in the same park, at shelter #5 this year, so watch for signs to guide you to the correct area. The shelter is nice and large, has power, and is close to restrooms.
Read on for the exciting details!
This year’s picnic will feature a program on pressing plants, presented by Trena McNabb and Dr. Larry Mellichamp. Starting time is 10:00 a.m. at shelter #5 at Hagen-Stone Park.
Bring side dishes and desserts to share for the noon picnic. BBQ and chicken will be provided by NCNPS. We will also have tea, water, and the appropriate utensils.
Also bring plants for our annual June auction, and be ready to buy some of the terrific plants that others will donate.
2012 PICNIC FEATURES
10:00 Propagation Workshop, conducted by Trena McNabb and Dr. Larry Mellichamp.
Starting time is 10:00 a.m. at shelter #5 at Hagen-Stone Park.
12:00 Great Food. As has been our habit for the past several years, Tom will stop at Smithfield’s on his way to the picnic for chicken and bbq. YOU will bring your favorite side dish(es) with enough to share. Salads, vegetables, fruits, desserts-whatever is your favorite. NCNPS will also provide beverages (bring your favorite if you think we might not have what you want), ice, and paper products. The variety, quantity and quality of the food is always enough to make us want to linger over lunch, but we are lured from the table by…...
1:00 PLANTS! This is the auction that fills our coffers with scholarship money and our gardening appetites with exquisite variety. Pot up a few plants that you would like to donate (don’t use fancy pots) and bring them for the auction, clearly labeled with botanical and/or common name and a short description for the auctioneer. To reduce the time that the auction requires, smaller items or duplicates may be placed on a sale table, with larger or more unusual plants held for auction.
Bring:
Food contributions for the lunch table
Comfortable chair (unless a picnic bench is ok)
Sunscreen and hat
Cash or checkbook!
Directions to Hagan Stone Park:
For specific directions, Google 5920 Hagan Stone Park Rd, Pleasant Garden, NC 27313
From northeast of Greensboro, follow I-40 toward Greensboro. Just outside Greensboro, I-40 and I-85 will split. Stay to the left and follow I-85 south for 12 - 13 miles. Take exit 126A to merge onto US-421 S. Follow 421 S toward Sanford for a little more than 3 miles. Turn right at Hagan-Stone Park Rd/NC-3411. Drive for a little more than 2 miles, and turn right into the park. Look for signs to our shelter.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Bartram and Michaux- Stories of botanists and explorers
(7 PM)Event Sponsor: Special Recommendations
A fundraiser for the UNC Herbarium
Join us for this fundraiser for the UNC Herbarium—a unit of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Herbarium Curator Alan Weakley is master of ceremonies. Garden Director Peter White first discusses botany as an historical science—a subject whose understanding is built through years of observation and is rich with interesting and colorful people from past generations. He will focus on the Quaker botanists and their influence on botany in the late 1700s and 1800s, especially William Bartram of Philadelphia who explored the Southeast at the time of early European settlement, when Native American civilizations and old-growth forests were part of the landscape. You will be fascinated as he weaves in stories of the Lost Colonies and John Lawson, who journeyed between Pittsboro and Hillsborough in the early 1700s.
Continue as a botanical time-traveler in the second part of the program: a visit to 18th-century America with an experienced, dedicated French explorer-botanist for your guide. Andre Michaux will entertain you with stories of his journey through the rugged and beautiful Carolina landscape as he surveyed this largely unknown land, searching for useful trees and plants. He describes his wilderness adventures and some of his botanical discoveries as well as encounters with inhabitants of early America. Michaux is played by retired librarian/Michaux scholar Charlie Williams of Charlotte, NC. Appearing in 18th-century dress, he speaks to his audience in the formal English of the day and the tone of a dedicated scientist.
Help us raise funds and awareness for the UNC Herbarium —the largest museum collection of plants in the Southeast. The Herbarium safeguards more than a century’s-worth of plant specimens that provide the underpinning of all we know about plant identification, taxonomic relationships, and distribution in our region of the world. Pre-registration is required: please call 919-962-0522 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Admission: Fee: $10 ($5 NCBG members).
Directions: Located at the intersection of 15-501 and Old Mason Farm Road. From I-40: Exit 273 from the west, 273B from east. Turn right on Hwy. 54W, go 2.4 miles; left at traffic light to Finley Golf Course Road; go .6 miles, turn right on Old Mason Farm Road; go .7 miles to parking lot. From 15-501 look for large road signs, North Carolina Botanical Garden indicating turn onto Old Mason Farm Road.
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
NC Botanical Garden
(1 PM)Event Sponsor: Special Recommendations
Exhibit on Invasive Plants to Open with Presentation and Reception
Chapel Hill: “Plant This, Not That—Alternatives to Invasives,” an educational exhibit at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, opens on Saturday, February 25. The public is invited to attend an opening celebration in the gardens’ Education Center at 1 pm. Associate Director for Natural Areas and Conservation Programs Dr. Johnny Randall opens the event with a short program about invasive plants. The presentation will be followed by a reception, during which six artists who created the exhibit will be on hand to discuss their work. The event is free, though an RSVP is encouraged: call 919-962-0522.
