Pat Kenny will share her one year adventure of producing the Mighty Oak Award. Please feel free to bring friends, family, and guests to this meeting. We will meet in the Administration Building. There will be refreshments after the talk. Plenty of parking is available.

Members from Herb Society of America's Mid-Atlantic Units will highlight herbs associated with Greek Gods, the theme of the entrance to the National Herb Garden. The Pennsylvania Heartland Unit will be showcasing Asclepius, the Philadelphia Unit will show herbs of the zodiac and the Potomac Unit will showcase the herb of the year - Achillea/yarrow.

An Abundance of Herbs for Sale!

Are you looking for a hard to find herb?

We will have over 85 varieties of herbs for sale.

Dr. Greg Susla will talk about his work in expanding the 19th century medicinal herb garden on the grounds of the Pry House Field Hospital Museum on the Antietam National Battlefield. The garden has over 35 different herbal varieties that are representative of plants that would have been grown during the period in the Mid-Atlantic Region. The presentation will be on Zoom.

Connie Hilker – owner of Hartwood Roses in Fredericksburg, VA. Connie to speak on preserving heirloom roses. Connie is a lifelong gardener with over 600 varieties of roses in her personal collection. She is the chair of the Heritage and Preservation Committee of the American Rose Society, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Heritage Rose Foundation, and Old Garden Rose chair for the American Rose Society Colonial District. Connie manages the documentation, preservation, and restoration of the historic rose collection at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, and is the rose consultant at the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The event is free and guests are encouraged. There is plenty of free parking and refreshments will be served.

The Herb Society of America Units in the mid-Atlantic area come together to provide information about chiles, as well as different chiles and food made with chiles to taste. The event is free and open to the public.

The Herb Society of America Units will come together and can answer herb-related questions.

Come gather in-person September 14, 2022 (Wednesday) from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm at the US National Arboretum classroom for our first program of the year.

Important Information to know before you go -

Cooking Demo + Tasting/RSVP We are excited to announce that Susan is prepared to provide us with a cooking demonstration and recipe tasting from her new book during the program. For this activity, we will need to let Susan know how many people plan to attend on September 14 in advance. If you are interested in attending the program, please send an RSVP to Kari Barrett at kpbrrtt@gmail.com by September 7.

To Receive an Autographed Book at the Meeting We are not able to sell book at the USNA but Susan has graciously agreed to deliver pre-purchased books to interested members at the meeting. If you would like a copy of Susan’s book delivered to you at the September 14 program, please email Susan directly at sbcooks@susanbelsinger.com with potomac unit hsa book order in the subject line. In your email, let her know how many books you want and who she should autograph it to. You can then mail her a check or pay her through Paypal or Venmo (@sbcooks). The cost of the book is $23.99.

Alternatively, members can send her a message and check ($23.99 per book) through the mail by September 5 (to ensure she receives your request in time).

The Potomac Unit will have an educational table and can answer herb related questions.

The Herb Society of America Units in the mid-Atlantic area come together to provide information about a particular herb-related theme and for June it is tussie mussies.

The Potomac Unit will demonstrate how to make lavender wands.

The “Under the Arbor” events are literally under the arbor (i.e., outside) in the National Herb Garden at the U.S. National Arboretum. Herb Society of America Units in the mid-Atlantic area come together to provide information about a particular herb-related theme, which is roses for May.

The Potomac Unit will have an educational display and can answer herb-related questions. This is outdoors; the rain date is Sunday, May 15. 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

The Potomac Unit will demonstrate how to make tussie mussies.

The Potomac Unit will have an educational display and can answer herb related questions.

The Potomac Unit’s next meeting will feature another well-respected professional horticulturist who has been educated locally, at the University of Maryland, and has dedicated herself to educating locally. Now retired, she is sharing her education and gardening experience literally in and near her own backyard in the Village of Glen Echo MD and in the sustainable gardens of a home in Lewes, Delaware.

Long-time member of the Potomac Unit and first curator of the National Herb Garden, Holly has been watching and working with roses over the years as she served in, as it is said, The DMV (District of Columbia, the U.S. Botanic Garden, and Virginia’s Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, while also living in the State of Maryland).

Holly Shimizu will present a program called “Fragrant Low-care Herbal Roses” just in time to help prepare us for sharing about Roses on Saturday, May 21st at one of the National Herb Garden’s Under the Arbor events. The event will be on Zoom.

www.hollyshimizu.com