The Garden Club’s featured speaker will be Maurice Horn, co-owner of Joy Creek Nursery, a specialty nursery in Scappoose, Ore., featuring a wide variety of ornamental plants including clematis and hydrangeas.
The talk is on Wednesday, May 16 at 10 a.m. in the Madrona Room of Orcas Center. It will be the last regularly scheduled meeting until September. For further information go to www.orcasislandgardenclub.org.
Horn has lectured widely throughout the United States on a variety of garden related topics. His written contributions can be found in such publications as Horticulture, Pacific Horticulture, The International Clematis Society Journal, The British Clematis Society Journal and An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Clematis.
Clematis have experienced a resurgence in popularity worldwide during the last decade. It is important to look back at the legacy of plant explorers and hybridizers to appreciate how their popularity arose. This backward glance also helps us to understand more fully the reasons behind the various pruning techniques, planting methods and care that are part of the lore of clematis.
“This is a loving, humorous and, hopefully, inspiring look at a plant whose time has come again,” say organizers.
