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Time Out Radio Show
Tune in to the Time Out Radio Show on Saturday, June 28 to hear Dr. Bruce Gilman and Laura Ouimette chat with Jeff Miller about our Canandaigua Botanical Society.
Look for "Time Out Radio Show 6-28-25"
The program airs on WYSL (1040 AM / 92.1 FM / 95.5 FM) at the following times.
• Saturday at 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
• Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
Tuesday, July 8, 2025: Canandaigua Botanical Society's History at OCHS
Tuesday, July 8 at noon Laura Ouimette will share a lunchtime talk about the 150 year history of the Canandaigua Botanical Society at the Ontario County Historical Society, 55 North Main Street, Canandaigua, NY 14424
The OCHS played a vital role in helping the Canandaigua Botanical Society plan for their Sesquicentennial in 2024. Learn how the Canandaigua Botanical Society encourages the incorporation of native plants into gardens and landscaping.
Saturday, July 19, 2025: Visit to Walton Point
Visit to the Native Shorescaping
at Walton Point in Woodville, NY
Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 10 AM
Join us on a tour of Lucy and Phil Sheils' property in Woodville, NY. They have transformed their shoreline property into a thriving, beautiful, lake-friendly oasis on the shores of Walton Point.
We will encourage carpooling from Sly Street in Canandaigua at 9 AM or meeting at the Kayak Launch in Woodville at 9:40 AM to best accommodate access to Walton Point Drive. Because the house is on a steep dirt road we will be arriving early and parking at the top of the road at a gravel covered area before walking down Walton Point Drive about .2 miles.
Read more on pages 8-10 in the Summer 2024 Lake Reporter edition of the CLWA Newsletter.
** Canandaigua Botanical Society's Newsletter: The Vasculum **
Beginning in 2024 Fred Haynes offered to edit a Canandaigua Botanical Society newsletter. The Vasculum is planned to be a quarterly newsletter distributed digitally. We will publish it here on our weblog and members will also receive it as a pdf file via email.
Fred would love to receive
input for future issues from any member who would like to
contribute either a full article, a short text item, or simply an image
or two. The success of any club newsletter is in the diversity of its
content and that is best accomplished with multiple contributors.
The current "Summer 2025" issue is
You are encouraged to submit material to fredmhaynes55@gmail.com.
Fall submissions should be to Fred by August 20.
Be sure to take a guess at our mystery plants!
We have printed copies of the Vasculum newsletters now available at the Wood (Canandaigua), FLCC, Geneva, Gorham, Naples, and Victor-Farmington libraries.
Here is a chronological listing of archived issues:
Winter 2024; Volume 1, Number 1
Spring 2024: Volume 1, Number 2
Summer 2024: Volume 1, Number 3
Spring 2025: Volume 2, Number 1
Summer 2025: Volume 2, Number 2
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 9 AM
Ontario Pathways walk from Wheat Road
Please send an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com by Sunday. August 3rd if you wish to carpool from Canandaigua.
Cumming Nature Center visit: Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 10 AM
Cumming Nature Center visit:
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 10 am
Angela Cannon-Crothers is Cumming Nature Center's Nature Based Learning Programs Manager as well as a naturalist, author, and poet. She will lead us as we visit a rare upland bog site to look for sundews, view beaver-created ponds and meadows, identify flowers and fungi, and reflect on some poetry and prose about nature and flowers.
Please send an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com if you wish to carpool from Canandaigua.
Saturday, September 27 at 10 AM: Rob's Trail Nature Conservancy
Doctors Bruce Gilman and Fred Haynes will lead us
along the Rob's Trail Nature Conservancy Trail
in Springwater, NY. More details to follow.
