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Updated: Jan. 3, 2010
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Western Winter Study Weekend
Every five years we host the Western Winter Study Weekend.
In 2006, our theme was Pacific Rim plants.
We have begun planning our next one, Along the Silk Road, to be held in 2011.
This year's Western Winter Study Weekend will be in Medford, Oregon
March 5 to 7, 2010
Alpine Trails
Speakers and Topics:
John Grimshaw author of A Gardener's Atlas, Snowdrops, and New Trees: Recent Introductions to Cultivation
"Alpines in Tropical Africa"
Mike Bone propagator at Denver Botanic Gardens
"The Golden Mountains of Central Asia: the Altai in Kazakhstan and Mongolia"
Rick Lupp owner of Mt. Tahoma Nursery
"Dazzled by Daphnes"
Frank Callahan discoverer of two new Calochortus species
"Growable Plants from Serpentine Areas of the Klamath Range and Elkhorn Mountains "
Nevin Smith author of Native Treasures: Gardening with the Plants of California
"Native Treasures: Bringing New Plants from the Wilds of California"
Mark Turner photographer and co-author of Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
"Ogling the Almost Ungrowable: Favorite Plants from Special Places"
Jan and Dave Dobak world travellers "Old Enthusiasms: The Alps of Switzerland"
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