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NPA lecture with Linda BeutlerHow to Produce a 12-Month Show in Your GardenSunday, November 16, 2008 - 1 pm
Linda is a member of numerous gardening organizations (as most gardeners are) including the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, American Hemerocallis Society, North American Lily Society, North American Rock Garden Society, and the Pacific Northwest Peony Society. She is serving on the governing council of the International Clematis Society (I.Cl.S.). Linda is a founding member of the Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection (in 2003), and served on their Board of Directors until she was named the collection’s first curator, beginning July 2007. Linda began volunteering for Mr. Rogerson in October of 2001.
She lectures nationally on numerous gardening topics, and is a garden writer for both local and national publications, including Fine Gardening, Pacific Horticulture, and Birdwatcher's Digest.
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Linda Beutler is a fearless gardener who grows a great number of plants on a simple, flat 50 x 100 foot city lot in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. She was been a professional florist for 20+ years, and her first love in her own garden was growing flowers and foliage for cutting. That focus started changing when Linda purchased her first clematis as a misnamed plant. Her personal collection now numbers nearly 300 species and cultivars. This passion for clematis lead to the publication of her first book, Gardening with Clematis (Timber Press, 2004). The clematis are not her only plant collection. Hers is a fully functioning cottage garden, including fruit trees and favorite vegetables.
Linda Beutler has been an instructor of horticulture at Clackamas Community College (CCC) for over 10 years. Her classes include Herbaceous Perennials (summer term) and The Flower Arranger’s Garden I & II (autumn and spring terms). In spring 2007 Timber Press presented her second book, Garden to Vase, on growing and using your own cut flowers, featuring photography by Allan Mandell. This book was written with gardeners, not florists, in mind, and serves as the text book for her spring and fall classes at CCC.