NARGS Annual General Meeting 7- 10 May 2015

[Maggi Young]

The North American Rock Garden Society is holding its Annual General Meeting  in Michigan.
NARGS    Michigan - Annual General Meeting 7th - 10th May
Hosted by the Great Lakes Chapter

https://www.nargs.org/event/michigan-annual-general-meeting

"The meeting host will be the NARGS Great Lakes Chapter; they are expecting three outstanding speakers. We will be visiting the excellent open gardens that abound in that part of Michigan.  There will also be a post-conference trip to the Upper Peninsula – an unusual opportunity, and one that promises to be quite exciting.

We've heard in other threads about some SRGC/NARGS member who will be attending: 

Glad to see the snow is gone, Rimmer - and also to see you  featuring in PK's blog  in advance of the NARGS Study event - http://prairiebreak.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/michigan-impossible.html     

Leaving in two days for the NARGS Annual Meeting in Michigan and questioning my sanity.  I hate to be away for 5 days at this time, but it will be worth it.

Have a great time in Michigan, lots of photos please.

Forumist Koko (KK) is in Ann Arbor, for a start .....  hope you can have a forum get-together     

Anne,
We will be looking forward to a exciting week.  I will be helping out on registration on Thursday.  If you see a gray haired asian, that will be me!
Keeping our fingers tightly crossed to see a kind side of mother nature for the event.

Koko

Anne and Koko won't be the only ones there, of course!
Bobby Ward  has posted these photos on Facebook which show some of the plant sales that will delight attendees at the meetings.


Plant sale at NARGS  Ann Arbor meeting


NARGS plant sale


More plants in Ann Arbor    - all photos Bobby Ward.

[Maggi Young]

More from the .....

Event bag  - photo Matt Matthus

...at the risk of  making all readers very envious, here are photos from Elisabeth Zander  and Matt Matthus from Facebook, of the tufa rocks up for silent auction at the event.......

[Maggi Young]

Garden visits today at the NARGS Meeting -  photos from Bobby Ward again :

Crevice garden; Tony Reznicek in Ann Arbor, Michigan.


The garden sign....

Ann Arbor NARGS trip

[Maggi Young]

Garden visit photos from Elisabeth Zander  -
"Grow something from NARGS seed! Beverly Walters is excited about starting Allium douglasia, Podophyllum emodi and Cylindropuntia all from seed exchange seed. Great garden full of ideas. Go volunteers!"

[Maggi Young]

Elisabeth writes :  "The fabulous garden of J. & A. Thompson has given me many ideas to try."


You'll spot our Dear Astragalus....... 

[Maggi Young]

Still in the Thompson's Garden ....

[Maggi Young]

From Bobby Ward  -

    Happy door prize winner with double T.grandiflorum
    Halfmoon Lake... Pinckney
    Viola pedata
    how to photograph  Viola pedata
    Viola in neat circle

[Maggi Young]

From Elisabeth Zander  in the garden of Tony and Susan Reznicek in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Each garden also had a workshop by the owners....

[Maggi Young]

more from Elisabeth in the Reznicek garden

Iris
pink centred Trillium
Primula
Pteridophyllum racemosum, growing on tree stump
Shortia

[Maggi Young]

Bobby Ward -

 rock garden is a whisky barrel

 Two shots from the garden of Don La Fond

[Tim Ingram]

Great pictures and plants! Viola pedata pretending to be a rosulate viola - like that , and carving out troughs - there's a bit of lateral thinking and elbow grease! The crevice garden on a slope is just what I would like to make if just we had a slope. Looks a very enjoyable event and some inspiring gardens to visit. (Reminds me of another conference?...!).

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks, Maggi,
Thanks for re-posting the pics. We're not on FB so hadn't caught up with the action and strangely nothing on the NARGS forum,
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

It seems to have been a super event all round ..... some more pix from Bobby Ward ....

Bev and Bob Walters' garden near Ann Arbor
Dodecatheon - the NARGS emblem plant
Don L Fond's planted animal watering trough
Jacques and Andrea Thompson's rock garden on NARGS tour in Michigan
Joseph Tychonievich selling plants for Brigitta Stewart's Arrowhead Alpines

[Maggi Young]

North American Rock Garden Society meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan has ended -

next year's meeting will be in  Steamboat Springs, Colorado probably at the  3rd weekend in June  2016.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hmmmm...June is a relatively good time to be away from our garden
cheers
fermi