“Plant This, Not That” consists of a series of panels discussing invasive plant issues and showing examples of ornamental native plants that can be used instead of invasives in gardens and landscapes. The artists who created the accompanying illustrations are graduates of the Botanical Garden’s Certificate in Botanical Illustration Program: Irena Brubacker, Betsy Lowry Donovan, Glenda Parker Jones, Joanne Phillips Lott, Julia Shields and M.P. Wilson. Their original paintings will be on display during the reception.
The event launches National Invasive Species Awareness Week, February 26 – March 3, the purpose of which is to bring attention to the impacts, prevention, and management of invasive species and to organizations who are working toward healthy, biodiverse ecosystems.
The North Carolina Botanical Garden is located off Fordham Boulevard at Old Mason Farm Road in Chapel Hill. A unit of The University of North Carolina, it has been a leader in native plant conservation and education in the southeastern United States for more than 40 years. The Botanical Garden is open 7 days a week and admission is free. See htt://ncbg.unc.edu for details.
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Sunday, June 03, 2012
Harrelson Tract Diabase Dike- NC Plant Conservation Property
(2 - 4 PM)Event Sponsor: Margaret Reid Chapter
Join us for a Reid Chapter field trip to see rare and uncommon native plants.
Herb Amyx and Charlie Kidder, members of the Friends of Plant Conservation organization, will show us around this preserve - which is not generally open to the public. The site protects a diverse community of rare and uncommon native wild flowers that grow in the dry, open conditions and circumneutral soils of the diabase dike (a stone formation). Despite proximity to Penny’s Bend, the plant communities on the two sites are very different. Meet at the Reid Garden at 1 PM to carpool or at the Penny’s Bend parking lot at 2 PM. (Corner of Old Oxford Rd. and Snow Hill Rd, north of Durham). Please contact Amy Mackintosh (mackintosh.amy at gmail or 781-6067) to register for this trip and let her know where you plan to meet us.
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Sunday, May 06, 2012
Flower Hill
(2 - 4 PM)Event Sponsor: Margaret Reid Chapter
Join us for a Reid Chapter field trip.
We’ll visit Triangle Land Conservancy’s preserve in Johnston County (east of Raleigh) where we hope to find the Catawba rhododendrons in bloom. See the TLC website for more information about this property, directions, etc. http://www.triangleland.org/lands/tlc/flower_hill_np_access.shtml Please contact Amy Mackintosh (mackintosh.amy at gmail or 781-6067) to register for this trip and let her know where you plan to meet us. We usually carpool from the Reid Garden.
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Sunday, April 08, 2012
Annual Easter ‘Open Garden’ at Reid Wild Flower Garden
(2 - 5 PM)Event Sponsor: Margaret Reid Chapter
A great way to see spring wildflowers!
Come enjoy the magic of native woodland wild flowers in bloom in the Reid Garden on Easter afternoon - and tell your friends also. We would particularly appreciate volunteers to greet and help show people around the garden during this afternoon. Contact Amy Mackintosh (mackintosh.amy at gmail or 781-6067) if you can help with this. The Reid Garden is located at 1439 Dixie Trail, Raleigh - corner of Dixie Trail and Lewis Farm Rd. Park on Lewis Farm Rd.
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Sunday, April 01, 2012
White Pines Nature Preserve
(2 - 4 PM)Event Sponsor: Margaret Reid Chapter
Join us for this Reid Chapter field trip!
We so enjoyed our trip to White Pines in January that we are returning, with hopes to find the Dutchmen’s Breeches and other spring flowers blooming this time. Meet at the Reid Garden at 12:50 (leaving at 1 PM sharp this time!) or at White Pines parking lot (end of State Road 1959 in Chatham Cty.) at 2 PM. Directions to White Pines are available on the Triangle Land Conservancy website, or probably by Googling White Pines Nature Preserve, NC. Please contact Amy Mackintosh (mackintosh.amy at gmail or 781-6067) to register for this trip and let her know where you plan to meet us.
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Sunday, March 04, 2012
Penny’s Bend on the Eno River, Durham
(2 - 4 PM)Event Sponsor: Margaret Reid Chapter
Join us for a Reid Chapter field trip!
If it’s a warm sunny day, we hope to see the hepaticas in bloom on the rocky slope. If not, we’ll enjoy the rocks and river views, and winter woods. Meet at the Reid Garden at 1 PM to carpool or at the Penny’s Bend parking lot at 2 PM. (Corner of Old Oxford Rd. and Snow Hill Rd, north of Durham). Please contact Amy Mackintosh (mackintosh.amy at gmail or 781-6067) to register for this trip and let her know where you plan to meet us.
