Rock Garden Quarterly Summer 2012 - (Page 304)

Seed exchange RepoRt The 2011-2012 NARGS Seed Exchange concluded successfully with 751 orders filled in the main distribution and 260 orders filled during the second round (with ardent seedistas buying as many as 100 additional packets!). We received a noticeably lower amount of seed from our donors, perhaps due to extreme weather conditions around the world. Hopefully, the weather will be more temperate everywhere, and there will be a great bounty of seeds this season. We owe grateful thanks to Laura Serowicz, our Intake Manager (who also handles so much of the Seedex processes); Joan Haas who, with help from Mark Brownlee and the volunteers of the Delaware Valley chapter, coordinated the main distribution of seeds; and BZ Marranca, who led the Adirondack chapter members in the second round of seed distribution. Thanks go, too, to the many volunteers--chapter groups and individual members--who patiently divided and repackaged the donated seed so that hundreds more could enjoy them. An exciting feature of this year's Seedex was the initiation of the new online ordering system, created by our webmaster, Chris Klapwijk. It was used by two-thirds of the members placing an order for seeds and, since it proved to be so intuitive and easy, we expect an even higher percentage of members to use it in the future. Thinking ahead: now is the time to begin collecting and mailing your donations of seed for the forthcoming Seedex. Laura will need to have your seeds in hand by October 31, 2012, so please send your last shipment by late September. Canadian and overseas members will need to send their seeds a month earlier to allow time for the mails to carry them and for our inspectors to check them. The necessary import permit, mailing label, and donation form are enclosed with this copy of the Rock Garden Quarterly. If they were somehow omitted or lost, please contact Laura immediately, and she will send you a new set: Laura Serowicz, 15411 Woodring Street, Livonia, MI 48154-3029, USA. Look around your lovely gardens: there are many, many plants that you could share with your fellow NARGS members (and sending seeds is a whole lot easier than digging and packing plants). A donation of only five packets from different kinds of plants will give you Donor privileges, which allow you to request an additional ten packets of seed, as well as having your order filled before non-donors (giving you a better shot at those rarer items). 304 Rock Garden Quarterly Vol. 70 (3)

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

Digital Quarterly
Expanding Panayoti's Axioms
Photo Contest 2012
Photographing Alpine Plants: A Landscape Point of View
NARGS 2013 Election Timetable
Rock Gardening from Scratch - Seeds
Kim Blaxland and the Violets of North America
Viola pedata
Violas, Kim, and Us - A Celebration
Cooking Native Japanese Plants
Carl Gehenio Memorial Trough Show
Fire in the Hole: Phlox across Colorado
Rebuilding a Rock Garden in Pittsburgh
A Remarkable Garden: David Douglas and the Shrub-steppe of the Columbia Plateau
Bookshelf - Reviews
Swedish Dreams
Treasurer's Report
Bulletin Board
2012 - Eastern Study Weekend: October, Pittsburgh

Rock Garden Quarterly Summer 2012