American Rhododendron Society
ARS District One (British Columbia, Canada)

Chapter Meetings (click on Chapter name for location and time of meeting or see complete chapter list below

March 2010

Monday, March 1 Victoria Speaker: Andree Connell  Topic: "Cyclamens: An Underused Companion Plant for Rhododendrons" - 7:30 pm

Wednesday, March 3

Cowichan Valley  Speaker: Ingeborg Woodworth  Topic: "Invitation to an International Symposium" to celebrate 75 years of the German Rhododendron Society.- 7:30 pm
Tuesday, March 9 North Island  Speaker: Ron Knight  Topic: “Digital Photography for Gardeners” - members are to bring their digital cameras to the meeting - 7:30 pm
Wednesday, March 10 Mount Arrowsmith Speaker: Ron Knight  Topic: "Dwarf Rhododendrons"  - 7:30 pm
Thursday, March 11

Nanaimo  Speaker: Art Lightburn  Topic: "Gardens of Scotland" - 7:30 pm  

Wednesday, March 17

Fraser South  Speaker: Mark Turner - coauthored a recent guidebook to Wildflowers of The Pacific Northwest  Topic: “Photo Composition" - 7:30 pm 

Thursday, March 18 Vancouver Speaker: Don Martyn  Topic: "Magnolias" - 7:30 pm ... more
Monday, March 22 Fraser Valley:  Speaker: Rosemary Prufer  Topic: "The International Plant Propagators Society (IPPS) Conference in San Diego"- 7:30 pm
Tuesday, March 23 Peace Arch  Speaker:  Garth Wedemire  Topic: "Lu Zhu - A Plant Collector's Passion" - 7:30 pm


April 2010
Monday, April 5 Victoria    Speaker:Carmen Varcoe  Topic: "Plant Expedition to Bhutan"  - 7:30 pm  

Wednesday, April 7

Cowichan Valley  Speaker: - 7:30 pm
Thursday, April 8 Nanaimo  Speaker: - 7:30 pm 
Tuesday, April 13 North Island  Speaker: Dany Fortin – Topic: "Botanical Beauties from China and Japan" - 7:30 pm
Wednesday, April 14 Mount Arrowsmith Speakers: Marie and Al Bieberstein, our own truss Show and Plant Sale organizers  Topic: "What are trusses? How to Prepare and Present Them" .- 7:30 pm
Thursday, April 15

Vancouver  Michael Hickson  retired Head Gardener at Knightshayes Court, Devon - 7:30 pm ... more

Wednesday, April 21

Fraser South  Speaker: Doug Justice  Topic "UBC Botanical Garden" - 7:30 pm 

Monday, April 26

Fraser Valley  Speaker: - 7:30 pm

Tuesday, April 27 Peace Arch  Speaker: - 7:30 pm


Location and Times for Monthly Chapter Meetings

Victoria
Victoria, BC, Canada
Meetings: First Monday of every month
except July and August
Location: Garth Homer Center,
811 Darwin Street, Victoria, BC at 7:30 PM

Cowichan Valley
Duncan, Vancouver Island

Meetings: First Wednesday of every month from September to May
Location: St. John's Anglican Church Hall
486 Jubilee St., Duncan, British Columbia
North Island
Comox Valley, Campbell River and Northern Vancouver Island
Meetings: Second Tuesday every month except May through August
Location: United Church on Comox Avenue,
Comox, British Columbia at 7:30 PM
Mount Arrowsmith
Parksville, Vancouver Island
Meetings: Second Wednesday of every month except June, July, August and December
Location: Qualicum Beach Civic Centre,
747 Jones Street,
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia at 7:30 PM
Nanaimo
Nanaimo, Vancouver Island
Meetings: Second Thursday of the month from September to May Location: Beban Park Recreational Centre,
2300 Bowen Road, Nanaimo, BC at 7:00 pm 
Fraser South
Langley, BC
Meetings: Third Wednesday of every month from September to May
Location: Langley United Church, 5673 200th St.
Langley, British Columbia at 7:30 PM
Vancouver
Vancouver, BC
Meetings: Third Thursday of every month
except July, August and December
Location: Floral Hall, VanDusen Botanical Garden,
37th & Oak Street, Vancouver, BC at 7:30 PM
Fraser Valley
Maple Ridge, BC
Meetings: Fourth Monday of every month except July, August and December
Location: St. Andrew's Heritage Hall,
22279 116 Ave. (off Haney Bypass),
Maple Ridge, British Columbia at 7:30 PM
Peace Arch
South Surrey, BC
Meetings: Fourth Tuesday of each month except May, July and August Location: Cranley Place Hall, 2141 Cranley Drive, Surrey, British Columbia at 7:30 PM 


