B.N.A.R.G.S.

Berkshire chapter North American Rock Garden Society

2013 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, with coffee and chat at 10:00 am. This is still under development.

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March 2
am	Steve Hootman: Recent Introductions from Asia - Interesting New Ericaceae
pm	Steve Hootman: 2012 Expedition to China
April 6
am	Anne Spiegel Rock Garden Plants of the Americas, North and South
pm	Tamsin Goggin Plants of Chile
May 4
am & pm	CANCELED Field trip to Blanchette Gardens, Carlisle MA and Garden in the Woods, Framingham MA See the newsletter for ideas on other garden-related events.
June 1
am	Martha Oliver The Smaller Heucheras For The Rock Garden
pm	Striving For Perfection: Plant Breeding in Herbaceous Plants
	Martha Oliver is a garden designer and writer with a special interest in the shade garden and butterfly prairies. She and her husband Charles own The Primrose Path, a nursery devoted to producing Charles’ hybrids of Heuchera, Tiarella and Phlox. She has designed most recently a large butterfly prairie for Powdermill Nature Reserve, the field station of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Her writing includes stories on the shale barrens and native plants, three books, and stories in Fine Gardening and The New York Times. See her web site for pictures and more information
July 6
am & pm	Hands on Meeting -Make a hypertufa trough with Deb Pope  Sign up sheet & more information at the June meeting.
August 3
am	Bill Brown Missing plants and Missing People
pm	Joyce Hemingson May NARGS meeting in North Carolina
September  7
am	Donald LaFond Rock Gardening
pm	The BIG plant sale
October  12
am	Ian Young
pm	Ian Young
November 2
	Annual lunch at the Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge preceded by lecture at BBG - regular start time, 10 am coffee, 10:30 am program. Mike Stewart Dwarf Rhododendrons