What's In Bloom? Joe Pye Plant
Eutrochium AKA Joe Pye Plant (not Weed!) Late summer is colored in yellow and purple (a bit of a color palette challenge for me as I...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Aug 48 min read
Stow Cocktail Cruise Ferry
If you're in town Week Nine, you won't want to miss this event! We got rained out last year, but we're trying again this summer. Join us...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Jul 2711 min read
Aww! Steve Missed the Boat
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) The clubbers on the war canoes were having a blast on Wednesday morning and I swear our heron, Steve*,...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Jul 215 min read
What's for Lunch? Daylilies
Daylilies (Hemerocallis) Did you know they were edible? Betsy created these beautiful stuffed treats for the Friday Garden Walk through...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Jul 148 min read
A Hydrangea Primer
What's In Bloom? Hydrangeas! The photo above by Jeanne Wiebenga is of a Endless Summer Blushing Bride Hydrangea blooming in the Bride's...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Jul 85 min read
An Ode to Black Cohosh
What's In Bloom? Actaea (Cimicifuga) racemosa aka: Bugbane, Bugwort, Black Cohosh, Snakeroot, Macrotys, Black Bugbane, Rattleweed I'm...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Jun 308 min read
The Floating Fen
Pop-up Field Trip to the Floating Fen Wednesday, July 2 at 8AM Meet at the South Gate Parking Lot at 8:00AM to carpool/caravan or meet us...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Jun 232 min read
The 2024 Season is Off and Running
What's In Bloom? Kousa Dogwoods Cornus kousa The Kousa dogwood blooms later than the native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), which...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Jun 1111 min read
Announcing the 2024 Brown Bag Lecture Series
Thanks to Anna Mayberry for this photo of the Northern Lights over Chautauqua Lake on May 10, 2024 Dear Friends of the BTG, I am so...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Apr 2913 min read
The Zinnia Breeding Project
April 9, 2024. The first hand-pollinated zinnia to bloom in the "greenhouse" at the Garden Shop in the new Maintenance Shed. Photo by...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Mar 308 min read
Making the Shift from a Fall Clean-up to a Spring Clean
Jeanne Wiebenga caught this sweet exchange between cardinals near her backyard feeder in Chautauqua on March 9. We'd Love Your Input!...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Feb 296 min read
Tundra Swans Grace our Lake
Photo by Jeanne Wiebenga of Tundra Swans on Chautauqua Lake on February 26. The swans are making their way north, hopping along a path of...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Jan 3112 min read
Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Smith Wilkes Hall
Celebrating 100 Years of Smith Wilkes Hall and its Benefactor One hundred years ago this month, construction began on Smith Wilkes Hall,...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Dec 31, 20234 min read
December 2023 Newsletter
Feeling Peckish? This hungry woodpecker was working hard for his meal on the old apple tree in Jane Stirniman and Jeanne Wiebenga's...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Nov 30, 202316 min read
Announcing the 2024 House & Garden Tour
Photo of 38 South Lake Drive by Angela James Save the Date! 2024 House & Garden Tour - July 11, 2024 The 2024 Chautauqua BTG House Tour...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Oct 31, 202314 min read
October 2023 Newsletter
and the trees are beautiful! ...but also, what do all the ribbons around the trees mean? Jeanne Wiebenga took the beautiful photos above...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Sep 29, 202315 min read
September 2023 Newsletter
THE OSPREY REPORT: Update on The Ospreys of Loomis Goose Creek Wetland Preserve by Jeanne Wiebenga It is hard to believe that our Osprey...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Aug 31, 20236 min read
Week Nine 2023 Newsletter
What's In...Bags? by Betsy Burgeson If you have walked through the main gate or walked by the Amp lately you may have noticed some silver...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Aug 13, 20238 min read
Week Eight 2023 Newsletter
The Night Sky by Dennis McNair, PhD In the tiny (pop. 2500) rural town in southeastern Washington State where I grew up, extreme darkness...
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Bird, Tree & Garden Club
Aug 6, 20238 min read
Week Seven 2023 Newsletter
Photo of the moonrise over the Casto Garden at 3 Taps taken by Tim Renjilian on July 31 Sunday, August 13th 3:00 - 4:30 PM Smith Wilkes...
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