I see a online rhododendron world where every chapter member has a digital pile of images stored in say Picasa Web Album and every chapter has a digital pile of text stored in say Google Blogger where any member or chapter has permission and access to use that information in its raw form to build digital presentations.
I see a set of calendars were all members can know the schedule of events for all chapters.
I see an online database were members can access information on registered and unregistered rhododendrons grown any where in the world. This database contains both text and images in a form that the information can be used to build digital presentations.
John Perkins
H: Thursday, December 27, 2007
H: Wednesday, December 26, 2007
What to Expect in 2008
The American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter web sites will under go technical changes in 2008 including the following:
Update of the template of the Rosebay Blog due to improvements in capability by Google of Blogger. As of January 5, 2008 the planned update from a template to a layout is complete.
Update of the look and feel of Your Portal to Rhododendrons in New England due to improvements in capability by Microsoft of Office Live.
Update of the look and feel of Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England due to improved browser support for XML/XSLT/CSS. IE8, Firefox 3, and Opera 9.5 will all be available in 2008.
The major focus of 2008 will be on content rather than presentation. More content will be moved to Rosebay Blog from the Rosebay Journal and Online Species Booklet. The hope is to eliminate totally the need for our old host. More thought will be given to how to present in a good enough way content that is available in variable levels of incompleteness with emphases on how best to collect the content independent of presentation.
Some thought will also be given on how to better support the user who finds the sites using search engines.
In short very little polishing of the presentation components of the sites will be done in 2008. The big questions for 2008 are can new content be collected in the form of text and images and can old content be maintained and updated? How much content is added in 2008 will depend mostly on how many people decide to be producers of such content. The presentation pipeline has 4 new tours anticipated in the first half of 2008.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Salem, NH
Update of the template of the Rosebay Blog due to improvements in capability by Google of Blogger. As of January 5, 2008 the planned update from a template to a layout is complete.
Update of the look and feel of Your Portal to Rhododendrons in New England due to improvements in capability by Microsoft of Office Live.
Update of the look and feel of Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England due to improved browser support for XML/XSLT/CSS. IE8, Firefox 3, and Opera 9.5 will all be available in 2008.
The major focus of 2008 will be on content rather than presentation. More content will be moved to Rosebay Blog from the Rosebay Journal and Online Species Booklet. The hope is to eliminate totally the need for our old host. More thought will be given to how to present in a good enough way content that is available in variable levels of incompleteness with emphases on how best to collect the content independent of presentation.
Some thought will also be given on how to better support the user who finds the sites using search engines.
In short very little polishing of the presentation components of the sites will be done in 2008. The big questions for 2008 are can new content be collected in the form of text and images and can old content be maintained and updated? How much content is added in 2008 will depend mostly on how many people decide to be producers of such content. The presentation pipeline has 4 new tours anticipated in the first half of 2008.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Salem, NH
H: Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Tours by J.C. Birck
J.C. Birck of Denmark is a great photographer, gardener, and presenter. To see tours by J.C. Birck use the links below:
http://arsmc.org/Documents/KernehusetSvendHansen.xml
http://arsmc.org/Documents/RhododendronAndPeat.xml
http://arsmc.org/Documents/RhododendronFromTalienseSerSs.xml
http://arsmc.org/Documents/RhododendronLepidoteSpeciesAndHybrids.xml
J.C. Birck has given the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter permission to use these images on our Gateway site.
If you have trouble opening the above link, right click and open in a new window or tab.
John Perkins
http://arsmc.org/Documents/KernehusetSvendHansen.xml
http://arsmc.org/Documents/RhododendronAndPeat.xml
http://arsmc.org/Documents/RhododendronFromTalienseSerSs.xml
http://arsmc.org/Documents/RhododendronLepidoteSpeciesAndHybrids.xml
J.C. Birck has given the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter permission to use these images on our Gateway site.
If you have trouble opening the above link, right click and open in a new window or tab.
John Perkins
Selecting Online Web Site Support Services
When selecting online services, the following are important:
1) Is the service affordable? Is there a basic version which is free? How much commercial branding in the free version?
2) How well does the service import content from other services?
3) How well does the service do what you want done? No service is useful unless you have a need.
4) How well does the service present the captured content? Does the service allow presentation of undecorated content? Does the service allows the content to be presented on your existing web site or blog?
5) How well does the service export content to other services? No service is so good you want you content locked into that service.
6) How large is the company behind the service and how large is the user community for the service?
H: Monday, December 24, 2007
Rhododendron Notes From Zones 4B & 5A
Thanks to Ron Rabideau a 1989 Rosebay article titled "Rhododendron Notes From Zones 4B & 5A" by Elinor Clarke has been added to our online library.
http://arsmc.org/library_stub.aspx
John Perkins
http://arsmc.org/library_stub.aspx
John Perkins
H: Sunday, December 23, 2007
Online P4M Rhododendron Database: Why Zoho Creator?
The Plants for Members Database which is the list of rhododendrons propagated over the years by the Mass chapter uses Zoho Creator.
Zoho Creator is free having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers. Creator has limited branding and no ads or pop ups but supports only limited tailoring of the look and feel.
Databases can be created or edited using the Creator online editor. Lists in the form of csv can be easily imported.
Creator has an exposed URL so references to the database on the Portal, Gateway, and Rosebay Blog are possible.
Creator has an extensive set of APIs. The database can be exported from Creator to an an csv file.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Chapter Links and Gateway Glossary: Why Google Notebook?
The Chapter Links and Gateway Glossary which are our external links and glossary of rhododendron related terms use Google Notebook.
Notebook is free having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers. Notebook has limited branding and no ads or pop ups but supports only limited tailoring of the look and feel.
Notebook supports adding posts as you browse the web. Links can be created or edited using the Notebook online editor. Posts consisting of URL to the linked page and link description. Any link description can be updated at any time using this editor; however the link URL cannot be changed. Links can be deleted. Links can be grouped into sections and labeled.
Notebook has an exposed URL so references to Notebook can be placed on the Portal, Gateway, and Rosebay Blog.
Notebook has an extensive set of APIs .
The set of posts can be exported from Notebook for use by other XML based software.
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Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Notebook is free having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers. Notebook has limited branding and no ads or pop ups but supports only limited tailoring of the look and feel.
Notebook supports adding posts as you browse the web. Links can be created or edited using the Notebook online editor. Posts consisting of URL to the linked page and link description. Any link description can be updated at any time using this editor; however the link URL cannot be changed. Links can be deleted. Links can be grouped into sections and labeled.
Notebook has an exposed URL so references to Notebook can be placed on the Portal, Gateway, and Rosebay Blog.
Notebook has an extensive set of APIs .
The set of posts can be exported from Notebook for use by other XML based software.
This message was posted using email.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Chapter Schedule: Why Google Calendar?
The Chapter Calendar which is schedule of chapter events uses Google Calendar.
Calendar is free having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers. Calendar has limited branding and no ads or pop ups but supports only limited tailoring of the look and feel.
Calendar supports posting events using Google GMAIL. Events can be created or edited using the Calendar online editor. This editor supports creating a new event by copying and old event and changing the date. Posts consisting of event name, event location, event date, and event description. Event descriptions can contain links to web sites and blogs. Any post can be updated at any time using this editor. Posts can be deleted.
Calendar supports using Google Maps for event locations. Calendar supports alerts. Public events listed on Calendar are listed in the Google list of public events.
Calendar organizes events by the date of event. Every posted event past, present, and future are viewable; however upcoming events are shown by default. Calendar has an exposed URL so references to Calendar showing upcoming events be placed on the Portal, Gateway, and Rosebay Blog.
Blogger supports ICAL so users may upload Chapter events to their own calendars. Mobile phone access to Calendar is supported. Calendar has an extensive set of APIs.
The set of posts can be exported from Calendar for use by other XML based software.
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Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Calendar is free having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers. Calendar has limited branding and no ads or pop ups but supports only limited tailoring of the look and feel.
Calendar supports posting events using Google GMAIL. Events can be created or edited using the Calendar online editor. This editor supports creating a new event by copying and old event and changing the date. Posts consisting of event name, event location, event date, and event description. Event descriptions can contain links to web sites and blogs. Any post can be updated at any time using this editor. Posts can be deleted.
Calendar supports using Google Maps for event locations. Calendar supports alerts. Public events listed on Calendar are listed in the Google list of public events.
Calendar organizes events by the date of event. Every posted event past, present, and future are viewable; however upcoming events are shown by default. Calendar has an exposed URL so references to Calendar showing upcoming events be placed on the Portal, Gateway, and Rosebay Blog.
Blogger supports ICAL so users may upload Chapter events to their own calendars. Mobile phone access to Calendar is supported. Calendar has an extensive set of APIs.
The set of posts can be exported from Calendar for use by other XML based software.
This message was posted using email.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
H: Thursday, December 20, 2007
Tour of Yarmoshuk Garden
To see a tour of the garden of Nick and Wanda Yarmoshuk of the RSC Niagara Chapter use the link below:
http://arsmc.org/Documents/YarmoshukSGarden.xml
Yarmoshuk's Garden is on Niagara Escarpment about 2 miles south of Lake Ontario in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada which gives the garden a microclimate in zone 7a.
Nick has given the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter permission to use these images on our Gateway site.
If you have trouble opening the above link, right click and open in a new window or tab.
John Perkins
http://arsmc.org/Documents/YarmoshukSGarden.xml
Yarmoshuk's Garden is on Niagara Escarpment about 2 miles south of Lake Ontario in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada which gives the garden a microclimate in zone 7a.
Nick has given the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter permission to use these images on our Gateway site.
If you have trouble opening the above link, right click and open in a new window or tab.
John Perkins
Chapter Gateway: Why XML/XSLT/CSS?
Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England which is our chapter gateway adding extra structure to our 2 digital piles of text and images uses XML/XSLT/CSS.
