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Updated: Nov 2, 2017

• Dr. Tony Reznieck - Collector's Plants: Why a Botanist Chooses to Grow Certain Plants
• Bill McMillan - Gentians: Underused Gems for the Garden
• Jiri Papousek from the Czech Republic - Growing Alpines in the Czech Garden
• Alan McMurtrie -Magical Canadian-Bred Reticulata Iris
• Bert Hendriksen - Cacti for the rock garden
• Ken Marr, Curator of Botany, RBC Museum - New Plant Discoveries from Northern BC Alpine
• Philip MacDougall Polygonatums and Epimediums
• Joe Harvey - Fern Propagation.
• Ty Danylchuk - Building a crevice garden in a trough.
• Jacq Bradbury - Preparing your plants for the spring show

  2016

  • Lloyd Gilmore:Cultivation of Dwarf Rhododendrons
  • Mike Kintgen: Searching for Plants in Some of the Most Beautiful Places Around the World
  • Adrian Hutchison: Wildflowers in the Dolomites
  • 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