Doylestown Nature Club meets at the Buckingham Township Building, 4613 Hughesian Dr., Buckingham, PA 18912 on the second Monday of each month September through May.

        Doylestown Nature Club Programs 2017-2018

  
September 11, 2017
All About Asters
Speaker:  Mary Ann Borge (Naturalist, Photographer and Instructor at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, Bucks County, PA)

October 17, 2017 at Doylestown Country Club 12 Noon     
Luncheon with Marta McDowell
"The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder" the Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Author of the Little House Series
Speaker: Marta McDowell (Award winning author, lecturer and teacher of landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden.  Her particular interest in is authors and their gardens.)
                                     
November 13, 2017      
Flower Arranging Demonstration
Speaker:  Heather Towne (Owner of Flowers by Jennie-Lynn, 100 Trenton Rd, Fairless Hills PA)

December 11, 2017    
Jenny Rose Carey Discusses her New Book “Glorious Shade”
Speaker:  Jenny Rose Carey (Author and Director of Meadowbrook Farm in Abington Township, PA)

January 8, 2018        
Antarctica
Speaker: Curt Cowgill (Award winning amateur photographer specializing in nature and wildlife photography)

February 12, 2018       
Orchids Are Different but Not Difficult
Speaker:  Beth Davis (A third generation orchid grower from Waldor Orchids, Linwood, NJ)

March 12, 2018    
Fonthill Mercer's Bird Sanctuary and Arboretum
Speaker:  Kristin Winters (MS in Landscape Architecture)

 April 9, 2018  
Life Among the Killer Bees
Speaker: Dr. Anita Collins (PhD Entomology, a retired bee geneticist from the Agricultural Research Service, US Dept. of Agriculture, President of the Board at the Lehigh Gap Nature Center and Adjunct Professor Entomology, Penn State University.)

May 14, 2018 (Meeting held at the Pavilion at Fonthill Castle)   
Henry Mercer and the Doylestown Nature Club, the Early Years and Behind the Scenes Tour of Fonthill Castle
Speaker: Marcy Stanley (Docent at Fonthill)

June 11, 2018     noon
Annual picnic at Pavilion I, Peace Valley Park 
 
Workshops
December 14, 2017- Holiday Boxwood Tree held @ 10 AM at the Fonthill Castle Pavilion
June Picnic – Workshop to be defined