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September talk: Steve Hootman from the Rhododendron Species Foundation and Botanical Garden

THURSDAY, September 14

Meeting at the Bellevue Botanical Garden

Hope that everyone had a great summer! We are looking forward to seeing you for our September meeting and talk.

Steve Hootman has been Executive Director/Curator for the Rhododendron Species Foundation and Botanical Garden since 1992. with over 700 species, the Rhododendron Species Foundation is perhaps the world’s largest public collection of wild species in one place. It also includes companion plants, including meconopsis, Japanese maples, and rare orchids.

Steve is an experienced plant explorer as well as an expert on rhododendrons, regularly undertaking plant hunter expeditions to discover, identify and acquire species rhododendrons.

Join us at the Bellevue Botanical Garden at 7:00 pm for social time, 7:30 pm for the meeting and program. Our meetings are free and open to the public.

See you all soon!

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