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Muhlenberg Botanic Club Field trips for the rest of Spring 2008

M Sunday, April 27: Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center ( Meet at 10 am at the Sawmill parking lot. see directions below) and State Game Lands 52 after lunch . At Nolde Forest EEC we will see a stream side woodland with spring ephemerals and an upland forest. Easy walking trails, but some hills. After lunch for those who wish to will travel to State Game Lands #52, about 5 miles away on the Berks Co./Lancaster Co. line (between Maple Grove and Churchtown). We will explore in the woods along Black Creek, where there are interesting plants among the diabase boulders and outcrops. Directions from Lancaster to Nolde Forest. (Travel time from Lancaster ca. 40 min.): Take US 222 north, past the PA Turnpike for 2 miles to the NEW Adamstown-Knauers exit. Turn Right onto Rte 568 east, go 2 miles. At the traffic light, turn left on Rt. 625 north. Go approximately 4.25 miles (past Hickory Rd and Freemansville Rd and 2/3 mile past the main Nolde Entrance). Turn left into the Sawmi

Muhlenberg Botanical Socitety April 2008 Field Trips

Complete 2008 Field Trip List Saturday, April 19 : Benton Hollow and Haines Station Meet at Musser Grocery Store on Rt. 272 at the Buck, south side of parking lot at 9:00 am. We’ll go Benton Hollow first. Bring your own bag lunch; we’ll return to the cars to eat. In the afternoon we'll visit Haines Station to see the pink Trillium grandiflorum. Each walk is 1 ½ mile round trip, easy to moderate. Trip leader: Joan King (717-284-5239 or jsking1@lycos.com). Sunday, April 27: Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center and State Game Lands 52. Meet at 10 am at Nolde Forest EEC's Sawmill Parking Lot. At Nolde Forestwe will see a stream side woodland with spring ephemerals and an upland forest. Easy walking trails, but some hills. After lunch those who wish to will travel to State Game Lands #52, about 5 miles away on the Berks Co./Lancaster Co. line (between Maple Grove and Churchtown). We will explore in the woods along Black Creek, where there are interesting pl

Rex's Saxifrages

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On Vancouver Island we visited our good friend Rex Murfitt and saw his garden and alpine houses. The porophyllum (Kabschia and Engleria) saxifrages in both the garden and the alpine houses were at their peak. While the encrusted sax species has the most wonderful leaf forms, arrangements and white lime encrustations. More pictures are here . Above: Saxifraga burseriana Below: Saxifraga belunensis Irmsch