BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:cc7ab23e7f6f5569044d19b50995f9ab15 CATEGORIES:Annual Events & Programs SUMMARY:March Into Spring XXIII LOCATION:Delaware County Community College\, 901 S Media Line Rd\, Media, PA 19063 DESCRIPTION:
Adventures
strong>in Botany
March 16, 2019
8:00am. – 4:00pm
<
/span>Delaware County Community College
Media PA
Click h ere to register for the event.
< strong>Clic k here to see the event brochure with schedule an d pricing
This year’s symposium focuses on fascinating tales of plant exploration around the world, from the time of the founding of our nation through the present day. For centuries, people have searched for new food, medicine, and aesthetic delights in the plant world. Some, li ke John Bartram, enjoyed long, successful careers botanizing in the new wor ld, while David Douglas, for whom the Douglas fir is named, was lost in mys terious circumstances in Hawaii at a young age, and E.H. Wilson, best known for finding the Davidia involucata, or handkerchief tree, sent back many t housands of new plants from Asia to his patrons in Europe and America that we still happily grow in our gardens. < /span>
Speaker s
Bruce Cra wford is the Director of Rutgers Ga rdens in New Brunswick, N.J. and an adjunct professor in landscape design a t Rutgers. He is a popular educator throughout the state and a regular cont ributor to Gardener New. He’ll set the stage for the day with a li vely review of the latest findings about botanical evolution. rutgersgardens.rutgers.edu
< span style="color: #ff0000;">Victoria Johnson, is associate professor at Hunter College and author of the new bestseller American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic. Hosack was Alexander Hamilton’s family physicia n, who became obsessed with using plants as medicine, leading him to found the first public botanical garden in America. It now lies buried beneath Ro ckefeller Center in New York City. ameri caneden.org
Rick McCourt, is the Curator of Botany at the Academy of Natu
ral Sciences of Drexel University. The Academy is home to the herbarium
of more than 200 specimens collected on the Lewis and Clark expedition. R
ick will tell us all about that collection and some of the plants introduce
d to the Mid-Atlantic region. As an extra treat, tours of the herbarium—in
Philadelphia—will be scheduled later in the year.
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Enroll and Experience It!
Our 23rd annual March symposium offers a full day of great horticulture information for both novice and seasoned gardeners. Besides a day of great speakers, th ere will be shopping opportunities with local growers and other special ven dors, plus an extensive silent auction with lots of unique garden-related b ooks, plants, and tools.
Come celebrate the end of winter with a group of like- minded plant geeks from the tristate area. We have state- of -the-art facilities at the DCCC campus, which is set in a beautiful arborea l landscape in Media PA.
Please note that credit cards will be ac
cepted by HPS/ MAG, but may not be accepted by all vendors, who will apprec
iate cash or a check. A complete list of vendors will be available on our w
ebsite in March.
Register AN D pay online with a credit card to receive a special credit to use for the Silent Auction.
No refund s unless the event is canceled.
Click here to see the event brochure with schedule and pricing
Click here to register for the event.
CONTACT:Ilona Ontscherenki, programschair@hardyplant.org DTSTAMP:20240329T080838 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190316T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190316T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR