** FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2025: Annual Meeting **

Our annual meeting will be on Friday, May 2 

at Mertensia Lodge in Farmington, NY.

 

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FRIDAY, May 2: Mertensia Park wanders, Annual meeting and potluck meal. 

1438 Mertensia Road, Farmington, NY 14425    

We have the Mertensia Lodge reserved from 8 AM – 10 PM.  Our potluck meal will begin at 6 PM with a brief annual meeting afterwards.  People are asked to bring a dish to pass and place settings for each person in your group.  The lodge kitchen has an oven/stove, fridge, microwave and sink.  You are asked to bring serving utensils for your dish to share.  We will have decaf coffee and a selection of teas.

You are most welcome to walk along Mud Creek to enjoy the Mertensia Bluebells and other spring flowers before the meeting.  Members are encouraged to bring “items to share” before or after the meal (photos, poems, stories, nature discoveries, music, books, etc). 

Laura plans to bring the plein air materials by 4 PM for anyone who would like to capture the bluebells with paint on paper.   

 

Wander and Wonder Walks at Muller Field Station

 WONDERFUL opportunity for weekly wanders/Wonder Walks at Muller Field Station on Friday mornings!

The FLCC Muller Field Station invites you to join them for weekly Wander and Wonder Walks on Fridays from 9am-10am at 6455 Co Rd 36, Honeoye, NY 14471. Each week they will walk the same loop at Muller with a different special guest. In the rich tradition of many naturalists before us, they will practice observing and being present: seeing, hearing, and documenting. Plus, you'll get to “re-experience” this short foray through various lenses each week as colleagues from various arts and sciences disciplines join us. 

These walks are free and open to all.  You may attend one or many as your schedule allows.

Monday, May 19: Population Census for American Columbo

 REGISTRATION REQUIRED: send an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com

We will meet on Monday, May 19 at the FLCC East Campus to conduct a population census of American Columbo under the direction of Dr Bruce Gilman.  You can read more about the American Columbo in our Spring 2025 edition of the VASCULUM.   Details with location and possible carpooling will be shared when you register.  

 

 

Canandaigua Botanical Society Planning Meeting

 Tuesday, May 20, 2025 from 1-3 PM

 in the Ewing room at Wood Library

 Join us in the Ewing Room of Wood Library on Tuesday, May 20 at 1pm to help continue planning events for our 151st year.  All are welcome.  If you're unable to attend the meetings, please feel free to email ideas to us at canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com.

** Saturday, May 31, 10 AM - Guided walk at Zurich Bog **

Active membership and Registration is required for this event

Please send email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com 

We are limiting this event to 25 members 

(we currently have 22 people signed up) 

 

A National Natural Landmark with a Sphagnum bog and floating bog cradled by glacial drumlins, Zurich Bog covers 650 acres in Arcadia, NY.  Anytime is a great time to enjoy this Bergen Swamp Preservation property.  Based on past visits to Zurich Bog we are likely to see: Pitcher Plants, Lady Slippers, Cucumber Root, Trillium, Foam Flowers, Mayapple, Blood Root, several varieties of fern, Partridge Berry, Gold Thread, Ginseng, Solomon Seal, Sundew, tulip trees, Marsh Marigolds, and more.  

We would like to have a count of who to expect will be following Doctors Bruce and Fred.  Please let us know you're joining us by sending an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com.

A carpool will leave the Sly Street parking lot by 9 AM.  

** 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 "Spring 2025" issue is

now available here!

  You are encouraged to submit material to fredmhaynes55@gmail.com. 

Future submissions should be to Fred by May 20, 2025 

Be sure to take a guess at our mystery plants!

 

We have printed copies of the 2024 Vasculum newsletters now available at the Wood (Canandaigua), FLCC, Gorham, and Victor-Farmington libraries. Please let us know what libraries we should ask to hold them.

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

                        Fall 2024: Volume 1, Number 4

                        Spring 2025: Volume 2, Number 1

 

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.

 

Please let us know if you'd like to carpool from the Sly Street parking lot at 9:15 AM.    

** Orchid Talk and Potluck at Burroughs Audubon Nature Club **

 Friday, June 27 at Burroughs Audubon Nature Club

301 Railroad Mills Road, Pittsford, NY

 Wild orchids of Western New York State  by Fred Haynes

 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, I will discuss the wild orchids I have seen and photographed in western New York State and the parks, preserves, and habitats where they were found. We will learn their identifying features and the unique parasitic and symbiotic relationships some species have with other plants and fungi in the woodlands and wetlands.

More information to follow

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

 

 

Seeking Garden/Landscaping Helpers

 Occasionally we receive requests from people who are looking for help with maintenance of their gardens and landscaping.  We currently have a member in Geneva seeking someone to help her with springtime garden chores in the next three weeks as a recent knee surgery is limiting her from doing it alone.    

If you are able to help in this circumstance or are interested in being contacted for future requests, please send us an email at canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com.    

 

** 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!

** 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 *

*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 

*CBS History talk at OCHS*: Tuesday, July 8, 2025

* Visit to Walton Point *: Saturday, July 19

In the planning stages.... 

* Rob's Trail Nature Conservancy*

* Highland Park Arboretum* 

* Ontario Pathways - Wheat Road *

* Lagoon Park *

* Canandaigua Vista Nature Preserve * 

* Cumming Nature Center *