The Providential Gardener

Tree Planting News

Friends of the Moshassuck will conduct its annual tree planting at Collyer Field (near the Bonanza/Peter Pan Bus terminal) this Saturday March 31 at 9AM at Collyer Field. They will do their "usual 90 minutes and done routine." Everyone welcome.... Read more →

A Flare for Planting Trees

Planting trees was one of the topics on the Garden Guys show on March 18, 2007. Read on so you can develop a flair for planting trees. The secret is the tree trunk's flare. (By the way, the Garden Guys'... Read more →

Green Drinks Providence March 15th

Green Drinks March 15: Location is The Plant, and PUENTE is the host. 5pm to 8pm, but come and have a tour of this mixed-use development in Olneyville, Providence, between Broadway and Atwells Avenue at 60 Valley St. [Map] A... Read more →

Organics & You: Making the Switch

ORGANICS AND YOU: MAKING THE SWITCH A Workshop for Land Care Professionals & Municipal Employees Monday March 12, 2007, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Aspray Boat House, 2 East View Street Warwick, RI, (Adjoining Pawtuxet Park) PARENTS, SCHOOL PROFESSIONALS AND... Read more →

RI's Women Gardeners

"Rhode Island's Women Gardeners and the English Idyll" is the spring program in the Historic Knight Estate Education Series at CCRI in Warwick, Sunday, May 20, 2007, at 1:00pm. The event is free and open to the public. Lynn M.... Read more →

Homes for Displaced or Surplus Plants

Friday at the Botanical Center opening, I got into a conversation about setting up a plant exchange with Kurt van Dexter, a landscape architect who has been working for several years to establish gardens at schools, and who is one... Read more →

Roger Williams Park Botanical Center News

The new Botanical Center at Roger Williams Park, in partnership with the URI College of the Environment and Life Sciences Extension and Outreach Center, offers Spring Gardening School to be held Monday afternoons, 2pm to 4pm, April 2 through May... Read more →