News

**NEWSFLASH - SAVE THE DATE!**
We have been invited to PNWLS member Bruce Wakefield's spectacular garden for a summer Lily event and picnic. The date is Saturday July 12, 2008. Full details to follow soon. You don't want to miss seeing this garden! UPDATE: We are invited to Germantown Gardens between 11:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 12th, 2008. Our gracious hosts will provide lunch and the Society will provide beverages; members are asked to bring a favorite dessert. Please RSVP as per instructions on the event notice that was recently mailed to our members, which also includes detailed driving directions. See you there!

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT - GARDENING
EXPO AT THE OREGON COAST!**

I have copied this news release in its entirety - sounds like a great time! Please note: Jim Myers, the event coordinator, would like to be contacted if any PNWLS members would be available to staff a booth at this show - we could bring our own materials and sell anything we would like. If interested, Jim's e-mail is below.

Oregon Coast Gardening & Landscaping
Expo Comes To Newport June 28th

A major new gardening & landscaping exposition is coming to the beautiful seaside resort of Newport, Oregon this June! The Oregon Coast Gardening & Landscaping Expo is scheduled for Saturday, June 28th from 9:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. at Newport Middle School overlooking the town and the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean.

The Expo, presented by Umpqua Bank and the Oregon State Federation of Garden Clubs and sponsored by Heirloom Roses, Monrovia Growers, Avison Rock Quarry, Fry Road Nursery of Albany, Fox Farm Soils & Fertilizers and Windermere Real Estate will present twelve seminars featuring some of the leading garden and landscape experts from around the Northwest.

The speaker lineup features:
Karen Brown – 1st Vice President Oregon State Federation of Garden Clubs "Landscaping in the Coastal Climate"
Ron Monnier, Monnier's Country Gardens
“Fabulous Fuchsias in Your Coastal Garden”
Kristin VanHoose - Hydrangeas Plus
Hydrangeas: Species and Cultivars”
Chris Williams – Heirloom Roses
“Coast N’ Roses”
Ella May Wulff - Oregon Heather Society
“Heathers for the Oregon Coast Garden”
Jed White – Pacific Water Gardens
“Pond Construction 101: Yes you can build a water garden!”
Jed White – Pacific Water Gardens
“Aquatic Plants that are perfect for your Water Garden”
Rose Marie Nichols McGee - Nichols Garden Nursery
"Growing Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits and Edible Flowers In Containers and Small Space Gardens"
Lucy Hardiman - Perennial Partners
“Creating Intimate Gardens”
Kym Pokorny – The Oregonian
“Going Green in the Garden: An Easy Approach to Transitioning to Organic Gardening”
Mike Bones - American Rhododendron Society
“Rhododendrons for All Gardens”
Bill Warner – Sturdi-Built Greenhouse Manufacturing
“Designing, Building, and Equipping the Home Greenhouse”

Also featured will be over 50 commercial and non-commercial vendors selling a huge variety of plants and trees for your yard and garden at fabulous prices. Plus there will be a wide array of garden art created by Northwest artisans, landscaping supplies & services and even garden furniture.

Admission to the Expo is only $3.00 per person and includes all the seminars! A special barbecue lunch will be provided (separate ticket) plus fabulous prizes to be given away including plants! There will even be a “Plant-Check Room” that will be available to store your purchases until you are ready to leave.

We are pleased to announce that a certain percentage of vendor spaces are available at no-charge to non-profit garden clubs and societies to use as they see fit. Clubs may sell plants or other items to raise funds and awareness for their organization. These are going fast so if your group would like to participate in the Expo contact Jim Myers ASAP (see contact information below).

You are also invited to stay over on Sunday to enjoy the incredible 5th annual Central Coast Secret Garden Tour of nine fabulous private gardens in Newport. This self-guided Tour, whose theme is Gardens & Goodies, features wonderful food from area eateries, live music and even wine and beer tasting! Tickets are only $15 and can be reserved by contacting Jim Myers. This Secret Garden Tour is a sell-out every year, so reserve early. Tickets can be picked-up at the Expo’s information booth on Saturday. All proceeds from this two-day gardening spectacular benefit Samaritan House, Lincoln County’s family homeless shelter.

The Hallmark Resort 888-448-4449 and Shilo Inn Oceanfront Resort 800-222-2244 in Newport are offering special Expo rates! Please ask for the “Oregon Coast Gardening Expo rate” when making a reservation. These special rates are good for Friday, June 27th and Saturday, June 28th only.

Come to the ocean for a wonderful summer “garden” weekend at the Oregon Coast Gardening & Landscaping Expo and the 5th annual Central Coast Secret Garden Tour!

For Expo information & Secret Garden Tour reservations contact Jim Myers at beachbum55@charter.net or call 541-270-0892.

