Begonia Revolution New England 2015

Begonia Revolution
New England 2015
Buxton Branch/American Begonia Society
Natick, MA July 29 – August 2, 2015
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Judging School:
(Tuesday 7/28)
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$25.00 x
Tour #1: Wednesday – Harvard, Lyman Estates
$45.00 x
$55 w/ Box Lunch
Tour #2: Thursday – Logee’s, Roger Williams Botanic Ctr $45.00 x
$55 w/ Box Lunch
Tour #3: Friday – Tower Hill botanic Garden
$55 w/ Box Lunch
$35.00 x
New England Seafood Bake – Thursday 7/29
$55.00 x
Judges’ Breakfast – Friday (Complimentary for Judges)
$26.00 x____________
Judges’ Luncheon - Friday (Complimentary for Judges)
$44.00 x____________
Business Meeting Luncheon - Saturday
$53.00 x
Banquet – Saturday - All selections cost the same:
$63.00 x
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No. of Chicken Piccata
No. of Vegetarian
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Mail to Sally Savelle, 65 High Pine Circle, Concord, MA 01742
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Hotel Reservations
The Verve Crowne Plaza Boston-Natick
1360 Worcester Road
Natick, MA 01760
Single or Double - $115 per night, plus taxes
Call 800-265-0339 to make your reservations.
Or book online at American Begonia Society Room Block; instructions are below.
 Follow this personalized link to bring you to The Crowne Plaza Boston-Natick site
 Enter your desired dates into the site; this is found on the left hand side of the screen.
 When ready, click “Check Rates & Availability”, This will bring you to the group rooms’ availability and
reflect the contracted group rates.
 Please understand that only the contracted dates (7/27 – 8/1,) plus 3 days prior and 3 days postconvention will be honored at the group rates.
 If additional nights are required please contact the reservations manager directly:
Jessica Wiitala
Phone: 508.903.1558| Fax 508.653.1708
jwiitala@distinctivehospitalitygroup.com
The Hotel Deadline for registration at the Convention rate is June, 29, 2014.
The hotel is located in Natick, a Metrowest suburb of Boston, about 40 minutes from Logan Airport. The Natick
Mall is across the street. This convenient location is very close to many restaurants, movie theater complex,
Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts. The hotel provides free shuttle service within a 2 mile radius.
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Tour Details
Tour #1 – Wednesday, July 29th – 9 am – 5 pm
Boxed lunch will be provided for those who chose this option on their registration form.
Glass Flower Collection and Marine Life Collection – Harvard Museum of Natural History
The collection represents 847 plant species painstakingly and accurately crafted in glass by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka.
The father and son glassmakers in Hosterwitz, near Dresden, Germany were last in a line of family jewelers and
glassmakers going back to 15th century Venice. Originally charged with the creation of just a few models, the Blaschkas
later signed an exclusive contract with Harvard to make a collection of some 4,200 glass models, working over five decades
from 1886 through 1936.
Many years before they were commissioned by Harvard University to make the Glass Flowers, father and son artists
Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka meticulously shaped glass into lifelike models of marine and terrestrial animals. Renowned
for their beauty and exacting detail, the Blaschka invertebrate models were commissioned by universities and museums
throughout world during the nineteenth century.
Lyman Estate – Waltham MA
A national landmark, the Lyman Estate was the summer retreat of 4 generations of the Theodore Lyman Family.
The Federal style mansion was commissioned in 1793, enlarged in the Victorian style in 1882, and remodeled in
1917 to the current Colonial Revival style.
The greenhouses hold century old camellia trees an grapevines, and many plant collections including begonias.
There will be Begonias, Gesneriads, succulents and more for sale.
Tour #2 – Thursday, July 30th - 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Boxed lunch will be provided for those who chose this option on their registration form.
Logee’s Greenhouses – Danielson, CT
Logee’s Greenhouses was started by William D. Logee in 1892. He started as a cut flower business and soon
became interested in tropical and unusual plants. In 1900, he bought a small Ponderosa Lemon tree from a grower
in Philadelphia. It was known as the “American Wonder Lemon” due to the size of the fruit, which could get as
large as 5 pounds. It was shipped via train, then picked up by horse and buggy and directly planted into the
ground in the original greenhouse. The same tree in the same greenhouse (appropriately called the Lemon Tree
House) still stands today, and is reliably producing 5-pound lemons every year. Hundreds of thousands of
propagations have been harvested from this original tree.
