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February 2003 AtlanticRhodo www.AtlanticRhodo.org Volume 27: Number 1 February 2003 February 2003 1 Rhododendron Society of Canada - Atlantic Region Positions of Responsibility 2002 - 2003 President Sheila Stevenson 479-3740 Director Sandy Brown 683-2615 Vice-President Anitra Laycock 852-2502 Newsletter Mary Helleiner 429-0213 R.S.C. Website Tom Waters 429-3912 (National) Rep. Ken Shannik 422-2413 Library Shirley McIntyre 835-3673 Secretary Penny Gael 826-2440 Seed Exchange Sharon Bryson 863-6307 Treasurer Dexter Kaulbach 453-0380 Tissue Culture Membership Betty MacDonald 852-2779 Sale Audrey Fralic 683-2711 Past President Ken Shannik 422-2413 May - Advance Plant Sale Ken Shannik 422-2413 Director - Program Jenny Sandison 624-9013 May - Mini Show Jenny Sandison 624-9013 Director - Communications Christine Curry 656-2513 May- Public Plant Sale Duff & Donna Evers 835-2586 Ì Ì Ì Membership ARS/RSC District 12 (National) Membership fees for 2003 were due on December 1 and ‘Local’ membership fees were due on January 1. If you have not renewed your membership please do so now. If you are not sure if you have renewed, please contact Betty MacDonald our Membership Secretary, (902) 852-2779. The current dues structures are as follows: 1. R.S.C. - A.R.S. Membership (which includes Atlantic membership) $42.00 Canadian for individual membership. Please make your cheque payable to - “Rhododendron Society of Canada” and send to National Treasurer, Mr. Robert Dickhout, R.S.C. District 12 A.R.S., 5200 Timothy Crescent, Niagara Falls, Ontario L2E 5G3. Be sure to specify Atlantic Region. 2. Atlantic Society only (which includes all privileges, mailings and activities of R.S.C. Atlantic only) $15.00 for individual or family membership. Please make your cheque payable to “R.S.C. Atlantic Region” and send to Atlantic Membership Secretary, Betty MacDonald, 534 Prospect Bay Road, Prospect Bay, Nova Scotia, B3T1Z8. When renewing your membership please include your telephone number. This will be used for RSCAR purposes only (co- ordination of potluck suppers and other events) and will be kept strictly confidential. Thanks! AtlanticRhodo is the Newsletter of the Rhododendron Society of Canada - Atlantic Region. We welcome your comments, suggestions, articles, photos and other material for publication. Send all material to the editor. Editor: Mary Helleiner 834 Malborough Ave. Published three times a year. February, May and October, Halifax, NS, B3H3G6 (902) 429-0213 chellein@is.dal.ca. Cover Photo: Rhododendron ‘Chikor’ One of the Glendoick Lepidote Hybrids. [Photo John Weagle] 2 AtlanticRhodo Calendar of Events All R.S.C.A.R. meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month, from September to May, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nova Scotia Museum Auditorium, 1747 Summer St., Halifax, unless otherwise noted. Paid Parking is available in the Museum lot. Friends, guests and anyone interested in rhododendrons, azaleas or companion plants are always welcome at R.S.C.A.R. meetings or events. 7 January Meeting: Mary Helleiner: Alpines of the Dolomites and Southern Austria 4 February Meeting: John Weagle: Evergreen Azaleas. Another look at this wonderful group of rhododendrons. For new members, an introduction to this easy and most rewarding side to rhodo gardening. For long-term members, another chance to revisit them. Workshop: Ken Shannik will present a preview of the May Sale plants, illustrated with slides. 4 March Meeting: Roslyn Duffus: Growing Plants from Seed. Another member will share her secrets for success in growing from seeds. This is by far the cheapest way to fill your garden with plants, and you will always have a particularly fond spot for those you grew yourself. 1 April Meeting: To be announced 12 April Workshop: This is now in the planning stage. Details to be announced. (Saturday) 6 May Meeting: Speaker to be announced. Members’ Plant Sale. See more details in Special Notices, this Newsletter. Please Note: Some members, who have environmental sensitivities, are asking their fellow members please to use no perfumes, scented soaps, etc., on the days or evenings of RSCAR events, in order to minimize the risk of allergic reactions. A very warm welcome to our new and returning R.S.C. Atlantic Region members who have joined since the October 2002 Newsletter: Lynn Brooks Stillwater Lake NS Margaret M. MacDonald Dartmouth NS M. Wayne Duncan Dartmouth NS Elizabeth May Dartmouth NS Rai Evens Toronto ON Ruth Ann Moger Boutilier’s Point NS Pam Ferro Hammonds Plains NS Liz Naylor Halifax NS Katherine Flynn Wellington NS Linda & Wayne O’Leary Dartmouth NS Kenneth Gross East Concord NY USA Debbie Richard Dartmouth NS Maxine Hardy Ingonish NS Karen Rutherford Dartmouth NS Christopher Henningsen Walton NS Mary