Forthcoming Events

3 & 4 October - Mar Monte Hotel, Santa Barbara, CA.
Gardening Under Mediterranean Skies VII: Lessons in Sustainable Gardening
Join Pacific Horticulture in Santa Barbara for the seventh in its series of symposia exploring the challenges and delights of California's mediterranean climate. This two-day event is co-sponsored by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden and the Mediterranean Garden Society.

5 to 8 November - Limassol, Cyprus
MGS Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting is being held on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus this year. This year's meeting promises excellent talks on very low water gardening and the exotic location should be quite fascinating.
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Past Events

April 2008
Will Giles' talk on Exotic Plants for Temperate Climates

Since our Pacific Northwest branch began to form and connect with the Puget Sound area gardening community, we have held two tours of members' gardens, which attracted visitors from the entire area. The interest in new plants suitable for the Northwest was so evident from those attending the tours that we decided to use the donations to bring British gardener and garden writer Will Giles to talk here.

Will Giles is the author of "The Encyclopedia of Exotic Plants for Temperate Climates" (Timber Press, 2007), a work with 1,400 entries that seems as though it were written with the Pacific Northwest in mind. He has been one of the innovators on  the English scene for almost 20 years with his garden near Norwich in East Anglia.(See his site at www.exoticgarden.com.)

He spoke at both the Islandwood environmental centre on Bainbridge Island and at the Bloedel Reserve, also on Bainbridge Island.

Terri Stanley

Prior to the opening of Mesogeo in 2003, Terri Stanley  designed and installed gardens for 20 years. As co-owner of Mesogeo, she continues to work as designer, horticultural consultant, and director of the growing operations. Her design work has appeared in books and magazines, including: "Northwest Garden Style" (Sasquatch Press, 1995), "Gardening with Herbs" (Time-Life Books, 1996), "The Abundant Garden" (Cool Springs Press, 2005), Western Interiors and Design (July, 2003), Coastal  Living (Spring, 2003), Romantic Gardens (Spring, 2004), Seattle Homes & Lifestyles (October, 2004/January, 2005). Martha Stewart’s Living (March, 2007).

Her articles on gardening style have appeared in: Pacific Horticulture (July-August, 2004), Garden Design (Special Spring Issue, March 2005), Northwest Home and Garden (March 2007)

Stanley has been a frequent speaker at Puget Sound area gardening events, including the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Her nursery has become a destination for garden enthusiasts through the Northwest, as well as many visitors from across the country. She has been featured  in articles in Garden Design, Sunset, and Northwest Home and Garden, where, most  recently  plant explorer Dan Hinkley wrote an extended piece on her work ("Mediterranean Meditations", March, 2007).

Terry Moyemont 

Terry Moyemont has been photographing  landscapes and gardens for over 45 years, with exhibitions of his work in Illinois, Michigan, Montana,  California, and Washington. In recent years his work has appeared the magazines Seattle Homes and Lifestyles, Pacific Horticulture, Northwest Home and Garden, Garden Design, and in Lady Susana Walton’s book on her garden, La Mortella. and Will Giles' new "Encylopedia of Exotic Plants for Temperate Climates" (Timber Press, 2007).

For 35 years Moyemont has also had a successful  parallel career in film and video. As writer, cameraman, and editor he has produced multimedia dance performances,  documentaries, and numerous demo pieces fro artists such as Dale Chihuly and Italian sculptor Salvatore Cipolla. His documentary works include "The Glass Dimension" (on the work and lives of Czech glass artists Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova), "Living the Legend" (on the restoration and sailing of the historic USS Constitution), and "On Tour with the Blue Berets" (on United Nations peace keeping in Macedonia). His productions have received major funding from the Illinois and Montana Arts Councils, the Joyce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation.