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Adkins Mystery Monday: What Critter Did We Find?

June 5, 2023 by Adkins Arboretum Leave a Comment

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Happy Mystery Monday! What critter did we find? They blend in with the lush foliage incredibly well!

Last week, we asked you about the serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis)! Also known as a juneberry or shadbush, this small native tree produces dark purple fruits similar in taste and appearance to blueberries in June. Serviceberries are one of the first native trees to flower offering an important nectar source for a variety of pollinators. Birds and mammals enjoy the sweet fruits. Butterflies such as the red spotted purple and the viceroy use the tree as a host plant for their larvae. If you are looking for a versatile native tree with great wildlife value and tasty fruits, a serviceberry may be an excellent addition to your yard.
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Musician Carrie Rose Brings Breathing in Nature to Adkins Arboretum June 17

June 2, 2023 by Adkins Arboretum Leave a Comment

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Carrie Rose intertwines solo flute with recorded owls, grasshoppers and water. As dusk falls on Sat., June 17, these sounds will mingle with breezes, bird and frog calls and stirring turtles and fish when Rose performs Breathing in Nature on the wetland boardwalk at Adkins Arboretum. All are invited to attend.

Featuring compositions by Rose and other contemporary and classical composers, along with friendly introductions to each piece to engage curiosity and intellect, the program will also explore the writings of environmentalist Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring and The Sense of Wonder.

Rose is a flutist, composer and teacher in the Washington, D.C., area. As a performer, she unfurls a luscious array of classical chamber music, grooves for folk dances, freelances with regional orchestras, wails out avant-garde music and presents in-person and recorded Breathing in Nature concerts. Her compositions have been featured at numerous venues in the Baltimore-D.C. region, and she has performed in the D.C. area with ensembles that include the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Arlington Philharmonic, Cathedral Choral Society and Washington Concert Opera.

Flutist, composer and teacher Carrie Rose will blend solo flute with the music of the natural world when she performs Breathing in Nature at Adkins Arboretum on Sat., June 17.

Seating begins at 7 p.m. on the wetland bridge and boardwalk. Music from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. will include Syrinx by Claude Debussy, Owls for Flute and Owl Sounds by Carrie Rose, Sonata Appassionata by Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Canto del Alba by Mario Lavista, Waterweave for flute and water sounds by Carrie Rose, Tango Etude #3 by Astor Piazzola, Prelude in C Major from the Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ave Maria by Charles Gounod and Suvisoitto (Summersounds) flute and grasshoppers by Usko Merilainen.

Wine and treats will be available for purchase before the concert. Attendees should bring chairs. The concert is accessible.

The program fee of $20 for members/$25 for non-members increases by $5 on the day of the event. Advance registration is encouraged at adkinsarboretum.org or by calling 410-634-2847, ext. 100.

Breathing in Nature is sponsored in part by the Caroline County Council of Arts and the Maryland Arts Council.

A 400-acre native garden and preserve, Adkins Arboretum provides exceptional experiences in nature to promote environmental stewardship.

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Artists in Dialogue with Landscape Outdoor Sculpture Invitational on View at Adkins Arboretum

May 31, 2023 by Adkins Arboretum Leave a Comment

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Many stories are woven into the landscape at Adkins Arboretum. This spring, five artists from the mid-Atlantic region brought some of them to light with their sculptures on view June 1 through Sept. 30 in the Arboretum’s 11th biennial Outdoor Sculpture Invitational—Artists in Dialogue with Landscape. The artists will talk about the stories that inspired their artworks during a reception and guided sculpture walk on Sat., June 3 from 2 to 4 p.m.

“News Alert—Dinosaur Tracks Discovered at Adkins Arboretum!” is Yardley, Penn., artist Elizabeth McCue’s take on how the Arboretum may have looked in prehistory. Set in a curving path, her trackway of huge sauropod footprints marches off into the forest beyond.

The Arboretum’s present-day paths prompted Marcos Smyth of Alexandria, Va., to create “Revelator.” Spanning a path under the trees, it creates an unexpected barrier, forcing walkers to enter its wheelchair-accessible U-shaped tunnel. Inside, it reveals itself as a place of dappled light and shadow where one is largely concealed from the outside world but can see through the latticework of sticks and burlap that form its walls. It’s an invitation to pause, look around and open to the peace and revelations the forest offers before moving on.

“Revelator,” a sculpture by Marcos Smyth

Stephanie Garon, of Clarksville, Md., also took up the theme of traveling with three towering figures made of bundles of willow saplings that seem to stride across the Arboretum’s South Meadow. After learning that this land was the home of the native Choptank people until colonization forced them to migrate, Garon began to consider how people around the world are being displaced as climate change makes their homes uninhabitable through sea level rise and intensified weather patterns.

In her travels as an art handler moving art for museums and galleries across the U.S. and Canada, Laurel, Md., artist Melissa Burley often witnesses the effects of increasingly severe storms caused by climate change. Also disturbed by the discarded water bottles and tattered plastic bags caught in fences along the highways, she was inspired by Chief Seattle’s famous words, “Man does not weave a web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself.” A startling bright blue in the green of the forest, her sculpture, “Caught in a Web,” is an intimate tableau made of a picket fence and litter with a mirror behind a silvery web that reflects the viewer’s own face.

Another aspect of the same web is revealed by colorful flags set in a patch of delicate ferns surrounding a large tree. “All Together,” a second sculpture by McCue, evokes the Wood Wide Web popularized by Suzanne Simard’s book Finding the Mother Tree. Only recently discovered by scientists, the mycorrhizal network that trees use to communicate and forge symbiotic relationships is hidden underground, but McCue has made it visible by marking its interconnected patterns with hundreds of multicolored flags radiating from a “Mother Tree.”

For Towson, Md., artist Bridgette Guerzon Mills, it was natural to let the forest’s trees tell their own stories. Gathering acorns, seedpods, bark, lichens, moss and leaves, she stitched them onto the pages of a large handmade book where they form a gentle meditation on trees’ role in the forest ecology. As well as containing the seeds of the next generation of trees, such “forest litter” provides food for animals and nutrients for the soil and is crucial to the health of the forest.

A powerful awareness of such intricate interconnections runs through all these artists’ works. In their various ways, they explore the realization that in our ever-changing world, the interconnections humans share with all of nature are crucial to the web of life on earth.

This show is part of Adkins Arboretum’s ongoing exhibition series of work on natural themes by regional artists. It is on view June 1 through Sept. 30 at the Arboretum Visitor’s Center located at 12610 Eveland Road near Tuckahoe State Park in Ridgely. Contact the Arboretum at 410-634-2847, ext. 100 or info@adkinsarboretum.org for gallery hours.

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Forest Music Returns to Adkins Arboretum June 15

May 30, 2023 by Adkins Arboretum Leave a Comment

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Music will once again lilt through the trees when Adkins Arboretum hosts Forest Music on Thurs., June 15 from 2 to 4 p.m. Presented in partnership with Chestertown’s National Music Festival, Forest Music is a unique performance art event that brings young musicians and their mentors from the Festival to play in the forest for visitors who travel from near and far to hear them.

Since its inception in 2014, Forest Music has become a highly anticipated annual event. Positioned individually or in small groups along a circuit of wooded paths, musicians play their individual selections simultaneously so that their music can be heard up close or at a distance as visitors walk through the forest. Sometimes harmonizing between one group and the next, sometimes creating strangely magical dissonances, they play in concert with birdsong, the rustle of leaves in high branches and, occasionally, a chorus of frogs.

Over the years, participating musicians have come with violins, clarinets, horns, bassoons, double basses and even steel drums to play everything from Bach to the Beatles to original compositions developed specifically for the Arboretum forest. Held during the National Music Festival’s two-week run, Forest Music draws many of its visitors from the Festival itself while also attracting a large local audience from the Arboretum’s members and friends.

Musicians from Chestertown’s National Music Festival play in the woods during Forest Music at Adkins Arboretum. The 2023 Forest Music performance is Thurs., June 15 at the Arboretum in Ridgely.

