B.N.A.R.G.S.
Berkshire chapter North American Rock Garden Society
2010 Program...
Unless otherwise stated, meetings will be held in the Exhibit Hall at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens, Stockbridge , MA (click for directions & map) starting at 10:30 am. This is still under development.
Click on more for details of the speaker or program.
March 6 |
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| am | Peter Joppe, from
Hillside Nursery
where he propagates cypripediums and other woodlanders from
seed. Woodland plants for New England Gardens |
| pm | Robin Magowan and Juilet Yli-Mattila:
Nordic Plants- Copenhagen, Tromsų, and Svalbard |
April 3 |
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| am |
John
Lonsdale
Edgewood Gardens |
| pm | Androsace, Dionysia and Primula: cultivation and propagation |
May 1 |
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| am & pm | Cliff Booker, (NARGS Tour Speaker
from the UK)
Founder & Chair of the East Lancashire group of the Alpine
Garden Society
Profile
Cream of Alpines
Alpine Fever |
June 5 |
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| am & pm | Off-site meeting. Visit to gardens of Robin Magowan & Yli-Juliet Mattila in Salisbury Connecticut, with a talk on the new construction aided by Josef Halda and Zdenek Zvolanek |
July 3 |
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| am & pm |
Off-site meeting in the garden of
Elisabeth & Rod Zander in Connecticut to see a variety of rock
gardening styles. Trough making -
John Spain - pre-register with Elisabeth if you wish to make a
trough. |
August 14 |
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| am | Bill Brown, Spring bulbs of Turkey |
| pm | Peter George, former Chair and current newsletter editor Evolution of my Garden |
September 4 |
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am |
Barrie Porteous, Unusual and Underused Perennials |
| pm | The BIG plant sale |
October 9 |
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| am | Andy Brand,
Broken Arrow
Nursery, New Dwarf Conifers & Japanese Maples |
| pm | Eric Breed (from Dutch Rock Garden Society)
Going Wild for Bulbs |
November 6 |
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| Annual lunch Sydney Eddison, author of Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser As You Grow Older due April details |
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