Winter Social & Annual Members Photos, Gardens, and Garden Tours Choose the six best photos from this year’s blossoms, your garden or gardens you have visited.  We must limit the number of photos from each person to allow for all to contribute.  The meeting will be followed by our winter social.  Please bring nibblies to...Read more >

Roslyn Duffus,   “Interesting Plants” Come  and join us for a presentation by Roslyn Duffus of photos of her most rare and unusual plants.  Roslyn Duffus, President  of the Nova Scotia Rock Garden Club,  is a long  time ARHS member. Join us at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History or by Zoom.  The Zoom link...Read more >

Native Azaleas, Tara Spears, Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens Tara Spears is the Curatorial Assistant at Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens and works closely with their Nationally Accredited Rhododendron Collections. She is also a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania where she studies Environmental Science, and is conducting research with Rhododendron smokianum, a newly described species of Rhododendron...Read more >

Namaqualand Superbloom A few times each century the  wild flowers of Namaqualand South Africa, experience a “SuperBloom.”  Our ARHS rhodo gardener and landscape photographer Freeman Patterson received a phone call in June 2023 that it had been a wet winter in Namaqualand and a SuperBloom was immanent.  A few weeks later he was on a...Read more >