NOVEMBER 18 Hortaholic and plant evangelist Russell Stafford is a returning speaker. He is founder, owner, webmaster, nursery manager, propagator, shipping and telemarketing supervisor, data entry specialist, custodian, and all other positions at Odyssey Bulbs, an on-line mail order nursery specializing in cool and uncommon geophytes.  In what should be his spare time, he attempts solvency by designing, tending, and writing and speaking about gardens and plants.  He formerly served as curator and head of horticulture at Fernwood Botanic Garden in Niles, Michigan; as horticultural program coordinator at the Center for Plant Conservation (then located at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); and in various other horticultural capacities.   He lives, works, and plays with plants in South Lancaster, Massachusetts. Russell will help us with the GREAT NATIVE PLANT DILEMMA in a talk called Beyond ‘Moonbeam and ‘Annabelle’; Native Plants that Don’t Get Enough Attention.  Native plants are all the rage in gardening circles.  Yet many of the most adaptable and ornamental Eastern North American natives are scarcely seen in the trade or in the domestic landscape.  Plantsman Russell Stafford will talk up some of his favorite "natives," while attempting perhaps unsuccessfully to skirt the controversial topic of native versus exotic plants.   He may also pitch some "exotic" plants that are arguably as "native" as many or most of the plants sold under that rubric.