Upcoming Local
- Saturday 11 May 2013
Spring garden tour and plant sale
at Duvall Nursery, 9950 N Dixboro Rd, South Lyon, MI 48178-4817.
[May Plant Sale]
Recent Local (reverse chronologically)
- Saturday 16 March 2013
Peter George [NARGS president] gave his talk Evolution of My Gardens
Or How My Gardens Prove that there is No Such Thing as Intelligent Design.
at Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor.
He followed it with general question and answer session about NRGS and its present role.
Before lunch there was a fascinating visit to the University of Michigan Herbarium led by
its Director, Tony Reznicek. The UM Herbarium has specimens from many plant
collectors famous to rock gardeners, such as Farrer, Rock, Wilson, Kingdon Ward and others.
[Photo by Rimmer De Vries]
- Saturday 19 January 2013
Annual winter meeting and potluck lunch
at Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor
12:00 noon; program at 1:30pm was several presentations by local members: Don LaFond, Tony Reznicek, Rimmer DeVries, Mike Greanya.
[We hope to link to some slides from this.]
Many benefitted by taking advantage of the distribution of Chadwell seeds.
- Saturday 10 November 2012
Rex Murfitt spoke on Garden Plants for Eastern North America,
with an Emphasis on Saxifrages
at Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor
[Map].
- Saturday 15 September 2012
Fall Garden Tour & Plant Sale
At Clarence Owen's, 3390 Allston Drive, Jackson, MI 49201.
- Saturday 12 May 2012
Spring Meeting & Plant Sale
At Don LaFond's, 11836 McGregor Road, Pinckney MI.
- Sunday 22 April 2012
Fritz Kummert spoke on
Searching for Plants in Albania
and
Our New Alpine House & Crevice Garden.
Hamburg Senior Center, Hamburg MI
[Map]
10:30—15:00.
- 1:30-3:00 pm, Saturday 21 January 2012 at Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor.
Don Wild spoke on Dwarf conifers for the Rock Garden.
- 1:30-3:00 pm, Saturday 22 October 2011 at Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor
[Map]
Tony Reznicek spoke on Alaska Alpines: from Sea Level to the Mountain Peaks.
Slides of the talk as PDF [Big - 133.9 MB] [© Copyright Tony Reznicek 2011]
Slides of the talk as HTML [smaller but still slow] [© Copyright Tony Reznicek 2011]
Slides as an HTML list [yet smaller but clunky] [© Copyright Tony Reznicek 2011]
