Regular meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month, September through June, promptly at 7:30 PM at UW Northwest Horticultural Society Hall - NHS (formerly Center for Urban Horticulture), 3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle, 206 543-8616.[Click for Map]  Refreshments are served before the meeting at 7:00.
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2011 - 2012 Local Programs

September 8, 2011
Tantilizing Trilliiums
Speaker: Carla Lankow, Northwestern Chapter member

Refreshments: Dale Greer, Margaret Lundquist, Craig Delphey, Beth Etsheid 

October 20, 2011 NOTE this is not the regular time
Trekking in the Indian Himalayas
Speaker: Claire Cockcroft  Northwestern Chapter member

Fall Plant sale Starts at 7pm, continues after meeting. 

Refreshments: Jennifer Cochrane, Donna Wylie, Mary Kenady, Myrna Jewett 

November 10, 2011

Annual Potluck Dinner at NHS

Social Time 6:30pm, Dinner 7:00pm 
Volunteers: Bob Gilman, Mary Jean Gilman, Suzanne Ferris, Lyn & Hans Sauter   

Program: Plant Hunting in the not-at-all-alpine high mountains of Southern China
Speakers: Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson , Northwestern Chapter members

December 8, 2011
Members’ slides, CDs and photos
                     ---- please bring 10-15 slides or images     

Refreshments: Dale Greer, Ron Ratko, Mike Rummerfield

January 12, 2012
Botanizing in the North Cascades
Speaker: Mark Turner, Photographer

Refreshments:  Lynn Schueler, Shirley Post, Marge Regmund, Ann Bucher

February 9, 2012
Grafting Conifers
Speaker: Robert Fincham, Northwestern Chapter member

Refreshments: Saori Cretin, Mari Short, Alice Lauber, Barbara Flynn

March 8, 2012
Why I stopped the Car
Speakers:
Richard Ramsden  Lewisia Tweedyi
Doris Taggart  Penstemons
Donna Wylie  Cypripedium montanum
Dan Montague  Petrophyton
Ron Ratko  Flora of the Blue Mts.

Refreshments: Marge Regmund, Kendall McLean, Ilse Burch, Rita Rae Cloney
 

March 9-11, 2012
The NARGS 2012 Annual Meeting and 37th Annual Western Winter Study Weekend
  At the Downtown Everett Holiday Inn
 

April 12, 2012

    The audience has the option of:

    1) Flora of Macedonia and Albania
2) Our new alpine house and crevice garden
Speaker: Fritz Kummert NARGS National Speaker

Refreshments: Dave Brastow, Shelly Retchless, Mindy Rowse 
                                                                      

May 10, 2012 Annual Spring Plant Sale

May 10, 2012
English Spring Gardens - a tour of gardens in South East and East Anglia and South Staffordshire
Speakers: Mary Ellen Asmundson, Marguerite Bennett, Claire Cockcroft, and Alice Lauber

Refreshments: Mary Ellen Asmundson (more volunteers needed)

June 14, 2012
Bugs and Blights
Speaker: Sharon Collman, Northwestern Chapter member  

Refreshments: Need volunteers

July 12, 2012

   Annual Summer Picnic
Hosted by TBD Need a volunteer

September 13, 2012

   First program on the Next Year’s list.

This page was last updated Thursday, April 12, 2012