NARGS Western Study Weekend 13 -15 March 2009 Portland Oregon

[Maggi Young]

See this Link for full details, venue, Garden Visits , Vendors etc etc....
http://www.nargs.org/meet/west09home.html
(Link to hotel website http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/RLLC-DT/index.do )

Here are brief details from the intro page.....


Revitalizing the Rock Garden
presented by
Columbia-Willamette Chapter - North American Rock Garden Society
Portland, Oregon
March 13-15, 2009
Including the 2009 National NARGS Annual General Meeting



Do you want to make a new garden, or make an old rock garden new and exciting again? The 2009 NARGS Western Winter Study Weekend will offer a full slate of lively, informative, varied talks and exhibits, a pleasant venue, early spring gardens and wildflowers, and a great sale.
Join us at the Doubletree Lloyd Center Hotel, just across the river from downtown Portland, with light rail service to the airport and city center and free guest parking. Wander the huge exhibit hall where some of the finest nurseries in the Pacific Northwest fill their first sale tables of the year, along with sales of books, ceramics, and artwork. Relax with fellow gardeners during evening social hours and table-service dinners. Tour some of the area’s glorious public and private gardens, and the early flowers of the Columbia River Gorge.

Speakers
Program and schedule are subject to change.

Ian Young
Our Garden in Scotland
Choice Bulbs for the Rock Garden

One of the most popular presenters to UK rock gardening groups, Ian Young is a leader in the Scottish Rock Garden Club. He is especially expert in cultivation of bulbs.


Carlo Balistrieri
Rock Gardens in Small Spaces
Innovative Stonework

Curator at The Gardens at Turtle Creek and formerly with the New York Botanical Garden, writer and frequent presenter to gardening groups nationwide.

John Lonsdale
New Enthusiasms
Since moving to Pennsylvania in 1995, he has developed Edgewood Gardens.


Rex Murfitt
Rock Gardening in North America, Then and Now He is co-author, with Joyce Fingerut, of Creating and Planting Garden Troughs.


David Sellars
Chaos and the Rock Garden
David and his wife garden near Vancouver, BC. He has developed the website MountainFlora, dedicated to an appreciation of alpine flowers in their natural habitat.

Rebecca Lance
Life and Death in the Rock Garden
Rebecca Lance is owner of Granite Gardens Rare Plants nursery in Sonora, California. She gardens in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, where springtime is kind to the garden and summer is brutal.

Fred Weisensee
New Ideas from Dancing Oaks Nursery
Fred Weisensee and Leonard Foltz are proprietors of Oregon’s Dancing Oaks Nursery with its amazing display garden.

David Mason
Reviving Older Gardens
David and his wife are proprietors of Hedgerows Nursery near McMinnville, Oregon.

You...........
are invited to bring your own photos in slide or digital format for showing Saturday afternoon
(8 minute limit, please).





Registration page : http://www.nargs.org/meet/west09register.html
 
Please print and post-mail the registration form:    http://www.nargs.org/meet/regform.pdf

An error was made in the Registration Form printed in the Fall Rock Garden Quarterly.
The correct prices are shown on this registration form.

The registration deadline is February 15, 2009.
Please register by January 15 for discounted price.

Registration fee includes the Saturday night banquet,
continental breakfast buffets Saturday and Sunday morning,
and refreshments at the Saturday and Sunday morning breaks.
The Friday evening dinner is optional, priced separately.

Sorry, we do not have on-line registration; nor do we accept credit cards.

Be sure to contact the hotel directly to book your hotel room.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------