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Smith College’s Lyman Conservatory is in bloom this month for the annual Fall Chrysanthemum Show! Visitors to the greenhouses can learn about genetic diversity amongst plants and plant hybridization while viewing the beautiful flowers, which can be up to eight inches across. Even the most amateur botanists will love the wide variety of color, pattern, shape, and size seen amongst the blooms.
Local flower societies and college conservatories are community resources that can offer opportunities to learn about habitat, the life cycle of plants, and the structural nuances that differentiate one species from another. Three upcoming annual flower shows featuring orchids, flower bulbs and spring flowers are perfect events to support these interests and to inspire a love for flowers!
Smith College’s Lyman Conservatory is in bloom this month for the annual Fall Chrysanthemum Show! Visitors to the greenhouses can learn about genetic diversity amongst plants and plant hybridization while viewing the beautiful flowers, which can be up to eight inches across. Even the most amateur botanists will love the wide variety of color, pattern, shape, and size seen amongst the blooms.
Local flower societies and college conservatories are community resources that can offer opportunities to learn about habitat, the life cycle of plants, and the structural nuances that differentiate one species from another. Three upcoming annual flower shows featuring orchids, flower bulbs and spring flowers are perfect events to support these interests and to inspire a love for flowers!
Calling all budding botanists… Smith College’s Lyman Conservatory has an audio tour for kids & adults! With ten different indoor exhibits to explore, the learning possibilities offered by the conservatory are endless….
Have you seen the permanent exhibit at Smith College Botanical Garden’s Lyman Plant House that features panels of wood from over 170 trees from all around the world? “Woods of the World,” also know as WoW) is an intimate hallway exhibit where families can learn about the uses for and origins of many types of wood, revealing wood grains in all shapes and patterns…
Asian Studies Supplemented in the Pioneer Valley Exhibit, Educator Workshop, Guided Tours, Performance Art & Free Family Day Educational opportunities are numerous over the next few months for those interested in teaching and learning about Asian art! The Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, MA will be opening a new exhibit on Asian art beginning February 1st through May 26th, 2013. Titled, Collecting Art of Asia, the exhibit celebrates the 100th anniversary… Read More
Four Western MA College’s Host National Girls and Women in Sports Day Title IX, the law that made sex-based discrimination in school sports illegal, turns 40 this year! Young women can celebrate their equality by participating in National Girls and Women in Sports Day at a local Western MA college campus! The national event takes place on February 1st, but local colleges are hosting their own special days in the weeks before… Read More
Note 6, Living in a College Town In the mornings, I drop my kids off and walk a loop around the Smith College Campus, passing Paradise Pond and continuing up the hill toward the chapel. One morning last year, I realized that amongst the things I’m grateful for living here is this one: I will always know what an 18-year-old looks like. ❥ The rhythms of Campus Life—how every school year includes… Read More
The Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School in Haydenville, MA writes: The Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School (HCCPS) is joining the Smith College Department of Education and Child Study and the Smith College Campus School in sponsoring the screening of the important film, “Race to Nowhere” on Sunday Jan, 30 at 3:30 pm in Wright Hall on the campus of Smith College (33 Prospect Street) in Northampton, MA. A discussion will follow the… Read More
Pet-Free Till Now: The Botanic Garden at Smith Works its Magic We’ve been a pet-free family for almost 15 years. The first three years of our marriage we worked so much that having a pet would have been animal cruelty. I was finishing my degree, writing some huge thesis and drinking too much Chai. Matt was working a few jobs and writing. We added a child, then two more kids, one with… Read More
And did you know that chrysanthemum petals are edible? Not that you’d want to eat the petals found on the ground there, like my daughter wanted to do when I told her they were edible. But potted chrysanthemums kept on the kitchen window or petals gathered in the fall from your garden would be more suitable.
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