These three in combination can be best thought of as content, containment, and decoration. The digital piles are content and the references to the content to be on a gateway page is in the form of XML, the XSLT determines the location of the content on the page by defining the content containers, and the CSS decorates the content and the containers on the page.
All 4 major browsers IE 6+ , Firefox 2+, Opera 9+ and, Safari 3+ all support XSLT on the browser. Much of the data placed on the web is in the form of XML. Both Google Blogger and Picasa Web Album which are being used to store text and images support external references to their content amd export XML that allows this content to be referenced.
This approach allows for a flexible approach to structuring and decorating the content stored in the Chapterts digital piles.
Client side processing of the XML has its downside in that such a site can never be as polished as can be done using a server side approach. However freedom from the server has it advantages. One big advantage is cost. The XML/XSLT/CSS approach using Microsoft Office Live Basic or Google Page Creator is free.
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John and Sally Perkins
These three in combination can be best thought of as content, containment, and decoration. The digital piles are content and the references to the content to be on a gateway page is in the form of XML, the XSLT determines the location of the content on the page by defining the content containers, and the CSS decorates the content and the containers on the page.
All 4 major browsers IE 6+ , Firefox 2+, Opera 9+ and, Safari 3+ all support XSLT on the browser. Much of the data placed on the web is in the form of XML. Both Google Blogger and Picasa Web Album which are being used to store text and images support external references to their content amd export XML that allows this content to be referenced.
This approach allows for a flexible approach to structuring and decorating the content stored in the Chapterts digital piles.
Client side processing of the XML has its downside in that such a site can never be as polished as can be done using a server side approach. However freedom from the server has it advantages. One big advantage is cost. The XML/XSLT/CSS approach using Microsoft Office Live Basic or Google Page Creator is free.
This message was posted using email.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Chapter Portal: Why Microsoft Office Live Basic?
Your Portal to Rhododendrons in New England which is our chapter portal uses Microsoft Office Live Small Business Basic.
Live, although requiring a credit card to register, is free for the first 500 megabytes of storage having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers. Live has limited branding and no ads or pop ups.
Live provides a free domain name for your site.
Live supports creating a traditional web site. Web pages can be created or edited using the Live online editor using Internet Explorer. Pages consisting of paragraphs and simple formatting are easy created. Any page can be updated at any time using this editor. Pages can be deleted. Live supports links, images, and iframes when a more complex page is desired.
Live organizes pages by creating a navigation menu. Each page has an individual url. Each Live web page is built using a selected template. Live web parts supporting weather, maps, and slide shows are available.
Live contains a document library where many kinds of digital documents can be stored including Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, XSLT, and CSS. Documents are uploaded online one at a time. Live contains an image gallery restricting images to being a maximum of 640 pixels in either dimension. Images are uploaded online in batch.
Our Portal provides an entry way to the Chapter's online resources which includes our digital pile of text documents stored on the Rosebay Blog and our digital pile of images stored on Rosebay Album. The Portal also provides links to our Chapter web sites including Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England, Online Rosebay Journal, Online Species Booklet, Chapter Calendar, P4M Database as well as over under external rhododendron related sites.
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Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Live, although requiring a credit card to register, is free for the first 500 megabytes of storage having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers. Live has limited branding and no ads or pop ups.
Live provides a free domain name for your site.
Live supports creating a traditional web site. Web pages can be created or edited using the Live online editor using Internet Explorer. Pages consisting of paragraphs and simple formatting are easy created. Any page can be updated at any time using this editor. Pages can be deleted. Live supports links, images, and iframes when a more complex page is desired.
Live organizes pages by creating a navigation menu. Each page has an individual url. Each Live web page is built using a selected template. Live web parts supporting weather, maps, and slide shows are available.
Live contains a document library where many kinds of digital documents can be stored including Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, XSLT, and CSS. Documents are uploaded online one at a time. Live contains an image gallery restricting images to being a maximum of 640 pixels in either dimension. Images are uploaded online in batch.
Our Portal provides an entry way to the Chapter's online resources which includes our digital pile of text documents stored on the Rosebay Blog and our digital pile of images stored on Rosebay Album. The Portal also provides links to our Chapter web sites including Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England, Online Rosebay Journal, Online Species Booklet, Chapter Calendar, P4M Database as well as over under external rhododendron related sites.
This message was posted using email.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Digital Image Pile: Why Picasa Web Album?
The Rosebay Album which is our digital pile for images uses Google's Picasa Web Album. Album is free for the first gigabyte of storage space having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers.
Album supports uploading images using Google Blogger online or Picasa installed on your desktop. Album supports adding captions to individual images. Album organizes images by albums. Images can be rearranged inside Album using drag and drop.
Slide shows of images within an album are available by default.
Images stored on Album can be referenced from a blog or web site using an exposed URL for each image. Images can be resized using parameters on the exposed URLs.
Album supports RSS so users can asked to be notified of new images. Mobile phone access to Album is supported. Album has an extensive set of APIs.
The image information for a set of images in an album can be exported as XML. Sets of images can be exported from Album to your desktop.
This message was posted using email.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Album supports uploading images using Google Blogger online or Picasa installed on your desktop. Album supports adding captions to individual images. Album organizes images by albums. Images can be rearranged inside Album using drag and drop.
Slide shows of images within an album are available by default.
Images stored on Album can be referenced from a blog or web site using an exposed URL for each image. Images can be resized using parameters on the exposed URLs.
Album supports RSS so users can asked to be notified of new images. Mobile phone access to Album is supported. Album has an extensive set of APIs.
The image information for a set of images in an album can be exported as XML. Sets of images can be exported from Album to your desktop.
This message was posted using email.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
H: Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Digital Text Pile: Why Blogger?
The Rosebay Blog which is our digital pile for simple text documents uses Google Blogger.
Blogger is free having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers. Blogger has limited branding and no ads or pop ups.
Blogger supports posting using email. Posts can be created or edited using the Blogger online editor. This editor supports text mode or html mode and has a spell checker. Posts consisting of paragraphs and simple formatting are easy created. Any post can be updated at any time using this editor. Posts can be deleted. Blogger supports links, images, and iframes when a more complex post is desired. Blogger supports much of what is available using XHTML; however support for forms is very limited.
Blogger supports providing access to multiple individuals to edits posts using the online editor. Those having access to edit posts may also use Blogger to upload images to the corresponding Picasa Web Album.
Blogger organizes message by the date of first post. Posts can be grouped using labels. Every post is searchable from the main page immediately after postings based on the posts content or the label. The posts are also searchable using Google Search if the posts are set to public. Public posts are available to users of Google Alerts. Posts can be backdated.
Each post has an individual url based on the date and title of the post. The Blog template can be modified without effecting the content of the posts. Individual posts can have a different look and feel from that of the main page allowing the individual posts to be presented in bare bones fashion suitable for reuse by our other Chapter sites.
Posts can support comments from visitors. In some instances Google widgets such as polls and slideshows are able to be integrated into Blogger.
Blogger supports RSS so users can asked to be notified of new posts. Mobile phone access to Blogger is supported. Blogger has an extensive set of APIs.
The set of posts can be exported from Blogger for use by other XML based software. Filtered XML can be exported using labels or dates as parameters.
This message was posted using email.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Blogger is free having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers. Blogger has limited branding and no ads or pop ups.
Blogger supports posting using email. Posts can be created or edited using the Blogger online editor. This editor supports text mode or html mode and has a spell checker. Posts consisting of paragraphs and simple formatting are easy created. Any post can be updated at any time using this editor. Posts can be deleted. Blogger supports links, images, and iframes when a more complex post is desired. Blogger supports much of what is available using XHTML; however support for forms is very limited.
Blogger supports providing access to multiple individuals to edits posts using the online editor. Those having access to edit posts may also use Blogger to upload images to the corresponding Picasa Web Album.
Blogger organizes message by the date of first post. Posts can be grouped using labels. Every post is searchable from the main page immediately after postings based on the posts content or the label. The posts are also searchable using Google Search if the posts are set to public. Public posts are available to users of Google Alerts. Posts can be backdated.
Each post has an individual url based on the date and title of the post. The Blog template can be modified without effecting the content of the posts. Individual posts can have a different look and feel from that of the main page allowing the individual posts to be presented in bare bones fashion suitable for reuse by our other Chapter sites.
Posts can support comments from visitors. In some instances Google widgets such as polls and slideshows are able to be integrated into Blogger.
Blogger supports RSS so users can asked to be notified of new posts. Mobile phone access to Blogger is supported. Blogger has an extensive set of APIs.
The set of posts can be exported from Blogger for use by other XML based software. Filtered XML can be exported using labels or dates as parameters.
This message was posted using email.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Digital Piles - A Simple Plan
The new Chapter web site is based on the concept of digital piles of naked information meaning the information is only as formatted as is needed to be human readable. Information is of 2 types text and images and to store this information the chapter has 2 digital piles. One pile for the the text such as that found in the body of an email and one pile for images such as those produced by a digital camera.
The Rosebay Blog is our digital text pile. This blog can be thought of as a series of emails ordered by date, grouped by labels, and searchable. Most emails are simple in that the body of the message is merely a series of paragraphs with little or no extra formatting.
The blog supports most complex formatting and the introduction of images but the use of these features are the exception rather than the rule. Posts to the blog can be emailed merely adding the email address of the Blog to the "to box" of any email. The subject of the email such reflect the contents of the email message since the subject is used to reference the post. The Blog supports RSS allowing members who sign up for the Blog Feed to know when new posts to the Blog have arrived.
The Rosebay Album is our digital image pile. This album can be thought of as a series of images grouped by album where each image has a caption. The Album supports RSS allowing members who sign up for the Album Feed to know when new images to the Album have arrived.
