Speakers, Calendar and Events
Avid Gardeners’ Monday Meetings
Avid Gardeners gets together on the third Monday of the month for speaker presentations, a raffle for gardening-related prizes, and a plant sale that offers a sampling of seasonal or hard-to-find horticultural treasures. Doors open at 6:30 PM at the Garden Club, 1645 High Street. Presentations start at 7:00 PM. You can bring cuttings of plants from your garden (known and unknown – you’ll probably get someone to identify them) that are currently displaying interesting foliage, flowers or fruits. Vases will be provided.
Download and print a bookmark with our Monday Meetings calendar!
January 16th - Marty Wingate
Marty Wingate will be speaking about “Landscaping for Privacy.” Come find out Marty’s latest ideas for making your garden a more private retreat. Her talk is based on her newest how-to book of the same name from Timber Press.
Martys garden articles appear in a variety of publications, including Fine Gardening, American Gardener, Country Gardens, and Gardening How-to. She is a weekly guest on the Greendays segment of Weekday on KUOW (94.9 FM), Seattles NPR station. Marty and her colleagues on Greendays won a 2010 Silver Trowel award from the Garden Writers Association for on-air talent. Marty is also the author of the Potting Shed Mysteries, about Pru Parke, an American who moves to England in hopes of becoming the head gardener at an historic English garden and gets tangled up in a murder investigation wherever she goes.
Monday, February 20th
AVID GARDERERS’ FAVORITES—Tried and True and New!
Come to the February meeting for the best plant recommendations you’ll get all year. Avid Gardeners board members share their top picks in both ornamentals and edibles. From great (but often unsung) reliables to the newest offerings, find out what specialty nursery owners Mark Bloom, Alice Doyle, Ernie and Marietta O’Byrne and moderator Mary-Kate Mackey suggest as choice selections for your 2012 garden.
Monday, March 19th
VEGETABLES IN BLOOM
Alice Doyle
What’s blooming about vegetables? Almost everything! Today’s spectacular grafted veggies take this formerly ho-hum topic to a new high of visual and culinary excitement. Indeed, the whole field is exploding with heritage and brand new varieties, new flavors, new colors, fascinating taste experiences and new techniques for grafting super vegetables. Alice Doyle’s talk will take you beyond the potager to edible beds of beauty, bursting with gorgeous, hardworking vegetables that don’t quit even when the weather won’t cooperate. This look at tomorrow’s table will change the way you think about veggies!
Alice Doyle is a founding member of Avid Gardeners and co-owner of Log House Plants, a wholesale grower near Cottage Grove.
Saturday, March 24th
ANNUAL POTTING PARTY
Have a jolly romp at Northwest Garden Nursery with Marietta and Ernie O’Byrne potting plants that will be grown on and sold at the Oregon Plant Fair to raise funds for Avid Gardeners doings.
Monday, April 16th
SHRUBS FOR BACKBONE AND BODY
Fred Weisensee and Leonard Foltz, Dancing Oaks
Saturday, May 12th
OREGON PLANT FAIR
A convergence of specialty plant growers and garden artists from all over Oregon.
Sunday, June 3rd
NURSERY BUS TOUR
Details to be announced
Sunday, July 3rd
GARDEN CONSERVANCY OPEN GARDENS
Details to be announced