The event will also feature the opportunity to bid on a parlor-size acoustic/electric guitar, generously donated by PRS Guitars. Bids will also be accepted through June 30 at adkinsarboretum.org.

Forest Music is $10 per person. Light refreshments will be served, and wine will be available for purchase. All are welcome; advance registration is strongly encouraged at adkinsarboretum.org or by calling 410-634-2847, ext. 100.

This event is generously sponsored in part by the Caroline County Council of Arts, PRS Guitars and Unity Landscape Design|Build.

A 400-acre native garden and preserve, Adkins Arboretum provides exceptional experiences in nature to promote environmental stewardship.

The National Music Festival brings together inspiring mentors and the next generation of gifted musicians, providing education, scholarships and affordable, adventurous public performances in and around Chestertown, Md. Visit nationalmusic.us for more information.

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Adkins Mystery Monday: Do You Know What Native Tree is Almost Ripe with Fruits?

May 29, 2023 by Adkins Arboretum Leave a Comment

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Happy Memorial Day and Mystery Monday! Do you know what native tree is almost ripe with fruits?

Last week, we asked you about a gall produced by the wool sower gall wasp (Callirhytis seminator). A gall is an abnormal growth of the plant tissue usually due either to insects, viruses or fungi. In this case, the wool sower gall wasp lays its eggs in the plant tissue of the white oak tree and the larvae give off secretions that cause the “gall” to form. Within the gall, the larvae are protected and able to develop. This wasp is tiny (only about 1/8″ long) and does not sting humans. Interestingly, they operate on a two-generation alternating cycle, switching back and forth between laying their eggs in the stems and the leaves of white oaks.
#adkinsarboretum #mysterymonday #mysteryplant #insectsarecool #carolinecounty #ecology

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Adkins Mystery Monday: Do You Know What We Found on a White Oak?

May 22, 2023 by Adkins Arboretum Leave a Comment

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Happy Mystery Monday! Do you know what we found on a white oak?

Last week, we asked you about the jumping spider (Phidippus sp). This jumping spider is likely a canopy jumping spider (Phidippus otiosus), though its behavior and location was more consistent with that of a bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax), so we get to learn about both! Both have iridescent pincer-like claws called chelicerae. Jumping spiders have highly evolved stereoscopic vision and are excellent hunters. The canopy jumping spider is often found in trees and positions its eggs in the bark of oak and pine trees. The bold jumping spider is known for being, well, bold and is commonly found. Bold jumping spiders are usually black with a characteristic white triangle on its abdomen. This particular jumping spider was hanging out in our workshop and was extremely friendly/inquisitive. It had iridescent green chelicerae and did not have the characteristic triangle of the bold jumping spider on its abdomen. So, say hello to a very friendly canopy jumping spider.
#adkinsarboretum #mysterymonday #jumpingspider #ecology #carolinecounty #fuzzyandforthcoming

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Adkins Mystery Monday: Do You Know What Kind of Spider This Is?

May 15, 2023 by Adkins Arboretum Leave a Comment

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Happy Mystery Monday! We met a very fuzzy and forthcoming spider — do you know what kind it is?

Last week, we asked you about deerberry (Vaccinium stamineum)! Deerberry is ericaceous and in the same genus as blueberries. Easily identified by their open bell shaped drooping flowers, deerberry blooms in May and is often found in dry, open woods. Birds and mammals will eat the berries and pollinators (especially bumblebees) will seek out the nectar. Brown elfin butterfly larvae will use ericaceous plants as a host plant and there are a number of native bees that specialize on Vacciniums. If you’re wondering what to plant in a dry, shaded area, a deerberry or fellow Vaccinium may be perfect to add beauty and ecological function to your yard.
#adkinsarboretum #mysterymonday #vaccinium #ericaceous #ecologicalfunction #fuzzyandforthcoming #carolinecounty #nativeplant

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Adkins Mystery Monday: Do You Know What Native Shrub is Blooming?

May 8, 2023 by Adkins Arboretum Leave a Comment

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Happy Mystery Monday! Do you know what native shrub is blooming along some of our trails?

