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URL:https://akrockgardensociety.org/events/bonus-zoom-program/
SUMMARY:BONUS Zoom Program
DESCRIPTION:NARGS Traveling Speaker Esther Benedict\n\nProgram On Propagati
 on\n\nHosted by The Columbia-Willamette Chapter of NARGS\n\nAlaska members
  check your email for the zoom link\n\nEsther Bio: I live on a small farm 
 in northern Indiana with my husband\, Robert. I am a self taught gardener\
 , gleaning information from books\, magazines\, trial and error\, and many
 \nwonderful people who are willing to share their knowledge. Robert and I 
 enjoy seeing\nplants in their natural habitat\, and visiting botanical gar
 dens\, nurseries\, and private\ngardens. We belong to the Great Lakes Chap
 ter of NARGS.\n\nI grew up with gardening. Every year\, my mom would let e
 ach child pick something\nexotic or fun from the seed catalog. I can remem
 ber vegetable spaghetti\, peanuts\, Indian\ncorn\, gourds\, cotton\, cacti
 \, and giant watermelons. Rock gardening came much later\, after\nmarriage
  and buying a property. While raising a family\, the gardening was centere
 d\naround veggies and annuals\, but then I started branching out into seed
  starting and\nperennials. I saw a brief article in a gardening magazine a
 bout rock gardening and one of\nthe sources mentioned was Trenoll Nursery 
 near Trenton\, Ohio. We visited there and I\nwas introduced to alpines by 
 the owner\, Dorothy Parker. I made a sizable purchase and\,\nas we were le
 aving\, Dorothy stuffed a grocery bag in my arms. It was half full of\nNAR
 GS quarterlies\, each full of pictures of incredible plants that I never d
 reamed\nexisted... I was hooked!\nI enjoy seed starting and propagating an
 d found out I could not only support my hobby\nbut also expand it by turni
 ng it into a business. Sometimes it is a fine line between the\ntwo.
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