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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, February 6, 2011

2011 program plans

Our tentative program line up for for the rest of the year, updated April 3.

April 16: Carol Eichler – The Tame and Wild Alpine Flora of Colorado. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca. Plant of the Month will be plants growable in the East from Laporte Avenue Nursery, Fort Collins, Colorado.

May 14: Ithaca Plant Sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., location to be determined (likely NYS Armory off Rt. 13 N at Hanshaw Rd.)

June 18-20 – Working trip to White Pine Camp. See details below.

July 10 – Member garden tour, Syracuse area. Featured gardens include Michael Brennan’s, in Pompey, and John Gilrein’s and Harold Peachey’s, both in South Onondaga. Details and directions coming in future newsletters.

August (date to be announced) – Member plant sale and picnic.

September (tentative, date to be announced) – Working trip to White Pine Camp.

Fall programs to be announced: September 17, October 15, November 12 (note November meeting is on the second Saturday).
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