Presentation: Mountain Passes: Four Passes in the Andes

• Presentation: Mountain Passes: Four Passes in the Andes

Mountain passes provide a unique opportunity to visit alpine areas to botanize. In 2020 Bella and Barbara travelled to Argentina to travel with Marcela Ferreyra into the Andes. Together they drove up and into the eastern Andes in Argentina then crossed over into Chile to explore the western Andean slopes. This presentation will focus on their experience of four very different mountain passes and what they learned about the flora they found there.

• Member's Showcase Mid-Summer in the Bruce Peninsula: Erika Schroedersecker will talk about the flora she saw.

• Members will have a change to pick up the seeds they ordered in the seed exchange.

Barbara Cooper and Bella Seiden have been gardening together in Toronto for more than 25 years.They have a plant collector’s garden in an urban setting where they have constructed a tufa garden crevice and rock gardens as well as perennial beds Over the years they have developed an interest in seeing plants in their natural habitat and have traveled several times to South America South Africa and Turkey. They are members of the Ontario Rock Garden and Hardy Plant Society where they are responsible for the Speaker’s Programme.

Erika Schroedecker is a passionate plants woman. She grew up with keen gardeners as parents her father building a rock garden perennials beds and later on a water garden. Her parents stoked and encouraged her interest in plants & the natural world. As a young teenager she took over her parents garden and began buying and importing plants from nurseries in North America. Alpines and bulbs are Erika's passion with a particular focus on South African bulbs. She enjoy hiking & botanizing in Ontario as well as growing rare challenging plants and surrounding herself with beauty. 

Host or Publisher Ontario Rock Garden and Hardy Plant Society