The Western Chapter
invites you to the
Western Winter Study Weekend
ROCK GARDENING IN A MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE
March 2-4, 2007
The San Mateo Marriott, San Mateo, California
Our speakers:
- Richard (Dick) G. Turner, Jr., Master of Ceremonies, is
the editor of Pacific Horticulture. He trained as a
landscape architect at the University of Michigan, and came west
because he wanted to garden 365 days a year.
- Rebecca Lance, owner of the Granite Gardens Rare Plants
nursery in Sonora and head of the Sierra Rock Garden Society (a NARGS
chapter), presents Rock gardening warriors: Battling heat, drought,
and critters in the Foothills.
- Jack Muzatko is a retired chemist who now devotes much of his
time to growing and photographing alpine plants. He will talk about
Growing uncommon lewisias in a Mediterranean climate, as well as his obsession with studying some of the rarer lewisias (disepala, maguirei, kelloggii, rediviva minor, and glandulosa).
- Ron Parsons, award-winning flower photographer and author,
will present Calochortus: Tulips of the West and The rest
of the Western wild bulbs. Timber Press will be publishing his
book on calochortus in 2007.
- Victor Reiter, Jr., late Western Dean of Horticulture, will
be channelled by Ted Kipping, terminal plant phreak, in Plants
for a Mediterranean rock garden.
- Loren Russell, presently serving as NARGS Recording Secretary
and Seed Exchange Manager, is a frequent contributor to Rock Garden
Quarterly and was NARGS National Speaker in 2000. An avid rock gardener,
Loren also has a special interest in the evolutionary history and geographic
distribution of plants and animals. He will bring us On the margin:
Mediterranean plants and Mediterranean rock gardens.
- Ernesto Sandoval, Curator of the Botanical Conservatory at the
University of California at Davis, will present Small succulents can be
Rock Stars in our Gardens.
- Fred Schwartz grows rock ferns in the unforgiving land of the
San Joaquin Valley. His topic will be Dryland (xeric) ferns.
- Terry Sozanski, grew up in Sydney, Australia. After graduating
from Sydney University, he worked as a chemist before embarking on a world
tour in 1975. He settled in Marin County and has lived there since 1981,
working as a painting contractor. His keen interest in horticulture led
him to direct his prodigious photographic talent, honed over more than
25 years, toward plant and landscape photography. Our banquet speaker
will share his beautiful show The Anza-Borrego Desert.
- Walter Teague, rare plant explorer, who was born in Ecuador
and crossed the Andes on foot, will present Plant hunting in the Andes.
Optional bus tour to the U. C. Santa Cruz Arboretum: This
is a great time to see spectacular plants from the Southern
Hemisphere in bloom. The grevilleas and myrtaceae are sure to attract
a lot of hummingbirds. It's a short bus trip down the beautiful
California coast, lunch included. Sunday afternoon, 12:30-6:00
PM.
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