Rock Garden Quarterly Spring 2012 - (Page 155)

For Bobby Ward, past-President of the North American Rock Garden Society and current Executive Secretary, what hooked him on rock gardening was attending a NARGS Winter Study Weekend in North Carolina, chatting with members, marveling at slide show images, watching demonstrations, and ultimately returning home with a whole new collection of vegetation. And Bobby says he “still has give-away plants from that meeting: Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Nana’ and Cyclamen coum with deep magenta flowers, which I view from my library window each winter,”proving that alpines for southern gardens is not an oxymoron. For Harvey Wrightman, who along with his wife Irene started Wrightman Alpines, a nursery in Ontario, Canada, it was “seeing a ‘most perfect alpine meadow’ – where ten-feet of snow is the norm.” “I started gardening in 1996, completely ignorant of anything other than vegetables,” says Peter George, who lives in an 1837 Greek Revival house in the ‘Historic District’ of Petersham – a town of fifty-three square miles in north central Massachusetts with a population of 1100 people – on a perfectly flat four acres, which he bought because his family had horses. “When the horses died – after long and happy lives – it was time to use the land differently, so the gardening evolved. One of my friends here in Petersham was a rock gardener; he thought I should be as well. Together we dug out a relatively small area on the south side of the house adjacent to my driveway and started a ‘rock garden.’ With his continued help it grew. Each year I got more interested and as my success increased, I expanded. I was attending Berkshire Chapter meetings, and after a few years hanging around with rock garden luminaries like Lori Chips, Nick Nickou, Geoffrey Charlesworth, Anne Spiegel, Elisabeth Zander I actually began to get ‘good’ at this gardening stuff. I took on a few jobs at the Berkshire Chapter and sixteen years later, I now have a pretty substantial group of rock gardens.” No less an accomplishment, Peter George is the current President of NARGS. “In my case,” says Gelene Scarborough, Curator of the Alpine Area and Wild Garden at Wave Hill, a 28-acre public garden and cultural center Rock Gardening Roots 155

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Rock Garden Quarterly Spring 2012

Geoffrey Charlesworth Writing Prize
2011 Photo Contest Winners
2012 Photo Contest Announcement
Seven Unheralded Axioms of Rock Gardening
Rock Gardening from Scratch: Vegetative Propagation - Understanding Cuttings
Newfoundland's Southern Limestone Barrens
William J. Dress, 1918-2011
DNA and the Changing Names of Plants ... and Making Sense of the Dicots
Jennings Prairie
Carl Gehenio, 1922-2011
Rock Gardening Roots
Plants that Dazzled me in 2011
Phipps Conservatory
Rock and Ink Struck into Flowers - A Response
Bulletin Board
2012 - Eastern Study Weekend: October, Pittsburgh - Registration form and details

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