Download Report

The Dodecatheon
Volume38, Number 6
Nov/Dec. 2014
Newsletter of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society
SIERRA NEVADA WILDFLOWERS
Inside this issue:
Sierra Nevada Wildflowers,…41,43-44
The Chair’s Corner ....................... ….42
Annual Meeting ...……………………45
Fall Plant.Sale Results……………...46
Chapter Meetings. & News…….……47
Looking Ahead ............................. ….48
Part Two
Milena Bucek
This is a continuation of the report on the Sierra Nevada Wildflowers trip,
published in the last Dodecatheon, Vol. 38, No.5, Sept/Oct. 2014 issue.
From the Squaw Valley, our travel continued southward along the eastern
Sierra Nevada escarpment to the Mokelumne Wilderness area that we entered by hiking from the Carson Pass. The trail started at an elevation of
8,573 feet and led us through subalpine forest to the alpine zone of the Frog
and Winnemuca lakes to an elevation of 9,000 feet.
The alpine zone in the vicinity of the lakes provided not only breathtaking
vistas of the surrounding mountains but guided us to the most beautiful of
nature’s rock gardens. Dry open habitats of granitic outcrops with occasional erratic boulders, the reminders of the area's glacial history, provided
warm, dry sites for many plants such as penstemons, phloxes, sedums, or
eriogonums that we rock gardeners try with varying degree of success to
grow in our gardens. The plants were often growing in narrow fractures of
the granitic rocks adjacent to small spreading shrubs such as ribes (R. viscosissimum) and sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata).
Eriogonum umbellatum
Some of the flowers blooming in the dry sites included the species such as
pussytoes (Antennaria alpina), pussypaws (Calyptridium umbellatum),
Weston’s wild buckwheat (Eriogonum nudum), sulphur flower (Eriogonum
umbellatum), wooly sunflower (Eriophyllum lanatum), rosy sedum
(Rhodiola integrifolia), sierra stonecrop (Sedum obtusatum), mountain pride
penstemon (Penstemon newberryi), showy penstemon (Penstemon speciosus),
sticky cinquefoil (Potentilla glandulosa), Douglas’catchfly (Silene douglasii)
and the ubiquitous subshrub of prickly gilia (Linanthus pungens).
Somewhat different plant species were observed in areas where moisture
was more abundant, e.g. in low swales or open areas of meadows, often with
stands of blooming wooly mule ears (Wyethia mollis), in addition to mountain pennyroyal (Monardella odoratissima), scarlet gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata), western blue flag (Iris missouriensis) or the beautiful sierra primrose
(Primula suffrutescens).
Sedum obtusatum
There is another striking plant that needs to be mentioned here - it is a
member of the gentian family that can grow up to six feet in height. It is
aptly called the monument plant (Frasera speciosa) or the green gentian. It
has star-shaped, somewhat unassuming, greenish white flowers. It grows
mostly in grassy areas within the pine and fir forest that we encountered
before reaching the timberline.
Following a day of hiking in the Mokelumne wilderness area we returned to
the Carson Pass and continued our journey further south. After a comfortable night and great cookout at Woodford Inn, we stopped at Virginia Lakes
(9,770 feet) for lunch and a short excursion in our further search of wild
flowers. Our final destination was the town of Mammoth Lakes where we
were to lodge for the rest of the trip.
Penstemon speciosus with Castilleja
continued pg. 43
Vol. 38, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 2014
Page
The Dodecatheon
This publication is issued on the first
of odd numbered months. All copy
must reach the editor no later than
the 10th day of the preceding month.
Any text in this newsletter may be
used in any other NARGS publication,
unless otherwise specified. Please
credit the author and The Dodecatheon.
Chapter Officers:
Chairperson — Mary Ann Ulmann,
[email protected]
Vice-Chair/Program Chair — Arle
Kruckeberg, [email protected]
Recording Secretary — Hope Punnett
Treasurer — Jerry Rifkin
Membership Secretary —
Chuck Ulmann, [email protected],
610-431-2511, 1320 Ashbridge Road,
West Chester, PA 19380
Dodecatheon Editor — Joan Haas,
[email protected]
Director at Large — Janet Novak and
Hope Punnett
********************************
AV equipment — Rick Ray
Brunch Chair —
Hospitality —
Libations — Donna Noctor
Name Tags —Paula Burns
Phila. Flower Show Coordinator -Jerry
Rifkin
Plant Sales -- Betty Mackey, and Janet
Novak
Plant Show — Radford MacFarlane
and Michele Hall
Pot Shop — Sharee Solow
Web Master — Janet Novak
[email protected], 215-248-2642

For membership info, the
latest program changes and
bad weather cancellations
check out our web site:
www.dvcnargs.org
We do send out email notices from time to
time between issues of The Dodecatheon to
those who have given us email addresses.