William’s eldest son, Ernest Logee, became interested in horticulture and turned his attention to growing tropical
plants in containers. His interests centered around the unusual form of Begonias. He hybridized begonias for
Logee’s and was one of the original founders of the American Begonia Society, creating the Buxton Branch in
Massachusetts.
Please note that Logee’s greenhouses are not handicapped accessible.
Roger Williams Botanical Center– Rhode Island
The Botanical Center at Roger Williams Park is the home of the Rhode Island Branch of ABS. It is the largest public indoor
display gardens in New England, encompassing approximately 12,000 square feet of indoor gardens. The Botanical Center
includes two greenhouses: The Conservatory and the Mediterranean Room. There are over 150 different species and
cultivars of plants including 17 different types of palms. Many of the plants were saved from the old greenhouse displays
and replanted, specifically most of the Cacti, Agave and Aloe.
“The Rhode Island Branch has been meeting at the conservatory at Roger Williams Park in Providence, RI since its
inception, six years ago. The Botanic Center offered us a small garden area, about 6' X 8' to show case our begonias. Little
did they know how varied the begonia family is! We quickly filled that area and almost half of another display
greenhouse. The conditions in the greenhouse are much better than we have in our own homes or gardens so the plants
grow much bigger there. It is great seeing how well they do! One of our highlights was when we noticed a plant starting
to grow on a tree branch - A bird must have been visiting and dropped some seed there!! We are very lucky to be involved
with a public garden that welcomes input from plant societies.”
Tour #3 – Friday, July 31st – 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Tower Hill Botanic Garden – Boylston MA
Tower Hill is the first and only comprehensive botanic garden in New England.
Tower Hill has eight distinct gardens, dedicated to woody plants, vegetables, plant systematics, winter interest, fruits,
perennials and wildlife.
The Orangerie and Limonaia house non-hardy plants from around the world, with an emphasis on those from the southern
hemisphere and Mediterranean region.
Tower Hill is the site of the Frank L. Harrington, Sr. Preservation Orchard, which contains the Davenport Collection of more
than 119 pre-20th century apple varieties.
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Seminars and Events
Wednesday – 8pm – 9 pm
Mike Flaherty - “Begonias of the Rich &Famous”
Mike Flaherty has been collecting begonias since 1961 when he bought his first begonias in
High school. He opened Gazebo Plants in 1973 and is located on the corner of the main intersection in Montecito
Village, the 9th wealthiest community in America, according to Forbes. Oprah lives 5 doors up from his nursery.
Mike has won numerous awards for his begonias including 2007 hybrid Begonia of the year, the Scottish International
Begonia trophy twice, ABS Gene Salisbury Grower of Excellence, three national Sweepstakes Awards and best display at
the national ABS convention three times.
He is currently the President of the Rudolf Ziesenhenne branch of the American Begonia Society of Santa Barbara, the ABS
Vice President and national MC for the American Begonia Society. Mike has three begonias named after him and
has named begonias after his daughter, sister and friends.
Friday – 9 am – 9:45 am
Andrew (Drew) Norris – “Growing Begonias Like African Violets”
Andrew (Drew) Norris. Is an amateur ecologist, having enjoyed animal and plant husbandry, in many capacities, since his
earliest childhood. He has indulged his passions for the living world by keeping fish, dart frogs, chameleons, other reptiles
and amphibians, invertebrates, and several types of plant collections. Often he designs regionally authentic habitats for his
charges, becoming familiar with a wide variety of plant material. He has completed two years of Horticultural training and
received a certificate in Environmental Sciences. He grows many indoor and outdoor plants, from palms, orchids, and
citrus, to carnivorous plants, caudiciforms, and succulents, African violets and Begonias.
Friday - 10 am – 11 am
Randy Kerr – “Species Begonias for Every Home”
Randy Montes Kerr, resides in West Hollywood, CA with his husband Stephen Montes Kerr, and their pugs, Aly & Lily.
Randy grows more than 100 Begonia species, in terrariums (more than 600 gallons total), in a sun room, and in their
garden. He will talk on the importance of growing species begonias during this time of habitat loss, and looming
extinctions, and give us an introduction to some less common species. He will give suggestions for cultivation techniques,
suitable environments, and helpful resources.
Friday – 11:15 am – 11:45 am
Pablo Jourdan –“Germplasm Research Update”
Dr. Jourdan is an Associate Professor and Horticulture Director of the Ornamental Plant Germplasm Center - Department
of Horticulture & Crop Science at Ohio State University. He will be giving an update on the research being conducted on
begonia seeds.
