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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