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Holly Shelter butterfly walk with Jeff Pippen
(1 P.M. - 3 P.M.)Event Sponsor: South East Coastal Chapter
Jeff Pippen, Instructor and Associate in Research in the Environmental Sciences & Policy department at Duke University, will lead a field trip at Holly Shelter Game Land. Celebrate spring with a look at butterflies and their dependence on native plants as both nectar sources and larval host plants. Please note that the trip will be cancelled for cold or rainy weather when butterflies are not out. Therefore check back for an update in case of inclement weather.
Meet at the parking lot of Holly Shelter Game Land - Southeast Gate at 1 P.M. Please be on time. We will begin promptly at 1.
Directions from Wilmington: Take US 17N, staying right where the road divides, following the signs to Topsail Island/Jacksonville/New Bern. At the intersection with NC 210, continue on US 17N for 4 miles. The entrance gate is on your left immediately after Topsail Baptist Church. Park in the lot to the left of the gate. You will see a NC Wildlife Commission sign at the gate.
Please bring a hat, appropriate footwear, suncream, insect repellant and water. There are no rest rooms.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Green Swamp field trip with Roger Shew
(1 P.M. - 3 P.M.)Event Sponsor: South East Coastal Chapter
Roger Shew, lecturer in the department of Geography and Geology at UNCW, will lead a field trip to the Green Swamp focusing on the natural history and ecosystems of the Green Swamp, with a discussion of how the soils and topography influence plant communities of the savanna, ecotone, and pocosin. Tree ages of various pines will be looked at, along with Longleaf Pine restoration and some naval stores artifacts, burn units and the impact on vegetation, and management plans. Roger is a fabulous teacher and this promises to be a new way of looking at a unique place.
Meet at the preserve parking lot at 1 PM. PLEASE BE ON TIME.
Directions: From US 17, go to the intersection of US 17 and NC 211 in Supply. Go north on 211 (a right turn off US 17 from Wilmington) for 5.7 miles. Watch for a small green sign designating the parking area on the right, next to a borrow-pit pond. We will meet in this parking lot.
Please dress for the weather and bring water, a hat, insect repellent and hiking shoes. There are no restrooms but you will pass a Hardees on the corner of NC 211 and US 17. For more information on Green Swamp preserve, go to http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/northcarolina/preserves/art5606.html
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Native Birds Love (And Need) Native Plants
(2-4 PM)Event Sponsor: Charlotte Chapter
Learn and see how native plants influence our native birds with Will Stuart
We all know many reasons why we should add more native plants to our landscapes. We understand how native plants impact the air we breathe and the water we drink. Add one more very good argument for natives. The presence (or absence) of native plants and plant communities dramatically influences the distribution of native birds and the overall health of our native bird populations. Each year, it is more difficult to hear the melodic songs of Eastern Meadowlarks or Wood Thrushes in our neighborhoods. Each year, the calls of Red-headed Woodpeckers and Northern Bobwhite are heard less often as we develop more and more of our urban landscapes.
Join Will Stuart for a photographic tour of our year-round, summer, and winter resident birds. He will discuss the habits and habitats of our breeding warblers, the showy species that arrive each spring to occupy our successional fields and woodland margins, and the diversity of waterfowl and sparrows that winter in the Carolinas. Included are virtual visits to the Pee Dee and Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuges where species such as Bachman’s Sparrows, Kentucky Warblers, Yellow-billed Cuckoos, and Scarlet Tanagers arrive each spring to nest and raise their young. He will also discuss how adding native plants to your home landscape will bring new bird species (think Hermit Thrushes, Fox Sparrows, and Black-throated Blue Warblers) into your neighborhood.
Reedy Creek Nature Center, 2900 Rocky River Rd., Charlotte, NC 28215
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Friday, April 13, 2012
2012 Spring Outing - Pearsons Falls and Saluda, NC
(April 13-15, 2012)Event Sponsor: NC Native Plant Society
This spring’s outing will feature an afternoon visit to Pearson Falls in Saluda, NC, but the group will begin Saturday botanizing along the road leading to the glen and will eat lunch at the picnic area before starting the official tour. Registration fees cover the cost of entry, and participants will receive a book about the area written by Donald Culross Peattie. (See Ana and Jerry Weston’s reviews of this location in the NCNPS Aug. newsletter.)
Friday there will be optional hikes in the area (details later) and Sunday the group will visit Pacolet Falls with a guide from the Saluda Community Land Trust.
Timothy P. Spira of Clemson University will speak Friday night at the Saluda Library. He is the author of WILDFLOWERS AND PLANT COMMUNITIES OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS AND PIEDMONT. Saturday’s dinner will be at the Saluda Center, followed by the annual plant auction.
Saluda Mountain Lodge (www.saludamountainlodge.com) will be the official gathering site. Details re rates, etc., will be published closer to the event. There are many bed and breakfasts in the area.
Download the official registration form from this link and send it in as soon as possible! Registration form for Pearson’s Falls
[The Registration form is in “fillable” format. Just open the form, enter the requested information, then print and mail along with your check to Jeff Prather. If you would like, you may Save As – Reg form [add your name]. Once it is saved on your computer, you can print and mail to Jeff along with your check. You will still have a copy on your computer for your records.]
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