Saturday – 9 am – 10 am
Mark Tebbitt – “My Trip to China”
Dr. Tebbitt is a researcher whose interests focus on plant systematics, the naming, classification and evolution of plants,
and in particular, of Begonias. Previous to working at The California University in Pennsylvania, he was head of the
Horticultural Taxonomy Department at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York City from 1998 to 2007. Before moving to
the United States, he worked at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, as a research consultant on the European Garden
Flora projects. He has published two books, one on Begonia (2005) and the other on the bleeding-heart family (2008). He
has also carried out botanical fieldwork in China, Vietnam, Mexico, North America, Hawaii, United Kingdom and the
Pyrenees.
Saturday - 10:15 am – 11:15 am
Lloyd Traven –“How to Bring Begonias to Market”
Lloyd is the owner of Peace Tree Farm in Kintnersville, PA. Their clientele includes Longwood Gardens, Smithsonian, New
York Botanical Garden and many others. He is a noted speaker and author and a regular guest on Martha Stewart. He was
selected as US Grower of the Year in 2005.
Other Events
Judging School
We are going to host a Judging School on Tuesday, &/28 from 10 am – 4 pm. The registration fee is $25.00 to cover the
cost of materials. In order for the class to be held, we need at least 15 pre-convention registrations.
Those taking the class may have an opportunity to clerk at the Convention show.
Auctions
We will be having a silent auction with some wonderful gifts. Please donate plants, leaves or other items in new or almost
new condition to this fun event.
Transportation from Boston Logan Airport
The least expensive way to get from the airport to the hotel is to take the Logan Express Bus to Framingham.
 Find the Ground Transportation Red Area. Look for signs or ask.
 Make sure to take the red colored Logan Bus to Framingham as there are several Logan Express routes.
 After arriving at the Logan Bus terminal in Framingham, call the Crowne Plaza (800-265-0339) for the
free shuttle ride to the hotel.
Logan Express stops at all terminals. Scheduled times for departing Logan are shown for Terminal A. Departure
from other terminals is a few minutes later. Travel time is approximately 30-45 minutes. Be sure to allow extra
time during rush hours.
Weekdays
Saturday
Sunday
Weekdays
Logan Express leaving Logan Airport to Framingham (Natick)
6:30 a.m. - Midnight every half hour - and 1:15 a.m.(next day)
7:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. every hour - and 12:15 a.m.(Sunday)
7:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. every hour
1:00 p.m. - Midnight every half hour - and 1:15 a.m.(Monday)
Logan Express leaving Framingham (Natick) to Logan Airport
Early Bird Trip - 3:15 a.m.
4:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. every half hour
Early Bird Trips - 3:15 a.m., 4:00 a.m., 4:30 a.m. & 5:30 a.m.
Saturday
6:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. every hour
Early Bird Trips - 3:15 a.m., 4:00 a.m., 4:30 a.m. & 5:30 a.m.
Sunday
6:00 a.m. - 12 noon every hour
12:00 noon - 11:00 p.m. every half hour
Fares
Adult One-Way Fare: $12.00
Adult Round Trip Fare: $22.00
Senior (65+) One-Way Fare: $11.00
Senior (65+) Round Trip Fare: $20.00
Children (17 and under) ride free
Discounted Ticket Books: $75.00 for 10 one-way trips
For trips originating at the Logan Express site, tickets must be purchased in the terminal. Please allow adequate
time to make your purchase and board the bus as buses must depart on time and cannot wait for customers making
ticket purchases.
For trips originating at Logan Airport, tickets are purchased on board the bus upon arrival at the Logan Express
site.
Round trip tickets are the most economical and convenient option for customers who are using the service for
transportation to and from Logan Airport.
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TROPHY AND DIVISION AWARD CONTRIBUTIONS
Provide the names(s) to list on the show card as donor(s). Number your choices as first or second preference (etc.). In the
event the trophy has been sponsored prior to your selection, will you allow us to allocate your sponsorship; to another
award? Yes_______
No_________
Return this form with your registration.