Wheeler Halifax NS Kimberley Jenner Dartmouth NS Jean White Halifax NS Ron Lawlor & Alanna Miller Hatchet Lake NS Heather Wildsmith Dartmouth NS February 2003 3 Special Notices Membership Dues 2003 membership fees for both categories are now past due. If you have not renewed your membership please do so now. This is your final notice. RSCAR 2003 Tissue Culture Advance Sale The plants will be available for pickup at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street Halifax. Pickup time will be between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Saturday, 5 April 2003. Your order will be available when you arrive. You will be able to purchase any leftover plants at that time. Volunteers will be needed to help sort plants that day, 12 noon – 2pm. Contact Audrey Fralic at (902) 683-2711, or at the March meeting. Members’ Plant Sale During Regular Monthly Meeting Tuesday, 6 May 2003 Members are encouraged to bring plant material to sell at the regular monthly meeting in May. Plants should be rare, unusual or hard to find varieties of perennials, annuals, shrubs, etc., that are not readily available commercially. Rhododendrons, either species or hybrids (seed grown or rooted cuttings) are especially encouraged. Members are required to price and sell their plants themselves. This is a great way to find homes for those surplus plants while recouping some of your expenses for pots and soil. Please participate, especially as a vendor! Vendors are encouraged, but not required, to provide information about their plants. You may have great plants, but if the members don’t know them and they don’t look particularly spectacular at sale time, they are apt not to sell. Anyone who has interesting material that they plan to sell should let Stephen Archibald know in advance (479-3740), so that enough space and tables are provided. Articles Wanted! We need articles from our members for future issues of AtlanticRhodo. Our future plans include a series on our members’ gardens, large and small, mature or in the process of development. We also hope to have an article on a rhododendron species in each issue, and one on a rhodo hybrid. These can be as long or short as you like; please write and tell us about your favourite rhodo. Articles on other topics are equally welcome, as are ideas for future articles. For information call the editor, Mary Helleiner, at 429-0213 or e-mail chellein@is.dal.ca. 4 AtlanticRhodo May 2003 Advance Plant Sale For Members Members may pre-order plants from the nursery grown stock to be brought in for the May Plant Sale. This year’s offering features a tremendous selection of rhododendrons and azaleas as well as many rare and unusual shrubs, trees and perennials. Quantities of some items are small and others we may not receive at all. You may list substitutes for specific plants on the order form. (i.e. You are ordering plant #1, and if it is not available, you would like to receive plant #3 - enter the number ‘3’ in the ‘sub’ column beside plant #1.) You may order more than one plant per variety. However, plants will be allocated in the order in which they are received on the basis of one plant per variety per membership. Following this allocation, an adequate reserve will be held back for the public sale in May. Any surplus will be divided up amongst multiple orders. Some items listed have been offered to members in the past few years and will only be available at the public sale in May. These are indicated as ‘Public May Sale Only’ and cannot be preordered. Please complete the enclosed order form and return it no later than March 15, 2003. Plants are to be picked up at 5 Sime Ct., Halifax, NS on Saturday, April 26, 2002 between 10:00 am and 2:00 p.m. Sime Ct. is in the Kingswood subdivision off Hammonds Plains Rd. Take Kingswood Dr. (between Kearney Lake Rd. and Farmer Clem's) to Brenda Ct. (the first street on the right) and follow it to the first left which is Sime Ct. Plants are to be paid for when they are picked up. Do not send payment with your order form. Plants will not be shipped. Any plants not picked up will be offered for sale at the public May Plant Sale. Return your order form to: Ken Shannik, 1421 Edward Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3H5 Lepidote Rhododendrons R. "Montafon" (probably ferrugineum x kotschyi but may be a selection of the former) Flowers are crimson-purple fading to purple- R. 'Abeille' (keleticum x dauricum) Open-pollinated. A very pink. Late-blooming. Slow growing with a dense, compact habit. Resents floriferous & early blooming Brueckner hybrid with bright reddish-purple drought. Named by Brueckner. Z5. A few only. (2 gal. - $25.00) flowers. Small narrow foliage. Dwarf, dense, mounded habit growing to 20"(.5m) high x 27"(.7m) wide in 7 years.
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