For those Chapter members wishing to know how to post to our Rosebay Blog or upload images to our Rosebay Album contact us at
http://arsmc.org/contactus_stub.aspx
This post was emailed to the Blog.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
The Rosebay Blog is our digital text pile. This blog can be thought of as a series of emails ordered by date, grouped by labels, and searchable. Most emails are simple in that the body of the message is merely a series of paragraphs with little or no extra formatting.
The blog supports most complex formatting and the introduction of images but the use of these features are the exception rather than the rule. Posts to the blog can be emailed merely adding the email address of the Blog to the "to box" of any email. The subject of the email such reflect the contents of the email message since the subject is used to reference the post. The Blog supports RSS allowing members who sign up for the Blog Feed to know when new posts to the Blog have arrived.
The Rosebay Album is our digital image pile. This album can be thought of as a series of images grouped by album where each image has a caption. The Album supports RSS allowing members who sign up for the Album Feed to know when new images to the Album have arrived.
For those Chapter members wishing to know how to post to our Rosebay Blog or upload images to our Rosebay Album contact us at
http://arsmc.org/contactus_stub.aspx
This post was emailed to the Blog.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
An Invitation to Add to the Chapter's Digital Piles - Emails and Jpegs
The new ARS Massachusetts Web site is constructed based on the premise that the chapters digital resources consist of documents and images where most members know how to email, use a digital camera, and how to browse the web.
The new site allows all chapters members to be both producers and consumers of the chapter's digital resources.
An announcement in the form of an email of a chapter event, open garden, or a list of rhododendrons in bloom in one's garden is considered something worth posting to the chapter as a whole.
These email posts do not have to be fancy as to format. In fact paragraphs of text separated by blank lines is idea. The subject of the email should reflect the body of the message.
A picture in the form of a jpeg of a chapter event, public garden, or a rhododendron is also considered something worth posting to the chapter as a whole.
The digital images are enhanced by a caption, location, and photographer.
The Chapter is storing digital images on Google Blogger and images on Picasa Web Album. Any members interesting in learning how to email to our Rosebay Blog or upload images to our Rosebay Album should contact us using
http://arsmc.org/contactus_stub.aspx
If you are able to read this post you are invited to become a contributor to our Chapters online digital resources.
This post was emailed to our Rosebay Blog.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
The new site allows all chapters members to be both producers and consumers of the chapter's digital resources.
An announcement in the form of an email of a chapter event, open garden, or a list of rhododendrons in bloom in one's garden is considered something worth posting to the chapter as a whole.
These email posts do not have to be fancy as to format. In fact paragraphs of text separated by blank lines is idea. The subject of the email should reflect the body of the message.
A picture in the form of a jpeg of a chapter event, public garden, or a rhododendron is also considered something worth posting to the chapter as a whole.
The digital images are enhanced by a caption, location, and photographer.
The Chapter is storing digital images on Google Blogger and images on Picasa Web Album. Any members interesting in learning how to email to our Rosebay Blog or upload images to our Rosebay Album should contact us using
http://arsmc.org/contactus_stub.aspx
If you are able to read this post you are invited to become a contributor to our Chapters online digital resources.
This post was emailed to our Rosebay Blog.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
H: Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Home
The American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to encourage interest in and to disseminate information about the genus Rhododendron focusing on Rhododendrons growable in New England. Members' experience ranges from novice to expert. Society activities include chapter meetings, flower and foliage shows, plant sales, garden tours, seed and cutting exchanges, and communication through printed and online publications.
The American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter invites you to explore the beauty and diversity of the genus Rhododendron. All visitors are encouraged to sign our Guestbook and to participant in our surveys concerning the Rhododendrons and Azaleas grown.
Rhododendron 'Scintillation' typifies the image one has upon hearing the word rhododendron. This image of a large evergreen shrub displaying beautiful pink flowers during Memorial Day weekend is certainly one of the many reasons rhododendrons are popular in New England.
However, step inside Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England to explore the hundreds of articles and thousands of images that await you, to tour many of the best gardens in the Northeast, and to discover for yourself the beauty of the genus Rhododendron is not limited to this single cultivar or this one weekend a year.
There are 1000's of Rhododendron cultivars and the genus brings interest to the New England garden 365 days a year.
Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England contains more than 5000 pages and 3000 images. For your convenience a list of garden tours allows year around access to more than 50 of New England's best gardens. Also provided is a list of all pictorial tours in alphabetical order.
Each tour has a subindex link on every page of that tour allowing one to quickly determine the contents of that tour. Once inside, walk through each tour by merely clicking the next button provided on each page of a tour.
An alphabetical listing of the titles of all the pages is provided. This allows one to locate any plant pictured on the site since titles of pages, in general, start with the name of the plant being shown. The plants are grouped by genus so to see what rhododendrons images are contained on the site merely look in the table of contents under rhododendron.
The pictorial tour of proven performers for New England includes only rhododendrons that have proven to be reliable in multiple gardens in our area. An alphabetical listing of the proven performers is provided. If you live in New England or in an area with a similar climate this tour is a must see.
If you enjoy looking at images of beautiful rhododendrons, introduce yourself to the diversity the genus rhododendron offers one image at a time. If your interest is species visit our Rhododendron Species for New England booklet. If you are interested in learning more about growing rhododendrons visit our Rosebay Journal. If you want to learn more about the various activities within the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter visit our schedule, our blog, or slide presentations.
Entrances to the following American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter online publications are available for your enjoyment from the menu bar above or below:
Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England
The Rosebay Blog
The Online Rosebay Journal
The Online Species Booklet
Proven Performer Rhododendrons for New England
Pictorial Tours of New England Gardens
Chapter Slide Presentation Albums
Your Rusty Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England
The American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter invites you to explore the beauty and diversity of the genus Rhododendron. All visitors are encouraged to sign our Guestbook and to participant in our surveys concerning the Rhododendrons and Azaleas grown.
Rhododendron 'Scintillation' typifies the image one has upon hearing the word rhododendron. This image of a large evergreen shrub displaying beautiful pink flowers during Memorial Day weekend is certainly one of the many reasons rhododendrons are popular in New England.
However, step inside Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England to explore the hundreds of articles and thousands of images that await you, to tour many of the best gardens in the Northeast, and to discover for yourself the beauty of the genus Rhododendron is not limited to this single cultivar or this one weekend a year.
There are 1000's of Rhododendron cultivars and the genus brings interest to the New England garden 365 days a year.
Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England contains more than 5000 pages and 3000 images. For your convenience a list of garden tours allows year around access to more than 50 of New England's best gardens. Also provided is a list of all pictorial tours in alphabetical order.
Each tour has a subindex link on every page of that tour allowing one to quickly determine the contents of that tour. Once inside, walk through each tour by merely clicking the next button provided on each page of a tour.
An alphabetical listing of the titles of all the pages is provided. This allows one to locate any plant pictured on the site since titles of pages, in general, start with the name of the plant being shown. The plants are grouped by genus so to see what rhododendrons images are contained on the site merely look in the table of contents under rhododendron.
The pictorial tour of proven performers for New England includes only rhododendrons that have proven to be reliable in multiple gardens in our area. An alphabetical listing of the proven performers is provided. If you live in New England or in an area with a similar climate this tour is a must see.
If you enjoy looking at images of beautiful rhododendrons, introduce yourself to the diversity the genus rhododendron offers one image at a time. If your interest is species visit our Rhododendron Species for New England booklet. If you are interested in learning more about growing rhododendrons visit our Rosebay Journal. If you want to learn more about the various activities within the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter visit our schedule, our blog, or slide presentations.
Entrances to the following American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter online publications are available for your enjoyment from the menu bar above or below:
Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England
The Rosebay Blog
The Online Rosebay Journal
The Online Species Booklet
Proven Performer Rhododendrons for New England
Pictorial Tours of New England Gardens
Chapter Slide Presentation Albums
Your Rusty Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England
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Full site specific searching is available using Google Search. The search button on the top menu of each page provides access to this search mechanism.
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Although most pages on this site are based on XML, the following online web tools are used to display web content: Microsoft Office Live, Google Blogger, Google Calendar, Google Notebook, Google Web Album, Google Map, Goolge Search, and Zoho Creator. In most instance these online tools are used in support of pages provided by the main menu appearing at the top of each page.
Prediction:
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote the following in January 2007:
"2007 will be the first year in which almost every significant browser fully supports XSLT 1.0. It will finally become possible to publish real XML directly on the Web without prerendering it to HTML first. Although this won't be common practice by any stretch of the imagination, I predict that at least one major site (and quite a few minor ones) will begin doing this. I also predict that nobody will notice, because it will all just work."
American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter celebrates our 10th year on the web by being one of the very minor sites helping make the above prediction come true. It is imperative presentation becomes declarative.
On November 18, 2007, Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England officially opened as a fully functional 5000 page client side based XML/XSLT/CSS web site. By January 1, 2008, the site had grown to more than 6000 pages.
Thanks
Our Chapter thanks the following people:
Steve Henning for the feedback and input he has given on our new ARS Massachusetts sites.
Chris Klapwijk for the feedback on the calendar.
Werner Brack for supplying images of his trip to Australia.
Nick Yarmoshuk for supplying images of his garden in St. Catharines, Canada.
J.C. Birck for supplying images of Rhododendron gardening in Denmark.
Bruce Clyburn for supplying images of large leaf rhododendrons and garden ornaments.
Norman Beaudry for supplying images of rhododendrons being investigated by the Sandwich Club.
Werner Brack for supplying seed lists of the American Rhododendron Society.
Ron Rabideau for supplying an article by Elinor Clarke.
Bruce Clyburn for supplying an article on Radcliffe Pike.
Browsing for the latest version of all major browsers is provided using XML, XSLT, XPath, and CSS. Javascript on is required.
IE6+, Firefox2+, Opera9+, and Safari3+ are supported. Other browsers in the same families as these major browsers are also supported.
Navigation Support:
A navigation menu at the top of each page provides the ability to move around the site. The first line of this menu provides a set of links that are the same for all pages. For instance, the blog link always takes you to the Rosebay Blog. The second line of this menu provides links that are relative to the current page. For instance the next links always moves you to the next page in this tour or series of pages.
