March 17, 2011 Meeting Minutes

Before the meeting Clayton Oslund sold a number of varieties of Hosta and companion plants. Clayton also sold his new book “What’s Doin’ the Bloomin’ ” and autographed the book for persons wanting it signed. Refreshments were served before the meeting.


Meeting was called to order at 6:00PM by EMHS President Glen Pace. All attendees were welcomed to the March Meeting of EMHS. Visitors from SVHS and other visitors were asked to introduce themselves.

Presentation was given by Clayton Oslund of MN. The presentation was about “Bringing Natures Beauty into Your Shady Garden. Clayton’s presentation was a new approach to the spring ephemeral plants of the Great Lakes Region by being done in time-line instead of the typical flower color. His new book is written using the same premise. The PowerPoint presentation was full of beautiful photographs of both native and non-native spring flowing plants. Clayton was extremely informative and most learned a lot about spring flowering plants and everybody learned something new. A lot of attendees learned there are plants available that they want to acquire for their own gardens, especially double flowering Bloodroot, double flowering Trillium grandiflorum, and some of the Chinese Podophyllums. After a short break Clayton spoke on Cypripedium orchids and gave a brief description of how to do tissue culture.

After the presentation a short business meeting was conducted.

EMHS members were reminded that it is time to pay their annual dues.

Hosta Stones were made available and sold.

EMHS Annual Plant Sale plants to be delivered at the May meeting.

Next meeting is April 14th at Mayfield Twp Hall. Grey Gitzen of SVHS will speak on Hellebores.

Respectfully submitted,

Glen Pace EMHS President