[BSW] Meeting tomorrow + Plant Sale

[Kathy Bilton]

Reminder:  Tomorrow, June 5, is the date of the June BSW meeting.

Speaker: Peter Schafran
Time: 7 p.m.
Topic: Botanizing in hostile territory: field work in Iraq and the US Deep 
South
Flier: http://botsoc.org/june18.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 to be on the list 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.

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Baywise Garden Tour in Sharpsburg - Saturday, June 9 10am-3pm
https://www.facebook.com/385412648481089/photos/gm.211501016121352/589471271408558/?type=3

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>From Earth Sangha:

We will be hosting our annual Summer Open House Plant Sale on Saturday, 
June 16th from 10 am to 2 pm at our Wild Plant Nursery in Springfield.

We think this early summer Open House a scale-down version of Spring Plant 
Sale, but it is increasingly popular. To respond to this demand, we are
offering some special things for June 16th event. To highlight a few:

Please look for Pinxter Bloom (Rhododendron periclymenoides) but at 
limited number of pots. We don't take pre-orders and so please come early 
if you want to get it. We also offer True Solomon's Seal and False 
Solomon's Seal. It took 3 years to just germinate these species from the 
seeds! This is the first year that we are able to offer them in sizable 
quantities. We are also offering something rather rare to find in the 
wild: Curlyheads (Clematis ochroleuca). It is a Piedmont species, and 
according to Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora:" Dry forests, rocky 
woodlands, barrens, clearings, and road banks, usually in moderately to 
strongly base-rich soils. Frequent in the Piedmont; rare in the mountains 
and inner Coastal Plain." Naturally, we could only offer a few pots for 
this species. There just aren't too many plants of this species you can 
find in our region's wild areas. This is the first time we are offering 
this to our members.

We have something special for our members: We will offer a surprise 50% 
discount for select species for this occasion on June 16th only. That is, 
if you are a member, it will cost just $3.50 per pot instead of $7. Please 
come and find out.

http://www.earthsangha.org/wpn