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SUMMARY:May Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Right-Sized Gardening: Growing with Life’s Changes with Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp  \n\n\n\nJo 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: GardenCommunicators International. She is a garden coach and has a four-season commercial and residential container planting business. For 20 years\, she worked at a large\, independent garden center in Indianapolis\, including a stint as buyer of perennials\, trees and shrubs. The popular speaker publishes the award-winning\, free\, monthly Hoosier Gardener Newsletter\, with more than 3\,000 subscribers. (http://eepurl.com/gkfb91).
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/monthly-meeting-13/
LOCATION:Coxhall Gardens\, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd\, Carmel\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:regular meeting
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SUMMARY:April Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Containers from the Ground Up with Myrene Brown  \n\n\n\nCome 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 discussing container maintenance\, quick fixes and winter storage to round out the program. Myrene’s hope is that you will walk away with some new thoughts on how to have thriving container plantings that bring you joy. 
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/monthly-meeting-12/
LOCATION:Coxhall Gardens\, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd\, Carmel\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250321T080000
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SUMMARY:Great Lakes Region Hosta College
DESCRIPTION: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 6:30 pm.
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/great-lakes-region-hosta-college/
LOCATION:Indiana
CATEGORIES:Hosta College
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250310T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250310T203000
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SUMMARY:March Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Tool-Up for Gardening: Top 10 Garden Tools with Steve Cline \n\n\n\n\nSteve 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 volunteers at Holiday Park in Indy\, serves as a team leader at the Demonstration Garden at the State Fairgrounds and works at his Church on the Grounds Team taking care of its 81 acre campus . He is an avid collector of garden tools and will be speaking to us today on his “Top 10 Garden Tools” along with other favorites; their proper use\, care and maintenance .
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/monthly-meeting-11/
LOCATION:Coxhall Gardens\, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd\, Carmel\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250208T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250208T120000
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SUMMARY:February Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Coffee and Long’s Donuts \n\n\n\nSpring 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 us for a preseason gathering to chat with old friends and meet some new ones. We will cover the activities of the upcoming year with by presentations from Committee Chairs on their events and needs for help with the upcoming events. We will be outlining plans and needs as preparations begin for the 2027 Convention being held in Indianapolis.
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/monthly-meeting/
LOCATION:Coxhall Gardens\, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd\, Carmel\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:regular meeting
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SUMMARY:Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Holiday Gathering \n\n\n\nOur annual end-of-year gathering including a fabulous pitch-in buffet of members favorite foods\, annual awards\, and\, of course\, Hosto.
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/monthly-meeting-8/
LOCATION:Coxhall Gardens\, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd\, Carmel\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Holiday banquet
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SUMMARY:Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Bill McKnight (aka The Mad Botanist) is a professionally trained botanist\, experienced gardener and educator. A native of Illinois\, he attended EIU\, U of Mich and the U of Ill. He is comfortable dealing with flowering plants and cryptogams (i.e.\, fungi\, lichens\, bryophytes and ferns) as well as ornamental and food plant issues. He has an extensive ethnobotanical background and understands the peculiarities presented by the bistate climate and soil\, both in natural and human influenced environs. He wrote\, illustrated and self-published (2016) Rantings of a Mad Botanist\, a book intended to help gardeners and property managers make fewer mistakes. The book emphasizes stewardship and central Indiana\, but is more broadly applicable. He lives at and gardens a three-acre property on the NE side of Indianapolis. 
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/monthly-meeting-7/
LOCATION:Coxhall Gardens\, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd\, Carmel\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:regular meeting
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SUMMARY:Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:“Architecture in the Garden:  From Fountains to Fences to Pink Flamingos” \n\n\n\nDavid Gorden\, FASLALandscape ArchitectMark M. Holeman\, Inc. – Landscape Architects and Contractors \n\n\n\nPlants are typically the stars of a garden.  However\, it is the complimentary “non-plants” that set the stage. Explore the many elements that give structure\, interest\, and charm to a garden.  They might be more integral than the plants themselves. \n\n\n\nDavid Gorden is a landscape architect with Mark M. Holeman\, Inc. in Indianapolis where he has been designing landscapes for over 35 years. A graduate of the University of Illinois\, he is a past president of the Horticultural Society of Newfields and the Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. A soldier in the battle against invasive plants\, he serves on the Indiana Invasive Plant Advisory Committee and board of the Midwest Invasive Plant Network. In 2018 he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/monthly-meeting-5/
LOCATION:Coxhall Gardens\, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd\, Carmel\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:regular meeting
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SUMMARY:Fall Festival
DESCRIPTION:Food\, socializing and a plant auction are the the main focus. 
