Regular meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month, September through June, promptly at 7:30 PM at UW Center for Urban Horticulture (CUH), 3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle, 206 543-8616.[Click for Map]  Refreshments are served before the meeting at 7:00.
Note to speakers: if you need digital projection for your program click here.

2008 - 2009 Local Programs

(On a trial basis, refreshments will be served at 7:00pm instead of afterwards and the meeting will start at 7:40)

September 11, 2008
'In Search of the Desert Lily, Hesperocallis undulata"
Speaker: Doris Taggart, Northwestern Chapter member

October 9, 2008
'Rare and Endemic Plants of the Northwest'
Speaker: Mark Turner, NARGS member

Fall Plant Sale
Starts at 7pm, concludes after the meeting.  Bring your sale plants with labels posting name and price at 6:30.

November 13, 2008
Annual Potluck Dinner at CUH
Social Time 6:30pm, Dinner 7:00pm, Program follows:

'Washington's Flowering Plants of the Cascade and Olympic Mountains'
What, Where, and When to see them. From the rare and remote to the common and accessible.
Speaker: Richard Ramsden, Northwestern Chapter member

December 11, 2008
Members’ slides, CDs and photos
---- please bring some

January 15, 2009 NOTE: THE MEETING IS ON THE 15th THE 3rd THURSDAY NOT THE 2nd. THURSDAY
’If This is Tuesday, This Must be Utah: A Plant Addict Wanders the West’
A pictorial description of trips through the intermountain west and southern California.
Speaker: Craig Delphey, Northwestern Chapter member

February 12, 2009
'Rhododendron Propagation'
Speaker: Dennis Bottemiller,
Rhododendron Species Foundation and Botanical Garden

March 12, 2009
'Cultivation of Temperate Terrestrial Orchids'
Speaker: Arlen Hill, owner of Keeping It Green Nursery

April 9, 2009
'Daphnes'
Speaker: Rick Lupp, Northwestern Chapter member

April 11, 2009
Annual Spring Plant Sale at Pat & John Bender’s
Check Newsletter for location.
Set-up: 11:00 am - 12:59 pm   Sale: 1:00 pm sharp!

May 14, 2009
'Primula in the Wild and Cultivation'
Speaker: Claire Crockcroft, Northwestern Chapter member

June 11, 2009 Note this meeting will be held in Douglas Hall at CUH (Near the green house)
'An Overview of Trillium with details on efforts with the western species: taxonomic challenges, propagation, culture and some exceptions.'
Speaker: Russell Graham, Purveyor of Plants, Salem, OR

July 11, 2009
Annual Summer Picnic and 75th Anniversary Celebration
At Edgewood Garden,
Hosted by Ilga Jansons. Check Newsletter for details

The New Year...

September 10, 2009
First program in the New Year
 

This page was last updated Sunday, April 26, 2009