Upstate Chapter Meetings, Field Trips & Activities

Upstate Chapter Meetings

	Native Plant sale - Greenville

• Tuesday, Feb 21, 7:00 pm - Exploring Native Plant Communities
  Botanist Tim Spira introduces you to a new way of looking at native plants by emphasizing their relationships with each other. Tim will reveal the multi-layered tapestry of plant life in the Southern Appalachian Mountains by showing us how to see plants as unique botanical communities, including the key processes that shape natural communities and determine their distribution across the landscape. This lecture will enhance your appreciation of native plants whether you enjoy them in their natural habitats or grow them in your home landscape. Tim Spira, Ph.D., is a plant ecologist, native plant gardener, hiker, and professor of botany at Clemson University where he teaches courses in field botany and plant ecology. He is also the author of a recently published book, Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont: A Naturalist’s Guide to the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia (University of North Carolina Press). In it Tim takes a holistic, ecological approach that enables the reader to identify and learn about plants in their natural communities, because plants — like other organisms — don’t live in isolation; they coexist and interact in myriad ways. Multipurpose Room #2 in McAlister Square in Greenville.
• Tuesday, Mar 20, 7:00 pm - Propagating (really) Native Plants... because Ball Seed doesn't sell local genotypes
  Propagating your own plants can be a fun, rewarding and cost-saving way to garden but you can also play a very important role in preserving the local genotypes of native plants that are so important to our ecosystem. Guided by Ryan Merck, Program Coordinator of the SC Botanical Garden, we'll explore methods of propagating many of the popular local favorites and discuss the benefits of different forms of propagation. Founder's Hall in the Dining Commons at Southern Wesleyan University in Central.
• Tuesday, Apr 17, 7:00 pm SC Mushrooms: Soulmates for Life
  With over 90% of all plants associating with fungal partners, naturally the fungi are equally diverse. These important ecological partners facilitate the cycling of nutrients, soil creation, and habitat renewal. The complex communication between our native plant and fungal communities, combined with bacterial interactions, harmonize and orchestrate stabilizing phenomena. Tradd Cotter will open our eyes to these fascinating but unfamiliar organisms. Multipurpose Room #2 in McAlister Square in Greenville.
  

Upstate Chapter Field Trips & Activities