We hope you will pass this information along to your organization’s members. We also have Expo brochures and Tour information flyers we can mail to you.

See you at the beach this June 28th & 29th!

time! Please note: Jim Myers, the event coordinator, would like to be contacted if any PNWLS members would be available to staff a booth at this show - we could bring our own materials and sell anything we would like. If interested, Jim's e-mail is below.

Oregon Coast Gardening & Landscaping
Expo Comes To Newport June 28th

A major new gardening & landscaping exposition is coming to the beautiful seaside resort of Newport, Oregon this June! The Oregon Coast Gardening & Landscaping Expo is scheduled for Saturday, June 28th from 9:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. at Newport Middle School overlooking the town and the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean.

The Expo, presented by Umpqua Bank and the Oregon State Federation of Garden Clubs and sponsored by Heirloom Roses, Monrovia Growers, Avison Rock Quarry, Fry Road Nursery of Albany, Fox Farm Soils & Fertilizers and Windermere Real Estate will present twelve seminars featuring some of the leading garden and landscape experts from around the Northwest.

The speaker lineup features:
Karen Brown – 1st Vice President Oregon State Federation of Garden Clubs "Landscaping in the Coastal Climate"
Ron Monnier, Monnier's Country Gardens
“Fabulous Fuchsias in Your Coastal Garden”
Kristin VanHoose - Hydrangeas Plus
Hydrangeas: Species and Cultivars”
Chris Williams – Heirloom Roses
“Coast N’ Roses”
Ella May Wulff - Oregon Heather Society
“Heathers for the Oregon Coast Garden”
Jed White – Pacific Water Gardens
“Pond Construction 101: Yes you can build a water garden!”
Jed White – Pacific Water Gardens
“Aquatic Plants that are perfect for your Water Garden”
Rose Marie Nichols McGee - Nichols Garden Nursery
"Growing Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits and Edible Flowers In Containers and Small Space Gardens"
Lucy Hardiman - Perennial Partners
“Creating Intimate Gardens”
Kym Pokorny – The Oregonian
“Going Green in the Garden: An Easy Approach to Transitioning to Organic Gardening”
Mike Bones - American Rhododendron Society
“Rhododendrons for All Gardens”
Bill Warner – Sturdi-Built Greenhouse Manufacturing
“Designing, Building, and Equipping the Home Greenhouse”

Also featured will be over 50 commercial and non-commercial vendors selling a huge variety of plants and trees for your yard and garden at fabulous prices. Plus there will be a wide array of garden art created by Northwest artisans, landscaping supplies & services and even garden furniture.

Admission to the Expo is only $3.00 per person and includes all the seminars! A special barbecue lunch will be provided (separate ticket) plus fabulous prizes to be given away including plants! There will even be a “Plant-Check Room” that will be available to store your purchases until you are ready to leave.

We are pleased to announce that a certain percentage of vendor spaces are available at no-charge to non-profit garden clubs and societies to use as they see fit. Clubs may sell plants or other items to raise funds and awareness for their organization. These are going fast so if your group would like to participate in the Expo contact Jim Myers ASAP (see contact information below).

You are also invited to stay over on Sunday to enjoy the incredible 5th annual Central Coast Secret Garden Tour of nine fabulous private gardens in Newport. This self-guided Tour, whose theme is Gardens & Goodies, features wonderful food from area eateries, live music and even wine and beer tasting! Tickets are only $15 and can be reserved by contacting Jim Myers. This Secret Garden Tour is a sell-out every year, so reserve early. Tickets can be picked-up at the Expo’s information booth on Saturday. All proceeds from this two-day gardening spectacular benefit Samaritan House, Lincoln County’s family homeless shelter.

The Hallmark Resort 888-448-4449 and Shilo Inn Oceanfront Resort 800-222-2244 in Newport are offering special Expo rates! Please ask for the “Oregon Coast Gardening Expo rate” when making a reservation. These special rates are good for Friday, June 27th and Saturday, June 28th only.

Come to the ocean for a wonderful summer “garden” weekend at the Oregon Coast Gardening & Landscaping Expo and the 5th annual Central Coast Secret Garden Tour!

For Expo information & Secret Garden Tour reservations contact Jim Myers at beachbum55@charter.net or call 541-270-0892.

We hope you will pass this information along to your organization’s members. We also have Expo brochures and Tour information flyers we can mail to you.

See you at the beach this June 28th & 29th!

**ANNOUNCEMENT - PNWLS SPRING MEETING & BULB SALE**

Our Spring business meeting and members-only bulb sale will be held on Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. - the location is Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon. The room number is 1710 on the lower level near Parking Lot "Z." Most members should already have their bulb sale notice - Order deadline is Wed. March 12!

