Western Winter Study Weekend
- Subject: Western Winter Study Weekend
- From: l*@comcast.net
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:57:00 +0000
"Braving the Elements" is the theme of this year's North American Rock Garden Society [NARGS] Western Winter Study Weekend, in Eugene, Oregon on March 5-7, 2004. This conference will focus, broadly, on the adaptations or environmental tolerances of rock garden and woodland plants, and include discussions of the "peri-Mediterranean" climate and soils of the Pacific Northwest. Speakers include the incomparable Panayoti Kelaidis, horticultural director of Denver Botanic Garden, and his wife Gwen; bulb expert John Lonsdale; plant ecologist Art Kruckeberg; horticulturalists Ernie and Marietta O'Byrne and David Mason, and several others. There will be plant sales and exhibits, art sales, and garden visits, including the O'Byrnes' Northwest Garden Nursery.
More information on the meeting, and secure on-line registration is available at the NARGS website <nargs.org/meet/meetings.html>. You may, if you wish print the meeting brochure with mail-in registration form from this site
To register on-line, key "online registration". If you have any problems
navigating the on-line registration, email the Registrar, Melody Clarkson.
More information on the Western Winter Study Weekend will be posted on the
Emerald Chapter NARGS website. From the nargs website, key "meetings", "local
chapters", and then "emerald chapter", or access directly at
<www.peak.org/~parsont/emerald>.
Currently on the Emerald Chapter website, you will find items on two public
rock gardens in Eugene [Sebring Rock Garden and Halda Crevice Garden at
Hendricks Park]. Under "Emerald Chapter Photo Album and Scrapbook", you will
find photos of several gardens, including my own, Tanya Harvey's, and a
collection of photos of hellebores from Ernie and Marietta O'Byrne's
incomparable Northwest Garden Nursery. All of these gardens will be open for
WWSW visitors, and the hellebores will be at peak bloom.
You need not be a member or NARGS to register for this meeting.
loren russell
corvallis, oregon, usa
