Canandaigua City Trees - April 25

Canandaigua City Tree Presentation

7 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at Wood Library 

City of Canandaigua Tree Advisory Board

2 North Main Street
Canandaigua, NY 14424
Press Notice - For Immediate Release

Trees and the Urban Forest of the City of Canandaigua will be the subject of an informational presentation on Thursday April 25 at 7:00 pm at the Wood Library on North Main Street in Canandaigua. Dr. Elizabeth Hane, Professor at RIT, and Shawn Kenaley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Horticulture at FLCC, will talk about the place of trees in the ecosystem, the benefits of trees and the threats they face. The Tree Advisory Board (TAB) of the City of Canandaigua and the Wood Library are sponsoring the program which will also provide information for homeowners and tree lovers on how to honor special trees in our community and the City’s designation as a Tree City, USA. The program is free and open to everyone.

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

 While the United States has been celebrating Earth Day since 1970, the Canandaigua Botanical Society is proud to celebrate our 150th year of making everyday Earth Day by advancing the knowledge and enjoyment of plants found in the Finger Lakes Region since 1874!

 Be sure to click on the 2024 Events Calendar to see posts of recent events.  You can click on the Canandaigua Botanical Society Headline at the top of the weblog to get you back to "home".

Spring Wildflowers along Ontario Pathways

Spring Wildflowers along Ontario Pathways

Saturday, April 20, 2024; 10 AM

We will meet at the water tower in Orleans between routes 488 and 23 at 10 AM on Saturday, April 20th to discover spring ephemeral plants along the Ontario Pathways trail heading south.  Bruce Gilman is unable to join us (he has a conference in Albany) but we will be certain to have an abundance of knowledgeable  leaders among us.

What a lovely morning to enjoy a walk along the Ontario Pathways to the Train Wreck Loop.  We had a dozen people to delight in the sights.  Several members of Ontario Pathways joined us.  Learn more about Ontario Pathways here and consider a membership to help keep OP so well maintained.

Early Meadow Rue

Service Berry / Shadbush

purple dead nettle?

Spice bush

Young Solomon Seal

service berry

Mullein / Lambs ear

cherry blossoms

Ramps / Wild Leek with last year's bloom

ironwood

wild Geranium

blood root

Angelica near Flint Creek

Flint creek looking north

bugleweed?

greater celandine

bladdernut

LOTS of yellow trout lilies

Young Norway maple

cleavers in back / aster in front?

herb robert?

last year's turkey tail

Several birders were with us today!

cut leaf toothwort

golden alexandra

Blood root growing on dead tree root

equisetum / horsetail

old train wreckage

path along flint creek

last year's thimble weed / Anemone virginiana

carpets of trout lily

young may apples

violets

kidney leaf buttercup

wild basil

ditch lilies

garlic mustard

looking off the main trail towards Flint Creek

returning from train wreck loop onto OP trail

wild chives?

Almost forgot the woodfrog!