Inspiring and educating San Francisco South Bay and Peninsula plant enthusiasts since 1963
UPCOMING SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Join us for monthly Western Hort programs designed to inform, educate and inspire the dedicated plant lover.
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Meetings are held 9 times a year on the second Wednesday of the month and feature a lecture and slide presentation by a guest horticultural specialist. Each program also includes a member-led discussion and photos of unusual plants.
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In-person meetings, will be held at the Garden House in Shoup Park, 400 University Ave, Los Altos.
Located near Lincoln Ave.
In-person meetings often include a sale of diverse plant varieties donated by members and local nurseries as well as books, seeds, tools and other horticultural items on occasion. All are welcome!
Our Upcoming September Meeting will be In-Person in the Garden House at Shoup Park .
400 University Ave., Los Altos.
If you enjoy the talks given at our meetings and want to help the Western Horticultural Society sustain our program, you might like to sponsor one of our speakers! Your donation helps cover the costs of hosting a speaker and we will note your name as sponsor in our newsletter. You can choose the month or speaker of your choice or perhaps you have a speaker you would like to propose? Contact Leslie Dean lesliekdean@sonic.net about donations or questions.
September 11th, 2024, 7:30pm,
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Fantastic Plants and Where to Find Them
With Mark Leichty
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Mark Leichty grew up on a grass seed farm outside Albany, Oregon where he still lives.
Farming is in his blood but has been transformed from fields to greenhouses.
He owned Fry Road Nursery in Albany for 25 years prior to being hired by Little Prince as the Director of Business Development, where he’s been for the past 10 years, and was recently promoted to Director of Operations. He is a committed plant nerd and enjoys creating beautiful gardens full of rare and unusual plants. He has created two beautiful show gardens
at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle. He loves visiting beautiful gardens wherever he goes and is frequently out visiting garden centers in Oregon and Washington with his partner
in crime, Michelle.
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In his talk Mark will discuss and show slides of many of the rare and beautiful plants he has come across in some of the most beautiful gardens around the Pacific Northwest, California and beyond. He will also take a look at less rare, but perhaps even more important plants that he has come
to refer to as his “Top Forty Plants for Western Gardens”.