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| May 2012 | |
| 9 | Monthly general meeting Speaker: Stephanie Ferguson Topic: "Sun, Stone and Water" Sun, Stone and Water is a lecture in two parts. The first half will describe the construction procedure of a new crevice garden for alpine and steppe desert plants in Calgary. The second half will detail how this garden is planted, with particular attention to plant associations and siting. Stephanie Ferguson is an artist who gardens in Calgary, Alberta. Her primary horticultural interest is in persuading seeds to germinate and high altitude and desert plants to grow vertically using a crevice structure built with her architect husband David. There were two wonderful articles on Stephanie's garden in recent issues of the NARGS Rock Garden Quarterly showing how she constructed her garden and the fantastic range of plants that she grows. |
| June 2012 | |
| 13 | Monthly general meeting Speaker: Mark Turner Topic: "Rare and Endemic Plants of the Northwest" Rare and endemic plants from several areas in the Pacific Northwest will be presented, including the Olympic Mountains, Steens Mountain, Klamath/Siskiyou Mountains and the Columbia Plateau. Mark is a freelance photographer specializing in botanical subjects, especially Northwest wildflowers and gardens. He photographs extensively for books and magazines both in gardens and in a wide range of native plant environments. He, along with Phyllis Gustafson, is co-author of Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest published in 2006 and winner of a 2007 American Horticultural Society book award. He is an avid member of the native plant societies of Washington and Oregon and has more than 25 years experience exploring for native plants. Mark is currently locating and photographing Trees and Shrubs of the Pacific Northwest, due in 2013. www.turnerphotographics.com |
| September 2012 | |
| 12 | Monthly general meeting Speaker: Grahame Ware Topic: "Brodiaea- Natives and Near Natives Worthy of Your Consideration" Grahame Ware has been a specialist grower of rare plants for over two decades. He has an extensive background in horticulture including working for the Pacific Northwest Seed Company and establishing Round Lake Gardens, a nursery in the Okanagan. He is the co-Author of "Heucheras and Heucherellas" (Timber Press), the definitive guide to these genera and their hybrids. It was a long research project that solved many of the mysteries and mistakes of this very popular group of plants. He is the founder and owner of Owl & Stump Rare Plants near Ladysmith on Vancouver Island and is a long-time member of the AGC of BC. |
| 24 | Special meeting: Monday, September 24 Speaker: Kristl Walek Topic: "Seedy Perspectives: Collecting, Cleaning and Storage of Seed" Kristl Walek is the owner of Gardens North, a Canadian seedhouse offering an eclectic mix of perennial and woody seed as well as fern spores. In 1992 Kristl started Gardens North as a humble, small dining-room operation with the seed of plants from her own backyard. Since then the business has grown to international proportions; as of 2012 sales are in over 40 countries and still growing. A large proportion of the seed she sells is wild collected. Kristl is considered one of the leading experts on seed germination and has written and lectured on the topic to many international organizations. She was a contributor to Norm Deno's "Seed Germination and Theory" and in 1998 was the 1st recipient of the NARGS Geoffrey Charlesworth writing prize for her article on seed collecting, cleaning and storage. She is currently finishing a book about the propagation of eastern Canadian native plants from seed. |
| October 2012 | |
| 10 | No general meeting With a special meeting late in September and another in early November the Executive has decided that there will not be a regular meeting on the second Wednesday of October. |
| November 2012 | |
| 7 | Special meeting: Wednesday, November 7 Speaker: Harvey Wrightman Topic: "Growing Alpine Plants" Established in 1985, Wrightman Alpines in Ontario grows about 2000 species and varieties of alpine plants. The mail order catalogue lists over 600 alpines and perennials which are shipped to enthusiasts throughout Canada and the United States. The display gardens demonstrate a variety of landscaping techniques using stone as the main building material. Dry-laid stone walls and flagstone pathways along the foundation of the house hold tufa crevice gardens and are a collaboration of Josef Halda and Harvey Wrightman's construction. Hand-chiseled stone troughs are displayed as examples of container gardening. Crevice gardens constructed of tufa and limestone and a backyard scree garden, form the backdrop for a myriad of colours, texture and forms of favorite alpine plants. |
| 14 | Monthly general meeting Speaker: Chris Czajkowski Topic: "Alpine Flora of the Remote British Columbia Coast Range" Chris Czajkowski grew up in England, travelled the world with a backpack for a decade, and arrived in Canada in 1979. Three years later she was building her first off-road cabin in the wilderness, about 150 km inland from Bella Coola. In 1988 she moved to a higher location on a fly-in lake where she built three more cabins and created the Nuk Tessli Alpine Experience, an ecotourism business catering to hikers and naturalists. She has written ten books about her nearly thirty years of wilderness living. At first she lived At Nuk Tessli full time, but in 2006, she bought a derelict homestead not too far from the mountain resort but with rough road access. Ginty Creek is still quite remote, being three and a half hours' drive from the nearest bank, traffic light, supermarket and cellphone tower. It is ideally located to pursue Czajkowski's love of wilderness and the natural world. She has several more books in the works. For more information on her books and artwork, and an update of her adventures, visit her blog: www.wildernessdweller.ca |