A navigation menu is also provided at the bottom of each page. (future)
The main image supports navigation of next, previous, and index. Clicking on the title on the image is next, clicking on the location on the image is previous, and clicking on photographer on the image moves one to a subindex page.
The URL contains a parameter which contains p(number)p indicating the number of the page desired. For instance y.xml?p11p means go to page 11 in tour y. Setting this number 0, negative, or greater than the number of pages in tour y causes one to go to the subindex for tour y.
Access keys are also available for navigating where n is next, p is previous, and i is index. For instance on IE the combination (alt n enter) moves one to the next page where as on Firefox the combination (shift alt n) causes such a move.
For those browsers supporting meta level links as part of the browser menu such links are provided.
Search Support:
Full site specific searching is available using Google Search. The search button on the top menu of each page provides access to this search mechanism.
Full blog specific searching is available using Google Search. This search mechanism is provided on the front page of the Rosebay Blog which can be accessed using the blog button on the top menu of each page.
Full database specific searching is available for each database created using Zoho Creator. This search mechanism is provided on the front page of each such database.
Page View Support: (Future)
The URL contains a parameter which contains c(number)c indicating the number of the view desired. Currently 6 such views numbered 1 to 6 are supported. For instance try y.xml?p1pc2c to see how it affects the formatting of the main image.
Although most pages on this site are based on XML, the following online web tools are used to display web content: Microsoft Office Live, Google Blogger, Google Calendar, Google Notebook, Google Web Album, Google Map, Goolge Search, and Zoho Creator. In most instance these online tools are used in support of pages provided by the main menu appearing at the top of each page.
Prediction:
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote the following in January 2007:
"2007 will be the first year in which almost every significant browser fully supports XSLT 1.0. It will finally become possible to publish real XML directly on the Web without prerendering it to HTML first. Although this won't be common practice by any stretch of the imagination, I predict that at least one major site (and quite a few minor ones) will begin doing this. I also predict that nobody will notice, because it will all just work."
American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter celebrates our 10th year on the web by being one of the very minor sites helping make the above prediction come true. It is imperative presentation becomes declarative.
On November 18, 2007, Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England officially opened as a fully functional 5000 page client side based XML/XSLT/CSS web site. By January 1, 2008, the site had grown to more than 6000 pages.
Thanks
Our Chapter thanks the following people:
Steve Henning for the feedback and input he has given on our new ARS Massachusetts sites.
Chris Klapwijk for the feedback on the calendar.
Werner Brack for supplying images of his trip to Australia.
Nick Yarmoshuk for supplying images of his garden in St. Catharines, Canada.
J.C. Birck for supplying images of Rhododendron gardening in Denmark.
Bruce Clyburn for supplying images of large leaf rhododendrons and garden ornaments.
Norman Beaudry for supplying images of rhododendrons being investigated by the Sandwich Club.
Werner Brack for supplying seed lists of the American Rhododendron Society.
Ron Rabideau for supplying an article by Elinor Clarke.
Bruce Clyburn for supplying an article on Radcliffe Pike.
Directions
Directions for the following New England locations:
Waltham Field Station
Elm Bank
Tower Hill
Plane View Nursery
Cedar Hill Girl Scouts
UMASS Waltham Field Station
From Route 128/I-95, take Exit 27, Totten Pond Road east towards Waltham center. Follow Totten Pnd Road for 1.2 miles to end at traffic light. Turn right onto Lexington Road, get in left lane and turn left at the traffic light onto Beaver Road and travel 0.2 miles to rotary. Go 3/4 way around rotary continuing on Beaver Street up hill past Bentley College on both sides. 1.2 miles from rotary, UMASS Waltham Field Station is a buick building on right in open fields, Look for brick greenhouse chimney. Parking beside and behind building.
240 Beaver Street
Waltham, MA
Driving Directions
Elm Bank
From North, South, and East or using Route 128: Take Route 16 West through town of Wellesley, then past Wellesley College on the right until you see a sign for Hunnewell Farm on the right and a large red barn. Immediately turn left at the sign for Elm Bank Reservation and cross the bridge to one-way loop road. Follow signs to MHS.
From West or using Route 495: Take Route 9 East to Route 27 in Natick; go South 27 for 4 miles to Sherborn; go left on Route 16 past Pleasant Street for 2 miles until you see a sign for Hunnewell Farm on the left and a large red barn. Immediately turn right at the sign for Elm Bank Reservation and cross the bridge to one-way loop road. Follow signs to MHS.
900 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA 02482
Driving Directions
Tower Hill
From Boston:
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike to Exit 11A for Route 495. Take Route 495 north to Exit 25B for Route 290 west. Follow toward Worcester. Take Exit 24, Church Street, Northborough/Boylston. Follow to Boylston 3 miles. Entrance to Tower Hill on right; dark red sign designates entrance
From Providence, Rhode Island:
From Route 95 north, take Route 146 north exit. Follow for approximately 35 miles to Worcester.
In Worcester, take the exit for Route 290 east. Follow through the city to Exit 24, Church Street, Northborough/Boylston. Follow to Boylston 3 miles. Entrance to Tower Hill on right; dark red sign designates entrance
From Hartford, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts:
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike East toward Boston. Follow for approximately 40 miles to Exit 10, Route 290 Worcester. Take Route 290 east. Follow through the city to Exit 24, Church Street, Northborough/Boylston. Follow to Boylston 3 miles. Entrance to Tower Hill on right; dark red sign designates entrance
From the North or Northwest:
Take Route 2 toward Leominster. Take Route 190 South to Route 140 -- Exit 5. Turn left on Route 140 South.Continue on Route 140 through West Boylston to traffic light at intersection of Route 140 and Route 70. Turn left onto Route 70. Travel 1 mile through center of Boylston continue on Route 70 another 1/2 mile until you come to a blinking yellow light at French Drive (blue highway sign will tell you to turn right for Tower Hill Botanic Garden). Turn right and proceed a short distance to the entrance to Tower Hill Botanic Garden on left; dark red sign designates entrance
OR
Take Route 2 to Exit 35 -- Route 70 Lancaster Lunenburg. Follow Route 70 through Lancaster and Clinton until you pass Tahanto Regional High School on your right. Approx. 1-1/4 miles further along Route 70, make a left at the blinking yellow light at French Drive (blue highway sign will indicate a left turn for Tower Hill). Tower Hill Botanic Garden is on left; dark red sign designates entrance
11 French Drive
Boylston, Massachusetts 01505
Driving Directions
Plane View Nursery
From Boston and points north take Route 24 south through Fall River; continue on Route 24 into Rhode Island towards Newport. Cross Sakonnet River, stay on 24 until it ends (Exit 1) and becomes Route 138 East towards Newport. Take left at the lights on Union Street. Follow union to the end and turn right. At the next set of lights tale a left on Sandy Point Road. Take next right on Wapping Road, go approximately 2 miles to sign for Planview Nursery on left. Proceed down driveway, take first left and you are there.
From the Cape take I95 to Fall River to Route 24 signs. Go south on Route 24 towrds Newport following the same directions as above.
770 Wapping Road
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Driving Directions
Cedar Hill Girl Scouts: Great Hall
From Route 128/I-95, take Exit 27, Totten Pond Road east towards Waltham center. Follow Totten Pnd Road for 1.2 miles to end at traffic light. Turn right onto Lexington Road, get in left lane and turn left at the traffic light onto Beaver Road and travel 0.2 miles to rotary. Go 3/4 way around rotary continuing on Beaver Street up hill past Bentley College on both sides. 1.2 miles from rotary, Great Hall is a building on the left at the end of a long driveway.
265 Beaver Street,
Waltham MA
Driving Directions
Waltham Field Station
Elm Bank
Tower Hill
Plane View Nursery
Cedar Hill Girl Scouts
UMASS Waltham Field Station
From Route 128/I-95, take Exit 27, Totten Pond Road east towards Waltham center. Follow Totten Pnd Road for 1.2 miles to end at traffic light. Turn right onto Lexington Road, get in left lane and turn left at the traffic light onto Beaver Road and travel 0.2 miles to rotary. Go 3/4 way around rotary continuing on Beaver Street up hill past Bentley College on both sides. 1.2 miles from rotary, UMASS Waltham Field Station is a buick building on right in open fields, Look for brick greenhouse chimney. Parking beside and behind building.
240 Beaver Street
Waltham, MA
Driving Directions
Elm Bank
From North, South, and East or using Route 128: Take Route 16 West through town of Wellesley, then past Wellesley College on the right until you see a sign for Hunnewell Farm on the right and a large red barn. Immediately turn left at the sign for Elm Bank Reservation and cross the bridge to one-way loop road. Follow signs to MHS.
From West or using Route 495: Take Route 9 East to Route 27 in Natick; go South 27 for 4 miles to Sherborn; go left on Route 16 past Pleasant Street for 2 miles until you see a sign for Hunnewell Farm on the left and a large red barn. Immediately turn right at the sign for Elm Bank Reservation and cross the bridge to one-way loop road. Follow signs to MHS.
900 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA 02482
Driving Directions
Tower Hill
From Boston:
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike to Exit 11A for Route 495. Take Route 495 north to Exit 25B for Route 290 west. Follow toward Worcester. Take Exit 24, Church Street, Northborough/Boylston. Follow to Boylston 3 miles. Entrance to Tower Hill on right; dark red sign designates entrance
From Providence, Rhode Island:
From Route 95 north, take Route 146 north exit. Follow for approximately 35 miles to Worcester.
