THE HORT REPORT is our beautiful member newsletter, published three times a year, with interesting articles about our coming events, plants, and all things horticultural.

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January 2020

Featuring:

• Screening of “Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf”
• Spring Lecture Series
• Alert: Spotted Lantern Fly
• Plant Profile: New York Ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis)
• Winter Seminar: Perennially Inspired! Information
• Tribute to a Horticultural Giant: Jack Lowry
• Volunteer Profile: Nancy Grabowski

September 2019

Featuring:

• 50th Anniversary Celebration snapshots
• Fall Lecture Series
• Plant Profile: Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
• 1969 to 2019: History Highlights Timeline
• Annual Garden Tour wrap-up
• Volunteer Profile: Pat Cieslak

May 2019

Featuring:

• Nancy Boyd Long, Founder
• Volunteer Profile: Nancy Blois
• Cedarcroft Farmhouse & Garden Tour information
• Winter Seminar snapshots
• Sidney Silber Scholarship winner: Chelsea West
• Plant Profile: Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
• January Plant Forum snapshots

January 2019

Featuring:

• Beautiful Bark
• Lending Library
• Spring Lecture Series
• Plant Profile: Hellebores (Helleborous) 
• Vollmer Center Garden Update
• Winter Seminar: Perennially Inspired! information
• Smithsonian Gardens Trip

September 2018

Featuring:

• Community Gardens

• Fall Lecture Series

• Plant Profile: American Hornbeam & Hop Hornbeam

• Delaware Botanic Garden Trip wrap up

• Garden Tour snapshots

• Anthony Venable, Cylburn Intern & Kate Blom, retirement

• New HSM Board Officers

May 2018

Featuring:

• Annual Garden Tour: Baltimore County

• Volunteer Thank You, Helene Clapperton

• Plant Profile: Smoke Tree (Cotinus coggygria)           

• Babikow: American Growers Since 1875

• Plant Forum & Winter Workshop snapshots

• Sidney Silber Scholarship winner: Lauren Makowiecki

• Delaware Botanic Garden Trip information

January 2018

Featuring:

• Great Dixter’s Fergus Garrett & Special Event information

• Spring Lecture Series

• Plant Profile: Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)       

• New Landscape Plant Identification Manual

• Winter Seminar: Perennially Inspired! information

• HSM In the Community

• Foreign Garden Trips: Japan, England & Italy

September 2017

Featuring:

• Quest for Herbal Perfection

• Fall Lecture Series

• Plant Profile: Blanket Flower (Gaillardia x grandiflora)       

• New American Landscape Institute

• Jean Reese Worthley, A Remembrance

• Garden Tour snapshots

• England Tour snapshots

May 2017

Featuring:

• Annual Garden Tour: Annapolis

• Plant Profile: Fragrant Sumac (Rhus aromatic)           

• The Living Soil

• The Perennial Farm: Growing with the Times

• Winter Seminar snapshots

January 2017

Featuring:

• Winter Seminar: Perennially Inspired!

• Spring Lecture Series

• Plant Profile: Indian Pink (Spigelia marilandica)        

• An Interview with Leigh Barnes

• Talking Tomatoes: with Craig LeHoullier & workshop information

• New American Garden Exhibit at the Vollmer Center

• Book Awards: On Walnut Hill 

September 2016

Featuring:

• Vollmer Garden Update

• Fall Lecture Series

• Plant Profile: New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus)    

• Bill Kuhl, For the Love of Hollies

• Garden Tour snapshots

• 100th Birthday Party for Pauline Vollmer

• HSM in the Community

May 2016

Featuring:

• Annual Garden Tour: Roland Park, Guilford & Tuscany-Canterbury

• Plant Profile: Lilac Daphne (Daphne genkwa)            

• Flora for Birds and Bees: Making Way for ‘Wildlife Corridors’

• Henry J. Hohman: Maryland’s Master Nurseryman

• Winter Seminar snapshots

January 2016

Featuring:

• Winter Seminar: Perennially Inspired!

• Spring Lecture Series

• Plant Profile: Sweetshrub (Calycanthus fluoridus)     

• I Say Aster, You Say Symphyotichum: DNA and new plant names

• An Interview with Max Bloom

• Silber Garden Fundraising Plant Sale

• New American Garden Exhibit in D.C.

September 2015

Featuring:

• Koinonia: A Story of Peace, Love and Herbs

• Fall Lecture Series

• Plant Profile: Plum-tart Iris (Iris graminea)          

• Garden Tour and France Trip snapshots

• On Walnut Hill: The Evolution of a Garden          

• Tashiding Fundraiser snapshots

• HSM In the Community

May 2015

Featuring:

• Annual Garden Tour: Monkton & Jarrettsville

• Tashiding Garden & Fundraising event

• Plant Profile: Two Chokeberries (Aronia)        

• Dr. Norman Highstein, A Remembrance

• Winter Seminar snapshots

• National PPA Symposium in Baltimore

• HSM supports: Rawlings Conservatory & Great Kids Farm

• Q&A: Soil Compaction

January 2015

Featuring:

• Winter Seminar: Perennially Inspired!

• Spring Lecture Series

• Plant Profile: Tillandsia         

• Pauline Vollmer: Gardener, Educator, Benefactor

• Vollmer Garden Dedication

• Public Gardens in Region, part 2