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Successful MGS meeting last week

Fellow Medit-Plants-persons - 

As previously announced, there was a Mediterranean Garden
Society meeting here in the S.F. Bay Area last week - the fist
of its kind in California.  Turns out that I had to lead more of
the meeting than I had previously imagined, but it went very well
in any case.   ;-)   There were some very notable people in
attendance - Heidi Gildemeister, the President from Mallorca, Spain;
Joan Tesei from Italy; Dick Turner & George Waters, the current and
retired editors of Pacific Horticulture respectively; Bill Grant from
the UCSC Arboretum; Warren Roberts & Mary Burke from the UC Davis
Arboretum, Elly Bade & Peter Klement from the UC Berkeley Botanical
Garden; Peter Dallman, author of the new book Plant Life in the
World's Mediterranean Climates; Charmain Giuliani, a teacher at
Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco; Glen Keator, author of many
books on native plants; Ernie Wasson who you know from Medit-Plants
and The Bay Area Gardener web site, Katherine Greenberg, author and
garden designer; and other enthusiastic horticulturists interested
in the MGS.

It was a great 'kick-off' meeting and much was learned
through discussion and questionnaire.  There will be other events
in the near future, likely about every quarter, so there will be
other opportunities to come and find out more about this new, well-
connected, and important group.  If you haven't already, consider
joining the Mediterranean Garden Society which will help you keep
informed about upcoming events.  If some of you are interested in
attending a future event to find out more, please let me know and I
will add you to the mailing list.  To provide diversity and more
opportunity to members in outlying areas, we are planning each
event in a different part of the Bay Area - if you have suggestions,
we'd like to hear them

Right now, this new, informal 'Chapter' of the Society is very free
form and casual, until we gather more members and organize more
officially.  So it is a good time to 'get in on the ground floor' and
help mold the group to meet specific needs you might feel are lacking
in Northern California's horticultural community.

regards,
Sean O.

Sean A. O'Hara                       sean.ohara@poboxes.com
h o r t u l u s   a p t u s          710 Jean Street
'a garden suited to its purpose'     Oakland, CA 94610-1459, U.S.A.
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