In Worcester, take the exit for Route 290 east. Follow through the city to Exit 24, Church Street, Northborough/Boylston. Follow to Boylston 3 miles. Entrance to Tower Hill on right; dark red sign designates entrance
From Hartford, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts:
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike East toward Boston. Follow for approximately 40 miles to Exit 10, Route 290 Worcester. Take Route 290 east. Follow through the city to Exit 24, Church Street, Northborough/Boylston. Follow to Boylston 3 miles. Entrance to Tower Hill on right; dark red sign designates entrance
From the North or Northwest:
Take Route 2 toward Leominster. Take Route 190 South to Route 140 -- Exit 5. Turn left on Route 140 South.Continue on Route 140 through West Boylston to traffic light at intersection of Route 140 and Route 70. Turn left onto Route 70. Travel 1 mile through center of Boylston continue on Route 70 another 1/2 mile until you come to a blinking yellow light at French Drive (blue highway sign will tell you to turn right for Tower Hill Botanic Garden). Turn right and proceed a short distance to the entrance to Tower Hill Botanic Garden on left; dark red sign designates entrance
OR
Take Route 2 to Exit 35 -- Route 70 Lancaster Lunenburg. Follow Route 70 through Lancaster and Clinton until you pass Tahanto Regional High School on your right. Approx. 1-1/4 miles further along Route 70, make a left at the blinking yellow light at French Drive (blue highway sign will indicate a left turn for Tower Hill). Tower Hill Botanic Garden is on left; dark red sign designates entrance
11 French Drive
Boylston, Massachusetts 01505
Driving Directions
Plane View Nursery
From Boston and points north take Route 24 south through Fall River; continue on Route 24 into Rhode Island towards Newport. Cross Sakonnet River, stay on 24 until it ends (Exit 1) and becomes Route 138 East towards Newport. Take left at the lights on Union Street. Follow union to the end and turn right. At the next set of lights tale a left on Sandy Point Road. Take next right on Wapping Road, go approximately 2 miles to sign for Planview Nursery on left. Proceed down driveway, take first left and you are there.
From the Cape take I95 to Fall River to Route 24 signs. Go south on Route 24 towrds Newport following the same directions as above.
770 Wapping Road
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Driving Directions
Cedar Hill Girl Scouts: Great Hall
From Route 128/I-95, take Exit 27, Totten Pond Road east towards Waltham center. Follow Totten Pnd Road for 1.2 miles to end at traffic light. Turn right onto Lexington Road, get in left lane and turn left at the traffic light onto Beaver Road and travel 0.2 miles to rotary. Go 3/4 way around rotary continuing on Beaver Street up hill past Bentley College on both sides. 1.2 miles from rotary, Great Hall is a building on the left at the end of a long driveway.
265 Beaver Street,
Waltham MA
Driving Directions
Roster 2007-2008
American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter officers and chairs are listed below. Please direct your questions and comments to the member who is most closely responsible for the question you wish to be addressed using the form below:
A complete list of members of the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter is available to all members and is published in the Chapter's newsletter annually. For more specific information please contact Jim Aplin who keeps an extensive database for member's use.
Officers & Board Members:
President: Susan and Doug Harding
Vice President: OPEN
Recording Secretary: Janet B. Killeen
Treasurer: Pete Littlefield
Corresponding Secretary: Ted Petit
Immediate Past President: George Silverman
Director 2008: Betty Carhlian
Director 2008: Fred Knippel
Director 2009: Jim Aplin
Director 2009: Susan Clark
Director 2010: Joe Bruso
Director 2010: OPEN
Chairs:
Annual Truss Show, Auction & Sale: OPEN
Book Table & Sales: The Wrightingtons
Chapter Library: Sally Perkins
Chapter Webmaster: The Perkins
Elm Bank Display Garden: Pete Littlefield and Jim Aplin
Finance Committee: Pete Littlefield
Gifts Committee: Susan Clark
Honors Committee: Doug Harding
Judging Committee: C. J. Patterson
Membership Administrator: Jim Aplin
Membership Outreach: Dorry Minsky
New England Grows: Dorry Minsky
Newsletter Editor: Susan Clark
Nominating Committee: To be appointed
Plants for Members Chairs: Fred Knippel and John Perkins
P4M Alternate Chairs: Henry Wrightington and C. J. Patterson
Program Committee: Susan Harding
Publicity Committee: Diana Petit
The Rosebay Editor: OPEN
The Rosebay Online: OPEN
Propagators Group: Joe Bruso
Scholastic Awards: George Silverman
Seed Exchange: Tony Knights
Species Study Group: Edward H. Bensley
Van Veen Annual Sale: Joe Bruso
A complete list of members of the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter is available to all members and is published in the Chapter's newsletter annually. For more specific information please contact Jim Aplin who keeps an extensive database for member's use.
Officers & Board Members:
President: Susan and Doug Harding
Vice President: OPEN
Recording Secretary: Janet B. Killeen
Treasurer: Pete Littlefield
Corresponding Secretary: Ted Petit
Immediate Past President: George Silverman
Director 2008: Betty Carhlian
Director 2008: Fred Knippel
Director 2009: Jim Aplin
Director 2009: Susan Clark
Director 2010: Joe Bruso
Director 2010: OPEN
Chairs:
Annual Truss Show, Auction & Sale: OPEN
Book Table & Sales: The Wrightingtons
Chapter Library: Sally Perkins
Chapter Webmaster: The Perkins
Elm Bank Display Garden: Pete Littlefield and Jim Aplin
Finance Committee: Pete Littlefield
Gifts Committee: Susan Clark
Honors Committee: Doug Harding
Judging Committee: C. J. Patterson
Membership Administrator: Jim Aplin
Membership Outreach: Dorry Minsky
New England Grows: Dorry Minsky
Newsletter Editor: Susan Clark
Nominating Committee: To be appointed
Plants for Members Chairs: Fred Knippel and John Perkins
P4M Alternate Chairs: Henry Wrightington and C. J. Patterson
Program Committee: Susan Harding
Publicity Committee: Diana Petit
The Rosebay Editor: OPEN
The Rosebay Online: OPEN
Propagators Group: Joe Bruso
Scholastic Awards: George Silverman
Seed Exchange: Tony Knights
Species Study Group: Edward H. Bensley
Van Veen Annual Sale: Joe Bruso
Join
The price of membership ($35 individual, $40 family) continues to be one of the best bargains in the world of horticulture.
The fee includes membership to the American Rhododendron Society and the option of selecting membership to the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter as your local chapter.
If you already a member of the American Rhododendron Society and belong to another Chapter you can become an Associate Member of the Massachusetts Chapter for an additional $8.
Members receive:
4 issues of the world-class ARS JOURNAL
monthly NEWSLETTERS with minutes from Chapter meetings
free lectures, demonstrations and member's social at CHAPTER MEETINGS
free cuttings at the Chapter's annual CUTTING EXCHANGE
free GARDEN TOURS
free seeds from the Chapter's annual SEED EXCHANGE
the informative Chapter publication THE ROSEBAY
free ADVICE from experienced members
the informative Chapter ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Members can also:
participate in the Chapter's PLANTS FOR MEMBERS program
participate in planning and maintaining the Chapter's DISPLAY GARDENS
buy BOOKS at discount prices at every meeting
buy PLANTS at wholesale prices through the Chapter'sgroup order
borrow books from the Chapter LIBRARY
rent programs from the Society's SLIDE AND VIDEOLIBRARY
obtain rare seeds through the Society's SEED EXCHANGE
obtain POLLEN from other Chapter members
attend informative and enlightening ARS ANNUAL AND REGIONAL CONFERENCES
Corporate $90, Sponsor $100, and Life $1000 are also available.
To become a member or for more information about the Massachusetts Chapter email Jim Aplin.
Get connected with other Chapter members!
Jim Aplin keeps an extensive membership database and is able to put you in contact with members that live near you!
Carpool to meetings and Chapter activities.
Free Rhododendron Plant for New Chapter Member
As a new member of the Chapter, you will receive a free plant at the first chapter meeting you attend.
The fee includes membership to the American Rhododendron Society and the option of selecting membership to the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter as your local chapter.
If you already a member of the American Rhododendron Society and belong to another Chapter you can become an Associate Member of the Massachusetts Chapter for an additional $8.
Members receive:
4 issues of the world-class ARS JOURNAL
monthly NEWSLETTERS with minutes from Chapter meetings
free lectures, demonstrations and member's social at CHAPTER MEETINGS
free cuttings at the Chapter's annual CUTTING EXCHANGE
free GARDEN TOURS
free seeds from the Chapter's annual SEED EXCHANGE
the informative Chapter publication THE ROSEBAY
free ADVICE from experienced members
the informative Chapter ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Members can also:
participate in the Chapter's PLANTS FOR MEMBERS program
participate in planning and maintaining the Chapter's DISPLAY GARDENS
buy BOOKS at discount prices at every meeting
buy PLANTS at wholesale prices through the Chapter'sgroup order
borrow books from the Chapter LIBRARY
rent programs from the Society's SLIDE AND VIDEOLIBRARY
obtain rare seeds through the Society's SEED EXCHANGE
obtain POLLEN from other Chapter members
attend informative and enlightening ARS ANNUAL AND REGIONAL CONFERENCES
Corporate $90, Sponsor $100, and Life $1000 are also available.
To become a member or for more information about the Massachusetts Chapter email Jim Aplin.
Get connected with other Chapter members!
Jim Aplin keeps an extensive membership database and is able to put you in contact with members that live near you!
Carpool to meetings and Chapter activities.
Free Rhododendron Plant for New Chapter Member
As a new member of the Chapter, you will receive a free plant at the first chapter meeting you attend.
Events
Chapter activities, many of which are open to the public, include the following:
Chapter meetings at the Waltham Field Station, Waltham , MA (near Bentley College) or at the Elm Bank Reservation, Wellesley, MA.
Public flower show and plant sale public on Sunday in May at Elm Bank Reservation, Wellesley, MA.
Rhododendron display garden at the Elm Bank Reservation, Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Wellesley, MA.
