Meeting:
October 12, 2006
Guest Presenter:
Sean B. Hogan
Topic:
Douglas Fir and its Associates: Plant Adventures at Moderate to High Elevation in Mexico
Sean B. Hogan started in the nursery industry at the age of three, rooting boxwood cuttings and succulents in the sandbox of his Portland, Oregon boyhood home. His family later moved to Sacramento where he pursued his education at American River College and Sacramento State in the areas of horticulture and botany. Early work included mapping rare and endangered plants, mostly Cactaceae and Portulacaceae, for the State of California as well as landscape and design work, often revolving around his love of western natives.
From the mid-’80s to the mid-’90s, Hogan served as the curator of the South African, New Zealand, Australian, New World Desert and the California Native Cultivar Gardens of the University of California, Berkeley, Botanic Garden. In 1995, he and his partner, University of California Davis Arboretum Botanist Parker Sanderson, returned to Hogan’s native Portland to start a design and consultation firm specializing in regionally appropriate plants for the Pacific Northwest. This work eventually evolved into their opening of Cistus Nursery, located on Sauvie Island in the Columbia River outside Portland, widely held to be among best of the west coast retail-micronurseries.
Hogan has lectured extensively in North American and Europe, often about his explorations of South America, South Africa and the western regions of the United States and northern Mexico. His writing and photos can be found in an extremely wide range of horticultural and botanical literature and magazines. He edited the 20,000 plus entry Flora, published by Timber Press in October 2003 and has just finished work on the first half of his two-volume book on Broadleaved Evergreen Trees, Shrubs and Climbers, due to be published by Timber Press in 2007.
Sean’s talk will focus on the unusual plants found in Mexico’s Sierra Madre system where one may find dogwoods, pines, and oaks on one slope and agaves and cacti on another.
Download Sean’s Resume (PDF) for more info.
Location: Friendship Auditorium, 3201 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Click here for a map to Friendship Auditorium.
The Plant Raffle will be provided by Sean Hogan from his nursery (Cistus).
Book of the Month
October’s selection is hot off the presses:
Subtropical and Dry Climate Plants: The Definitive Practical Guide by Martyn Rix (Timber Press, 2006).
This 256-page hardcover contains 750 color photographs and offers selection, design and cultural advice for a wide range of flora from California, Florida, Australasia, South America, South Africa and Turkey.
The A-Z dictionary profiles more than 1000 plants; helpful lists are included. Martyn Rix is a plant collector, photographer and garden designer who coauthored many wonderful books with Roger Phillips.
Rix currently works at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Wisley, where he is editor of Curtis’ Botanical Magazine.
SCHS Member Price: $33.00 (tax included). Cover/non-member Price: $44.95 (plus tax). A limited number of books will be ordered. To reserve your copy, e-mail Lili Singer.
Upcoming Meetings – mark your Calendar now! Meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month, unless noted otherwise.
November 9, 2006
Nevin Smith, author and director of Suncrest Nursery in Watsonville, will discuss “California Native Plants from the Wild.”
December 14 , 2006
Annual Member’s Night (aka Cookie Night) and Plant Exchange. Please bring up to ten plants to “swap.”
January 11, 2007
Spotlight on Roses
This special program will open with a talk on new varieties by celebrated rose hybridizer Tom Carruth. Next, a team of rose experts will answer your questions. Panelists include: Carruth; Jacob Maarse; renowned rose breeder Keith Zary of Jackson & Perkins Roses; and horticulturist, garden designer and all-organic rose aficionado Steve Gerischer.
Each attendee receives a free AARS-winning bare-root rose, courtesy of All American Rose Selections. This meeting (with bare-root rose!) is free to SCHS members. Non-members admission is $25 – and includes a rose, plus an introductory six-month SCHS membership with all benefits (our newsletter, two issues of Pacific Horticulture and more). Save the date and help your Society grow!