Saturday, October 25, 2025 - Ganondagan Granary Trail
GANONDAGAN GRANARY TRAIL FROM FORT HILL
Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 10 AM
Boughton Hill Road (CR 41), Victor
Charlie Ippolito and Kim Burchard will co-lead us to where the Seneca built a picketed granary atop Fort Hill to protect the two things they valued most: their lives and their corn. The location of Gah:ha-da-yan-duk is significant to the Seneca. From this hill, looking south on a clear day, the observer can see Bare Hill, the legendary birthplace of the Seneca Nation.
Directions: Travel north on 332. Turn west (left) onto CR 41 and continue on past the traffic light at Ganondagan. The Granary trail head parking will be on the right just past where Murry Road meets Boughton Hill Road from the south.
** Membership Donations **
The Canandaigua Botanical Society remains dedicated to advancing knowledge and enjoyment of plants found in the Finger Lakes Region and beyond.
Renew or become a Canandaigua Botanical Society member:
Benefits including:
Membership emails
Our Vasculum newsletters
Field trips and indoor presentations
(some for members only)
Learning about regional plants
Supporting the Finger Lakes Herbarium,
NYS FLORA Atlas and
local conservation projects
Enjoying the outdoors
Meeting people with similar interests
Payments of $10 per individual or $15 per family can be made in three ways:
1. By check to Canandaigua Botanical Society (send to our treasurer: Bill Bross, 31 Alpine Way, Victor, NY 14564)
2. By cash or check at Canandaigua Botanical Society events
3. Through the Canandaigua Botanical Society FLACE account at Canandaigua National Bank
You can expect an email receipt when funds are received and we update our membership list.
We look forward to seeing you in our 151st year!
Images shared by our members:
Check back on occasion to find images submitted by our members. I've added a link to the left column to easily locate this post.
Early April 2025 from Barb Manchee along the Domine trail:
Shared on April 20 by Marie Heerkens. Scarlet cups in Fishers, NY:
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From Mary Perry's yard in Lyons, NY mid April:
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| trillium |
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| Mayapples and more |
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| Trout lilies |
Laura made a visit to Chimney Bluffs State Park on May 10, 2025. Click here to see plenty more images.
** 2025 Canandaigua Botanical Society Events **
This is where you will find Canandaigua Botanical Society *sponsored
events* for 2025 as well as community events we think you might appreciate. Check back often to see the latest updates and links
to past events. Underlined events have links on our weblog or another community site.
iNaturalist online event: January 22 - recording available
Kettle Ridge Farm Pancake Sundays: 9am - 1pm; January 12-March 9
Plant Native - Getting Started: 9:30 - 12:00, Saturday, February 1 at Fairport Library
Winter Plant ID Series: February 2 and 9; Muller Field Station and Cumming Nature Center
Finger Lakes PRISM Hemlock Woolly Adelgid training session - Feb 5
Fruition Seeds Events including a Seed Swap at Wood Library on February 6
* Home Sweet Sanctuary*: Wednesday, February 12; 6 PM at Wood Library
* Winter Walk at Gosnell Big Woods*: Saturday, February 22, 1-3 PM
* Planning meeting at Wood Library*: Tuesday, February 25 at 1 PM
Nature's Resilience: Ash-Absent Ecosystems: Thursday, March 13 at Muller Field Station
*Lesser celandine dig at Mertensia Park*: Thursday, March 27, 2 PM
*Spring Ephemeral walk at Domine Trail* in Fishers, NY: Saturday, April 5, 10 AM
Canandaigua Tree Advisory Board presentation: Thursday, April 24 at 7 PM - Wood Library
City of Canandaigua Arbor Day Tree Planting: Friday, April 25, 1 PM
*Rush Oak Openings Unique Area: Sunday, April 27, 2 PM *
Sanctuary at Crowfield Farm - TRILLIUMS
*Annual Meeting, Potluck and Bluebell wanders*: Friday, May 2, 2025
*Population census for American Columbo* Monday, May 19 - Registration Required
*Planning Meeting at Wood Library*: Tuesday, May 20 at 1 PM
*Zurich Bog walk*: Saturday, May 31 at 10 AM - Membership and Registration Required
*National Trails Day -Ontario Pathways* Saturday, June 7 at 10 AM
*Orchid talk and potluck at BANC*: June 27, 2025 5:30 - 9 PM
*CBS History talk at OCHS*: Tuesday, July 8, 2025; Noon - 1 PM
* Visit to Walton Point *: Saturday, July 19, 10 AM
* Ontario Pathways Walk *: Wednesday, August 6 at 9 AM
* Cumming Nature Center walk *: Tuesday, August 19 at 10 AM
* Rob's Trail Nature Conservancy *: Saturday, September 20, 10 AM
* Ganondagan Fort Hill Granary Trail *: Saturday, October 25, 10 AM
November presentation: Please let us know who/what you'd like to see
** Orchid Talk and Potluck at Burroughs Audubon Nature Club **
Friday, June 27 at
Wild Orchids of Western New York,
Presentation with Potluck Supper
Spotting an orchid in the wild can be a thrill. Some are eye-catching and spectacularly colorful. Others are small and harder to find and identify. In this presentation, Fred Haynes will discuss the wild orchids he has seen and photographed in western New York State and the parks, preserves and habitats where they are found.
