EVENTS ARCHIVE
2022
2020
2. Paul Spriggs -- Building a Crevice Garden in a Trough
3. Joe Harvey -- How to Make and Use a Home Propagator Unit
Meeting cancelled due to snow
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- AGM &election of officers; Calver Palamteer -- Winter Garden Plants -- Zoom Meeting
- Mike Kintgen -- The Rise of Rock Gardening; Alpines in the Southern Rockies -- Zoom Meeting
- Cliff Booker & John Dower -- Show Fever -- Zoom Meeting
- Spring Show & Symposium -- 100th anniversary of VIRAGS (1921 to 2021) -- Mary Winspear Centre
- Jay Ackerly -- Rock Garden Succulents from Sea to Sky --Zoom Meeting
- Martin Sheader -- Flowers of the Mountains of Central Chile -- Zoom Meeting
- Show and Tell, BYO Picnic and favourite plant; Plant sale--home of Janice Currie
- Cam Kidd -- Sedums & Other Succulents for the Pacific North West -- in person meeting at Lambrick Park Church
- Colin Tamboline -- Rocky Mountain High - Wild Flowers of the Continental Divide -- in person meeting and Zoom meeting
- Members Photo Show -- in person & zoom meeting
- Christmas Party - Lambrick Park Church
- AGM & election of officers; David Sellers, Janice Currie, Paul Spriggs--'A Saxifraga -- Zoom Meeting
- Liz Knowles -- 'The Flora of Japan' -- Zoom Meeting
- Jim Jermyn -- 'Growing Alpines in True Character' -- Zoom Meeting
- Round Table on Troughs - Host Erik Fleischer with Janice Currie, Domenique Turnbull, Jay Akerley, Chris Dixon -- Zoom Meeting
- Liberto Dario -- 'Greek Alpine Flora' -- Zoom Meeting
- Jeff Wright -- 'A Fairly Ferny Garden' -- Zoom Meeting
- Jamie Ellison -- 'Bogs and Bog Gardening' -- Zoom Meeting
- Nick Courtens -- 'Tajikistan & Uzbekistan - Adventures Along the Silk Road' Zoom Meeting
- Annual Members' Photo Show -- Zoom Meeting
- Brian Rowe -- 'Sub-Antarctic Flora of the South Pacific' -- Zoom Meeting
2020
- Round Robin WORKSHOPS
2. Paul Spriggs -- Building a Crevice Garden in a Trough
3. Joe Harvey -- How to Make and Use a Home Propagator Unit
Meeting cancelled due to snow
- AGM & election of officers
- Diane Whitehead & friends -- 'A close-up Look at the Genus Galanthus'
- Mike Bone -- 'Steppe Plants for the Rock Garden' cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic
- Spring Show -- cancelled
- Jenny Wainwright-Klein -- 'Alpines of the Drakensburg Mts.' cancelled
- Cliff Booker -- ' The Cream of Alpines' cancelled
- Annual Picnic -- cancelled
- Paul Spriggs -- 'Island Alpine Flora' -- Zoom Meeting
- Justin Dunning -- 'Wild Orchids of BC' -- Zoom Meeting
- Members' Photo Night -- Zoom Meeting
- Janice Currie & Friends -- 'Vistas & Plants of Chile' -- Zoom Meeting
- Janice Currie - 'A Lifetime of Pleasure With Gardening'
- Round Robin Workshops - 1. Diane Whitehead - Identifying Snowdrops 2. John Sheridan 'Alpine Seed Sowing' 3. Lloyd Gilmore 'Growing & Showing Auricula Primulas'
- John Mitchell - RBG Scotland 'Curation, Collection & Cultivation'
- Ger van den Beuken - Netherlands 'Cultivation of the Genus Saxifraga'
- Jay Ackerly - Rock Garden Plants of Canada's West Coast'
- Marcella Ferreyra - Argentina 'Flora of Patagonia'
- Claire Cockcroft - Bellevue Washington 'Trekking & Learnign About Asiatic Primulas'
- Carmen Varcoe & Friends - 'A Close Up Look at the Genus Cyclamen'
- Members Photo Show
- VIRAGS' Christmas Party
- Hans Roemer - 'Bavarian Spring Flowers'
- Annual General Meeting
- Paul Spriggs - 'A Grand Tour - the Rock Gardens of the Czech Republic'
- Julia Corden - Scotland - 'Wengen & the Bernese Oberland Area of Switzerland - High European Flora'
- Jim Jermyn - Scotland - 'Primulas Old & New'
- Howard Wills - UK - 'Exhibiting at RHS Flower Shows'
- VIRAGS Picnic & Plant Auction
- Chris Gardener - UK - 'The Flora of the Silk Road'
- Plant Sale
- Laura Caddy - UBC - 'The E.H. Lohbrunner Alpine Garden, UBC'
- Members' Photo Show
- VIRAGS Christmas Party
- Dr. Tony Rezniek - Collectors' Plants: Why a Botanist Chooses to Grow Certain Plants
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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