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Meets
7 p.m. Upcoming
Events: Jan 6 Membership Meeting 7 pm Pleasant Hill Community Center Plant
of the Month: Salvia
spathacea (Hummingbird Sage)
Program
: "Yes,
It is a Daylily"with Neal Richmond
Daylilies come in about 50,000 varieties and far more
colors than we see along roadways and in nurseries.The delights of this hardy and easily-cared-for flower will be shared by Neal Richmond at our January meeting. He’s been growing daylilies for nearly two decades and served for several years as president of the NorCal daylily group, officially known as Region 7 of the American Hemerocallis Society. He has also been a judge and instructor of judges in daylily exhibitions and garden events. A
resident
of Concord and a professional
gardener by trade, Neal
personally grows about 200 daylily
cultivars. Members of our club
visited his spread in June of 2006,
and perhaps some of that year’s
crop will be among Neal’s slide
show pictures.“I like daylilies because they give a lot of color throughout our dry season, and t hey
don’t need a
lot of work,” Neal said.Weather permitting, he will dig up some of his daylilies to sell at our meeting. Proceeds would go to the new Bay Area Daylily Society, which will start meeting sometime in 2009. Neal will provide more information on this group when he meets with us. We look forward to an enjoyable program on this much admired garden plant. "TBD" program by Alrie Middlebrook, co-author with Glenn Keator of "Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens" (while the book is available locally, the link shown is to amazon.com so that you can also read some "real world" comments on its content) There
are lots of references to Alrie on the WWW... to see a Google list ...CLICK...
Her sustainable landscape design, build and maintenance company specializing in California native gardens can be seen at http://www.middlebrook-gardens.com/ Mar 3 Membership Meeting "Vermiculture" (worm culture for gardens) program by
Jerry Gach,
see his worms vermiculture in action at http://www.blueridgevermiculture.com/
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