Meetings held in Previous Months

The rest of the 2010 year

January 2010
Monday, January 4 Victoria  Speaker: Norma Senn  Topic: "Kiwi Magic: Gardens of New Zealand" - 7:30 pm
Tuesday, January 12 North Island  Gardener's Panel of Local Experts - 7:30 pm
Wednesday, January 13 Mount Arrowsmith  Speaker: Bill McMillan from Victoria  Topic: "New Zealand Rhodo Conferentour around New Zealand" - 7:30 pm

Thursday, January 14

NanaimoSpeakers: June Bouchard & John Deniseger Topic:"The Ups and Downs of Nepal" 7:30pm

Wednesday, January 20

Fraser South  AGM, Elections, Awards and Dessert Extravaganza - 7:30 pm

Thursday, January 21

Vancouver  AGM, Elections, Members’ Slides - 7:30 pm

Monday, January 25

Fraser Valley "A Passion For Rhododendrons"  DVD produced by the Mendocino Botanical Gardens, California - 7:30 pm  (see You Tube Video Trailer for "A Passion For Rhododendrons")

Tuesday, January 26 Peace Arch  Speaker: Gwen Odermatt of Petals and Butterflies garden nursery, Langley
Topic: "Design of Petals and Butterflies- a 5-acre garden featured in Steve Whysall's 2010 Garden Calendar". Also, an introduction to "Great Plant Picks" - 7:30 pm

February 2010
Monday, February 1 Victoria  Leslie Drew Topic: "The Enduring Garden of the Stokers and the Simpsons" - 7:30 pm

Wednesday, February 3

Cowichan Valley  Speaker: Alan Campbell  Topic: “Garden Structures” - 7:30 pm
Tuesday, February 9

North Island  Speaker: Harry Wright  Topic: "Rhodo Basics" - 7:30 pm

Wednesday, February 10 Mount Arrowsmith  Speaker:
Wednesday, February 10 Nanaimo  Speaker: Richard Hebda,  Royal British Columbia Museum - Curator of Earth Sciences and Botnay  Topic: "Facing Climate Change on our Landscape and in our Gardens" - 7:30 pm
Wednesday, February 17

Fraser South  Speaker: Dennis Bottemiller - Nursery Manager at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden  Topic: "Plant Propagation" - 7:30 pm

Thursday, February 18

Vancouver  Speaker: Dennis Bottemiller - Nursery Manager at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden  Topic: "Nurseryman's Nirvana‘. Also Dennis will join a panel of local Rhodo experts.to address a broad range of topics relevant to the growing of Rhodos in the GVRD - 7:30 pm

Monday, February 22 Fraser Valley Speaker: Brenda Falk of Tanglebank  Topic: "Hellebores and Their Companions" 7:30pm
Tuesday, February 23

Peace Arch  Speaker: Gerry Gibbens   Topic: "What I have learned in (almost) a Lifetime of Gardening - landscape design as exemplified by Van Dusen Botanical Garden; combining rhodos in the garden; watering best practices; ground covers and companion plants; rhodo species (and hybrids) we should know better" - 7:30 pm.

 

Previous Chapter Meetings
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