[PCA] Aug 26-MEADOW MADNESS event New England Wild Flower Society

[Debra Strick]

Dear Olivia,  
 
Sunday, August 26, 12-4 - Celebrate the Summer with New England Wild Flower Society's MEADOW MADNESS FESTIVAL.  See below for a full writeup-filled with butterflies and wildflowers. 
 
I'm on vacation August 14-August 21 but in my absence, Lisa Mattei at lmattei at newenglandWILD.org or x 3502 can provide wonderful images, and Sarah Shonbrun at sshonbrun at newenglandWILD.org  or 3103 can answer your questions and provide great text. 
 
New England Wild Flower Society's ART GOES WILD:  Innovation With Native Plants exhibit continues through October at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, MA, and includes this special family event. 
 
Thanks for all your support of New England WIld Flower Society and ART GOES WILD 
  For more about ART GOES WILD, please visit: 
http://www.newfs.org/artgoeswild/agwpress.html 
 
 
 

New England Wild Flower Society's

 

Meadow Madness Festival

 

Framingham, Massachusetts -Sunday, August 26, 12-4 rain or shine.  New England Wild Flower Society celebrates the peak of meadow bloom with a riot of color, thousands of butterflies, and a gorgeous family day.  Take a butterfly walk with the Massachusetts Butterfly Club. Savor the summer.   Enjoy blazing stars, meadow phlox, Joe pye weed, boneset, echinacea, ironweed, blanket flower, perennial sunflowers, Culver's root and many more, some 12 feet high!  Meet live caterpillars and special butterflies with naturalist Jackie Stone, right at the meadow trail.   See live honeybee observation hives and meet local beekeepers.  Take a scavenger hunt and look for costumed characters like "DANI" the monarch butterfly.    This year's festival highlights include the magnificent ART GOES WILD: Innovation with Native Plants exhibit with flying saucers, floating gardens, and more.  Walk the labyrinth and stop at the mini-garden park to create small dish gardens.   

 

Admire butterflies and other favorite pollinators at every blossom and stop at the Visitor Center for special nature books and toys the whole family will enjoy. Now is the perfect time to plant a fall family garden for wildlife, so come to the native nursery where experts can help the public select reliable easy-to-grow plants. www.newenglandWILD.org <http://www.newenglandwild.org/> .  Festival included FREE with admission. 

 

Come to the festival and enter to win season tickets from Festival Sponsors WCRB 99.5 Classical Radio, to the 2007-2008 Boston Philharmonia with Conductor Benjamin Zander. 

 

The festival, show, and contest are included FREE with admission.  Admission $7 for Adults; $5 Seniors; and Youths 6-18 $3; FREE FOR MEMBERS and children under 6.   New  England Wild Flower Society's Garden in the Woods, 180 Hemenway Road, Framingham, MA. (508) 877-7630.  Shop the Museum Store and NATIVE PLANT NURSERY, with late season blooming plants, trees, shrubs, vines, and ferns, ready now.  Admission and sales support the conservation programs of New England Wild Flower Society and 1,500 volunteers working in the field to protect the region's natural habitats and native flora.   Garden and exhibit open  daily, 9-7; informal tours weekdays at 10 a.m.  and weekends at 2 p.m., no reservations required.  Group tours by reservation at bdrexler at newenglandWILD.org.   1,500 native plant species on display including 200 rare and endangered species. www.newenglandWILD.org <http://www.newenglandwild.org/> .  END.

 
 

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