Last week, we asked you about the fleabane daisy (Erigeron annuus)! This native annual flower is a pioneer species that grows along fields and roadsides. These flowers bloom in May and vary from a light pink to white color. The common name is derived from a belief that the dried flowers helped to get rid of fleas. Like many other Asters, it provides nectar for pollinators. If you have it growing in your yard, allow it to reseed to encourage its growth and spread.
#adkinsarboretum #mysterymonday #fleabanedaisy #nativeannual #mysteryshrub #mysteryplant

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Adkins Mystery Monday: Do You Know What These Flowers are?

May 1, 2023 by Adkins Arboretum Leave a Comment

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Happy May Mystery Monday! April showers over the weekend have brought us May flowers! Do you know what these flowers are?

Last week, we asked you about the crane fly (Tipula sp.). Despite their looks, crane flies are not gigantic mosquitoes and they do not bite or sting. In their larval stage, crane flies look like large grubs and live either in water or underground. They spend most of this time eating decaying leaves and storing up energy for their adult stage. Adult crane flies live only for about a week and while most adults don’t feed, some will seek out nectar. Crane flies serve as important decomposers in the ecosystem and are often prey to spiders, beetles, praying mantises, birds, and dragonflies.
#streamecology #mysterymonday #adkinsarboretum #mysterybug #mysteryplant #whatsinbloom #aprilshowersbringmayflowers #cranefly

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Artist Hoesy Corona Brings Performance Art to Adkins Arboretum May 7

April 28, 2023 by Adkins Arboretum Leave a Comment

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“Climate Immigrants 2018 Asbury Park.” Photo courtesy of Hoesy Corona.

In pieces spanning sculpture, textiles and performance, Baltimore-based artist Hoesy Corona creates and curates art that quietly confronts some of the most pressing issues of our time. On Sun., May 7, Corona will present Terrestrial Caravan, a work of site-specific performance art that explores the complex relationship between humans and the environment, at Adkins Arboretum. The free event runs from 1 to 3 p.m. All are invited to attend.

Presented in dialogue with Corona’s Terrestrial Caravan exhibition on view through August at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Md., the performance is part of the ongoing performance Climate Immigrants (2017–present), which both reflects the artist’s ruminations on climate-related displacement and highlights our connection to nature and the fragility of our settled experience. Using the archetype of the traveler, Corona tackles the reality of the human aspect of climate change while simultaneously drawing attention to the powers of nature and celebrating the lushness and vibrancy of flora, bodies of water and geographic forms.

Implicating ideas of land, borders and environmental displacement in the face of fires, changing climate patterns and rising waters, performers wear Corona’s Climate Ponchos—colorful full-body suits that hide their identities while making them hyper visible. While the form of the Climate Ponchos recalls a simple rain poncho, the wearable sculptures’ dynamic patterns tell colorful stories of migration and history, depicting mundane scenes of mothers and other travelers on their journeys and ultimately humanizing the anonymous silhouettes on the ponchos and on the Arboretum grounds.

Corona lived in Mexico, Utah and Wisconsin before moving to Baltimore in 2005 to establish a professional practice in the arts. He develops otherworldly narratives that center marginalized individuals in society by exploring a process-based practice that investigates what it means to be a queer Latinx immigrant in a place where there are few. He has exhibited widely in galleries, museums and public spaces in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Corona is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Nicholson Project artist residency, the Mellon Foundation’s MAP Fund Grant and the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Grit Fund Grant. He is a current resident artist at The Creative Alliance in Baltimore.

Terrestrial Caravan is presented in partnership with the Academy Art Museum. While the performance is free, advance registration at adkinsarboretum.org or by calling 410-634-2847 is appreciated to help with planning. In the event of rain, the performance will be rescheduled for Sun., May 14, 1–3 p.m.

The mission of the Academy Art Museum is to promote the knowledge, practice, and appreciation of the arts and to enhance cultural life on the Eastern Shore by making available to everyone the Museum’s expanding collection, exhibitions, and broad spectrum of arts programs.

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