Seattle Garden Club

Shirley Meneice Horticulture Conference

Shirley Meneice Horticulture Conferences

Sept 22-23, 2021
Shirley Meneice Horticulture Conference

Sep. 22 23, 2021 Shirley Meneice Horticulture Conference Registration (select here)

Summary of Events
Wednesday Morning Session: September 22nd, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Eastern — Heronswood Garden; Gainesway Farm Tour; Making Seed Bombs.
Wednesday Afternoon Session: September 22nd, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Eastern — Desert Botanic Garden; Propagation by Air Layering; Speaker Leah Penniman, Black Kreyol Farmer, Author, Mother, and Food Justice Activist.
Thursday Morning Session: September 23rd, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Eastern — Coastal Maine Botanical Garden; Lily Creek Gardens; Growing and Showing Succulents.
Thursday Afternoon Session: September 23rd, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Eastern — The Kampong National Tropical Botanical Garden, Coconut Grove, FL; Jungle Gardens, Avery Island, LA; Speaker Amy Stewart on Garden to Glass: Adventures in Cocktail Gardening.

Detailed 2021 Virtual Schedule Select Here

Sept 22nd-23, 2020
Shirley Meneice Horticulture Conference

2020 Virtual Conference Replays and Resources, select here.

Tue: Sep 22nd,  8am – 12pm  Pacific Time:  Welcome; Keynote: Margaret Roach (replay not available); Chicago Botanic Garden Walk; Urbs in Horto (City in a Garden) at Lurie Garden
Tue: Sep 22nd,  1 p.m – 3pm. Pacific Time:  Tribute to Shirley Meneice; Montage of “Amazing Horticulturists”; Northwind Perennial Farm with Roy Diblik, Nurseryman; Tutorial of a Pot-et-fleur
Wed: Sep 23rd,  8am – 12pm Pacific Time:  Keynote: Cassandra Quave, PhD; In the Vegetable Garden; Rare Book Specialist: Medicinal Plants; Installation of a Piet Oudolf Garden
Wed: Sep 23rd,  1 p.m – 3pm Pacific Time: Secrets of a “Bulb Guru”; Tips and Tricks to Make a Fall Seasonal Container; Viticulture Education and optional live Wine Tasting
Seed Share for the 2020 Conference: ongoing online — To contribute your seeds, go to Seed Share for instructions. To obtain seeds, go to the Seed Share Database, make your seed selection and contact the person who posted the seeds.

Detailed 2020 Virtual Schedule Select Here

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Shirley Meneice with Marilee Ahalt, 2015 Seattle Conference,
Photo by Jane Harder. More photos, please select here.

2020 Virtual Shirley Meneice Conference Resources:

2018 Shirley Meneice Conference Resources:

2017 Shirley Meneice Conference Resources:

Seed Savers Exchange website is www.seedsavers.org.  Join the 14,000 members across the country by sharing your home grown non-hybrid seed in their seed exchange or purchase non-hybrid seeds off the site.

Want to learn more about traditional plant breeding, GMO breeding and Gene editing or Genome editing?  This is a great website to jump onto and find what you need to know in an easy to understand format.  www.biofortified.org.

Botanical Nomenclature PowerPoint presented at Lauritzen Gardens by Trent Erickson the plant records curator and head gardener.  It is great reading in order to understand how plants are and have been named over the past couple of centuries.
Link:  http://www.seattlegardenclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017BotanicalNomenclature.pdf

USDA invasive link  check it out before you plant. https://plants.usda.gov/java/noxiousDriver

2015 SMHC Photos! Click Here

Message from The President:
The Shirley Meneice Horticulture Conference has just ended. I am not alone in saying that it was a HUGE success! I am in the enviable position, as SGC President, to bask in the praise being heaped upon our Club and members, for the show of support to our own Catherine Allan, who chaired the Conference. She, along with Jenny Wyatt, worked tirelessly to create an event representing the very best speakers and field trips that our area has in its arsenal. Their attention to the scheduling details was evident each and every day of the Conference.

It would be impossible for me to list every single SGC person who contributed to this success – you are legion. Here are a very few of the comments I heard personally (with perhaps a tiny bit of paraphrasing) – and I’m sure there are many more which others will share in the weeks ahead:

  • We in the south consider ourselves famous for hospitality, but your Club members have proven that we can be outdone in that department.
  • I have been to many horticulture gatherings, but have never learned as much and enjoyed any as much as this one.
  • We are so jealous of all these fabulous speakers and opportunities you have here!
  • Who did all the wonderful flowers and arrangements? Where did you get those lovely bark canoes?
  • The lunch and all the home-baked cookies were delicious. I just can’t believe that you all went to so much trouble.

I would like to personally say, thank you, to each and every one of you for helping SGC and Seattle shine!

Suzette de Turenne, SGC President

 

 

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Photo by Michael Jardine