Chapter Library contains an extensive collection of books, journals, and pamphlets members may borrow.
Plants For Members propagates rhododendrons at Planeview Nursery in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
VanVeen Order allows members to purchase rhododendron wholesale.
Propagators Group studies how to propagate rhododendrons from cuttings and seed.
Species Study Group studies the genus rhododendron.
Garden tours to member gardens and other interesting gardens.
Rhododendron hardiness study provides members the opportunity to report the cold hardiness of their plants.
Rhododendron flower show in early spring at April meeting.
Rhododendron foliage show an autumn event celebrating the plants we enjoy year round.
Chapter committees include Display Garden Committee, Nominating Committee, Honors Committee, Judging Committee, and Plant Evaluation and Awards Committee.
Chapter awards include the Bronze Medal Award which is the highest award the chapter can bestow on a member, President's Awards which are awarded each year to members who make exceptional service contribution to the chapter, Show Awards and Trophies are given to exhibitors at the flower and foliage shows.
Chapter meetings at the Waltham Field Station, Waltham , MA (near Bentley College) or at the Elm Bank Reservation, Wellesley, MA.
Public flower show and plant sale public on Sunday in May at Elm Bank Reservation, Wellesley, MA.
Rhododendron display garden at the Elm Bank Reservation, Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Wellesley, MA.
Chapter Library contains an extensive collection of books, journals, and pamphlets members may borrow.
Plants For Members propagates rhododendrons at Planeview Nursery in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
VanVeen Order allows members to purchase rhododendron wholesale.
Propagators Group studies how to propagate rhododendrons from cuttings and seed.
Species Study Group studies the genus rhododendron.
Garden tours to member gardens and other interesting gardens.
Rhododendron hardiness study provides members the opportunity to report the cold hardiness of their plants.
Rhododendron flower show in early spring at April meeting.
Rhododendron foliage show an autumn event celebrating the plants we enjoy year round.
Chapter committees include Display Garden Committee, Nominating Committee, Honors Committee, Judging Committee, and Plant Evaluation and Awards Committee.
Chapter awards include the Bronze Medal Award which is the highest award the chapter can bestow on a member, President's Awards which are awarded each year to members who make exceptional service contribution to the chapter, Show Awards and Trophies are given to exhibitors at the flower and foliage shows.
Copyright
The contents including all information, images, design, and implementation of this web site (http://rosebay.org and http://arsmc.org) is copyrighted by the ARS Massachusetts Chapter and is the combined property of the ARS Massachusetts Chapter and the individuals credited with its production.
No use or reproduction of these contents is permitted without the consent of the ARS Massachusetts Chapter and/or the author.
Permission must be obtained for each use of any content. Approval to use content in the past does not imply approval to use additional content.
Any web site using content from ARS Massachusetts Chapter is required to contain a link to the ARS Massachusetts Chapter web site and to credit the ARS Massachusetts Chapter and the author on the page using that content.
Use of content including images from this web site by commerical companies or for commerical purposes is required but normally permission is given but a donation to the ARS Massachusetts Chapter to help offset the cost of hosting the ARS Massachusetts Chapter web site is appreciated.
Despite these restrictions the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter considers these online publications to be resources to both visit and use and encourages those who wish to reuse these resources to contact us. In many instances these resources including images, tours, slide shows, and site templates have been designed to allow users easy reuse on other sites.
No use or reproduction of these contents is permitted without the consent of the ARS Massachusetts Chapter and/or the author.
Permission must be obtained for each use of any content. Approval to use content in the past does not imply approval to use additional content.
Any web site using content from ARS Massachusetts Chapter is required to contain a link to the ARS Massachusetts Chapter web site and to credit the ARS Massachusetts Chapter and the author on the page using that content.
Use of content including images from this web site by commerical companies or for commerical purposes is required but normally permission is given but a donation to the ARS Massachusetts Chapter to help offset the cost of hosting the ARS Massachusetts Chapter web site is appreciated.
Despite these restrictions the American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter considers these online publications to be resources to both visit and use and encourages those who wish to reuse these resources to contact us. In many instances these resources including images, tours, slide shows, and site templates have been designed to allow users easy reuse on other sites.
H: Sunday, December 16, 2007
Chapter History
American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter was founded in 1970.
Founding members of the Massachusetts Chapter:
Jonathan Shaw
Fred Schumacher
George MacKinnon
Donald Marvin
Carlton Lees
Heman Howard
Elinor Clarke
Dick & Jane Brooks
Ed & Wally Mezitt
Eleanor Famosi
Dr. Alfred Kaiser
Charles Trommer
Anthony Consolini
Louis Cook
Jack & Evvie Cowles
The above was supplied by A. Richard Brooks and is based on an article in the ARS Bulletin, 1975, p. 187.
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Massachusetts Chapter Members as of November 1, 1970
Ames, Oliver F. Boston, MA
Ashton, Dr. Paul M. Longmeadow, MA
Barber, Dean E. Penacook, NH
Clarke, Dr./Mrs. H.G. Ashfield, MA Bear Swamp Gardens
Bisbee, M/M Horatio Ware, MA
Black, David G., Jr. N. Scituate, RI
Blaisdell, M/M J. Harper Jr. Lexington, MA
Blanchard, Leon A. North Reading, MA
Brooks, A. Richard Concord, MA
Brown, M/M Edward J. N. Randolph, MA
Burt, Mrs. Chester A. E. Sandwich, MA
Cate, M/M Henry F. Jr. Duxbury, MA
Coggeshall , Roger West Newbury, MA Cherry Hill Nurseries, Inc.
Chubbuck, George W. W. Bridgewater, MA
Cook, M/M Louis A. Pembroke, MA
Cowles, M/M John C. Wellesley, MA
Consolini, Toni Sandwich, MA Heritage Plantation of Sandwich
deLongchamp, Roger D. Fitchburg, MA
Eaton, M/M Charles F. Jr. Duxbury, MA
Famosi, Mrs. Diomede Westford, MA
Fraim, Mrs. Irving Waltham, MA
Gessford, Dr. David W. E. Orleans, MA
Gredler, Charles R. Lexington, MA
Hall, M/M Dudley A. Sudbury, MA
Harrison, M/M Omer D. Fall River, MA
Hunnewell, Willard P. Wellesley, MA
Jessen, M/M Elliott M. Riverton, CT
Jorgensen, M/M Neil D. Harvard, MA
Kaiser, Dr. Alfred J. Hatfield, MA
Kroll, Dr./M Arthur M. Whitinsville, MA
Lawrence, M/M Falmouth, MA Cape Cod Nurseries
Lawson, M/M Frank B. Dedham, MA
Lees, Carlton B. Boston, MA Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Leonard, T. Richard Raynham, MA
Lucas, Homer C. Weston, MA
MacKinnon, M/M George S. Waquoit, MA
Marvin, Donald K. Mattapoisett, MA
McIntosh,, M/M Acton, MA
Mezitt, M/M Edmund V. Hopkinton, MA Weston Nurseries Inc
Pac, Frank Westfield, MA Stanley Park
Paszek, Edward Falmouth, MA
Peebles, Mrs. Crockett Buzzards Bay, MA
Routley, Prof. Douglas G. Durham, NH Dept. Plant Science University of NH
Sawicki, Robert L. Hatfield, MA
Schumacher, M/M F. W. Sandwich, MA
Shaw, Jonathan A. Newton, MA
Stone, M/M Foster B. Auburn, MA
Trommer, Chas. R. Rehoboth, MA Tranquil Lake Nursery
Tucker, Richard Hatchville, MA
Vickers, M/M Lloyd L. Keene, NH
Wiedman, Dr. Michael Malden, MA
Wing, T.H. Buzzards Bay, MA
The above is based on records supplied by Omer Harrison.
Chapter Presidents
Susan and Doug Harding 2006-2008
George Silverman 2004-2006
Bill Sweeney 2002-2004
Susan Clark 2000-2002
Ian Donovan 1998-2000
Charles Patterson 1996-1998
Joe Parks 1994-1996
Marcia Mitchell 1992-1994
Henk Borsje 1990-1992
Anne Reisch 1988-1990
Leo Blanchette 1986-1988
Dorothy Swift 1984-1986
Bob Fox 1982-1984
Willard Hunnewell 1980-1982
Dick Brooks 1978-1980
Jonathan Shaw 1976-1978
Max Resnick 1974-1976
Jack Cowles 1973-1974
Louis Cook 1972-1973
Edmund Mezitt 1970-1972
Society Level Service
Barbara Gingras
Willard Hunnewell
Powell Huie
Tim Craig
Bob Fox
Dick Brooks
Sally Perkins
The Rosebay's Editors
Jonathan A. Shaw 1972
John J. Slavitz 1973
Noreen C. Slavitz & John J. Slavitz 1974-1977
Max L. Resnick 1977-1980
A. Richard Brooks 1981-1984
Richard W. Chaikin 1984-1988
Ian E. M. Donovan 1989-1990
James B. Phillips 1991-1998
James E. Marchand 1999-2001
Ian E. M. Donovan 2001-2003
Chapter Web History
Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England started fall of 1997.
Online Rosebay Journal started in 1999.
Online Species Study Booklet published in 2000.
Rosebay Blog started in 2006.
Your Portal to Rhododendrons in New England started fall 2007 which includes the following:
Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England
Your Rusty Gate to Rhododendrons in New England
Rosebay Blog
Rosebay Journal
Species Study Booklet
Calendar of Events with Directions and Weather
Web Albums
Databases
Document Library
Glossary
Search
RSS Feed
External Links
Store
Chapter Web Editors
Henk Borsje 1997
James Marchand 1999-2000
John and Sally Perkins 1997-Present
Founding members of the Massachusetts Chapter:
Jonathan Shaw
Fred Schumacher
George MacKinnon
Donald Marvin
Carlton Lees
Heman Howard
Elinor Clarke
Dick & Jane Brooks
Ed & Wally Mezitt
Eleanor Famosi
Dr. Alfred Kaiser
Charles Trommer
Anthony Consolini
Louis Cook
Jack & Evvie Cowles
The above was supplied by A. Richard Brooks and is based on an article in the ARS Bulletin, 1975, p. 187.
