Indianapolis Hosta Society

Monthly Meeting
2024-12-08 13:00 - 17:00 UTC | Coxhall Gardens, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd, Carmel, 46032, United States
Holiday Gathering

Our annual end-of-year gathering including a fabulous pitch-in buffet of members favorite foods, annual awards, and, of course, Hosto.

Monthly Meeting
2024-11-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Coxhall Gardens, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd, Carmel, 46032, United States
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.

Monthly Meeting
2024-10-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Coxhall Gardens, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd, Carmel, 46032, United States
“Architecture in the Garden: From Fountains to Fences to Pink Flamingos”

David Gorden, FASLALandscape ArchitectMark M. Holeman, Inc. – Landscape Architects and Contractors

Plants 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.

David 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.

Fall Festival
2024-09-15 01:00 - 17:00 | Coxhall Gardens, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd, Carmel, 46032, United States
Food, socializing and a plant auction are the the main focus.

Monthly meeting
2024-08-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Coxhall Gardens, Coxhall Gardens 11677 Towne Rd, Carmel, 46032, United States
GROWING AND CARING FOR YOUR HYDRANGEAS

Kari 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.

Illinois Coach Trip
2024-07-19 07:00 - 2024-07-20 19:00
Indianapolis Hosta Society Bus Trip to Champaign Illinois

Register 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.
