NEWFS Class on Invasive Plants

Fall is a great time to recognize and tackle the new invasive Asian plants that are rapidly over running our wild areas and backyards. These plants hide when leaves are green, but often hold their foliage later than other plants and become easier to spot now. If you want more information, you can start with a class at the nation's number one educator on this issue, the New England Wildflower Society:

Sunday, October 18, 2009, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Invasives: ID, Ecology, and Control. Garden in the Woods, Framingham. This course provides an introduction to about 40 of the most common invasive non-native plants in our local landscapes. Ted Elliman leads this class through lecture, discussion, power-point presentation, herbarium specimens, and a walk outside, become familiar with identification clues as well as the habits of a number of these plants that are so disruptive of natural ecosytems. Discuss management techniques for many of these species, on both a home and a landscape scale. Fee: $44 (Member) / $52 (Nonmember). Cosponsor by New England Wild Flower Society, MA Audubon Drumlin Farm, and Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Pre-registration is necessary, contact the registrar at 508-877-7630, ext. 3303.

Other NEWFS classes include:

Fridays, October 23, 30, November 6, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Horticultural Techniques.

Saturday, October 24, 9:30 a.m.-12 noon. Assessing Tree Health and Structure.

Children’s Classes

Thursday, October 8, 3:30-5:30 pm. Seed Safari.

Thursday, October 22, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Living off the Land: Native American Lessons.

For more information, visit www.newenglandwild.org/learn.