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SCLT Rare & Unusual Plant Sale

(5.21) Rain or shine. Head over to City Farm this Saturday and Sunday for Southside Community Land Trust‘s 31st annual Rare and Unusual Plant Sale. How rare and unusual? Well last year they had stinging nettle for sale and I’ve never seen that anywhere ever. Organizers want to help you up your gardening game: “You’ve …

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Homegrown — Ready When You Are

Homegrown owner Russell Stafford was busy organizing the sales yard today when I dropped in to survey the rare and unusual plants on offer this spring. Russell propagates many hard-to-find plants, mostly from seed, mostly native, many shade-lovers. Here are some of his favorites this year: Aquilegia canadensis ‘Corbett’ a columbine with yellow flowers, grown …

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Free Seeds At Prov Public Library

I love that they call this a seed “catalog.” The Louise and Larry Moulton seed catalog at the Providence Public Library is stocked with unopened packets of seeds — vegetables, herbs, and flowers — courtesy of the URI Master Garden seed program and a Vermont concern, High Mowing Organic Seeds. This is just one of …

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Live Painting — RISD Museum

(9.18) Head over to the RISD Museum this Sunday for “Work in Progress: Painting Intuitively” and watch as artist Yukyung Chung turns the Radeke Garden and the adjacent Danforth Hall into her studio. Watch as artist Yukyung Chung (RISD MFA, Digital + Media, 2023) responds to her composed soundscape through live painting. Chung’s artistic practice …

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SCLT Plant Sale

(5.15) It’s back! The Southside Community Land Trust’s Rare & Unusual Plant Sale returns in-person this weekend at City Farm, featuring live music and thousands of rare and unusual plants. Unusual and hard-to-find varieties of vegetables, herbs and fruits are offered as well as crowd-pleasing favorites to increase local biodiversity. Prices are kept low to …

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Bee Hotels Attract Pollinators

Here’s another way urbanites can give nature an assist, bee hotels. From Almanac we learn about native, solitary bees. Unlike honey bees, these solitary bees are extremely docile and up to three times more effective as pollinators. No, you won’t get any honey, but you will enjoy better flowers, thriving plants, and healthier vegetables in your garden! …

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White Wisteria

The fragrance stopped me in my tracks. I looked around only to discover that the source was at least twenty feet away. I don’t know the name of this particular variety, but it is a winner. Three white cultivars are listed at “Favorite Wisteria Varieties.” Jako is described as having “intensely fragrant clusters” while Shiro-Kapitan …

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