The American Horticultural Society offers opportunities to explore horticulture and gardens across America and around the world through the AHS Travel Study Program. The remaining 2009 destinations are below.

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• Portland, Oregon*
  August 12 - 16, 2009
  With AHS Host Tom and Jane Underwood
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  *Exclusive offering for AHS President’s Council Members.

The AHS’s annual President’s Council trip is headed to Portland, Oregon, to the familiar surrounds of Susie Usrey, the Society’s chair of the Board of Directors. Susie and the Underwoods will introduce you to Portland’s diverse landscape. We will have the rare opportunity to visit Susie and Bruce Usrey’s private garden. And a visit to Monrovia nursery will provide plenty of inspiration for your personal garden plus we’ll get a sneak peek at some of its newest plant introductions. We will also explore The Oregon Garden with more that 20 specialty gardens, including a Conifer Garden which features one of the largest collections of dwarf and miniature conifers in the country. And for the rose lovers, we will visit Portland’s International Rose Test Garden, the oldest official, continuously operated public rose test garden in the United States. Also on the itinerary are the Portland Classical Chinese Garden and some of Portland’s finest private gardens and retail garden centers. The accommodations for this trip will be The Governor Hotel, a historic landmark luxury hotel in downtown Portland.

• New York’s Hudson Valley
  October 14 - 18, 2009
  With AHS Host Katy Moss Warner
  Tour escorted by Stephanie Jutila
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This tour will highlight the rich horticultural treasures of the Hudson Valley and the art that compliments the landscape. Highlights will include Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Springwood and Eleanore Roosevelt’s Val-Kill; Olana, the estate of famed Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church; and from Lisburne Grange, a private estate designed by Fletcher Steele to Manitoga ,the modernist home and woodland quarry garden of America’s industrial designer, Russel Wright We will also visit Storm King Art Center, which showcases a fabulous collection of contemporary sculpture including: Calder, David Smith, Noguchi, Goldsworthy and Dia: Beacon, a museum for Dia Art Foundation's renowned of art from the 1960s to the present. Autumn color will be the backdrop for the tour, one that you won’t want to miss. The accommodations for this trip will be The Thayer Hotel, a historic hotel overlooking the Hudson River.

 

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