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Most Elegant Plant Contest - Group 2

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Calopogon tuberosus was the winner of the 1st Group! Here is the 2nd group: (The voting box is to the left) Iris koreana Opuntia cv . (red flowered), A red flowered prickly-pear Argemone sp. , Prickly Poppy Spigelia marylandica , green and red flowered form. Indian Pink Lilium longiflorum , Easter Lily

Muhlenberg Botanic Club, New Web Pages

I have just published The New Muhlenberg Botanic Club web pages migrating most of the old Web site to the new one except for the pre 2006 Muhlenberg Meadow Pictures.

A beginning for a Native Plant Meadow in Union Twp., Berks County

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Last year I began to work with Linda Ingram of the Union Township Recreation Board on the possibility of putting in native plants for wildlife on some of the property which the township owns near Birdsboro. (in the former desilting basin new where the new township building will be located ) So with the help of my wife Jan and a number of volunteers I began a program of native meadow/prairie plant seed collection (with permission) from a a number of public and private meadow areas. We were especially interested in seed sources of plants native to the mid-Atlantic area from nearby areas. With an area which has been growing corn and soybeans for many years, we planned to start with an approx. 1/4 acre site we would be a demonstration area and seed increase plot. We planted the seed in one morning in late march, with the help of volunteers from the Union Township Rec. Board, Master Gardeners and a few other interested people. We mixed the relatively well purified seed of many different

Muhlenberg Botanic Club Newsletter 8/27/07

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Muhlenberg Bulletin Volume 27 8 /27 / 2007 Number 1 MUHLENBERG BOTANICAL SOCIETY c/o The North Museum; 400 College Ave.; Lancaster, Pa. 17603 President: Mike Slater (6100775-3757) Vice Pres: Joan King (717-284-5239) Secretary and Newsletter Editor: Ruthann Richards (717-872-7574) Treasurer: John Wolff (717-569-6955) Kathy Tyson Board Members: Cathy Cholmeley-Jones, Matt Dilley, Tim Draude and Ray Uhlig PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE As a start to my tenure as President, I am taking over the e-mail and website duties that John Wolff has done so ably for so long. I have put the Muhlenberg Botanical Society Falmouth/Conoy Park Trip's plant list and some notes from last Sunday's Lancaster Meadow walk on my Blog http://paplantings.blogspot.com/ , where I also put some pictures from the trips. Even if a Muhlenberg posting isn't the latest posting you see on the Blog (short for Web Log), you can find Muhlenberg items via the link in the "Lab