[BSW] September Tri-state Native Plant Societues Conference + Next BSW meeting

[Kathy Bilton]

Information is now avaiilable about the September 29 – October 1 Tri-state 
Native Plant Conference at NCTC in Shepherdstown.  Registration will 
begin on June 1.

Registration for the Conference, "Nature Knows No Boundaries" opens on 
June 1.

https://mdflora.org/event-2434880
or
http://vnps.org/tri-state-native-plant-conference-2017/

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Next meeting: June 6 at 7 P.M.
Speaker: Dr. Melanie Shori, Nomenclatural Taxonomist, USDA
Topic: "Hollies and friends: a closer look at flowers and fruits"

Flier: http://botsoc.org/jun17.pdf

Location: VZ Conference Room (WG 33)
Ground Floor of the West Wing, National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, 10th St. and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 
DC.

Please email Erika Gardner at the address gardnere at si.edu to 
arrange for a pass to get to the meeting room.

Pre-meeting dinner: 5:30 P.M. at the Elephant & Castle Pub and Restaurant, 
1201 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington. Phone 202-347-7707. The 
restaurant is diagonally across from the Old Post Office Pavilion at 12th 
and Pennsylvania, a few blocks from the Museum, with Federal Triangle the 
nearest Metro station, and Metro Center also nearby.