We will learn identifying features and the unique parasitic and symbiotic relationships some species have with other plants and fungi in the woodlands and wetlands.
This event is a joint offering for BANC members and the Canandaigua Botanical Society.
The evening will begin with a potluck supper. For dinner, bring your place setting and a dish to pass that will serve 8 to 12 people. If you are unable to join us for supper, you can still attend the program, which should begin shortly after 7:00 pm.
Click here for other Burroughs Audubon Nature Club Events
Please send an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com if you are able to help with set-up or clean-up or if you'd like to carpool from Canandaigua.
Saturday, June 7, 10 AM: National Trail Day walk along Ontario Pathways
Celebrate National Trails Day
along the Ontario Pathways trail in Stanley, NY
We will meet at the Stanley parking lot at 10 AM on Saturday, June 7th and walk a mile west to the bridge over Flint Creek. Upon our return to the Stanley parking lot you may like a short stroll north to enjoy the third installment of the Ontario County Arts Council Ontario Pathways Artwork.
The sky was hazy with Canada wildfire smoke but it was not raining and we had bug repellent and insect netting to keep us from being eaten. There were four Botanical members and four Pathways members with two more who belong to both, making ten total and Violet the pup. Tim suggested we walk "quickly" to the Great Stanley Bridge and take our time to botanize on the return. Interestingly, there was a lot of pale swallow wort in bloom, but I took no photos of the dreaded invasive.
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| Ontario Pathways parking lot where the trail heads northwest and northeast |
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| cottonwood tree |
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| Tim points out the only rail that still exists along the Ontario Pathways |
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| White Campion |
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| We saw several butterflies |
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| bloodroot past bloom |
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| racoon track |
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| mugwort - invasive |
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| crownvetch |
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| mullein |
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| Christmas fern |
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| native yarrow along side Sweet William (garden escapee) |
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| Great Stanley Bridge is 362 feet in length |
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| Tiger moth caterpillar on Dame's Rocket |
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| deadly nightshade growing along the bridge edge |
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| "created" ties and original ties used to restore the train bridge |
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| The bridge is normally 44 feet above Flint Creek. This day probably 41 feet due to rise of creek. |
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| Our National Trails Day walkers |
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| Saint John's wort? |
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| Avens |
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| cinquefoil |
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| invasive honeysuckle |
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| This showed up as "common toad flax" on an app |
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| floras on the ground |
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| hawkweed |
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| many damselflies |
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| fleabane |
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| lots of "introduced" dame's rocket. This has four petals. Phlox has five petals. |
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| very happy/healthy native poison ivy with berries growing up a tree |
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| Virginia Waterleaf |
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| burdock etc.. |
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| chokecherry |
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| clover and mouse ear chickweed |
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| Goatsbeard |
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| acrobatic caterpillar |
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