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Massachusetts Chapter Members as of November 1, 1970
Ames, Oliver F. Boston, MA
Ashton, Dr. Paul M. Longmeadow, MA
Barber, Dean E. Penacook, NH
Clarke, Dr./Mrs. H.G. Ashfield, MA Bear Swamp Gardens
Bisbee, M/M Horatio Ware, MA
Black, David G., Jr. N. Scituate, RI
Blaisdell, M/M J. Harper Jr. Lexington, MA
Blanchard, Leon A. North Reading, MA
Brooks, A. Richard Concord, MA
Brown, M/M Edward J. N. Randolph, MA
Burt, Mrs. Chester A. E. Sandwich, MA
Cate, M/M Henry F. Jr. Duxbury, MA
Coggeshall , Roger West Newbury, MA Cherry Hill Nurseries, Inc.
Chubbuck, George W. W. Bridgewater, MA
Cook, M/M Louis A. Pembroke, MA
Cowles, M/M John C. Wellesley, MA
Consolini, Toni Sandwich, MA Heritage Plantation of Sandwich
deLongchamp, Roger D. Fitchburg, MA
Eaton, M/M Charles F. Jr. Duxbury, MA
Famosi, Mrs. Diomede Westford, MA
Fraim, Mrs. Irving Waltham, MA
Gessford, Dr. David W. E. Orleans, MA
Gredler, Charles R. Lexington, MA
Hall, M/M Dudley A. Sudbury, MA
Harrison, M/M Omer D. Fall River, MA
Hunnewell, Willard P. Wellesley, MA
Jessen, M/M Elliott M. Riverton, CT
Jorgensen, M/M Neil D. Harvard, MA
Kaiser, Dr. Alfred J. Hatfield, MA
Kroll, Dr./M Arthur M. Whitinsville, MA
Lawrence, M/M Falmouth, MA Cape Cod Nurseries
Lawson, M/M Frank B. Dedham, MA
Lees, Carlton B. Boston, MA Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Leonard, T. Richard Raynham, MA
Lucas, Homer C. Weston, MA
MacKinnon, M/M George S. Waquoit, MA
Marvin, Donald K. Mattapoisett, MA
McIntosh,, M/M Acton, MA
Mezitt, M/M Edmund V. Hopkinton, MA Weston Nurseries Inc
Pac, Frank Westfield, MA Stanley Park
Paszek, Edward Falmouth, MA
Peebles, Mrs. Crockett Buzzards Bay, MA
Routley, Prof. Douglas G. Durham, NH Dept. Plant Science University of NH
Sawicki, Robert L. Hatfield, MA
Schumacher, M/M F. W. Sandwich, MA
Shaw, Jonathan A. Newton, MA
Stone, M/M Foster B. Auburn, MA
Trommer, Chas. R. Rehoboth, MA Tranquil Lake Nursery
Tucker, Richard Hatchville, MA
Vickers, M/M Lloyd L. Keene, NH
Wiedman, Dr. Michael Malden, MA
Wing, T.H. Buzzards Bay, MA
The above is based on records supplied by Omer Harrison.
Chapter Presidents
Susan and Doug Harding 2006-2008
George Silverman 2004-2006
Bill Sweeney 2002-2004
Susan Clark 2000-2002
Ian Donovan 1998-2000
Charles Patterson 1996-1998
Joe Parks 1994-1996
Marcia Mitchell 1992-1994
Henk Borsje 1990-1992
Anne Reisch 1988-1990
Leo Blanchette 1986-1988
Dorothy Swift 1984-1986
Bob Fox 1982-1984
Willard Hunnewell 1980-1982
Dick Brooks 1978-1980
Jonathan Shaw 1976-1978
Max Resnick 1974-1976
Jack Cowles 1973-1974
Louis Cook 1972-1973
Edmund Mezitt 1970-1972
Society Level Service
Barbara Gingras
Willard Hunnewell
Powell Huie
Tim Craig
Bob Fox
Dick Brooks
Sally Perkins
The Rosebay's Editors
Jonathan A. Shaw 1972
John J. Slavitz 1973
Noreen C. Slavitz & John J. Slavitz 1974-1977
Max L. Resnick 1977-1980
A. Richard Brooks 1981-1984
Richard W. Chaikin 1984-1988
Ian E. M. Donovan 1989-1990
James B. Phillips 1991-1998
James E. Marchand 1999-2001
Ian E. M. Donovan 2001-2003
Chapter Web History
Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England started fall of 1997.
Online Rosebay Journal started in 1999.
Online Species Study Booklet published in 2000.
Rosebay Blog started in 2006.
Your Portal to Rhododendrons in New England started fall 2007 which includes the following:
Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England
Your Rusty Gate to Rhododendrons in New England
Rosebay Blog
Rosebay Journal
Species Study Booklet
Calendar of Events with Directions and Weather
Web Albums
Databases
Document Library
Glossary
Search
RSS Feed
External Links
Store
Chapter Web Editors
Henk Borsje 1997
James Marchand 1999-2000
John and Sally Perkins 1997-Present
H: Saturday, December 15, 2007
Welcome: Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
The American Rhododendron Society Massachusetts Chapter welcomes your exploration of the genus Rhododendron. Our new Gateway to Rhododendron in New England is another step in our 35 plus year Chapter tradition of educating the public about this diverse genus and the use of rhododendrons in the New England garden.
Set back and enjoy the beauty of the many tours of New England gardens while being introduced to the many people who have contributed to the successful introduction of 1000 's of rhododendron cultivars suitable for growing in New England.
While Charles Dexter, Edmund Mezitt, Gus Mehlquist have been very instrumental in the development of rhododendrons capable of growing in our harsh cold New England climates, the combined contributions of New England hybridizers and growers such as Anthony Consoloni, Jack and Evvie Cowles, Mike Medeiros, Wayne Mezitt, Richard Jaynes, Dick Brooks, Elinor Clarke, Virginia Craig, Dorothy Swift, Linc Foster, Ed Cary, Leo Blanchette, Charles and C.J. Patterson, Jonathan Shaw, Jonathan Leonard, Peggy Lawson, Mossy Hall, Louis Cook, Ed Brown, Joe Parks, Ron Rabideau, Tony Knights, Ian Donovan, Henry and Barbara Wrightington, Dean Barber, Bob Stuart, Radcliffe Pike, John and Sally Perkins, George Hibben, Fred Knippel, Joe Bruso, Fred Thurber, and many others whose gardens are features on this site are also significant.
Public garden displays featuring these introductions include Elm Bank Display Garden, Heritage Plantation, Maudsley State Park, Arnold Arboretum, Kinney Azalea Garden, Garden in the Woods, Tower Hill Botanical Garden, Moore State Park, and Polly Hill Arboretum.
Our Chapter's Andy Patton Rhododendron Display Garden at Elm Bank is open to the public. Peter Littlefield, Betty Carlhian, and Joan Ferguson design and maintain the garden.
Our Chapter Journal and News Letter contain articles on rhododendron culture and chapter events. Jonathan A. Shaw, Noreen C. Slavitz & John J. Slavitz, Max L. Resnick, Richard Brooks, Richard W. Chaikin, Ian E. M. Donovan, James B. Phillips, James E. Marchand, and Susan Clark have been editors.
You too can contribute to our rich Chapter history by introducing Rhododendrons to your garden, learning why our Chapter members have introduced several thousand difference rhododendron hybrids and species to theirs, or by taking a stroll through our Chapter Display Garden at Elm Bank. Most of our Chapter activities are open to the public so check our Chapter schedule and join us in celebrating the plants, publications, and people.
Set back and enjoy the beauty of the many tours of New England gardens while being introduced to the many people who have contributed to the successful introduction of 1000 's of rhododendron cultivars suitable for growing in New England.
While Charles Dexter, Edmund Mezitt, Gus Mehlquist have been very instrumental in the development of rhododendrons capable of growing in our harsh cold New England climates, the combined contributions of New England hybridizers and growers such as Anthony Consoloni, Jack and Evvie Cowles, Mike Medeiros, Wayne Mezitt, Richard Jaynes, Dick Brooks, Elinor Clarke, Virginia Craig, Dorothy Swift, Linc Foster, Ed Cary, Leo Blanchette, Charles and C.J. Patterson, Jonathan Shaw, Jonathan Leonard, Peggy Lawson, Mossy Hall, Louis Cook, Ed Brown, Joe Parks, Ron Rabideau, Tony Knights, Ian Donovan, Henry and Barbara Wrightington, Dean Barber, Bob Stuart, Radcliffe Pike, John and Sally Perkins, George Hibben, Fred Knippel, Joe Bruso, Fred Thurber, and many others whose gardens are features on this site are also significant.
Public garden displays featuring these introductions include Elm Bank Display Garden, Heritage Plantation, Maudsley State Park, Arnold Arboretum, Kinney Azalea Garden, Garden in the Woods, Tower Hill Botanical Garden, Moore State Park, and Polly Hill Arboretum.
Our Chapter's Andy Patton Rhododendron Display Garden at Elm Bank is open to the public. Peter Littlefield, Betty Carlhian, and Joan Ferguson design and maintain the garden.
Our Chapter Journal and News Letter contain articles on rhododendron culture and chapter events. Jonathan A. Shaw, Noreen C. Slavitz & John J. Slavitz, Max L. Resnick, Richard Brooks, Richard W. Chaikin, Ian E. M. Donovan, James B. Phillips, James E. Marchand, and Susan Clark have been editors.
