Re: Plant Societies

Mon, Jan 6, 2003 1:04 PM Blee811@aol.com Blee811@aol.com said:


I wish everyone on the list would join at least one local plant society and
then take an active part in it. You'll learn a lot about the plants but also
meet some of the finest people in the country.

Many plant societies (and other organizations for that matter, PTA, etc.)
are having a problem maintaining their membership. Sprawling suburbs,
competing types of entertainment like TV and the Internet and jobs that
consume more and more time conspire to harder to acquire new members and
keep the old ones. I think the term they use is "civic disengagement."

Tom Miller
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I am a joiner, but usually get active - I belong to (in no particular order) my local daylily group (baby sitting plant coordinator and writing up results of a rust survey), PTA (Enrichment and Earth Day committees) and Boy Scouts. Come March, I will be no longer the Awards Chair for the Cub Scout pack, but will be transferring to some job in his Boy Scout troop. Come September, I will have a Daisy troop and be involved in two PTA. I think the only things I belong to that I don't get involved with are the Mass. and American Hort. societies, and frankly, I'd give my eye teeth to get involved with the AHS Children's Gardening program; I just don't have time now.

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak
Londonderry, NH
AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
growing, stitching and reading in NH

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