HPS/MAG Annual Meeting and Lecture
Guest Speaker – Barbara Melera:  "Species Tulips"
A Hybrid (In-Person & Virtual) Event

Per our HPS/MAG Bylaws, we will have a brief 30-minute business meeting that includes State of the Organization, Finances, Vote for 2026 Board Candidates, and Recognition Awards. The lecture will follow. The meeting will conclude no later than 3:00 pm.

Are deer a problem, but tulips in your spring garden are a must-have? Species Tulips are an exquisite solution. Rarely seen, these magnificent spring-blooming flowers are the progenitors of our modern-day tulips.

Time to think SPRING! This is a detailed lecture designed to introduce/remind you of the bulbs that can populate your garden with beautiful blossoms and feed the newly awakened pollinators throughout the spring. The Species Tulips are some of the original wild tulips. Under cultivation in a home garden, they produce extraordinary color combinations, height variation, “behaviors,” and season-long entertainment for a loving gardener. They are critter-resistant too, not just pollinator-friendly. In fact, they are pollinator-essential plants. This lecture is beautifully illustrated with photos and there is a free bulb gift for each in-person attendee.

In addition, Barbara will have species tulip bulbs available for purchase at the program.

Speaker Bio:

Barbara Melera is president of Harvesting History Heirlooms, a horticultural company which provides the finest horticultural products available. Its products are largely heirloom varieties that can be reliably offered to customers year after year or designs that have proven invaluable to gardeners for many generations. Wherever possible, Harvesting History offers products made in the USA.

For 13 years, Ms. Melera was president and owner of The D. Landreth Seed Company, the oldest American seedhouse, established in 1784, and the fourth oldest US corporation. Before Landreth, Ms. Melera was Managing Partner of Tritech Partners, LLP, a venture capital partnership which invested in early-stage technology enterprises. She helped to found 30 companies and was a director of 20 firms in the software, computer, telecommunication, environmental, healthcare, biotech and agri-science industries. She has been involved with some of the most interesting, innovative technologies and entrepreneurs of the 20^th and 21^st centuries.

Harvesting History Heirlooms, along with 5 other vendors, is the oldest, longstanding vendor at the Philadelphia Flower Show and a member of the Marketplace Committee.

Barbara can be reached at [email protected] or by phoning 410-627-6831.

This is a Free Members-Only Event but registration is required.

Registration will open October 29, 2025 after 8:00 PM.

Click here if you would like to become a member of HPS/MAG before registering for this event.

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Tour of Temple University Ground-Before our annual meeting, Kathleen Salisbury, Director of the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University, will lead a tour of the Arboretum. The tour will begin at 11:30 and is limited to a maximum of 25 people.
Registration will be required.  Check back on October 29th for the tour registration.

Seed Exchange-Members wishing to submit seeds for the Seed Exchange can bring them to the Annual Meeting and they will be taken to the drop off site.

 Contact: Nora Sirbaugh [email protected]