Perhaps you could check with a large nursery in your area? Or with the Universities?

Some of the professors at TAMU do lectures, and we are always delighted to get to hear them. You might be able to find a bright senior student to speak as well.

Janie

This is a good website as they do seminars and workshops in many places.

Here is a link that might be useful: Kitchen Tissue Culture

perhaps the people at Pine Knot who propagate hellebores would be a possibility. i don't know where you are in virginia, but NC is not so very far away, and Tony Avent of Plant Delights is one of the best speakers i have ever heard.

cmmwiebe,

I really appreciate the Kitchen Tissue Culture link that you posted. I have recently become interested in tissue culture as a means of multiplying the occasional really good hybrid zinnia that I produce in my amateur zinnia breeding program. Trying to reproduce them from small cuttings has met with very limited success. Although I do hope to improve my small cutting technique.

But I think I will also be experimenting with one or more Kitchen Culture Kits in the Spring, just to perfect a workable technique in case an outstanding zinnia specimen does appear in the garden this summer. Thanks again.

MM