Northwest Horticultural Society

Woodland Garden Plants at Hunting Brook Gardens with Jimi Blake
2024-01-27 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Live Webinar
Jimi will introduce you to his extensive woodland plant collection. He will focus on choice woodlanders, their growing conditions, plant combinations, propagation and succession planning in woodland gardens.

Jimi started gardening as a young boy alongside his mother, Kathleen, a keen gardener. After leaving school, he trained in the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, based in Glasnevin, Dublin and then worked in several gardens and nurseries before landing his dream job. Hired to transform Airfield, a 38-acre estate farm, into a visitor destination, Jimi was appointed head gardener at the age of twenty-one and given the freedom to hone his skills and find his individual planting style. After eleven happy years at Airfield, he secured 20 acres of the family estate to create his own dream garden at Hunting Brook Gardens, Co. Wicklow. Here Jimi grows and expands his plant collection and shares his passion for plants with other enthusiasts through courses, workshops, lectures, and tours. When not at Hunting Brook, Jimi travels the world to find plants, meet people and be inspired by fresh ideas.
This recording will be sent within 48 hours and will be available for viewing by the registrant for four weeks.

The Must-Read Gardening Books of the 1600s. The 1700s. The 1800s. with Brian Thompson
2024-01-24 18:30 - 20:00 | Live Webinar
What were the most popular English gardening books in the 1600s? The 1700s? The 1800s? Brian Thompson will introduce you to these early books from the collection of the Elisabeth C. Miller Library. Like the best garden books of today, these provide basic techniques plus tips for growing the most robust flowers and vegetables, while introducing the latest, trendy plants with gorgeous pictures!

Brian has been curator of the Miller Library’s print collections, including rare books, for 18 years. He writes regular reviews in the NHS Garden Notes, often dipping back in time to include classic writers and titles. The origins of this presentation began as an article he wrote for the Book Club of Washington four years ago. He has a special interest in the writings that demonstrate how keen gardeners from centuries ago are not much different from those of today.
This recording will be sent within 48 hours and will be available for viewing by the registrant for four weeks.

Dishing Dirt with Bess & Richie: Planning and Planting for the Future
2024-01-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Live Webinar
Join Bess Bronstein and Richie Steffen for a critical look at what we can do today for tomorrow’s garden. Learn about plants that can be started now that will hold up to a changing climate and tolerate weather extremes. Bess and Richie will also share helpful tips and ideas for designing and maintaining your garden with an eye toward climate change.
This recording will be sent within 48 hours and will be available for viewing by the registrant for four weeks.

Conserving Washington’s Rare Native Plants with Wendy Gibble
2023-11-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Live Webinar
Eriogonum codium, Umtanum Desert buckwheat
Washington is home to a rich diversity of vascular plants, with approximately 3,100 species recorded in the state. While the iconic conifers of western Washington capture many visitors’ attention, it is places like the Wenatchee Mountains, Olympic Mountains and Columbia River Gorge that harbor the greatest diversity of plants, including most of the 49 species of endemic plants found nowhere else in the world. In fact, approximately 15% of the state’s native flora is considered rare and vulnerable to decline. With the continuing expansion of the state’s population, degradation of habitat, and changing weather patterns due to climate change, these plants face an uncertain future. In this talk, Wendy Gibble will present an overview of the conservation efforts to protect rare native plants by the Washington Rare Plant Care and Conservation (Rare Care) program at the UW Botanic Gardens and share current research on recovering and reintroducing the most imperiled species.
This recording will be sent within 48 hours and will be available for viewing by the registrant for four weeks.

Wendy Gibble is the Manager of Conservation and Education at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens. In her 17 years with the program, she has conducted research on rare plant ecology, overseen the seed banking program, and propagated rare plants for out plantings. She completed her master’s thesis in plant ecology at the University of Washington.

Annual Meeting and Lecture
2023-11-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Center for Urban Horticulture, NHS Hall, 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, Washington, 98105, United States
Annual Meeting
Annual meeting begins at 7:00 pm
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 the meeting will be limited to 180 attendees and registration is necessary.
Since Directors and Officers will be elected at this meeting, a written ballot will be provided to all members in case you are unable to attend the meeting in person.
The Miller Library will be open as a convenience to members until the meeting starts.

Lecture with Ray Larson
Begins immediately following meeting

Rhododendron Glen: Restoring and expanding a historic landscape in the Washington Park Arboretum
Ray Larson, Curator and Associate Director of the UW Botanic Gardens, will talk about the years long process to restore and enhance Rhododendron Glen, a signature landscape in the Washington Park Arboretum. Originally developed in the 1930s as one of the first plantings in the Arboretum, this project revitalized and expanded the original garden with new plantings and increased diversity along a restored stream. Completed this spring, new beds showcase hundreds of new plantings in the rhododendron family (Ericaceae) along with ecological enhancements to this part of the Arboretum’s watershed. Ray will discuss the years of planning and development that resulted in the polishing of this treasured landscape in the region’s largest public garden.
A recording of Ray Larson’s lecture will be sent to all members on November 9.
