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2010 Calendar
Regular Meetings: Doors open at 7 p.m.
Meeting begins at 7:30.
at Gordon Head United Church Hall, 4201 Tyndall, Victoria B.C.
Tuesday, March 23 Regular Meeting
March has 5 Tuesdays. We meet on the 4th Tuesday, not the last one.
Richard Hebda - Galanthus
Richard has collected different forms of snowdrops from island farms, old gardens, and even roadside ditches.
Friday and Saturday, March 26 and 27
Spring Show
Cadboro Bay United Church
2625 Arbutus Road, Victoria, B.C. Canada
Admission by donation.
Friday 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
VIRAGS club members' plant sale: 11 a.m.
Tuesday, April 27 Regular Meeting
Judith McLauchlan - An Australian Spring
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Alpine Garden Club of B.C. Spring Sale
St. David's United Church,
1525 Taylor Way (at Upper Levels Highway),
West Vancouver, B.C.
Contact: agc-bc.ca
Features: A wide variety of alpine, rockery, native, woodland, and other unique and interesting plants from pot-size to trees from B.C.growers and local experts.
Free admission. Door prizes.
Tuesday, May 25 Regular Meeting
The Gardens of Government House
Sunday May 23rd 9-12
Plantaholics Plant Sale
at Abkhazi Gardens -1964 Fairfield Rd.
Parking at Margaret Jenkins School.
Gardens open free 9-12.
Tuesday, June 22 Regular Meeting
June has 5 Tuesdays. We meet on the 4th Tuesday, not the last one.
TBA
Tuesday, September 28 Regular Meeting
TBA
Tuesday, October 26 Regular Meeting
TBA
Tuesday, November 23 Regular Meeting
November has 5 Tuesdays. We meet on the 4th Tuesday, not the last one.
TBA
early December - Christmas party
Previous Talks:
2010
- Brenda Costanzo - Native Plants
- Bill Terry - The Perfect Garden: Plant Hunting in Tibet
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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