2022 Annual Meeting

Please join us for our virtual annual meeting on Saturday, Nov. 12, 9:30 to 10:30 am. We will review 2022, both its challenges and great successes, including online education programming, ticket sales, increased visitation and admissions revenue and springtime plant sales. In addition, we’ll look ahead to share our 2023 priorities, goals and annual budget. Working together we will plan and prepare for a new year, a fresh start and a new opportunity to share our native plant mission.

The meeting will begin with a short presentation by our guest speaker, Jenny Rose Carey and her top five easy flowering plants for your summer into fall native garden. A limited amount of those five species—white turtlehead (Chelone glabra), cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis),  foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis), obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana) and brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba)—will be available at the Twinleaf Book & Gift Shop from Saturday, Nov. 12, to Nov. 22 while supplies last. Be sure to get your last native plants of the season before they disappear!

Jenny Rose Carey is a renowned gardener, educator, historian, author and the former senior director at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Meadowbrook Farm in Jenkintown. She previously worked at Temple University for over a decade, first as an adjunct professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture and then as director of the Ambler Arboretum. Carey has been lecturing nationally and internationally for many years. She is an avid hands-on gardener who has gardened in both England and the United States. Her Victorian property, Northview, contains diverse garden spaces, including a cutting garden, an herb garden, a dry garden and various mixed flower beds. Both herself and her gardens have been featured on the PBS series The Victory Garden, in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Grow magazine, and The Pennsylvania Gardener.