Please check your email address in the
membership list and if it is wrong, send us
the right one! If you don’t have email and
want a phone call on these notices, give
us a call and we’ll put you on a phone list.
THE CHAIR’S CORNER
My time as chapter chair is coming to an end. I hope that the changes
we have made will advance the chapter. It is a time of change for all of
us but the board felt these changes needed to be made. In particular
the way we do the flower show reflects the current reality of our capabilities as well as the current reality of many horticultural organizations in the Delaware Valley. I hope you will all support our new chapter chair and our new program chair. These jobs take a lot of effort.
The new chairs will need your help. So when they ask for it, please
say, “Yes!”
NARGS is seeing a reduction in membership as our chapter has seen.
If you are not a member of NARGS, please consider joining. Check out
the website at www.nargs.org for the benefits of being a national member. Chuck and I have been national members for thirty years. We
know the fun you can have when you attend the events, read the bulletin and grow the seeds! Anyone interested in packing seeds may email
Joyce Fingerut ([email protected]) to volunteer.
Betty Mackey’s idea of bringing a friend to the plant sale has helped us
get four or five new members! I hope we continue this new idea and
gather some more members this way. The plant sale is what got me
interested in rock gardening when Anita Kistler told me about the
plant sales at the Philadelphia Flower Show back in 1980 or 1981 (I
can’t remember that far back!).
As winter approaches I am finally getting things under control (?)! It
has been a hard year in our garden because I have been helping Elizabeth so much in her garden. My three greenhouses were in disorder but
now I am nearly finished in cleaning and organizing them. For those of
you who don’t know, I also grow tropical orchids and other tender
plants in my greenhouses. Lee Raden used to say everyone eventually
goes to orchids. These last ten years I have been trying to cultivate
these and am finally getting many large and beautiful orchids. Anyone
who is interested can visit my greenhouses. Just give me a call. In my
cold greenhouse, rock garden plants can be seen over wintering.
I want to thank the members who helped during my time as chapter
chair! Happy Gardening all!
Mary Ann Ulmann
Carole Neumer
John and Carole have been members of our chapter since 1972. Carole
passed away this past August 21st, after having Parkinson's disease for
the past two plus years. Since John was caring for Carole, their participation and attendance at our chapter meetings and events was limited,
and John indicated they both surely missed these activities. Carole was
an avid watercolor painter, and as per John, painted just about every
flower and plant. Thanks to Bill Bauer for providing this information.
Our thoughts are with John on the passing of Carole.
Chuck Ulmann, Membership Secretary
[email protected], 610-431-2511
Page 42
The Dodecatheon
Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, continued from page 41
The transportation of our small group of eleven, including the driver,
allowed impromptu stops to inspect local flora along the road while passing through vast sagebrush scrub areas. At one such stop, we had an
opportunity to see the showy yellow blazing star (Mentzelia laevicaulis)
and equally showy white prickly poppy (Argemone munita). Some road
cuts were just covered with various buckwheats, penstemons, monardellas, in places with the stately Sierra angelica (Angelica lineariloba).
Our next excursion was to the Saddlebag Lake (10,000 feet) by the Tioga
Pass road, near the eastern entrance of Yosemite National Park. We all
appreciated a water taxi ride on the lake toward its northern edge where
Mentzelia laevicaulis
we comfortably reached a wonderful alpine meadow with a lot of wild
flowers. (The high altitude hiking on this high Sierra trip was often
rather strenuous, especially for the oldies like me, and the easy water ride was quite welcomed.)
The banks of the Saddlebag lake were covered with large colonies of
yellow monkey flowers (Mimulus guttatus). The meadows, especially in places where the stream spreads over large areas, are
rather wet and create an ideal habitat not only for the monkey flowers but also for dwarf rocky mountain willow (Salix petrophila), alpine shooting star
(Dodecatheon alpinum),
white heather (Cassiope
mertensiana), mountain red
Mimulus guttatus
heather (Phyllodoce breweri), swamp (bog) laurel (Kalmia polifolia) and many Anderson’s
mountain crowns (Oreostemma alpigenum var. andersonii).
