SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

at the Center for Urban Horticulture, NHS Hall

1:00 PM: Doors open

1:00 – 1:30 PM: Plant sale (Keeping It Green) & socializing

1:30 PM: Official business

2:00 – 3:00 PM: Lecture followed by Q&A

More plant sales and socializing until 3:30 PM

Light refreshments will be provided

Special note: Although usually closed on Sundays, the Miller Library will kindly be open to members from 1:00–1:30 PM and again after the meeting until 4:00 PM. Peruse the shelves and enjoy Molly Hashimoto’s paintings and prints of Northwest trees, flowers, wildlife and landscapes.

Directors and Officers will be elected at this meeting. If you are unable to attend in person and would like to vote, please download the PDF ballot from the link below and follow the instructions inside.

This meeting and lecture are free and open to all members, but due to the capacity of NHS Hall at the Center for Urban Horticulture, attendance will be limited to 180 attendees, and registration is required.

Bellevue Botanical Garden:

A Garden Created For and By the Community

Director of the Bellevue Botanical Garden James Gagliardi will give us an overview of the past, present, and future of BBG, a vibrant, vital and well-loved place in our region. Learn and reflect on how a community came together to create a space for a diverse group of people and plants.

Speaker’s Bio:

James studied horticulture at the University of Connecticut and earned a master’s degree from the Longwood Graduate Program in Public Horticulture at the University of Delaware. He joined the Bellevue Botanical Garden as its director in 2022. Prior to that, he worked at Smithsonian Gardens in Washington, D.C., where he was lead horticulturist for the National Museum of Natural History and held a supervisory role for the landscapes of the National Museum of Asian Art, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Castle, Enid A. Haupt Garden, Folger Rose Garden, and Ripley Garden. He also served as the horticulturist for George Washington’s River Farm, headquarters of the American Horticultural Society in Alexandria, Virginia.

This is an in-person-only lecture; there will be no recording.

2025 NHS Ballot

Bios of Proposed New Board Members