THE SEPTEMBER MEETING starts another season of Portland Chapter's regular monthly
meetings.
Come listen, visit and eat cookies with a great group of plant lovers.
Three rhododendron collectors—also doctors—Forrest Bump, M.D., Frank Mossman, O.D., and David Goheen, Ph.D., will talk to us about important rhododendron hybridizers in the Pacific Northwest, and what accounts for extraordinary successes in creating outstanding prize winning hybrids.
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| Dr. Dave Goheen | Dr. Forrest bump | Dr. Frank Mossman |
Get answers to such questions as: Do successful hybridizers concentrate on particular parent plants? What desirable characteristics do they try to develop in the hybrids? What lengths or travels did these people go to in order to create new rhododendron hybrids? Where did they derive the inspiration for their love of rhododendrons?
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear three of the deans of our Northwest rhododendron history. Special thanks go to Dr. Bump for helping put this program together.
There will be a cutting exchange after the program. Bring 3-5 cuttings in a moist plastic bag with a label telling the name of the plant of something in your yard that is unusual and special to you and exchange it for something that another holds to be special in their yard. Then practice plant propagation to plentify your plantings.
Portland Chapter, American Rhododendron Society Monthly Meeting,
Thursday, September 21, 2005, 7:30 pm, with social 1/2 hour starting at 7:00
PM
All Saints Episcopal Church, 4033 S.E. Woodstock.