[PCA] Oct 14-New England Wild Flower Fall Family Festival

[Debra Strick]

New England Wild Flower Society announces the FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL on Sunday, October 14 from 12-4 at Garden in the Woods. Let's help future naturalists make a connection with the outdoors. The festival features LIVE animal shows and the ART GOES WILD exhibit, now in its final weeks.  Children will love the flying saucer gardens, interactive mini-garden park, and fiddlehead labyrinth at Garden in the Woods. Art lovers will not want to miss this exciting environmental art show in all its fall glory. - Scroll down for details (and let me know if you need more information or images)

 

STANDING ATTRACTION:  New England Wild Flower Society's Garden in the Woods trails, plant nursery, and museum store open for the Garden's 75th anniversary year . Now through October 31 garden-wide exhibit,  "ART GOES WILD: Innovation with Native Plants," featuring 1,500 native plant species including 200 rare and endangered species and 11 special destination gardens by landscape design master W. Gary Smith. . Membership and purchases support conservation. 180 Hemenway Road, Framingham, MA. (508) 877-7630.  www.newenglandWILD.org <http://www.newenglandwild.org/> .    Sept 1-October 31: Open daily 9-5.  Free parking. Tours weekdays at 10 am and weekends at 2 pm included with admission, no reservations required. Adults $7; Seniors and Students $5; Youths 6-18 $3; FREE for Members and children 5 and under. 

 

 

Sunday, October 14, noon-4 pm rain or shine. 

FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL--New England Wild Flower Society invites the whole family to Garden in the Woods.  Celebrate this beautiful time of autumn color and ripening at Garden, featuring 1,500 kinds of native plants. Go on a scavenger hunt to seek out some fall treasures, see the ART GOES WILD show and circle  the labyrinth, make a miniature garden in a dish to take home, meet some surprise creatures in the Garden, and learn about nature's animal adaptations in one of our live animal programs.  Stop by the Museum Store for beautiful toys and gifts.All purchases support plant conservation. 

 

Live Animal Programs listed below in the Education Center are included with regular admission fee. Space is limited; tickets distributed on a first-come/first-served basis.

 

     Animal Adventures 1-2 pm. How adventurous are you?  Would you like to meet a wild cat called a Canadian lynx? Are you brave enough to meet reptiles such as a giant anaconda snake or a six-foot monitor lizard face-to-face? Join us as Ed Laquidara, animal specialist, introduces us to a variety of creatures and explains their roles in their ecosystems.  

 

     Curious Creatures 2:30-3:30 p.m. This lively program introduces an incredible diversity of creatures, describing their particular adaptations and secrets of survival.  Meet an albino Burmese python, a blue and gold macaw, an African pygmy hedgehog, rain forest tree frogs, and many other curious creatures.  This program teaches respect and appreciation for all creatures that walk, crawl, and slither on the earth. 

New England Wild Flower Society's Garden in the Woods, 180 Hemenway Road, Framingham www.newenglandWILD.org <http://www.newenglandwild.org/> . 508-877-7630. 

 

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