2009 NARGS Eastern Winter Study Weekend

The Potomac Valley Chapter will host the 2009 Eastern Winter Study Weekend January 30 through February 1 at the Sheraton Reston Hotel, Reston, Virginia.

Featured speakers include:

• Tony Avent, proprietor of Plant Delights Nursery, North Carolina.
  
• Peggy Olwell, Bureau of Land Management and Plant Conservation Alliance, Washington, D.C., on how climate changes may affect gardeners.
• Judith and Dick Tyler, Pine Knot Farms, Clarksville, Virginia, on their experiences collecting, propagating and growing hellebores.
• Mark Bridgen, Cornell University, New York, on his experiences collecting and breeding Chilean geophytes.
• Nick Turland, Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis, Missouri, on Mediterranean plants.
• Richard Critz, former editor of the Primrose Journal on maintaining primulas in warmer gardens.
  
• J.P. (Koos) Roux, Curator of the Compton Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa, on South African Flora.
• Bill McLaughlin, curator, United States Botanic Garden, on mid-Atlantic and other natives for rock and dry gardens.
• Richard Olsen, researcher at the U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, D.C., on new plant introductions, particularly woodies.
  

Breakout sessions include:

• Plant photography in the digital age.
• Current issues in plant and seed importation.
• Gravel gardening in hot and humid areas.
  

For more info and to register, visit: http://www.pvcnargs.org/ewsw09home.htm