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/monthly-meeting-4/
LOCATION:Coxhall Gardens\, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd\, Carmel\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:fall festival
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SUMMARY:Monthly meeting
DESCRIPTION:GROWING AND CARING FOR YOUR HYDRANGEAS \n\n\n\nKari Arney\, Horticulturist at Sullivan’s Hardware will be talking about hydrangeas and what we can do to grow those beautiful flowers. Hydrangea is a genus of about 75 species of flowering plants native to China and the Americas. They are extremely vigorous\, long-lived shrubs that offer extravagant blooms throughout summer and even into fall\, when many shrubs have completed their show for the year. All bring a stately\, oldfashioned feel to the landscape. Growers have developed a number of interesting hydrangeas which are not the traditional white ones our grandmothers had. Find out from Kari’s presentation which ones are your favorites and which hydrangeas grow best in our Indiana climate.
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/monthly-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Coxhall Gardens\, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd\, Carmel\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240719T070000
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SUMMARY:Illinois Coach Trip
DESCRIPTION:Indianapolis Hosta Society Bus Trip to Champaign Illinois\n\n\n\nRegister before June 18\, 2024 at: ihs2024bustrip.eventzilla.net  Coach bus trip to Champaign\, Illinois area. During the trip will be visiting the University of Illinois Arboretum which includes a Japanese Garden\, the Illinois Prairie Hosta Society Display Garden\, and the Master Gardener’s Idea Garden. We will also have a guided tour of the Allerton Park and Retreat center gardens. We will be visiting the Bill Dick and Katrina Cheney garden which has one of the largest koi ponds in central Illinois. This spring they expanded it by another 4500 gallons. Bill will give us a presentation about his koi and parrots. Some of you know Mary Ann Metz. We will be visiting her garden as well as the garden center she works for\, Prairie Gardens.  We will visit Mike Weber’s garden and a few other private gardens.Cost of the trip is $310 per person with double occupancy hotel room and $385 per person for single occupancy hotel room.Included in the trip is Bus Transportation\, hotel accommodations at the Holiday Inn Champaign\, admission to Allerton Park Garden tour\, Lunches Friday & Saturday\, Dinner Friday night\, Saturday Breakfast\, snacks and fun and friendships.
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/illinois-coach-trip/
LOCATION:Indiana
CATEGORIES:bus trip
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SUMMARY:Great Lakes Tailgate
DESCRIPTION:Great Lakes Regional Hosta Society Tailgate\, is for members only. Six garden tours on Friday 1-5 pm\, dinner and auction 6-9 pm\, and six garden tours on Saturday
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/great-lakes-tailgate/
LOCATION:Indiana
CATEGORIES:conference
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240513T183000
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SUMMARY:Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Rad Drew Photography \n\n\n\nThe creative mind of the photographer is still the most important element in a great photo. The camera doesn’t create a photograph any more than a hammer designs a building; it’s merely a tool that allows us to create our vision. \n\n\n\nToday\, my camera bag holds two mirrorless cameras\, an infrared camera\, a point-and-shoot\, and assorted iPhones. Of these tools\, I credit my use of iPhones since 2010 with providing more opportunities to practice the esthetics of photography\, making me a better photographer regardless of the camera I’m using. I’m grateful that I remain passionate about photography and that the endeavor I began so long ago is still fun and magical!
URL:https://indianapolishostasociety.org/event/monthly-meeting-9/
LOCATION:Coxhall Gardens\, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd\, Carmel\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:regular meeting
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