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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Maggi Young on May 07, 2015, 10:02:26 PM
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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 (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 (http://prairiebreak.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/michigan-impossible.html) 8)
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 8)
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.
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Plant sale at NARGS Ann Arbor meeting
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NARGS plant sale
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More plants in Ann Arbor - all photos Bobby Ward.
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More from the .....
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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.......
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Garden visits today at the NARGS Meeting - photos from Bobby Ward again :
Crevice garden; Tony Reznicek in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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The garden sign....
Ann Arbor NARGS trip
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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!"
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Elisabeth writes : "The fabulous garden of J. & A. Thompson has given me many ideas to try."
You'll spot our Dear Astragalus....... [attachimg=3]
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Still in the Thompson's Garden ....
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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
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From Elisabeth Zander in the garden of Tony and Susan Reznicek in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Each garden also had a workshop by the owners....
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more from Elisabeth in the Reznicek garden
Iris
pink centred Trillium
Primula
Pteridophyllum racemosum, growing on tree stump
Shortia
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Bobby Ward -
rock garden is a whisky barrel
Two shots from the garden of Don La Fond
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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?...!).
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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
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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
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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.
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Hmmmm...June is a relatively good time to be away from our garden ;)
cheers
fermi
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A former SRGC Grant Recipient (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8589.msg282424#msg282424) , Mariel Tribby (http://plantsinhighplaces.blogspot.co.uk/p/about.html), attended the NARGS event and has posted this on Facebook:
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"Seats down, tufa in, coming back from North American Rock Garden Society annual meeting in Ann Arbor. Had a great time!"
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From Panayoti Kelaidis on Facebook :
1) " 31 years ago this month I drove from Chicago to Saginaw and was first dazzled by the woodlands full of Trillium grandiflorum. I relived that dazzlement yesterday on a Nature Conservancy woodland near Ann Arbor on a North American Rock Garden Society conference field trip! Thanks to the Great Lakes Chapter for an awesome meeting! — in Ann Arbor, Michigan"
2) "Stunning display of birdsfoot violet (Viola pedata) on Saturday in a Nature Conservancy sand barren preserve near Ann Arbor--fabulous national meeting of the North American Rock Garden Society hosted by the Great Lakes Chapter. (Don't miss these meetings--next one in June 2016 in Steamboat Springs)"
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This first image the "pin" of the NARGS Ann Arbor meeting and the second is a hint of things to come in 2020 !