The Saddlebag lake meadows are also dotted with many outcrops
of metavolcanic rocks that provide topographic highs suitable for
plants that prefer drier soils, such as various species of penstemons, e.g. Penstemon speciosus, P. heterodoxus or P. rydbergii.
Phyllodoce breweri
After a sudden change in weather and a short
and very intense storm, our hiking plans for
the day were changed. Our group visited then
the nearby Mono Lake Visitors Center and
later hiked in the Convict Lake Valley with the
well-known panorama of the Paleozoic folded
rocks of Morrison Mountain and Sevenhaha
Cliffs in the background.
Our last day hike and further search for wild
flowers at high altitudes started along the Little Lakes Valley trailhead at an elevation of
10,250 feet, located in the National John Muir
Wilderness Area of Inyo National Forest. The
lower portion of the trail from the Mosquito
Little Lakes Valley rock garden
Flats follows the local drainage way of Rock
Creek and heads toward a series of lakes, the legacy of the last glaciation of the area.
The creek banks have lush vegetation where we found many ‘wet habitat’ blooming plants such as the
elephant’s head (Pedicularis groenlandica), ranger’s buttons (Sphenosciadium capitellatum), whiteflowered bog orchid (Platanthera leucostachys), larkspur (Delphinium glaucum), alpine goldenrod
(Solidago multiradiata), alpine shooting star (Dodecatheon alpinum) and on the stream flood plain
(Mosquito Flats), carpets of Coulter’s daisies (Erigeron coulteri).
Vol. 38, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 2014
Page 43
Sierra Nevada Wildflowers continued from page 43
Near Right:
Potentilla fruticosa
Far Right: Penstemon newberryi var. newberryi
Where the lower portion of the trail intersects the outer slope of a glacial moraine, the soils are sandy,
rocky and well drained. The plants blooming here during our hike included thick-stemmed aster
(Eurybia integrifolia), yarrow (Achillea millefolium), mountain strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), flattopped pussytoes (Antennaria corymbosa), alpine flames (Pyrrocoma apargioides), crimson columbine
(Aquilegia formosa), white daisy (Erigeron glacialis) besides many blooming lupines, cinquefoils, castillejas and penstemons with mountain pride penstemon (Penstemon newberryi var. newberryi) being the
most ubiquitous.
After the initial climbing part of the trail, we reached the portion of the valley with unforgettable views,
many granitic rock gardens and ground hugging alpines. And this is where we assembled for our last
and farewell group picture (see photo).
It is very hard to put in words and describe the beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountains and its flowers.
Hopefully we can all come back, meet again and get another taste of the beauty that resides there.
Note: I would like to thank Rose Wolford for keeping notes of plant names which made the preparation of this report much easier.
Castilleja linariifolia
Photographs by Milena Bucek, except the group picture in Little Lakes Valley - by John Baston.
CALL FOR SPEAKERS Members’ Show & Tell JANUARY 10, 2015
This annual event is a lot of fun for all of us. Bring your plants, tools, slides, PowerPoint presentations,
digital images, drawings or anything else that works for telling us about Rock Garden or Horticultural
related activities. Aim at keeping your presentation to about 10 minutes.
We’ll have a PC and a projector there for digital pictures. If you are bringing slides please let me know
in advance so we can be sure to have a slide projector present. Bring the digital stuff along on a CD or
USB drive.
If you would like me to put photos into a PowerPoint presentation for you, send them along by email or
send me a CD. For those of you who know how Dropbox works, you may use that to get digital images to
me.
Call 610-431-2511 or email [email protected] in advance with what you are planning to do so I'll have
everything ready for the meeting. It would be wonderful if we have another overflow session that might
spill into February or whenever we have a bit of extra time! (Chuck Ulmann)
Page 44
The Dodecatheon
December Meeting
Our annual meeting and luncheon will be held at the Overbrook Golf Club in Radnor on Saturday, 13 December. We will start at 11 AM for visiting. There will be a cash bar for your convenience! Our sit down luncheon
will be at 12 noon. Upon completion of the luncheon we will hold our annual meeting (very short) and will have
our speaker, Stephen Maciejewski talking on aspects of Chinese and Vietnamese horticulture.
The cost of the luncheon is $24. Please complete your meal choice, complete the form below and send your check
and the form to Jerry Rifkin. The deadline for signing up for the meeting is Friday, 5 December.
We’re looking forward to seeing you on 13 December.
