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Get ready for your best spring ever, inspired by the Society's Learn + Grow courses and field trips. Check out superb first-time offers, including programs on kitchen gardens, suburban diversity, insect safaris, getting kids in touch with nature, and more.
Here are some highlights:
Northern Gardening Symposium - Selecting the Best
Saturday April 5
9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Randolph Center, VT
Featuring speakers Bill Cullina, Dick Jaynes, and Kate Kruesi
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How to Attract Butterflies and Hummingbirds to your Garden
Tuesdays, April 8,15
7 - 9 p.m.
Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Amherst, MA
Lyme Disease Forum: Prevention, Treatment, and Management for Landscape Professionals and Gardeners
Saturday April 12
1 - 4:30 p.m.
Garden in the Woods Framingham, MA
The Garden As Muse:
A workshop on garden and nature writing
Friday, April 18
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Garden in the Woods Framingham, MA
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IS IT TIME TO JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP?
Not sure if your membership is current? Send an email to:
plaier@newenglandwild.org. 
We'll get right back to you - we don't want you to miss any of the wonderful membership benefits in the upcoming season!
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| March 27, 2008
Dear Members and Friends,
Happy Spring!
Thus came the lovely spring with a rush of blossoms and music,
Flooding the earth with flowers, and the air with melodies vernal. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This year, we've had excellent snow cover in New England, the maple sap is running well, the ground is regaining moisture, and we eagerly anticipate a wonderful spring for wildflowers. Thank you for all your support for our native plant heritage.
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RARE PLANT SURVEYS + INVASIVE PLANT VOLUNTEERS 
New England Wild Flower Society's Conservation Department anticipates a full and fulfilling 2008 field season. Winter meetings of the New England Plant Conservation Program (NEPCoP), a collaboration of the Society and more than 150 conservation professionals, yielded 80 volunteers for 710 rare plant actions for the 2008 season, including 621 surveys of individual rare populations. Read more.
NEW - For invasive plant volunteer opportunities across the region, with no previous experience required, contact Ted Elliman at telliman@newenglandWILD.org or 508-877-7630 x 3203. |
NATIVE PLANTS ON THE AIRWAVES
 March 31 join William Cullina on "The Martha Stewart Show" for tips on native plant gardening with moss and ferns, featuring his new book, Native Ferns, Moss & Grasses.Tune into "Living on Earth" on National Public Radio for a segment with Bill about the book and the Society, recorded at Garden in the Woods -- airing nationally, and throughout New England the week of March 28. Check your local listings at www.npr.org and www.marthastewart.com. To order your copy of Native Ferns, Moss & Grasses, click here. | |
NEW HORTICULTURIST
New England Wild Flower Society is delighted to announce that Kristin Desouza has joined the staff at Garden in the Woods as Horticulturist. A 2004 graduate of UMass Amherst with a major in landscape architecture, Kristin spent much of the last year in the United Kingdom on a horticultural scholarship, which allowed her to study and work in a variety of public gardens, including Kew Gardens, the Royal Botanic  Garden of Edinburgh, and Kristin's favorite, Eden Project. Asked what excites her most about her new job, Kristin, a Massachusetts native, is "thrilled to once again work with a Northeast plant palette and to learn more about natives - particularly herbaceous plants." In addition to her horticultural duties, Kristin serves as the Garden in the Woods Facilities Coordinator in charge of building maintenance. |
NEW ENGLAND WILD FLOWER SOCIETY SEEKS NOMINATIONS FOR 2008 AWARDS
Each year, the Society presents awards to individuals or organizations working to conserve wild plants and their habitats through direct conservation action, research, education, and horticulture. We also give awards for Landscape Design and for public and private gardens. Your nomination could mean that someone's dedication to native plant conservation receives the support and encouragement that it richly deserves. Click here to learn more.
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Our guide training and conservation training seasons are in full swing, the nurseries are bursting with plants ready for you in mid-April, and we look forward to seeing you soon.
With best wishes for the fullest enjoyment of the season,
Karen Pierce Debra Strick
Director of Membership Director of PR and Marketing
& the whole New England Wild Flower Society Staff |
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