Chapter Meetings are open to the public
Thursday of the month
and are held on the first
at the SMILE Station
8210 SE 13th Ave.
Portland, OR 97202.
and the meeting begins at 7:30 pm.
Social time starts at 7:00 pm
*Meetings are also available simultaneously on Zoom.
Each meeting features an illustrated lecture or other plant-related event such as a non-competitive show, along with socializing, refreshments, and plenty of door prizes. Choice and unusual plants are sometimes available for purchase.
UPCOMING MEETING DATES AND SPEAKERS
November 7, 2024
Rock Garden Highlights at Leach Botanical Garden
Drawing inspiration from Lilla and John Leach’s love of botanizing in the Siskiyou Mountains, the Rock Garden at Leach Botanical Garden features plants connected to their trips as well as alpine and desert species and has continued to expand in the decades since its initial construction. Join gardener Sam Mularz as he delves into highlights of the Rock Garden collection throughout the seasons, discusses maintenance practices and challenges, and outlines current projects and plans for the future.
Sam Mularz is the primary caretaker of the Rock Garden and Riparian Zone at Leach Botanical Garden. He began his career in botany working public land stewardship positions around the Pacific Northwest. While moving up and down the Cascades, he spent summers backpacking and developing a passion for native alpine and subalpine plants. Since joining Leach in 2022, Sam has enjoyed applying his passion for these species to tending the rock garden there.
December 5, 2024
Members’ Night
Our December meeting has traditionally been Members’ Night. This is your opportunity to entertain your fellow members! Bring up to a couple dozen digital images from your travels and gardening during the past year to share with us. You may also bring traditional photographs to display. The more members who participate, the more interesting the program! We welcome all photos that are interesting and you don’t have to be a great photographer to entertain us.
This will be an in-person and Zoom meeting. If you attend in-person, please bring your images on a thumb drive (no CD or DVD). If you participate by Zoom and want to show pictures, you must be familiar with how to use the Share Screen feature. Tutorials will not be done during the meeting, but you may contact Dave Dobak to schedule a tutorial and rehearsal during the days before the meeting (but not the day of the meeting, please).
Keep in mind that your images will be shown in file name order (alphanumeric e.g. a1 – a9, b1 – b9 etc.). This is the order in which the files are listed in Windows Explorer or the Mac Finder when Sort by Name is selected.
JPG/JPEG or PNG images, Power Point presentations, or PDF documents can be accommodated; if you have other software needs, contact Dave Dobak. If you wish to use your own computer, you will be connecting through Zoom even though you are present in the room; rehearsal is highly recommended.
We have recently discovered Apple’s new image format, HEIF or HEIC. If all your devices are Apple, you might not notice this change. But the rest of the world has not implemented software for dealing with this format. So any images you bring must be converted to JPG/JPEG or PNG or PDF format, or embedded in a PowerPoint file. A search for “convert heic to jpg” will lead to several free on-line converters; or consult https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/hub/how-to-convert-heic-to-jpg-on-a-mac.html . (This is a new endeavor for us, so result quality cannot be guaranteed.)
We do not have equipment for projecting 2×2 transparencies.
Questions? Contact Dave Dobak.
503-652-3003 or davedobak@gmail.com