(DC) (US Botanic Garden) What's the connection between fruit and poop? Join Lilly Andersen, USBG Family Education Specialist, and and USBG volunteers to explore how plants and animals help each other and the relationship between plants making fruit and animals eating that fruit. Think and learn about what makes a fruit a fruit, why fruits tend to taste sweet, and ...
(DC) (Anacostia Watershed Society) Join the Anacostia Watershed Society to propagate wild rice (Zizania aquatica) seeds through mudballing (seeding) in wetlands along the River Terrace Park section of the Anacostia River. We will mix the wild rice seeds in mud and toss our wild rice mudballs into exposed mudflats to encourage plant growth.
(DC) (Hillwood) Join one of Hillwood's orchid experts for a twenty-minute tour of the greenhouse, which houses Marjorie Merriweather Post's extensive collection of exotic orchids, as well as cut flowers grown for floral arrangements throughout the mansion.
(DC) (US Botanic Garden) Both beginners and experienced artists can explore the weird and wonderful world of carnivorous plants! Their unique botanical structures make carnivorous plants terrifyingly terrific drawing subjects. These ferocious drawing subjects provide a great opportunity to develop your artistic eye for detail, proportion, and balance. Mary Ellen Carsley, Artist Educator
(DC) (Hillwood) Join one of Hillwood's orchid experts for a twenty-minute tour of the greenhouse, which houses Marjorie Merriweather Post's extensive collection of exotic orchids, as well as cut flowers grown for floral arrangements throughout the mansion.
(VA) (Arlington Parks) From the top of Mount Rogers to the beaches of the Eastern Shore, Virginia hosts an incredible diversity of plants and plant communities including cacti, orchids, and carnivorous plants. Join our naturalist on a photographic journey of some of the most unusual, uncommon, and threatened plants found in the commonwealth.
(DC) (US Botanic Garden) In the spirit of her book, “Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World,” Kathryn Aalto, Historian, Teacher, Speaker, and New York Times Best-selling Author will guide participants in how to observe the world around them with a writer's eye, translating your observations into powerful, evocative prose that not only ...
(DC) (Anacostia Watershed Society) Join AWS to propagate wild rice (Zizania aquatica) seeds through mudballing (seeding) in wetlands at Kingman & Heritage Islands Park. We will mix the wild rice seeds in mud and toss our wild rice mudballs into exposed mudflats to encourage plant growth.
