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February 18 Program: The Great American Mixed Border



Our first program of the year features Michael Loos speaking on The Great American Mixed Border.

"The Great American Mixed Border is wide reaching in its scope," says Loos. "It reviews not only plants for the garden, it combines these features into a view of the garden as a whole. Elements of design, soil, and then - plants, create a garden. Understanding fully, each aspect, helps us create a place of beauty and retreat.

Loos is a graduate of Kent State University and Cleveland State University. He spent a summer with Harvard University studying and performing field research in tropical botany at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, in Florida.

He has worked as a Garden Center Manager, County Extension Educator for Ohio State University, Curator of Collections for the Cleveland Botanical Garden, and owned a Landscape Consultation and Design business in Cleveland.

Presently, he works for Cornell University as the Interim Director for The New York State Seed Testing Laboratory at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, in Geneva.

Michael has gardened since he was three years old, learning from his grandmother. While not always giving the most accurate information (She would say toads were bad for the garden!), she instilled in him the love of plants, gardening, and nature.

The meeting will be in 404 Plant Science Building on the Cornell University campus. Bring a brown bag lunch and socialize at noon. Program begins at 1 p.m.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Updated: Members only plant sale August 21 - Set up starts at 11 a.m.

From David Mitchell and BZ Marranca, plant sales coordinators

I hope you've been enjoying the hot summer. Please think about potting up plants now for the sale in August.

Plans are set for this year's members plant sale to be held at Ken Post Lab on the Cornell University campus. (View google map.)
  • 11:00 a.m. Arrive, get your plant sale number and help with sale set-up.
  • 12:00 noon Lunch break (bring your own, this is not a dish-to-pass meeting)
  • 1 p.m. Plant sale begins.
As in past years, we'll very democratically allow those who arrive first to get "first dibs" at purchases. So it pays to arrive early and sign in. For the treasured and special plants, we will have a silent auction table. Note this is our only members-only sale and we should have some real gems.

You may join for 2010 at the meeting for $10 ($15 for families). It's still a great value since we have half of our program year ahead of us.
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