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EVENTS ARCHIVE

2022
  • 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

2021
  • 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
      1. Lloyd Gilmore -- Hybridizing Auricula Primulas
      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
 2019
  • 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
 2018
  • H​ans 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
2017​
  • 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 ​
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
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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
 
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