Our speaker will be a familar and friendly face -Dr. Dave Adams, longtime Oregon agricultural extension agent and now retired, will share his expertise with a talk on the topic "Match Your Media To The Situation: Gardens Or Containers." He is a world-class expert on soils, so bring your questions along with your goodies!

**WE HAVE ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT - from Jerry and Madeleine Robertson -PLEASE READ!

Madeleine and Jerry Robertson have decided
this will be their last bulb sale. They have been at it for almost ten years and feel it is time for others to take over the job. We are asking for volunteers. Pam Johnston has agreed to be the contact person: please e-mail her at pamelaj@spiritone.com if you would like to be involved, or if you have suggestions, or both.
We are interested in ideas about better ways for
PNWLS to run its bulb sale. Just because we have always done them in the current fashion does not mean the system cannot be improved, or changed completely. You can share your thoughts with Pam.
Thank you,

Madeleine and Jerry Robertson
Pamela Johnston

**NEWS UPDATE - NALS 2008 SHOW***

For those who wish to attend the 2008 NALS International Lily Conference and Show in Victoria B.C. Canada, everything you will need to know is on the NALS 2008 Web Site.

Now another special announcement has been made - here it is in Jill Britton's own words:

The Species Lily Preservation Group (SLPG) is planning a “lily chase” in Southern Oregon and Northern California immediately following the Victoria NALS Conference. It will be led by Wayne Hoffman (a speaker at the conference) and Barbara Small. Click on the SLPG tour button in http://nals2008.org for more information. The SLPG tour web page includes a map and photos from the “chase” Walter and I took with Wayne Hoffman a few years ago. By the way, the two of us are joining this one, we had so much fun the last time. Note that SLPG members will have priority over anyone else ... but you can always join the SLPG. Please notify Barbara Small before March 1, 2008 if you want to come along. Contact information is at the bottom of the SLPG tour page.

Brian Bergman of Ontario, Canada has already registered for the conference. He brought over 100 stems to Edmonton. Yikes!

A link to bed-and-breakfast accommodation has been added to the Accommodation link and the Friday Auction (a First Nations wild salmon BBQ) now includes a closeup of the totem pole at the venue and some background First Nations flute music. Trivial additions to be sure, but Walter and I went slightly batty getting that flute music to play.

Jill Britton

**PUBLICATION ALERT**

For those of you who are interested the next RHS Lily Register will be publushed in January 2008, per correspondence received from Mr. Simon Maughan, Assistant Publisher of the RHS. Lower pricing applies to those who purchase the Register by December 31, but Mr. Maughan indicated that this pricing can be extended to January 15 for latecomers. Please follow this link to access information on RHS publications:

http://shop.wisley.co.uk/products.php?product=RHS_TITLES_RHS_REGISTERS&sel_page=2

***NEWS UPDATE***

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of PNWLS member Bill Hoffman at the age of 87 on November 26, 2007. Bill was a charter member of the Society and a stalwart supporter of our club activities, along with his wife Mary. Together they ran our bulb sale for many years, helped organize our shows, and were pillars of the organization in more ways than anyone could count. He will be greatly missed. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Mary Hoffman and their children - son Wayne Hoffman and daughters Margaret Ceniceros, Sylvia Hoffman and Diana Hoffman Milia. He also leaves a brother, Richard Hoffman. Remembrances may be sent to the Clackamas County Library.

Although he was an indispensable part of the Lily Society, Bill had a special place in his heart for the Iris, and was also a master photographer and avid birder. He was a member of the Audubon Society, Hardy Plant Society and Rock Garden Society. Visitors to the Hoffman house saw the clear evidence of a true bibliophile, as their home was always filled with books on many subjects, including many on gardening and birds. Their own garden is a wonder filled with special treasures. Bill’s quiet and occasionally gruff exterior concealed a keen intelligence, a deep generosity and a willingness to share his knowledge and experience with others. Our Society will not be the same without him.

***WINTER MEETING ALERT***

Our Winter 2007 meeting will be at Oregon Flowers in Aurora, Oregon on Saturday, December 8th at 1:30 p.m. Full details will be in the Fall bulletin, which has already been mailed out. As they do each year, Martin and Helene Meskers have graciously invited us to their beautiful facility for a tour and holiday gathering of Lily friends and guests. We hope you will join us!

For any of you who have not been to Oregon Flowers before, here is a link to their Web site - take a look, it will make you eager to attend!

http://www.oregonflowers.com/

*EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PREVIEW OF NALS CD!*

Our own Kathleen Mingl has released a preview copy of the new NALS Popularity Poll and Hall of Fame lily CD. Representative pictures of many popular lilies have been collected from the many people who contributed to this project. I have put up a link to the Introduction at the top of this page. It is a gorgeous collection, so go take a look at the Picture Gallery, where some of the images will be posted soon.

Thank you, Kathleen!