Early Summer happenings you may be interested in...

 

*Huckleberry Bog    (more strenuous trail with .83 mile uphill to get to the 3 mile bog trail)

 This is a five mile hike from Bean Station Road south of Prattsburg, NY.  It's a wonderful hike throughout the year but now is the time to visit the pink lady slippers, gay-wings, may apples, sarsaparilla, pink azalea, and late spring/early summer plants.

*Ontario County Historical Society  (free admission year round)

There are several exhibits at the OCHS, 53 North Main Street, Canandaigua, NY.

Please be sure to get there before June 23 to see:

*Burning Springs Open Garden weekends

Saturdays and Sundays May 27 & 28, June 3 & 4

View the burning spring that Senecas revered and showed to French explorers in 1669, walk up the gully to a scenic waterfall and tour the spring-blooming gardens. The private property's owner, who allows access only during this annual event, will give a talk on the site's history at 2 p.m. on each of the four days the site is open.

 *Manchester Gateway Trail (wide flat trail, fine for wheelchairs, strollers, bikes, walking, and leashed pets)

This is the time of year that Leucojum (summer snowflake) are blooming.  A native of Europe has made it's way to the Eastern USA and can be found on the south end of the Manchester Gateway Trail near Water Street.   (As of May 27 the summer snowflakes are spent.  Must be the warmth of April brought them out early this year.)

 * Click on bold leads for more information.

Lesser Celandine removal at Mertensia Park

 Thanks to Emily for creating this flyer for our lesser celandine dig on Thursday, May 18, 2024 at 3:30 PM

May 19, 2023:  Reporting back that our Invasive Lesser Celandine dig was a success!

Emily and Laura met at Mertensia Park and got right to work flagging, digging, and bagging as much lesser celandine as they saw.  They certainly made a positive impact on removing most of the lesser celandine and look forward to being joined by others to dig again in March or April of 2024 before the bluebells bloom.

Patch of lesser celandine flagged for removal

pink marked the lesser celandine

Best efforts were made to remove as much of the plants with bulblets and tubers as possible 

Full bags ready to move to Rotary sign for pick up

Job well done!

Emily and Laura with the 7 garbage bags full of lesser celandine.

Thanks to the Town of Farmington for picking up the bagged lesser celandine.

Tree Identification Walk at Wesley Hill

 The Finger Lakes Land Trust will be leading a tree identification walk at Wesley Hill Nature Preserve on Saturday, June 10th at 10 AM.  Registration is required.