** 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:




 From Mary Perry's yard in Lyons, NY mid April:

trillium

Mayapples and more

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.

 

                       IMAGES SHARED BY MEMBERS 

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


 


 PAST EVENTS:

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.

 Podcast  https://www.wysl1040.com/podcasts
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.
 
It also streams live at www.wysl1040.com at those times (click the Listen Live Now! button).
 

 

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

 Friday, June 27 at  

Burroughs Audubon Nature Club

 Wild Orchids of Western New York, 

 Presentation with Potluck Supper

  • Burroughs Audubon Nature Sanctuary 
  •  301 Railroad Mills Road Pittsford, NY, 14534

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.

Ontario Pathways parking lot where the trail heads northwest and northeast

cottonwood tree

Tim points out the only rail that still exists along the Ontario Pathways

White Campion
  


We saw several butterflies


bloodroot past bloom

racoon track

mugwort - invasive


crownvetch


mullein

Christmas fern

native yarrow along side Sweet William (garden escapee)


Great Stanley Bridge is 362 feet in length


Tiger moth caterpillar on Dame's Rocket

deadly nightshade growing along the bridge edge


"created" ties and original ties used to restore the train bridge 


The bridge is normally 44 feet above Flint Creek.  This day probably 41 feet due to rise of creek.


Our National Trails Day walkers


Saint John's wort?





Avens



cinquefoil


invasive honeysuckle

This showed up as "common toad flax" on an app


floras on the ground



hawkweed

many damselflies

fleabane

lots of "introduced" dame's rocket.  This has four petals.  Phlox has five petals.





very happy/healthy native poison ivy with berries growing up a tree

Virginia Waterleaf



burdock etc..

chokecherry


clover and mouse ear chickweed

Goatsbeard


acrobatic caterpillar


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