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Updated: June 9, 2016

  Regular Meetings:    Doors open at 7 p.m.       Meeting begins at 7:30.

at Gordon Head United Church Hall, 4201 Tyndall, Victoria B.C.




2016 Calendar

**** Meetings will be held on the second Tuesday from now on ***** This is to enable sharing speakers with the Vancouver and Calgary clubs.





Fri June 10, Open Garden 6 p.m., Meeting 7 p.m.    Special Outdoor Meeting in Janice Currie's garden. See the newsletter for her address.

Adrian Hutchison

Wildflowers in the Dolomites


Adrian has been interested in wildflowers since his childhood in southern England. He worked in weed research, which kept him in close contact with the British flora. He has worked in all sorts of horticultural situations, mainly garden design, construction and maintenance. Now he works part-time at Plants for Shade (Long Acre Plants) and has more time to travel around looking at wild flowers, mainly in the hills and mountains of Europe. He is looking forward to seeing our wildflowers.



Tues September 13    Regular Meeting

Mike Kintgen

Searching for Plants in Some of the Most Beautiful Places Around the World





Tues October 11    Regular Meeting

A Compilation of Members' Photos





Tues November 8    Regular Meeting

TBA

TBA







Previous Talks:

2016

  • Todd Boland: Spring in the Pyrenees
  • Malcolm MacGregor: Rock Gardening: What's a Heaven For?
  • Paul Spriggs: What's in the mix - Understanding rock garden soils
  • Janice Currie: A Garden of South African Impressions

    2015

    • U.K. sempervivum specialist Howard Wills at the Christmas party
    • Hans Roemer: Alpine Plants in the Southern Canadian Rockies
    • Jay Akerley North American Cordillera Plants for the B.C. Garden
    • David Sellars: The Joy of Sax: Saxifrages in the rock garden
    • Andree Connell: Cyclamen, Know 'em, grow 'em, sow 'em
    • Pam Eveleigh: Modern Plant Hunting
    • Agnes Lynn: Local Wildflowers at Your Feet
    • Paul Spriggs: Searching for Lewisia tweedyi
    • Workshops:
      Hans Roemer - growing bulbs in pots
      Maedythe Martin - growing and flowering hepaticas in pots
      Paul Spriggs - constructing a container crevice garden

      2014

      • John Fitch Professor Emeritus, UVic: What's in a Name? Latin and Greek in our Names for Wildflowers
      • Bill McMillan: Selected Gardens and Birds of Southern England and the Scilly Isles
      • Erica Wheeler from the Herbarium Dept., Royal BC Museum: Alliums
      • Kenton Seth Caucasus and Crevices; from Georgia to the Garden: Planthunting in the Greater Caucasus
        and what those environments mean for inviting those plants home
      • Gordon Murray: Trilliums, an Accidental Science
      • Agnes Lynn: Some Favourite Gems from the Olympics
      • Paul Spriggs: The Art of the Crevice Garden and a Report on the Czech International Rock Garden Conference


      2013

      • Philip MacDougall: Yunnan
      • Agnes Lynn: Flora of the San Juan Ridge
      • Janice Currie: Tripping with the Czech Republic's Best Rock and Alpine Gardeners
      • Chris Chadwell Paradise on Earth: The Beautiful Rock Garden Plants of Kashmir
      • Andy MacKinnon: Adaptations of Life in The Alpine
      • Ian Efford: New Zealand Alpines, A Failure in Planning
      • Jeff De Jong: Trough Love
      • Rex Murfitt: Waterperry Gardens


      2012

      • Zdenek Zvolanek - Daphnes
      • Diane Whitehead - Spring in Namaqualand, the Karoo, and Western Australia
      • David Sellars - Chaos in the Rock Garden: Putting Theory into Practice
      • Ken Marr -Botanizing in the Altai Mountains and Far Eastern Russia
      • Grahame Ware of Owl and Stump Rare Plants Roscoea: Robust Renegade of the Ginger Family
      • Harvey Wrightman of Wrightman Alpines in Ontario - Clay/Crevice: New techniques for new plants
      • Kristl Walek of Gardens North, Seeds for the World Woodland Wildflowers of Eastern Canada
      • Paul Spriggs: A Great Scot: David Douglas, The Man, The Legend and his Plants
      • Philip MacDougall: Roadside Anatolia


      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