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Name(S)
Major Trophy Sponsor fee:
Number
x $50
Bessie Raymond Buxton Award
Best in Show
Sweepstakes Award
Greatest # of Blue Ribbons
Thompson Showing is Sharing Award
Greatest # of Entries
Division Award Sponsor fee:
$
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Number
Division A
Cane-like
Division B
Division C
Shrub-like
Thick –stemmed
Division D
Division E
Semperflorens
Rhizomaztous
Division EE
Rhizomatous Unusual Growth/or Foliage
x $30
Division EEE Rhizomatous Distinctive Foliage
Division F
Division G
Rex Cultorum
Tuberous
Division GG
Tuberhybrida
Division H
Trailing – Scandent
Division I
Contained Atmosphere under 10” (Single Begonia)
Division II
Contained Atmosphere 10” & over (Single Begonia)
Division J
Species
Division K
Division L
Unidentified Species (U Numbers)
Hanging Containers
Division M
Division N
Heritage Begonias (In Cultivation 25+ yrs)
Novice Division
Division O
Windowsill Grown
Division P
Novel Grown
Division Q
New England Area Hybrids
Division R
Division S
Wall Pocket Mounted
Traveling Begonias (250+ miles)
Division T
Contained Atmosphere - more than one variety
$
DivisionU
Propagated by Exhibitor
Division V
Division W
New Introductions Hobby Grower
New Introductions Commercial Growers
Division X
Photographs- Judged Horticulturally
Division Y
Photographs – Judged Artistically
Division Z
Photographs – Computer Enhanced
Division ZZ
Arts
Division ZZA Crafts
Division ZZB Commercial or Professional
Division ZZC Collection of 5
Division ZZD Recycled Container
Division ZZE
Special Exhibits
Total Sponsor Contributions: (enter on registration page)
$
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TROPHY AND DIVISION AWARD CONTRIBUTIONS
The American Begonia Society has several projects within the Society that rely on donations.
The Morris Mueller Scholarship Fund
Assists college students in the furtherance of their study
of begonias and Begoniaceae
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The Ft. Worth Botanic Garden
Helps fund the Begonia Collection, the largest in the US.
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The Conservation Research Fund
Helps support collectors who travel around the world in search
of new begonia species.
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The Thelma O’Reilly Fund
Assists in the reprinting of begonia material
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The Millie Thompson Publication Fund
Assists in funding new written material on begonias
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Total Special Project Donations (enter on registration page)
____________
Please consider making a donation to one or more of these worthy projects.
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Boutique Items
Our Convention Boutique will be stocked with lots of unique and beautiful items.
We are offering “Special” Convention items which you can pre-order now and pick up in the Boutique.
If you can’t attend the convention, you can still pre-order items and we will ship them to you.
Convention T-shirts - M, L, XL $16.00, 2x and Larger $18.00
Begonia Watch Style #1 – $20
Begonia Watch Style #2 – $20
Style #1
Size_______
Qty_______=_________
Qty_______=_________
Qty_______=_________
Style #2
Begonia Mouse Pad - $10
QTY______=_________
Mugs - $8
QTY______=_________
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Schedule of Events
Tuesday
10 am – 4 pm
10 am – 2 pm
2 pm – 5 pm
Judging School
Registration
Wednesday
8 am – 10 am
4 pm – 6 pm
Registration
9 am – 5 pm
4 pm – 6 pm
2 pm – 5 pm
9 pm – 11 pm
8 pm – 9 pm
Tour #1- Harvard Glass Flowers, Lyman Estate
Boutique
Hospitality Suite
8 am – 10 am
2 pm – 5 pm
Registration
8 am – 5:30 pm.
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
3 pm – 5:30 pm
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
9:30 pm – 11 pm
Plant Entries
Tour #2 – Logee’s, Roger Williams Botanical Center
Boutique
New England Seafood Bake
Hospitality Suite
Friday
8 am – 8:30 am.
9 am -1 pm.
9 am – 9:45 am
10 am – 11 am
11:15 am – 11:45 am
1 pm – 2 pm
1:30 pm – 5:30 pm
7 pm - 10 pm
3 pm – 5 pm
7 pm – 10 pm.
9 pm – 11 pm
Judges’ Breakfast
Judging
Seminar – Drew Norris “Growing Begonias Like African Violets”
Seminar – Randy Kerr – “Species Begonias”
Seminar – Pablo Jourdan – “Germplasm Update”
Judges’ Luncheon
Tour #3 – Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Show Open for Registrants Only
Boutique
Plant Sale for Registrants Only
Hospitality Suite
Saturday
9 am – 5 pm
8 pm – 9:30 pm
Show and Sale Open to Public
9 am – 5 pm
8 pm – 10 pm
Plant Sales
10 am – 12 pm
Boutique
Thursday,
Seminar – Mike Flaherty “Begonias of the Rich &Famous”
4 pm – 6 pm
8 pm – 10 pm
Sunday
9 am – 10 am
10:15 am – 11:15 am
12 pm – 1 pm
1 pm – 3 pm
6 pm – 8 pm
8 pm – 11 pm
9 pm – 11 pm
Seminar – Lloyd Traven – “Bringing Begonias to Market”
Seminar – Mark Tebbitt – “My Trip to China”
Lunch
Annual Meeting
Banquet
Packing and Shipping Party
Hospitality Suite
9 am – 12 am
Plant Sales
Things to Do
The Convention staff and hotel are happy to assist you in making plans to visit historic sites.
