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NARGS Bookstore Address

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 perennials-owner@mallorn.com wrote:
> >Harry Dewey says 
> >	The STANDARD book on rock gardening is generally considered to
> >be Lincoln 
> >Foster's thirty-year old classic, *Rock Gardens*, still in print and 
> >available from the NARGS Bookstore at a members' price of $18.
> >
> >How right he is!  This is a GREAT book.  Thank you Lincoln Foster (still
> >living in the minds and hearts and gardens of many)!  This book led to
> >much backbreaking work, fulfilling challenges, and terrific pleasures on
> >the part of me and my husband in over 30 years of gardening.
> >
> >There are some nice alphabetical-by-plant type color illustrated books
> >that are good too:  Hay and Synge (sorry, I don't have the exact
> >reference at hand), a book by Bloom, one by Richard Bird.  There is a
> >good list available through the North American Rock Garden Society.
> >
> >Enjoy!
> >
> >
> >Susan Campanini
> >
> Do you have an address for the NARGS bookstore?  Thanks, Margaret
> - ---------------------------------------------------------------------

The NARGS Bookstore's address is nargsBS@efn.org 

By coincidence, I have just received by Email this morning (June 12) the 
following description of the NARGS Bookstore garden.  I can't resist 
putting a personal face on the prosaic phrase "NARGS Bookstore", and am 
therefore reprinting a paragraph from this personal letter from Louise 
Parson's (of Corvallis, Oregon).  "Ernie and Marietta" are the O'Byrnes.  
He is the manager of the NARGS Bookstore; she is immediate-past-chair of the 
NARGS Emerald Chapter in Eugene, the location of their garden (and the 
bookstore):

Yesterday afternoon I spent a few hours at Ernie and Marietta's garden,
taking notes and photos for an article I am working on.  It was absolute
heaven!  How I wish that you could see their garden, it is an out-of-body
experience <G> ! I do not exaggerate when I say it is one of the finest
anywhere.  You and Marcia would go bonkers over their collection of hostas
and companion plants, their lush borders and woodland area.  They have a
long ditch garden which they have planted with primulas, iris, and other
moisture-loving plants.  Even their vegetable garden is a visual treat and
the culinary treat was the wonderful "home-grown" salad which they served
me on their deck.  Pure delight!              --Louise Parsons

Aside to Ernie: Ernie, if you receive any requests for a list of 
available books, i. e. the one published in each issue of the NARGS' 
*Rock Garden Quarterly*, and if you have one you can send out to 
prospective members, could you please send a copy to this member (namely me) 
also, please?  Thanks.

Harry Dewey

Listowners, Alpine-L, the Electronic Rock Garden Society:
Active: Louise Parsons & Harry Dewey; Quiet: Eric Gouda & Alexej Borkovec
To join Alpine-L, send the message INFO to Alpine-L-Request@nic.surfnet.NL
All Alpine-L members should use that address for Louise OR Harry, please.



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