Plant Breeding Talk Hosted by Silver Spring Garden Club

Plant Breeding, the art of creating your very own new varieties of plants, may sound complex and technical, but it isn’t. People have been breeding plants since agriculture began, and you can easily create your own new plants in your backyard. In this talk, you’ll learn the simple principles and techniques that will allow you to start creating a perfectly delicious tomato, columbines in JUST the right shade of purple, technicolored corn, or whatever else you can dream up.

Our speaker, Joseph Tychonievich , is a life-long gardener and lover of plants. Joseph earned his BS in horticulture from Ohio State University, went on to work for Shibamichi Honten Nursery in Saitama, Japan, has been a repeated guest on public radio’s food show “The Splendid Table,” wrote a book, Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener (Timber Press, 2013), spent two years working at the famed rare plants nursery Arrowhead Alpines, and was named by Organic Gardening Magazine as one of “...six young horticulturists who are helping to shape how America gardens.” Currently Joseph lives and gardens with his husband and an adorable black cat in SE Michigan and has his second book, on Rock Gardening, coming out in November.

He will have copies of his first book to sign and sell at our meeting, so bring your checkbooks!

WHEN: Monday, June 20, 8:00pm
Doors open at 7:30pm

WHERE: Brookside Gardens
Visitors Center/Education Building
1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, Maryland

REFRESHMENTS will be provided after the talk by the following Silver Spring Garden Club members: Chris Lewis, Sarah Leung, Helen Gray, and Sue Smith.

Meeting Etiquette
Please turn off or silence your cell phones during our meetings out of courtesy to our guest speakers and your fellow club members. If you must take a call, please proceed outside the room and turn left and proceed all the way down the hallway or go outside the building.