What's New
Important dates for 2024
All meetings will be at the Toronto Botanical Garden.
Jan 14
Feb 18
Mar 10
Apr 14
May 5 (major plant sale)
Sept 8
Oct 20
Nov 10
Dec 8
News from NARGS
Deadline for Nargs Award nominations is January 2!
Award recipients do not need to be members of NARGS in many cases
NARGS AGM 2023 Nova Scotia Videos
https://www.nargs.org/news/2023-07-21/nargs-agm-2023-nova-scotia-videos
Annual Meeting
March, 2024 San Francisco Bay Area. NARGS subsidy possible for a first time ORG&HPS attendee. Contact Dave Pounds.
Tours
Botanizing Patagonia 26 Nov 2023 - 07 Dec 2023
Newfoundland Limestone Barrens 28 Jun - 06 Jul 2024
NARGS Virtual Study Days
January 13, 2024 Host: Todd Boland - The Undervalued Ranunculaceae: Hepatica, Anemone, Ranunculus, Clematis - Speakers: John Massey, Todd Boland, Cliff Booker, & Deborah Hardwick
February 10, 2024 What’s New in Rock Gardening Host: Paul Spriggs - Speakers: Adam Black, Paul Spriggs, Elisabeth & Rod Zander & others.
ORG&HPS Members who have received NARGS Awards
NARGS Chapter Service Awards for distinguished service and devotion
2022: Ewan Mackay
2022: Veronica Callinan
2021: Sherill Allard
2021: Diana Pooke
2020: Barbara Cooper and Bella Seiden
2019: Susan and Michael Dolbey
2018: Carol Clark
Award of Merit for outstanding contributions to rock and alpine gardening
2021: Mariel Tribby
2019: Carol Clark
2007: Joyce Fingerut
1985: Norman Singer (not an ORG&HPS member at the time)
1982: Francis H. Cabot
Linc and Timmy Foster Millstream Garden Award for creating a superior garden
2023: Lee & Arie Vanspronsen
2019: Darren Heimbecker
2014: Judith Dumont (not an ORG&HPS member at the time)
2012: Patricia Highberg
Geoffrey B. Charlesworth Writing Prize for the best article in the Rock Garden Quarterly
2009: Andrew Osyany
2008: Kristl Walek
Marvin E. Black Award for excellence in promoting membership in NARGS; organizing study weekends, national, and international meetings
2023 Roslyn Duffus
2022: Carol Eichler
2018: Anna Leggatt
2003: Joyce Fingerut
2002: Marion Jarvie
Carleton R. Worth Award for distinguished writings about rock gardening and rock garden plants in a book or in magazine articles
2021: Brian Bixley
1999: Trevor Cole
1997: Frederick W. Case
1990: Geoffrey B. Charlesworth
Edgar T Wherry Award for outstanding contribution in the dissemination of botanical and/or horticultural information about native North American plants
2020: Joyce Fingerut
2006: Marilyn Light (not an ORG&HPS member at the time)
1974: Frederick W. Case
Marcel Le Piniec Award for a nursery person, propagator, hybridizer, or plant explorer who is currently actively engaged in extending and enriching the plant material available to rock gardeners
2009: Harvey and Irene Wrightman
September 2023 Plant Sale
PLANT SALE at ORG&HPS Meeting
DATE: September 10, 2023
LOCATION: Toronto Botanical Garden
TIME: sale begins at 12:30 p.m.
Vendors
Hazel, Joe and Amy Cook from Blossom Hill
Peter Keeping and Sheila Cule: a variety of Clematis; Wisteria ‘Blue Moon’ and Honeysuckle
Arie Vanspronsen
Anna Mizyn, Anna's Perennials
Donating plants: please bring your plants to TBG between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on September 10.
Plants must be clearly labelled. Additional information written on the back of the label helps the buyers! We would appreciate a recommended selling price to be included on each label. (All proceeds go to ORG&HPS)
Guidelines for pricing plant sale donations:
If the plant is something not commonly found in nurseries or stores, price starting at $5; higher if it's a good size plant or division. If it's a young plant that is still quite small, perhaps $3.
Anything left at the end of the sale will go half-price.
All plants not bought must be taken home by the donor.
ORG&HPS policy on Jumping Worms:
At this time, no special treatment to eliminate Jumping Worms and their eggs is required before plants are offered for sale at ORG&HPS meetings.
Read Barbara Peat's excellent article on Jumping Worms.
Come, enjoy our first member/vendor sale in years!
Members' Handbook replaced by Directories
The former Member's Handbook has been replaced by separate documents:
Members' Contact Directory
Members' Gardens for Informal Visits
Members' Businesses and Services. (This directory is being updated as Members respond to the request for updates.)
You must be logged in to access this page: https://onrockgarden.com/index.php/members-only-area/directories
