Maryland Native Plant Society

Dedicated to Protecting, Conserving, and Restoring
Maryland's Native Plants and Habitats

Greater Baltimore Chapter

Volunteers Needed

The Steering Committee of the Greater Baltimore Chapter is looking for more members to help plan meetings and field trips and to run the Chapter. If you are interested in helping out, we meet at 6:00 p.m. at the Irvine Nature Center for pizza before the bi-monthly program. For more information, contact Ann Lundy at baltchapter @ mdflora.org or 410-366-9365.

Chapter Meetings: Bi-monthly, 3rd Wednesdays

Meetings usually will be held January, March, May, July, September, and November.

Location

We hold most meetings at The Irvine Nature Center, 8400 Greenspring Avenue, Stevenson, MD, 21093, in Baltimore County.

Directions: From the Baltimore Beltway (695) take the Greenspring Avenue exit north. Irvine Nature Center is about 1 mile on the left, on the grounds of the St. Timothy's School. Turn right beyond the gatehouse. The Nature Center is the first main building you come to, behind the stone wall. Park within the stone wall or at rear of building.

Field Trips

Member Interest Survey

The Greater Baltimore Chapter would like feedback on member interests regarding field trips:

  1. Do you prefer Saturdays (typically begin at 10:00) or Sundays (typically begin at 1:00)?
  2. Are you interested in seeing native plant gardens or restorations?  Specifically, should we arrange field trips to:
    • Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center, Millersville, Anne Arundel County (lined bog garden that conveys stormwater away from the building via capillary action - many beautiful bog plants)
    • National Aquarium, Inner Harbor, Baltimore (a series of gardens representing different plant communities of Maryland are currently being installed)
    • Home gardens for wildlife habitat, near Finksburg, eastern Carroll County
    • Font Hill Wetlands Park (25 acre wetland mitigation) in Ellicott City, Howard County
    • Mt. Pleasant, Howard County Conservancy farm in Woodstock, northern Howard County (2 small rain gardens, native plant xeriscape gardens, meadow restoration, forest restoration, streambank and riparian buffer plantings, deer management)
    • Pot Spring and Minebank Run, Baltimore County? Formerly enclosed within a concrete channel, 8 years ago the county hired Biohabitats to restore Pot Spring's stream and floodplain.  Today, both stream and plants look remarkably natural.  Last year, the Minebank Run was similarly restored.

Please e-mail your field trip interests to Louisa at louisagardener @ verizon.net.

Local Events

Urban Weed Warriors Program

The City of Baltimore is also training Urban Weed Warriors to remove invasive exotic weeds in city parks. If you are interested in becoming an "Urban Weed Warrior," please contact Kim Meade at kim.meade @ baltimorecity.gov or WeedWarriorProgram.BCRP @ baltimorecity.gov. See Baltimore City's Urban Weed Warriors section on our site.

Conservation Projects

Contact

Ann Lundy, 410-366-9365, baltchapter @ mdflora.org (use e-mail to send non-critical information, only).

Areas Included

© Maryland Native Plant Society. Last updated: May 5, 2008.