Boston
Walk the Freedom Trail
The Freedom Trail, a 2.5-mile, brick-lined route that leads you to 16 historically significant sites — each one an
authentic treasure. Explore museums and meetinghouses, churches, and burying grounds. Learn about the brave
people who shaped our nation. Discover the rich history of the American Revolution, as it began in Boston.
Faneuil Hall & Quincy Market
Faneuil Hall Marketplace is actually four great places in one location - Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market, North
Market and South Market, all set around a cobblestone promenade where jugglers, magicians and musicians
entertain the passers-by. So by all means, stroll, shop, eat, laugh, wander, wonder and explore it all.
Boston Duck Tour
Board an authentic World War II amphibious landing vehicle, renovated for sightseeing. You'll cruise by all the
places that make Boston the birthplace of freedom and a city of firsts! View such sights as the golden-domed
State House to Bunker Hill and the TD Banknorth Garden, Boston Common and Copley Square to the Big Dig,
Government Center to fashionable Newbury Street, Quincy Market to the Prudential Tower, and more.
Swan Boat Ride
For over 130 years, the Swan Boats have been a part of the Boston experience. They grace the waters of the
Boston Public Garden, the first botanical garden in the United States. Famed in the stories Make Way for
Ducklings and The Trumpet of the Swan, the Swan Boats are the only boats of their kind in the world.
Local
Minute Man National Park – Concord, MA
At Minute Man National Historical Park the opening battle of the Revolution is brought to life as visitors explore
the battlefields and structures associated with April 19, 1775.
Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House – Concord, MA
Orchard House is a historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts. It was the longtime home of Amos
Bronson Alcott and family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott who wrote and set her beloved novel Little
Women there.
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum– Lincoln, MA
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is located on the former estate of Julian de Cordova (1851-1945). The
self-educated son of a Jamaican merchant, Julian de Cordova became a successful tea broker, wholesale merchant,
investor, and president of the Union Glass Company in Somerville, Massachusetts
Today, the Sculpture Park encompasses 30 acres of beautiful rolling woodlands and lawns, and is the largest park
of its kind in New England.
Longfellow’s Wayside Inn – Sudbury, MA
Longfellow's Wayside Inn—a nationally significant Massachusetts Historic Landmark—is the oldest Inn still
operating in the United States and has been serving travelers along the old Boston Post Road for almost 300 years.
The October 1862 visit to the old Howe Tavern by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and his publisher, James
Fields, had a far reaching impact on the literary and artistic significance of America's oldest hostelry. Longfellow
made the Sudbury tavern the gathering place for the characters in his 1863 book Tales of a Wayside Inn, and
because of the poet’s immense popularity, generations of readers, poets, and artists would seek out the colonial
landmark for decades to come.
Other
Worcester Art Museum – Worcester, MA
The Worcester Art Museum is world-renowned for its 35,000-piece collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative
arts, photography, prints, drawings and new media. The works span 5,000 years of art and culture. View paintings
by Cassatt, Gauguin, Goya, Monet, Sargent and Whistler; admire floor mosaics from the ancient city of Antioch;
see cutting-edge contemporary art; and discover the Museum's many other treasures. Special exhibitions showcase
the masterworks, seldom-seen gems, and important works on loan.
Newport RI Mansions – Newport, RI
The Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island's largest cultural organization, preserves and protects
the best of Newport County's architectural heritage. Its 11 historic properties and landscapes - seven of which are
National Historic Landmarks - trace America's architectural and social development from the Colonial era through
the Gilded Age. In keeping with its mission, the Society strives to offer its members and the public a
comprehensive view of each property's architecture, interiors, landscapes and social history.
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens – Boothbay, ME
After 16 years of planning, planting, and building, the grand opening of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens was
celebrated on June 13, 2007. This ambitious project began in 1991 when a group of mid-coast Maine residents
founded the grassroots organization. They, and those who worked with them and came after them, shared the
belief that northern New England in general, and Maine in particular, were in need of a botanical garden. Coastal
Maine Botanical Gardens purchased 128 acres of pristine land with 3,600 feet of tidal shore frontage in Boothbay.
Today Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens comprises 270 acres of tidal shore land and in 2013 welcomed nearly
100,000 guests throughout the year.