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Updated: Feb 2 , 2012
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Regular Meetings: Doors open at 7 p.m.
Meeting begins at 7:30.
at Gordon Head United Church Hall, 4201 Tyndall, Victoria B.C.
2012 Calendar
Tuesday, February 28 Regular Meeting
Diane Whitehead
Spring in the Karoo and Namaqualand
  
Diane has been assured that her Karoo/Namaqualand talk is not jinxed - the one people had to squint at on her laptops after VIRAGS' projector died. The projector has been fixed, and we'll try it again.
Tuesday, March 27 Regular Meeting
David Sellars
Chaos in the Rock Garden: Putting Theory into Practice
A long time member and on the executive of the Alpine Garden Club of B.C., David is a well known photographer and plantsman, and has traveled extensively to botanize and photograph alpines including the Pyrenees and Dolomites and throughout the PNW.
Friday April 13 and Saturday April 14 Spring Show
Tuesday, April 24 Regular Meeting
Ken Marr, Curator of Botany at Royal B.C. Museum
Botanizing in the Altai Mountains and Far Eastern Russia
Ken's interests include the biogeography and floristics of British Columbia's alpine vascular flora, invasive plants, and ethnobotany, particularly crop domestication.
Tuesday, May 22 Regular Meeting
Note: May has five Tuesdays. We meet on the 4th Tuesday, not the last one.
 Roscoea, Robust Renegade of the Ginger Family
The Ginger family, the Zingiberaceae, is one that many adventurous gardeners are attracted to these days. And no wonder - it comprises an all-star team of exotic genera such as Alpinia, Canna, Cautleya, Costus, Elettaria, Hedychium, Kaempferia, Musa, Renealmia and Zingiber itself.
Strapping-looking darlings with a tropical habit, the Gingers are often found gracing a lovely urn or three, providing the backbone on the patios and terraces of many warm, summer gardens.
This botanical family also does double duty at the dining table jazzing up our dishes not only with ginger but cardamom and turmeric. Its very hard to imagine cuisine without their flavourful input.
The Ginger family has also spawned a robust genus,Roscoea, that can take harsh and variable conditions. This refusnik disdains being just another warm-weather wonder like the rest of the clan. Thus, it has earned a place in our temperate gardens (and hearts) by being respectfully hardy and spicing them up with a much appreciated tropical flair.
Tuesday, June 26 Regular Meeting
Paul Spriggs
A Great Scot: David Douglas, The Man, The Legend and his Plants
Our very own intrepid plant hunter and always with a keen eye for a fine plant, Paul Spriggs, will share his passion for the Scottish botanist and plant hunter David Douglas and include some of his fine plant introductions and exploits that put this plantsman in the history books.
Tuesday, September 25 Regular Meeting
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Tuesday, October 23 Regular Meeting
Note: October has five Tuesdays. We meet on the 4th Tuesday, not the last one.
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Tuesday, November 27 Regular Meeting
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Previous Talks:
2012
- Zdenek Zvolanek - Daphnes
2011
- Richard Fraser - Helleboreganza
- Philip MacDougall - Araucariana - Why don't we grow Philesea magellanica?
- Grahame Ware - Mukdenia rossii- A Saxifrage Relative with Oomph!
- Ron Long - Pink Mountain Revisited -The Conservation Crisis that No One is Aware of
- Janice Currie - A Plant Lover's Photo Shoot of New Zealand's Most Famous Public and Private Gardens
2010
- Brenda Costanzo - Native Plants
- Bill Terry - The Perfect Garden: Plant Hunting in Tibet
- Richard Hebda - Galanthus
- Judith McLauchlan - An Australian Spring
- Brian Rogers: The Gardens of Government House
- Paul Spriggs: Lessons from Crete
- Bill Barker's slides organized by John Sheridan: a wilderness ecotourist visit to Chris Czajkowski near Tweedsmuir Park.
- Gordon MacKay: Dwarf Conifers: The Backbone of the Rock Garden
2009
- John Sheridan - Remembering Pamela Dalziel
- John Sheridan - A Further Foray into VIRAGS History
- Rotating Workshops
- Rex Murfitt: How to divide plants and plant them on
- Rodger Whitlock: How to clean seeds
- Daphne Guernsey: How to sow different seeds
- Pam Eveleigh - Tibetan Primulas
- Linda Verbeek - Western Alpines
- Yvonne Rorison - Schezuan and Yunnan, China
- Hans Roemer - Climate and Plant Choices
- Rodger Whitlock - Hepaticas
- Carmen Varcoe - Plant Expedition to Bhutan
- Brian White - Vietnam's Plants from the Backwoods
2008
- Claire Cockcroft - Plants of Crete
- Richard Hebda -The Colchicums:
Naked Ladies and Naked Boys
- Sean Hogan - Plants of the Sierras
- Rex Murfitt - Myth Busting
- Johanna Piltzer - Growing Alpines
- David Sellars - Following in the Footsteps of Reginald Farrer in the Dolomites
- Mark Turner - Plants of the North Cascades
- Henrik Zetterlund - Corydalis
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