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Members: If you have not filled out your CIWGA application and/or received your membership card, please contact Carolyn or Greg Knop at the next meeting.
Members can receive the newsletter either via e-mail or postal mail. The e-mail version is on our website and includes color as well as more pictures. The regularly mailed version has the same text but with fewer pictures to save on printing and mailing costs. If it is possible for you to receive the newsletter by e-mail only, please let us know. Members will be sent an e-mail notification of the website’s newsletter update each month. While the e-mail version is the most economical for the club, membership entitles you to receive the newsletter any way you want.
September 13 - Eastern Iowa Pond Society will host speaker Greg Speichert at their meeting.
Greg Speichert comes from Cedar Lake, IN. He has a B.S. in Agriculture (Horticulture) from Purdue University. He is president of Crystal Palace Perennials, a large nursery that provides common and rare, hard to find, water plants to wholesale and retail markets. He is also publisher for Water Gardening Magazine, which is a bi-monthly publication devoted to educating hobby water gardeners like ourselves. He is a frequent speaker at the Chicago Botanic Gardens and consults for many national and international water plant projects, wetland migration, and wetland reclamation projects. He has been a guest speaker on many TV and radio programs. He has authored or co-authored many, many books among them are: Water Gardening in Containers, Hardy Water Irises, Fine Gardening, More that Swamp Things, Planting on the Edge, and many more too numerous to mention. He is a member on the Board of Directors for the International Waterlily and Water Garden Society, and has membership in numerous other plant and garden groups.
Indian Creek Nature Center, Cedar Rapids, IA 7:00 PM. Open to the public, free admission. If there is enough interest, CIWGA members will carpool to this event.
October 8 - CIWGA meeting, Program: Overwintering Your Pond, place TBA
November 12 - CIWGA meeting, program and place TBA