Position of Trial Garden Director

From the By-Laws

Article IV, Officers

Section 10 – The Trial Garden Director will be responsible for all Trial Garden activities and will serve as Chairperson of the Trial Garden Committee. Responsibilities will include the maintenance of trial garden records, coordination with U of M Arboretum staff, establishment of maintenance teams and the carrying out of Spring planting and Fall digging operations. Section 11 – The Board of Directors shall be composed of nine members: The President, First Vice President, Second Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, ADS Representative, Trial Garden Director, and two additional Directors. The ADS Representative and the Trial Garden Director are selected by the Board of Directors and continue to serve until their resignation, or until they are replaced by the Board of Directors. As a vacancy in the position develops it will be filled by the Board. Their place on the Board is dictated by their position, not by the election process.

General duties:

Assist at all General Meetings and Internal (Members-only) Events

1. Coordinate with the Landscape Arboretum management

2. Coordinate with hybridizes with entries

3. Planting

4. Coordinate Maintenance volunteers

5. Coordinate with Judges

6. Write any announcements or instructions, on the website, related to the Trial Garden activities.

7. Write any email (using MailChimp) to make announcements or promote participation.

See Trail Garden Committee

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2021 – Larry Bagge and John Kooiman

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