Menu
Appetizer
Wild Mushroom Bisque
Entree, Choice of
Sautéed Breast of Chicken Picatta Style with White Wine, Lemon and Herbs
Potato Dauphinoise
Asparagus
OR
Hearty Vegetable Fettuccini Alfredo
Dessert
Bassett’s Vanilla Ice Cream with Godiva Drizzle
Assorted French and Italian Cookies
Rolls, coffee and tea
Tear on the dotted line and return with your check!
Reservation form for the December Annual Meeting and Luncheon on Saturday, 13 December
Name(s) ___________________________________________________________
Address, City and State _______________________________________________
________________________________________________
Select your meal
Chicken Picatta
Number _________ at $24.00
Cost ________
Fettuccini Alfredo
Number _________ at $24.00
Cost _________
Total _________
Make your check payable to DVC NARGS and send it to Jerry Rifkin, 310 Valley Rd, Merion PA 19066.
DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS IS FRIDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2014
Vol. 38, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 2014
Page 45
Fall Plant Sale Results
I am pleased to report a successful fall plant sale on September 13th at the Robbins Nature Center in Ambler,
Pennsylvania. Shoppers and plant donors combined forces and we collected $666.00 in sales, along with
signing up a new member. There was appreciation for the good looks of our donated plants and auction
items. Hardly anything was left over.
Bill Bauer, a relatively new member, made and donated two large round hypertufa troughs to the silent auction, and the bidding was lively. Thanks a lot, Bill!
It takes many helpers to make this event happen -- we need setup, check-in, replacement plant labels, donated plants, pricing, refreshments, and more. Many members donated food and plants. Others pitched in to
do whatever needed doing, without being asked.
Thank you, Mary Ann and Chuck Ulmann, Jerry Rifkin, Janet Novak, Rad MacFarlane, Arle Kruckeberg, Joan
Haas, Joan and Bill Schmitt, Sharee Solow, Paula Burns, Chris and Bob Stamper, and everyone who helped,
donated, shopped, or took part.
Our spring 2015 plant sale will again be held at the Robbins Nature Center. In 2016, we may join forces with
the spring plant sale activities at Morris Arboretum, but probably will retain the fall plant sale as it is. It is
such a great way to get our annual activities off to a good start.
Betty Mackey, Chair
DIRECTIONS
Directions To The Overbrook Golf Club
Plymouth Township Community Center
2910 Jolly Road, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
www.plymouthcommunitycenter.org
From Pennsylvania Turnpike I-276
Take Exit 333 (Norristown, old exit 25). At
the end of the ramp, turn left onto Plymouth Road. At the light, turn right onto
Germantown Pike West. Continue approximately one (1) mile, through four (4) traffic
lights (not counting the left hand turn light
at Sandy Hill Road). At the fifth light, turn
right onto Jolly Road. The Community Center is on the right.
From Blue Route (I-476)
Take exit for Germantown Pike West (Exit
20). Continue on Germantown Pike west
for approximately one (1) mile, through five
(5) traffic lights (not counting the left hand
turn light at Sandy Hill Road). At the fifth
light, turn right onto Jolly Road. The Community Center is on the right.
Traveling north on I-476 (Blue Rt.)
Follow Route 202 to Germantown Pike.
Travel EAST on Germantown Pike, through
five (5) traffic lights. At the next traffic
light, approximately half a mile, turn left
onto Jolly Road. The Community Center is
on the right.
Page 46
From West Chester:
Take Rt. 3 (West Chester Pike) to Bryn Mawr Ave. (3rd
traffic light after Rt. 252) and turn left. Follow Bryn
Mawr Avenue to Sproul Road (Route 320). Turn left on to
Rt. 320 North and follow to 2nd traffic light (Godfrey
Rd). Turn left on to Godfrey Rd. Club entrance is about a
block down on the left.
From King of Prussia or Valley Forge:
Head East on the Schuylkill Expressway (Rt. 76) to Exit
331A (Rt. 476 S) towards Chester. Take Exit 13 and turn
right onto E. Lancaster Ave./US 30, towards Villanova.
Turn right onto Sproul Rd./PA 320 S. At second light
turn right onto Godfrey Rd. The entrance is on the left at
the bottom of the hill.
From Center City Philadelphia:
Head West on the Schuylkill Expressway (Rt. 76) to Exit
331 (Rt. 476 S). At Exit 13, Lancaster Ave./US 30, turn
right towards Villanova. Turn right onto Sproul Rd./PA
320 S. At second light turn right onto Godfrey Rd. The
entrance is on the left at the bottom of the hill.
