NARGS - North American Rock Garden Society Events

[Maggi Young]

NARGS AGM -17- 19 th  November 2017 -  Meeting and Tours -


Photo taken by Panayoti Kelaidis in Montrose, North Carolina in November two years ago.

The AGM program includes a welcome reception and introductory presentation on Friday night; followed by five presentations during the day on Saturday; and a dinner, awards ceremony, and presentation on Saturday night. On Sunday, participants will visit Montrose, Juniper Level Botanic Garden and Plant Delights Nursery, and the JC Raulston Arboretum. During the visits to Montrose and Plant Delights Nursery, participants will have the opportunity to purchase plants.

http://www.piedmontnargs.org/index.php/2-uncategorised/357-agm-program  for all details

[Maggi Young]

The NARGS event  is the same weekend at the Irish AGS  weekend in Termonfeckin !  Gives  folk quite a choice!

Friday 17th to Sunday 19th November. An Grianán, Termonfeckin, Co. Louth.

34th Alpine Weekend. Speakers: Kenneth Cox, Tim Lever, Ian & Maggi Young.

Wish I could be at both events!

[Maggi Young]

A date to note for 2018 :  July 6-8, 2018. NARGS Annual Meeting in St. John's, Newfoundland

 Where alpines meet the sea

"Welcome to Newfoundland, the far east of North America! Eastern Newfoundland is a land of botanical extremes. There are boreal forests composed of balsam fir, black and white spruce along with its associated northern woodland plants. We have a multitude of bogs and fens, home to many orchids and insectivorous plants. And then there are rocky coastal barrens which house wind-swept contorted trees and plants of an alpine nature more in common with high elevations of the New England Appalachians. We have the largest population of North Atlantic summering humpback whales, some of the largest seabird colonies of eastern North America and are along the passing route of icebergs calving off glaciers in Greenland. This NARGS venue provides participants with a chance to visit one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions of North America. Newfoundland is truly where alpines meet the sea."

[Maggi Young]

From Bobby Ward : "Logo for the upcoming North American Rock Garden Society's annual meeting in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (designed by John Buettner). Full details and registration here: http://www.piedmontnargs.org/      "

[Alan_b]

Photo taken by Panayoti Kelaidis in Montrose, North Carolina in November two years ago.

My, that's a huge number of snowdrops for November; presumably reginae-olgae.  I don't recall ever seeing such a good display in the UK.

[Maggi Young]

More on the July NARGS  2018  event...
 from Jay Ackerley......

"Join me at the North American Rock Garden Society Annual Meeting July 6-8, 2018 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada - "Where Alpines Meet The Sea"! Todd Boland has put together a thrilling program that will be announced soon, but I can't contain my excitement about my presentation, "Rock Garden Plants of Canada's Wet Coast", on Saturday evening, July 7!

Let's depart Newfoundland and travel over 5,000km westward to Canada's Pacific coast, a place where one can walk round-trip from the seaside to barren alpine peaks - in a single day! A place where glaciers have continued to shape the Earth's surface since time immemorial, and close to 25% of the world's temperate rainforest still towers over pristine, salmon-rich streams. Join me and some familiar faces to look at exquisite native plants above the treeline on Whistler Mountain, on rainy canyon ledges overlooking the Fraser River, within a stone's throw of the Matier Glacier, and aside ancient petroglyphs on Vancouver Island! Let's check in on some astonishing local gardens and the folks who skillfully built and maintain them!

I promise a lot of colour (and color), stories of adventure, discovery, nasty tumbles and ski lodge libations with friends, as much insight as I can offer on the plants and their cultivation, and a good introduction to this unforgettable corner of the world to help you plan your future visit! Then we'll return to Newfoundland in time for Sunday's day hikes!

Online registration for the Annual Meeting will begin at www.NARGS.org in early January, 2018 - I will remind you often. Stick around for the post-conference tour July 9 onward - see you there! #NARGS "

[Maggi Young]

I know some  SRGC members are  gearing up to attend  this event and one of the speakers to be featured is  John Mitchell of RBGE, an SRGC Group Convenor.

This was a preliminary programme for the event  - you will see, of course, that there is great prominence for the  Newfoundland  "star"  Todd Boland!



 Good luck to all concerned - enjoy!