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Potomac Valley Chapter
of the
American Rhododendron Society
Newsletter
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The Potomac Valley Chapter currently publishes four to five newsletters each year. Below are links to online versions of the most recent issues.
2013 Newsletters
- Early Spring 2013
Norm Beaudry Speaks on the 5/5/5 Rhododendron, Photography Contest Winners, Flower Show Plans, Update on Field Trips
- Winter 2013
Photography Contest, Update on Banquet, North Carolina Nursery Trip Plans, Director's Report, Cool Tool: the Weed Wrench, Remembering Good Friends, Seed Exchange
2012 Newsletters
- Late Summer / Fall 2012
Rhododendron Registration, Review of the Garden Tours, Asheville Convention, Volunteering at the White Garden,
Fall Banquet Announcement 2012
George Woodard - "In Search of Little Epiphanies"
- Late Spring 2012
Chapter Garden Tour, District Director's Report, Volunteering at the White Garden, Making a Cross, Chapter Picnic Plans, Recipes
- Early Spring 2012
Trip Updates, Photography Contest Winners, Thoughts on Propagation and Grafting, Save the Azaleas - Arboretum Update, Storm Damage at the Rhododendron Species Foundation
- Winter 2012
Bicolor Rhododendrons, Photography Contest Rules, Director's Report, The Great Azalea Planting, Chapter Seed Exchange
2011 Newsletters
- Fall 2011
Fall Banquet: Steve Hootman, Plants on Ice Mountain by Jean Beaudry and Carol Segree, Big Leaf Rhododendrons
- Summer 2011
Gray Carter turns 90, National Arboretum Field Trip, Director's Report, Update on the White Garden, Hooper Bald Project Rooting Rhododendron Cuttings, Winning Photo Contest Entries
- Spring 2011
Arboretum Update: Save the Azaleas, North Carolina Nursery Trek, Winter Storm Damage
- Winter 2011
Arboretum proposes to cut down the Glenn Dale Azaleas, Chapter Seed Exchange
2010 Newsletters
- Fall 2010
Fall Banquet: Mike Stewart, Director's Report, Variegated Plants, Rhododendron makinoi
- Summer 2010
Flower Show Results, ARS Convention on Long Island, Don Voss receives Gold Medal, Rhododendrons in Germany, Mountain Trips and the "Red Max"
- Spring 2010
Clean up at the White Garden, Asian Ambrosia Beetles, Sandwich Club Meeting
- Early Spring 2010
Snowmageddon, Rooting Dormant Cuttings, Remembering Margaret White, Photography Contest Winners
- Winter 2010
Phyllis Rittman receives Bronze Medal, Remembering Jane Goodrich, President's Message from Bob McWhorter, Upcoming Trips, Chapter Seed Exchange
2009 Newsletters
- Late Fall 2009
Fall Banquet: Bruce Feller, The Garden Blues: Color in the Garden, Remembering Hanak Schannen,
- Early Fall 2009
Dr. John Creech: Remembering a Legend, Frederick Coe Garden Bulldozed, The Ericaceae: the Heath Family
- Summer 2009
Chapter Picnic, Margaret White celebrates her 103rd Birthday, Photography Contest Winners, Jean and Norman Beaudry receive ARS Silver Medal, Spring Garden Travels
- Spring 2009
New Flower Show Categories, Update on the Asian Ambrosia Beetle, North Carolina Nursery Trek Plans
- Winter 2009
Raising Rhododendrons and Azaleas from Seed, Chapter Seed Exchange, Hooper Bald Project
2008 Newsletters
- Fall 2008
Fall Banquet: The History of the Cowles, Dexters, and Related Hybrids, The 2008 Sandwich Club Trip, In Memory of George Miller, June Chapter Field Trips: Roan Mountain and Gregory Bald
- Summer 2008
The Asian Ambrosia Beetle, Storm Damage, Flower Show Results, Report on Scotland
- Spring 2008
Results of the Chapter Photo Contest, Preparing for the Hikes: Roan Mountain and Gregory Bald, Flower Show Workshop, Possible Side Tours on the Cape Cod Field Trip
- Winter 2008
Rhododendron Metternianum, Report from the District Director, 2008 Seed Exchange, Additions to the Chapter Library: Videos
2007 Newsletters
- Fall 2007
Weeding by John Perkins, Roan Mountain and Gregory Bald Field Trip 2007, Rhododendron vaseyi and the Southern Appalachians, The Legacy of Augie Kehr, The Haag Garden, The Sandwich Club Trip
- Summer 2007
Flower Show Results, West Coast Convention, District Meeting, Chapter Field Trip to Peaks of Otter, Trip to Gable's Homestead
- Spring 2007
Chapter Photo Contest Winners, District 9 Meeting, Winter Woes, Rooting Dormant Cuttings
- Winter 2007
The Lesser known Gables by Jane Goodrich, 2007 Seed Exchange
2006 Newsletters
2005 Newsletters
- Fall 2005
Convention Plans, The 2006 ARS/ASA Covention
- Summer 2005
Field Trip Summary, Rhododendron calendulaceum - Variations in the Wild
- Late Spring 2005
Making a Cross, Discouraging Deer, A Personal Letter to Joe Gable, More on Field Trip Plans
- Early Spring 2005
Photographing Flowers, Chapter Field Trip Plans to Roanoke, Roan Mountain,and Gregory
Bald, Hiking Do's and Don'ts
- Winter 2005
Winter Protection of Container Plants, Bark Split, Raising Plants from Seed
2005 Seed Exchange Listing
2004 Newsletters
2003 Newsletters
- Fall 2003
Jeanine Smith to Speak on New Zealand, Jane Goodrich discusses the Leseer Known Gable Rhododendrons, Botanical Correctness, Azalea Species
- Summer 2003
Flower Show 2003 Results, Paul James Garden and the Delps
- Late Spring 2003
Chapter Field Trip to Roanoke and the Garden of Paul James, District Meeting 9 Meeting Recap, R. arboreum from India
- Spring 2003
Paul James to Speak, Norman Beaudry Discusses the Sandwich Club,
Chapter Good Doer Survey
- Winter 2003
Rooting Cuttings During the Winter, Making a Cross, Planting Seed, 2003 Seed Exchange
2002 Newsletters
- Fall 2002
Steve Hootman to Speak on China, Rhododendron Species from China, Ask The Experts
- Summer 2002
Report on the Chapter Field Trip, Carefree Comnanion Plants
- Spring 2002
Jim Gears to Speak on the Southern Appalachian Highlands, Plans for the Chapter Field Trip to Roan Mountain and Gregory Bald
- Winter 2002
2002 Seed Exchange, Raising Rhododendrons and Azaleas from Seed
2001 Newsletters
- Fall 2001
Good Doer Rhododendrons, Problems with Deer
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