From Points North (Bucks and Upper Montgomery
Counties):
Go South on Roosevelt Blvd. to Schuylkill Expressway (Rt.
76 W). Exit at Rt. 476 S and get off at the next exit (Exit
13 - St. Davids). Turn right onto Rt. 30 East; then turn
right onto Rt. 320 South (Sproul Road). Follow 320
South to the 2nd light at Godfrey Rd. Turn right on to
Godfrey and Club entrance is on the left at the bottom of
the hill.
The Dodecatheon
Upcoming Chapter Meetings
Biography (from the book Crazy About Cacti and Succulents)
Stephen Maciejewski is still married to the green world. He either
spends his time attending to the large garden behind his house in
Center City Philadelphia; or in the award winning Fitzwater 2000
Community Garden located down the street, which he helped established and maintains. He has also started raising bees there. When
he's not working on the outdoor plants, he's caring for the countless
Join Stephen Maciejewski from the Liberty Bell chapter
plants growing on the windowsills or light carts throughout his
of the Gesneriad Society in Philadelphia as he takes you
home. Son of a Polish farmer, he started acquiring plants as a boy
on a 15 day journey into a seldom seen section of China.
with his paper route money. Years later he started showing plants at
Follow him and Professor Wei Yi-Gang, author
of Gesneriaceae of South China as they travel 3,000 kilo- the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s annual Harvest Show. He
developed and perfected his growing and exhibiting skills and techmeters in search of beautiful, rare and still unnamed speniques by joining and participating in numerous local plant clubs.
cies of gesneriads. You'll see plants never seen before:
He has also held leadership positions in various plant organizations
many Primulinas, other gesneriads and plants like the
Today, he's a fixture in the competitive division at the Philadelphia
cave growing iridescent blue Begonia edulis. Plus specInternational Flower Show's Horticultural Court. For the past dectacular scenery, including otherworldly karst mountains,
ade he has immersed himself in the world of gesneriads. He is
caves larger than ball parks, elaborate rice fields and
President of the local Liberty Bell Gesneriad Society chapter and
quaint villages. And learn how a little caterpillar can have co-Chairperson on the international Conservation and Student Grant
a major effect on your travel plans. For those with a culi- Committees. He is also the co-founder of the Gesneriad Conservanary interest, there's: marijuana soup, white bees with
tion Center of China, created to study, grow and keep local gesginger and green slime fungus with vegetables. A feast for neriad species from going extinct. He explores for gesneriads and
lectures extensively. He will be honored with a newly discovered
all your senses. Book will be for sale.
species of gesneriaceae being named for him. The plant will be
called Primulina maciejewskii.
Topic #2: Wild Vietnam: Leeches, Vipers, Bat
December 13, 2014: Stephen Maciejewski
Topic #1: China: Disappearing Mountains,
White Bees, Venomous Caterpillars and
Grandma's Primulina.
Boys and Gesneriads
Stephen Maciejewski will now take us on a fifteen day journey into Vietnam, going where few have gone before. Follow him and a group of Chinese and Vietnamese botanists as they travel from Hanoi in search of plants and adventure. You'll visit: Hang Kia Pako, Pu Hu, Pu Hoat, Pu
Huong, Phong Nhake Bang and other places. You'll see
plants never seen before, plus birds, snakes, frogs, butterflies, Hmong people, a Vietnamese wedding, memorable
food, beautiful buildings and also spend a night with
the Forest Rangers.
Welcome New Members
to the DVC chapter of NARGS:
Cindy Nuss
Tracy Constantine
Jenny Rose Carey
ENTER YOUR PLANTS IN THE FLOWER SHOW
It's almost Philadelphia Flower Show (PFS) time again. A dedicated group is busy constructing a fabulous Educational Entry to represent us. But another part of the show is the Hort Court. That's the place where individuals shine and the public
takes notes. John Ray is our chapter's outstanding star at present, and Ann Rosenberg has also won many honors over the
past few years. These two gems are threatening that they will not go on entering forever! In order for us to have a presence
in the Philadelphia Flower Show Hort Court, we need to have more members enter. In order to have Rock Garden Classes
as part of the Show, we need to have more entries. Thank you for helping! Here's how:
Please enter the PFS on behalf of DVC-NARGS! We bet you can do it! Note the succulent classes, for example. Have you
had a lovely specimen since December 1, 2014? That's all it takes. The process sounds complicated, but it is not taxing once
you get started and there will be people (from NARGS, even) to help you. Actually, it is better to ask for help ahead of time.
