Butch Kelly will take us on a march through the seasons with Rich Crites’s photographs.  These are the photos Rich used to present his passion to many local organizations over the past 20 years. This will be a great way to look at what is in store for the next 8 months.

This field trip will feature a look at winter ecology and a peak into spring. We will look at trees, shrubs, insect evidence and old flower seed heads. See what plants you can identify from last fall’s remaining stalks. We will spend some time in the Jefferson National Forest in Catawba and on Butch and…

This presentation will offer an overview of the interactions between two of the world’s most dominant terrestrial groups — flowering plants and ants. Complex ant-plant interactions involving thousands of species have evolved across the globe ranging from herbivory to highly sophisticated defensive and dispersal mutualisms. One such remarkable interaction, known as myrmecochory, occurs in the…

Join Butch and Betty Kelly for a field trip in the Catawba area. Depending on the weather, we will look at hepatica (by the hundreds), toothwort, rare ferns, tall phlox, blue bells and a pretty mountain stream. Bring rain gear. Little walking, mostly we will be stopping and walking along gravel roads. For those who…

Join Lou Greiner and Ellen Holtman for a walk among the trilliums. This is always a spectacular display of wildflowers including large-flowered trilliums, blue bells, Canada violet, and many more. Green Hill Park has the most dense display of flowers anywhere in our chapter’s area. Lou will help you learn to sketch and record what…

We will have a booth at the Earth Day celebration. We need two folks to man the booth for 1 or 2 hour increments. You will be asked to hand out chapter and VNPS information and answer questions posed by the public. This an opportunity for us to spread the word about native plants and…

Gary Fleming, Vegetation Ecologist with the Virginia Natural Heritage program, will present a program featuring the nature of Virginia’s flora by taking us on a visual trip through the physiographic provinces of Virginia. Gary will show us what plant communities are found in these areas of the state. We will learn why plants grow where…

Join members of the Mill Mountain Garden Club and stroll through the garden, a local gem with a large variety of plants. The last time we visited this garden 62 plants were identified. Some of those were yellow lady slipper, may apple, spiderwort and fire pink. This is a very easy walk so come and…

Sponsored by the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club This walk will be in two parts. The first part will be looking at plants and discussing the effects of climate change on certain marked trees and shrubs along the trail. We will also identify other plants and discuss their ecological importance to man and nature. The second…

The BRWS Plant Sale will be at the parking lot next to the Virginia Western Community College Arboretum greenhouse. We usually have more than 40 species of native plants for sale. Some of the more popular varieties include butterfly weed, New England Aster, bleeding heart, Virginia bluebell, spiderwort, cardinal flower and Jack-in-the-Pulpit. All plants will…