NARGS Allegheny Chapter, North American Rock Garden Society

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NARGS Allegheny Chapter, North American Rock Garden Society NARGS is for gardening enthusiasts interested in alpine, saxatile, and low-growing perennials.

It encourages the study and cultivation of wildflowers that are suitable to the rock garden.

This Sunday, see events for details. Daniel is a retired choral director/music educator and plant enthusiast who has dev...
09/17/2026

This Sunday, see events for details.

Daniel is a retired choral director/music educator and plant enthusiast who has developed practical knowledge and experience by growing and cultivating his own plants for well over 25 years. Residing on the eastern shore of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, his woodland, rock, and container gardens include numerous primula species and hybrids as well as dwarf conifers, shrubs, trillium, hepatica and other desirable woodlanders and rock garden plants. He grows many of his plants from seed.

Daniel is both a Director on the Board of the American Primrose Society (APS) and the editor of the APS Quarterly Journal Primroses. He is a member of the recently formed Midwest APS Group, the North American Rock Garden Society (NARGS) and the Great Lakes Chapter of NARGS. He has given presentations for The Hardy Plant Society of Southeast Michigan, The Hosta Society of Southwest Michigan, the APS 2025 National Show, Friends of the Calumet Public Library and the Great Lakes Region Hosta College in Piqua, Ohio.

Hope all in the US have been having a good Labor Day.  It’s also. Chapter Member Monday.From Marie…Epiphyllum, commonly ...
09/07/2026

Hope all in the US have been having a good Labor Day. It’s also. Chapter Member Monday.
From Marie…Epiphyllum, commonly known as the orchid cactus, is a group of tropical, epiphytic cacti native to the rainforests of Central and South America.

👀 what’s blooming in the aviary rock garden.  Thanks for the photos Debra, and all that our chapter member do to maintai...
08/20/2026

👀 what’s blooming in the aviary rock garden. Thanks for the photos Debra, and all that our chapter member do to maintain the garden.

Allegheny Chapter NARGS had our annual picnic last Sunday.  Despite rain in the forecast we got the whole picnic done in...
08/19/2026

Allegheny Chapter NARGS had our annual picnic last Sunday. Despite rain in the forecast we got the whole picnic done in the nick of time.
As always the side dishes all brought were delicious. We had plenty of plants for those who wanted, an auction and of course the member trough competition.
1st place went to Leslie, second to Nancy and third to Margie.

Chapter member Debra shares these beautiful swallowtail butterflies. On a recent visit to Jennings Prairie in Butler Cou...
08/03/2026

Chapter member Debra shares these beautiful swallowtail butterflies. On a recent visit to Jennings Prairie in Butler County she spied them dipping the nectar on Joe Pye W**d.
Beautiful

How about this colorful vision from Chapter Member Marie?  What is blooming in your garden?
07/30/2026

How about this colorful vision from Chapter Member Marie? What is blooming in your garden?

07/28/2026
Michelle sent these lovelies for Chapter Member Monday, thanks for sharing your garden of colors.
07/28/2026

Michelle sent these lovelies for Chapter Member Monday, thanks for sharing your garden of colors.

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Pittsburgh, PA

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