Woodbine Women’s Club March 18, 2012
Woodbine Women’s Club, “Jazz ‘n Art on the Riverwalk,” Woodbine, GA: March, 18, 2012, 1 – 5 pm
Spring Plant Sale at Ashantilly Center April 14, 2012
Coastal WildScapes Native Plant Sale
April 14th, 2012 Ashantilly Center, Darien Georgia 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
For directions, just click here!
Support Native Pollinators and Wildlife
Coastal WildScapes, once again, brings you an assortment of native perennials and shrubs for you to weave into your garden and landscape, along with educational programming for the curious.
Buy Native Plants
Join us for Mini-Programs:
Buffers, Buntings & Butterflies: Scott Colemann, Ecological Manager, Little St. Simons Island
Invasive plants: Eamonn Leonard, Natural Resources Biologist, DNR Nongame Conservation
Tour of Sale Plants from a Butterfly’s Eye: Christa Hayes, Coastal Ecologist, Coastal WildScapes
Additional programs to be announced….
Enjoy beautiful Ashantilly Center, for their web site, just click here!
Share light refreshments and non-invasive Mimosas!
Download a PDF Flyer here to pass along to friends and family.
FLETC Earth Day April 19, 2012
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s Annual Earth Day Celebration, Brunswick, GA: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 10 am – 2 pm.
Harris Neck Butterfly Walk-about June 7th, 2012 – Registration CLOSED
Directions and more information about the Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge can be found by clicking here.
Download a PDF for printing and email, just click here.
Get Away to Little St. Simons Island February 26-27, 2012
Coastal WildScapes and Little St. Simons Island Present:
An exclusive opportunity for Coastal WildScapes members to spend two nights on Little St. Simons Island. Our special guest will be Susan Cerulean.
Susan is the author of Tracking Desire: A Journey After Swallow-tailed Kites, and the editor of four anthologies of Florida based writings. She is at work on a book about changes coming to north Florida’s barrier island coast entitled Coming to Pass. She has recently completed a second writing residency at Hedgebrook Farm on Whidbey Island. Susan lives in Tallahassee with her husband; together, they enjoy growing most of their vegetables in a community garden.
“My memory is etched with a clear image of how that bird swung into view and hung over me, suspended like an angel, so darkly black and white, with its wide-scissored split of a tail”.
“’Be still for now’, the white head of the swallow-tailed kite appeared to say. ‘Protect what is life affirming, life beginning, without rancor. Hold fast to what is right. Speak truthfully. And place your body over the precious things.”’
In addition, Tim Keyes, a biologist with Georgia Department of Natural Resources (nongame conservation) will discuss coastal bird conservation efforts for swallow-tailed kites and other species of conservation concern.
This will be a memorable time to enjoy all of the activities on Little St. Simons Island. Don’t miss it!
Sunday & Monday; February 26th and 27th 2012
Special Rate for Coastal WildScapes Members
$350 per night per couple; including all amenities and meals.
Space is extremely limited. Reserve now with Shana:
Shana@LittleStSimonsIsland.com
706-457-0546
1-888-733-5774
Butterfly Walk About, Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge
What a glorious late spring day to go on a butterfly walk about at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge! We began our morning in the Welcome Center with a beautiful presentation by Christa Hayes (a Coastal WildScapes founding board member) and enjoyed delightful sweet treats prepared by Betty Ewing, a Harris Neck volunteer.Fritillary host plant Accompanied by Kimberly Hayes, the Refuge Manager, Coastal WildScapes members were rewarded with long looks at a great variety of coastal butterflies as they flitted from nectar plant to nectar plant. Janet Yeager’s keen eye first saw a Southern Skipperling and then spotted a monarch caterpillar munching on one of its host plants, a sand hill milkweed, Asclepias humistrata. Read more
The Manassas Bog
Everyone successfully arrived at the meeting place, mostly on time, in spite of learning about another ‘Belleville’ in McIntosh Co. that we did not know about. Armed with sun hats, bug spray, and sunscreen we Sarracenia purpurea – purple pitcher plantheaded off to our first bog. The owner of this property was with us so we discussed problems of ownership of land containing rare plants. The second site had recently been burned, so we had wood ash as well as heat and full sun to contend with. Found lots of neat plants, many unique to this site in this part of Georgia. Read more