January 1st 2017-
The Pacific Northwest Society 21st Annual Meeting will be held on February 18th at the Washington State University's Allmendinger Center, located at 2606 West Pioneer, Puyallup, WA 98371.
The meeting fee is $20.00 for early registration, $25 at the door.
The meeting will begin at 8:00 am. The topics of the day will include: Tim Miller speaking on Weed Control in Peonies, Dr. Gary Chastagner & Ms. Andrea Garfinkel speaking on Peony Disease Management and more may follow.
The day will conclude with a peony auction.
There will be a no-host dinner at Bj's Restaurant & Brewhouse the night before the meeting at 6:30 pm, you can sign up for that when you register.
We hope to see you all on February 17th and 18th!
We also appreciate donations for our auction.
News:
February 20, 2017-
We held our 21st annual meeting, this past Saturday at the Washington State University Research and Extension Center in Puyallup, WA. If you were unable to attend, sorry we missed you.
We had a wonderful program: Tim Miller spoke on “Managing Weeds in Peonies”, Andrea Garfinkel shared her research on “Foliar Nematodes and Other Emerging Peony Diseases”, a walking site tour of the facilities was led by Dr. Gary Chastagner, “Update on Foliar Disease Management Studies” was presented by Dr. Gary Chastagner, and Lore Sampson spoke about “Understanding the Flower Classification as designated for showing at the APS flower show”, the day also included a great buffet luncheon and time to talk amongst other fellow peony lovers, and growers.
The American Peony Society board of directors have approved the Pacific Northwest Peony Society as the host for the 2018 APS National Convention. We encourage you to attend and enter your own flowers into the flower show, we also solicit your help with hosting the convention, volunteers are needed for all sorts of different tasks. APS membership is needed to attend and enter into the flower show.
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Thank you to the members of the Pacific Northwest Peony Society, we appreciate your support!