Monthly Meeting
Holiday Gathering Our annual end-of-year gathering including a fabulous pitch-in buffet of members favorite foods, annual awards, and, of course, Hosto.
Holiday Gathering Our annual end-of-year gathering including a fabulous pitch-in buffet of members favorite foods, annual awards, and, of course, Hosto.
Coffee and Long’s Donuts Spring is nigh! Before long we will be out watching our hostas poking their little eyes up to greet the sun. While we’re waiting, come socialize with us and enjoy morning coffee and Long’s donuts.A special February meeting to get together and go over upcoming events for 2025. Once again join
Tool-Up for Gardening: Top 10 Garden Tools with Steve Cline Steve is a Marion County Advanced Master Gardener from the class of 2015. Retired in 2014 after 51 years as a Registered Pharmacist in retail Pharmacy. He is married and has 5 children which have blessed him with 16 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. He currently
Hosta College officially begins at 6:00 pm on Friday with hosta and gardening vendors, an auction, snacks, and fellowship with old and new gardening friends. Starting at 7:30 on Saturday morning you can enjoy a complimentary continental breakfast /and attend five hours of classes and lunch. Our event ends with an optional banquet and speaker at
Containers from the Ground Up with Myrene Brown Come and enjoy Myrene Brown’s program “Containers From The Ground Up”. The program will be a visual journey starting with where to place your container, container choices, and set up. There will be tips to keep the need to water to a minimum. Time will be spent
Right-Sized Gardening: Growing with Life’s Changes with Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp is the Hoosier Gardener. She’s a 25-year, award-winning veteran of print journalism and owner of Write for You! LLC, a freelance writing and editing business. You can find her blog at hoosiergardener.com. Jo Ellen is a past president of GardenComm:
Hosta Leaf Show 2025 Carmel Clay Library, 425 E. Main Street, Carmel, IN. 46032 Hosta Leaf Show Schedule Entries Received: 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.Judging Begins: 10:30 a.m.Show Opens to the Public: 1:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.Claim Entries: 4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.Show TearDown Begins: 4:15 p.m. (unclaimed entries will be discarded) The AHS-sanctioned hosta
2025 American Hosta Society Convention “Hosta Double Feature” Jointly sponsored by the American Hosta Society and the Midwest Regional Hosta SocietyHosted by the Central Illinois Hosta Society Par-A-Dice Hotel – June 19-21, 2025 – East Peoria, IL Garden Tours – Accredited Hosta Show -Vendors – Live and Silent Auctions – Educational SpeakersHosta Seed Growers Seedling Competition
Celebrate Summer in a Garden!
These gardens are all a unique experience. You are welcome to visit these beautiful gardens in any order.
Coach bus trip to Cincinnati, Ohio area. During the trip we will be visiting gardens that are part of the Great Lakes Tailgate.
• The gardens vary in size, style and content.
• Hostas galore in some; perennials, annuals, shrubs and trees in others
• About half of the gardens will have one vendor per garden
Planting Perennials for Successive Blooming with John Chapin John Chapin lives in Danville, IN and was an elementary teacher for 36 years and also ran a landscaping company for 38 years, overlapping his teaching career for 20 years. He started Tree Frog Gardens as his “retirement” business seven years ago – growing and selling unusual
Member Pitch-in and Auction Feeling benevolent and willing to share that coveted Hosta that you just can’t find anymore? It’s never too early to begin planning which of your favorite, unusual, or hard-to-find Hosta you’ll want to contribute to the annual auction. Got some unused tools taking up space? Are you over the fairy garden