Round Rock Preserve

06/11/2023

Japanese Barberry is an exotic invasive that spreads to woodlands from properties where it has been planted as an ornamental. Covered with thorns, local animals and pollinators do not like it, and it crowds out the native plants they do like. You know who do like it? Ticks.

As part of our efforts to rid the Preserve of invasives, we recently removed dozens of Japanese Barberry bushes scattered throughout the woods and woody edgelands, from the roots up, making room for native plants to thrive and spread. Buh-bye!!

05/22/2023

Pennsylvania sedge, a native grass, is thriving at the Preserve. It provides nesting materials for birds and is drought tolerant.

05/19/2023

A native Christmas fern unfurls …

05/15/2023

Eastern springbeauty offers its five-pointed star to the dappled sun.

05/11/2023

Find your chill …

05/01/2023

Happy May! We’re looking forward to the May flowers that April showers promise …

(Here, Kingfisher Philanthropies trustee Laura Desmarais answers some visitor questions about . Come visit by 5/5 before the goats head to their next adventure!)

04/28/2023

What better way to celebrate Arbor Day?

04/27/2023

Blissing out on mugwort … 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

04/26/2023

Meet Boris! Boris and his friends from are visiting the Preserve to help control invasives, and it looks like he loves his job! Thanks, Boris, you’re the G.O.A.T.!!

04/22/2023

Happy Earth Day!

04/15/2023

… she came swinging into the woods,
truant from everything as usual
except the clear globe of the day, and its beautiful details.

— excerpted from Trout Lilies by Mary Oliver

04/10/2023

Another beautiful poem about nature to enjoy this Poetry Month.

Round Rock Preserve doesn’t have cherry trees, but it can still offer visitors ancient beauty.

https://poets.org/poem/cherry-blossoms

Cherry blossoms - I went down to