You too can contribute to our rich Chapter history by introducing Rhododendrons to your garden, learning why our Chapter members have introduced several thousand difference rhododendron hybrids and species to theirs, or by taking a stroll through our Chapter Display Garden at Elm Bank. Most of our Chapter activities are open to the public so check our Chapter schedule and join us in celebrating the plants, publications, and people.
H: Friday, December 14, 2007
Labels added to Rosebay Blog
The posts in the Rosebay Blog are now being labeled into groups such as Help, MeetingChapter, MeetingBoard, Honor, and Sad.
At the bottom of a post there may be an associated label. Clicking on this label will display the other posts having that same label.
Note: Labels are not added to all posts, most posts have a single label, and new posts may well not be labeled for several months. Thus, using the Rosebay Blog search box is still the best way to find all messages containing a specific word or phrase.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
H: Thursday, December 13, 2007
Sad News: Brith Smith
Sad news to report. Brith Smith passed away on Friday night. He had gone into a coma several days prior and died quietly. That's a big loss for our rhododendron community.
Don Smart
Don Smart
Image Resize and Connection Speed
The Gateway supports the resizing of images for those images stored on Picasa Web Album. The sizes supported are 32, 48, 64, 72, 144, 160, 200, 288, 320, 400, 512, 576, 640, 720, and 800. Each of the links below displays the same page but with a different size for the image.
So the number between the ss controls the image size while the number between the cc controls page "elements" are shown.
Useful values for cc are 1, 2, 3, 11.
So you control what you see and the size of the images by merely changing these in your browser address url.
The image is being resized on the server so a smaller image will indeed load faster than a bigger one. The 18 newer tours and the Gateway entry store images on Picasa Web Album.
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Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
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Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
H: Wednesday, December 12, 2007
ARS Virtual Board Meeting Dec 12, 2007
ARS Virtual Board Meeting Dec 12, 2007
Dear Board,
We have things to cover, but we are trying to spare you the travel time to Waltham, hence this email approach. Thank us by responding! This will give us more time in January to talk about the program for New England Grows!.
Pres. Report:
Laura Grant has been informed that the New England chapters have selected Sally Perkins to be the District 6 director and Barbara Gingras will be the alternate.
Newsletter deadline: Dec. 21, 2007
Program Committee met Monday, 12/09, and came up with a list of names. We have booked Tower Hill for Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008 for Founders' Day. We decided that we would not have a speaker for Members Night (note the change of title) in September, but present 4 different slide shows: one of our activities for everyone to see himself and friends; the Proven Performers List; New England hybridizers (see below); and art work from members (rhodies and more). We'll report more on program later.
Awards Committee: Why make this a surprise? If it is announced far enough ahead, then friends and family can plan on attending the brunch and see the award presented. Tell us what you think.
Regional Conference in 2010: Bruce Feller has asked for help in putting on the conference on Long Island. We will ask him what he has in mind from a chapter as far away as ours. As you know, we usually hosted one every ten years, and we have avoided doing it this time, so we may want to be supportive.
ROY: Only the two Susans seem to be concerned much about this. We have tried to incorporate ROY plants in our Proven Performers List (seems a natural fit) and we have found that their availability is still poor, so the efficacy of ROY is questionable. Therefore, we would like to see this raised at a National Board meeting by our District Director but still participate in the program. Here are the candidates: VOTE.
Elepidotes: Golfer, Janet Blair, Yaku Prince; Lepidotes: keiskei, Molly Fordham; Deciduous Azalea: Westson's Innocence; Evergreen Azalea: Wintergreen Proven Performers and Plants of Special Interest to Members (The Insiders' List)
As you have heard (endlessly) from us, many of the plants on our old Proven Performers List are not commercially available, generally speaking, so we have deleted them. A few new ones have been added, but overall, the new list is smaller than before. Unfortunately, some that had to go are still considered desirable plants, and we have always wanted to recommend good ones that only can be obtained through our propagation or possibly Van Veen. Coupling this with an interest in local hybridizing efforts and the wish to maintain our chapter's history, it has been proposed by several people that we create a separate list for members, not worrying about the plants' availability – we can grow them for ourselves if necessary. You can decide what to call this new list: Plants of Special Interest, The Insiders' List, ARS-MA in Bloom, whatever. It would combine the best of the now unavailable PPs from 2001, selected hybrids from crosses made by chapter members both old and new, and simply great plants that ought to be more widely grown (such as Abigail Adams, Joe). Creating this list will be the subject of the next Pres. Message and we hope chapter activity. If we are lucky, it may get a better reception than the PP update. We hope that the Seed Propagation Study Group will have some ideas. Anyway, you can read more about it the January newsletter. For now, here is the latest version of the 2007 PP List. We want this to be the last or at least second to last version so we can send it to National for new brochures that we can have for New England Grows, the N.E. Spring Flower Show, etc. Please say: I approve or I strongly feel we must exclude "x" for this reason. The asterisk shows the added ones.
So, please tell us your thoughts on the award surprise, the ROY, the PP List for 2008, and the Mass members list of plants. Thanks.
Susan and Doug
| NAME | Z /H | SIZE | COLOR | BLOOM | |||
| ELEPIDOTES Total 23 |
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| Boule de Neige | -15 | 5' | white | mid-May | |||
| Calsap | -25 | 4' | wh,burg bl | ML | |||
| *Capistrano | -15 | 4' | yellow | Mid | |||
| Catabiense Album | -15 | 8' | white | end May | |||
| Catawbiense Boursault | -15 | 8' | lavender | end May | |||
| Chionoides | -10 | 7' | white | end May | |||
| Crete | -15 | 4' | light purple | M-=ML | |||
| degronianum ssp. yakushi- | -10 | 5' | white | mid May | |||
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| Fantastica | -5 | 3' | rose | ML | |||
| Francesca | -15 | 8' | red | end May | |||
| Firestorm | -25 | 3' | red | M | |||
| Golfer | -15 | 18" | pink | EM | |||
| *Haaga | -30 | 5' | dark pink | M | |||
| Henry's Red | -20 | 6' | red | M | |||
| Janet Blair | -15 | 5 | pink | M-J | |||
| Ken Janeck | -10 | 3' | white | mid May | |||
| maximum (white & pink) | -25 | 19' | white(,p,r) | June | |||
| Nova Zembla | -25 | 8' | red | end May | |||
| Percy Wiseman | -15 | 3' | peach mix | mid May | |||
| Roseum Eleg (N/M f) | -15 | 8' | pink | end May | |||
| Scintillation SPA | -15 | 6' | pink | end May | |||
| *Vulcan's Flame | -15 | 5' | red | ML | |||
| Yaku Prince | -10 | 3' | white | mid May | |||
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| LEPIDOTE Total 16 |
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| April White | -25 | 3' | white | E-EM | |||
| Dora Amateis | -10 | 4' | white | Early M | |||
| Ginny Gee SPA | 0 | 2' | pink/wh | EM | |||
| keiskei | -5 | 2' | yellow | EM | |||
| *Landmark | -10 | 5' | dark pink | EM | |||
| Manitou | -25 | 3' | pink | EM | |||
| Mary Fleming | -15 | 3' | multi y/p | EM | |||
| minus Carolin. | Z5 | 5' | pink | end May | |||
| Molly Fordham | Z5 | 5' | white | Early M | |||
| mucronulatum | Z5 | 8' | lavender | April | |||
| Olga Mezitt | -25 | 8' | pink, frag f | EM | |||
| PJM | Z4 | 8' | purple | A-May | |||
| *Purple Gem | -15 | 3' | purple | EM | |||
| Weston's Aglo | Z4 | 7' | pink | early M | |||
| Weston's Pink Diamond | Z5 | 8' | pink | April | |||
| *Windbeam (ROY) | -25 | 4' | pink | EM | |||
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| DECIDUOUS AZALEAS Total 19 |
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| Jane Abbott & hybrids | Z4 | 6' | pink | mid May |
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| arborescens | -15 | 5' | white | Ml-L |
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| calendulaceum | Z5 | 6' | orange | M-J |
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| cumberlandense | Z5 | 4' | orange | Ear. June |
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| *Gibraltar (ROY) | -10 | 5' | orange | M |
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| Homebush | Z5 | 6' | pink | early M |
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| *Klondike | -20 | 5' | yellow/orange | M |
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| *Millenium | -20 | 6' | red | mid July |
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| Northern Lights (series) | Z4 | 5' | yellow | mid May |
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| Pink and Sweet | Z4 | 6' | pink | late June |
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| prunifolium | Z3 | 8' | orange | July |
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| schlippenbachii | Z5 | 6' | pink | A-May |
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| vaseyi | Z4 | 8' | pink | A-May |
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| viscosum | Z4 | 8' | white | J-July |
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| Weston's Innocence | Z4 | 6' | white | late June |
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| Weston's Lemon Drop | Z3 | 6' | yellow | July |
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| Weston's Lollipop | Z4 | 5' | pink | mid June |
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| Weston's Parade | Z4 | 6' | pink | ear. June |
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| Weston's Sparkler | Z4 | 6' | pink | July |
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| EVERGREEN AZALEAS Total 14 |
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| Bixby | Z5 | 4' | red | end May |
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| Delaware Valley White | Z4 | 4' | white | mid May |
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| Helen Curtis | Z6 | 3' | white | mid May |
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| Herbert | Z5 | 4' | purple | mid May |
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| Hino Crimson | Z6 | 4' | red | mid May |
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| kiusianum | Z5 | 3' | purple,wh | end May |
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| *Madame Butterfly (ROY) | Z5 | 3' | white/lav fl | ML |
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| Michael Hill | Z6 | gr co | pink | late June |
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| Palestrina | -20 | 2-3' | white | EM |
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| Rosebud (Jane Henny) | -10 | 6' | pink | ML |
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| Stewartsonian | Z6 | 5' | red | mid May |
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| *Tradition | -10 | 4' | pink double | May |
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| yedoense var. poukhanense | Z5 | 4' | light purple | mid May |
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| Wintergreen | -15 | 12" | red | late June |
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