Saugus Community Calendar

Join us at the Long Hill Horticultural Center for this special lecture with Scott LaFleur, Botanic Garden Director at the New England Wild Flower Society's headquarters, Garden in the Woods. LeFleur will discuss how climate change will affect gardeners: from changing the USDA plant hardiness zone map to disappearing and retreating species, your garden will look different in 20 years. LaFleur will also focus on hands-on approaches gardeners can implement to mitigate the adverse affects of traditional gardening techniques. Refreshments served at 6:30 pm. Scott LaFleur is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire horticulture program, specializing in perennials and perennial garden design. Scott joined New England Wild Flower Society as Senior Horticulturist of Garden in the Woods in 2005 and became Horticulture Director in January, 2008. Currently as Botanic Garden Director, he is curator of the plant collection and oversees facilities, visitor services, and retail services at Garden in the Woods.

We'll explore snowflakes from outside and in during this hands-on workshop. We'll get outside to catch snowflakes, then head inside where we'll learn how to make ice crystal models and paper flakes and view Bentley's snowflake photographs taken under microscopes.

Have you seen the barred owls, foxes, or red squirrels of Ravenswood Park? Come to our new Cape Ann Center for Learning & Discovery when these live animals visit, to get a close-up view of these creatures and learn about their habits and behaviors. Fun for the whole family! In February, we'll meet nocturnal animals, then we'll take a night-time hike in the park.

Celebrate the winter solstice with a candlelight stroll in our favorite woodland park followed by song, warm fire, s'mores, and hot chocolate. Pre-registration required.

Gordon Hayward first presented this lecture at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1995; he has since been refining and presenting this slide-illustrated lecture in art museums and garden organizations across the country. This one-hour lecture is about the visual language shared between painters and garden designers. By juxtaposing a painting and a garden image on the screen, Hayward explores the many levels of similarity between how the painter and garden designer construct their images. Hayward begins by exploring style: romanticism, expressionism, pattern and decoration, and others. For example, he places Childe Hassam's In the Garden next to an image from his own garden in Vermont to show what an impressionist passage in a garden looks like. He next explores many design principles you can put to work in your garden: defining depth, creating foreground/background, how light can be manipulated, the power of focal points, pleasing contrasts, framing, contrasting textures and forms and the many roles of trees in the garden. He closes with an exploration of color in paintings by Gauguin, Matisse, Bonnard and others, and how you can use paintings to inspire your color combinations in pots and beds. This is a lecture that enables you, through art, to take a fresh look at your garden from a new perspective. Refreshments served at 6:30 pm.

Saugus Youth Soccer is having a registration night for the Spring soccer season on Monday, March 1, from 5PM to 8PM at Dick's Sporting Goods, at the Square One Mall, Saugus, MA. Come register for all intown teams and select travel team spots.

Have you seen the barred owls, foxes, or red squirrels of Ravenswood Park? Come to our new Cape Ann Center for Learning & Discovery when these live animals visit, to get a close-up view of these creatures and learn about their habits and behaviors. Fun for the whole family! In March, we'll meet amphibious creatures, then take a night-time visit to an active vernal pool.

Celebrate the winter solstice with a candlelight stroll in our favorite woodland park followed by song, warm fire, s'mores, and hot chocolate. Pre-registration required.