Mary Ann Ulmann, the Slaters, Joan Schmitt, the Rosenbergs, Jill Evans and probably many others will help you if asked.
All information is written down in the Exhibitor's Guide for March 2015. See pages 42, 43 (classes _350 to _406) and 49
(class 4630). How do you find a guide? It's noted below.
Here are some of the Rock Garden classes that you could enter: (This info is very condensed to save space.) 1)Primula in
bloom; 2)Hardy and non-hardy rock garden plants (and also bulbs, corms, rhizomes and tubers) in bloom; 3)Non-Hardy rock
garden garden plants (and also bulbs, corms, rhizomes and tubers) in bloom; 4) Also non-flowering specimens (see above
categories); 5)Herbaceous (non-woody) natural-cushion rock garden plant, foliage or flowering; 6)Hardy rock garden cactus
or other succulent, except Sedum or Sempervivum; 7)Non-hardy rock garden cactus or other succulent, except Sedum or
Sempervivum; 8) 6" and over 6" pots of Sedum or Sempervivum; 9) Trough Classes include Life on the Rocks, Life with a
Log, a miniature rock garden for flowering, and another for non-flowering; 10)Lewisia in bloom to be entered in its own class
on the 2nd Friday only. Could also be entered before that in another class.
To get started (and we HOPE you will) you can download an Exhibitor's Guide and take a look at
http:/theflowershow.com/exhibits/exhibit-at-the-flower-show (it is 61 4x8" pages) OR email [email protected] with your
name and address. This address is for ordering the guide only, not for asking questions. Or go on line and look at pages 42,
43 and 49 to find a plant in your house that is just crying out to be entered. Go for it! DVC thanks you.
Vol. 38, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 2014
Page 47
The
D o d e c a t h eo n
Joan T. Haas, Editor
70 Iron Bridge Road
Pipersville, PA 18947
FLOWER SHOW BABYSITTING AIDES
Looking Ahead
Delaware Valley Chapter NARGS
Meetings and Activities.
Nov. 8
Speaker tbd, PTCC
Dec.13
Stephen Maciejewski: Chinese and Vietnamese horticulture (see page 47), Overbrook Golf Club
Jan. 10: Members' Show and Tell, PTCC
Feb. 14: Speaker, PTCC
March:
Philadelphia Flower Show (Jerry Rifkin)
Mar. 16 (Thursday): NARGS Spring 2015 Speakers Tour Dieter Zschummel, from near Leipzig, an avid rock
gardener. Venue tbd. Hosting for Dieter and his
wife - volunteers needed, for housing and to fulfill
"his desire to see wild flowers whenever possible."
Apr. 11: Speaker, PTCC
May 9:
Members' Garden Tour - volunteers welcome!
Contact Janet Novak if interested
Check The Dodecatheon and the DVC-NARGS website
(www.dvcnargs.org) for details before each meeting.
Arle Kruckeberg, Program Chair, [email protected]
Page 48
It is time to start thinking about helping our chapter's
efforts at the 2015 flower show. We need volunteers to
"babysit" our exhibit during the show. Show dates:
Saturday 2/28 through Sunday 3/8. To see the schedule
and time slots that are open, go to our website
dvcnargs.org and on the left side, click on "volunteer".
The schedule and info on how to contact me will come
up. Thanks all.
Jerry Rifkin
2014 Chapter
Membership Renewal
submitted by Chuck Ulmann
2014 Chapter Membership Renewal Time is here!!! Save a
stamp (for you and the chapter) and save a tree and
almost $1.50! That is what it costs to generate the renewal
letter and the return envelope! If you want to renew early
before we mail out the renewals, go to the web site
(DVCNARGS.org) and renew through our PayPal options.
Click on the ‘Membership’ link on the left side of the screen.
Follow the directions to purchase a membership. I'll know it
is a renewal! You do not have to have a PayPal account; we
accept credit cards at the Paypal web site. The site is a secure
way to use your credit card on the internet. The only person
that will see your credit card is Paypal! You’ll get a confirmation from PayPal and I’ll send you one as well just to be sure
we both agree that you renewed.
If you haven’t paid through the web site by 02 January 2015
or you want to pay the usual way by check, you will receive
the renewal information in the mail during the first week in
January, 2015.
For Membership Information:
Visit our web site www.dvcnargs.org
or contact Membership Secretary
Chuck Ulmann, [email protected], phone
610.431.2511
The Dodecatheon