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NARGS
The North American Rock Garden Society has over 30 chapters across the U.S. Details can be found at NARGS
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Our parent organization, NARGS, North American Rock Garden Society, will be having the 2024 seed exchange in December. The 2024 list of available seed will appear on December 15. Be ready with your first choices! If you're not a NARGS member please join. frontpage | North American Rock Garden Society
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Saturday, January 18, 2025 10:00 am via Zoom. Brian Coleman, Watnong Chapter member: A Sculptor Makes Hypertufa Troughs NARGS Watnong (NJ) chapter member Brian Coleman will explain how being an artist and a gardener led to a two-decade long passion for making hypertufa containers. Brian will share his hypertufa recipe, along with a variety of hypertufa molds and the resulting planters. He will also discuss his planting mix and strategies for successfully growing alpine plants in hypertufa troughs.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 7:00 pm via Zoom. Loree Bohl: The Accidental Dry Garden. Loree blogs at The Danger Garden http://www.thedangergarden.com, and is the author of Fearless Gardening: Be Bold, Break the Rules and Grow What you Love. A life-long resident of the Pacific Northwest, Loree currently lives and gardens in Portland, Oregon. Her blog name refers to her love and use of spiky plants – Agave, cactus and more.
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Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 10:00 am via Zoom. Mariel Tribby, Senior Horticulturist at the Missouri Botanical Garden: Rock Gardening in the Midwest at MBOT Explore a different plant palette with this introduction to the rock gardens at Missouri Botanical Garden. Mariel will cover her work during the past decade growing and, yes, also seeing many dryland plants die in hot and humid St. Louis. She will discuss the extensive renovation of the Heckman Rock Garden, as well as successful cultivation stories, from lowland Missouri natives to high-elevation plants.
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Once again, our chapter will be conducting the 2025 Surplus Seed exchange in March (specific dates TBD). There will be a call for volunteers to fill orders for this surplus seed exchange. Just like last year it will be held at the home of Steve Branch. Thank you, Steve!
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April 5th Garden Tour at John Willis home in Frederick MD
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Saturday, April 26, FONA Garden Fair, US National Arboretum, Washington, DC
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Saturday, May 17, Green Spring Gardens Plant Sale, Alexandria, VA
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The PVC Spring plant exchange will be held at Freddi Hammerschlag's, 7106 Deer Valley Road, Highland, MD 20777 on Saturday, May 24, 2025. Thank you, Freddi, for graciously offering to host us!
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June 12-16, Cheyenne Botanical Garden, Cheyenne, Wyoming. “Peaks and Prairies,” NARGS annual conference. Registration opens Monday, February 3, 2025. Monday, June 16 - 22, 2025: “The Alpines of Wyoming” post conference tour. www.nargs.org Separate registration under “Tours” at www.nargs.org