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
| May
2010 |
| Monday,
May 3 |
Victoria Speaker: Lloyd Gilmore Topic: "Hybridizing Rhododendrons for Special Effects" - 7:30 pm |
Wednesday, May 5 |
Cowichan
Valley Annual
General Meeting and election of officers Speaker: TBA |
| Tuesday,
May 11 |
North
Island Annual
General Meeting |
| Wednesday,
May 12 |
Mount
Arrowsmith Speaker: Don Martyn Topic: "Magnolias" - 7:30 pm |
| Thursday,
May 13 |
Nanaimo Speaker: Barry Agar, head gardener at Royal Roads University Topic: "The Gardens at Hatley Castle" and our Annual General Meeting and election of officers - 7:30 pm |
| Wednesday,
May 19 |
Fraser
South 17th Annual 'Beer Bottle Truss Show' No speaker,
just a lot of fun! - 7:30 pm
|
| Thursday,
May 20 |
Vancouver Walk in UBC Botanic Garden |
| Tuesday,
May 25 |
Peace
Arch Field trip to Sechelt Peninsula and Annual Club Picnic - 7:00 am to 6:00 pm.
PARS will visit Ron and Carla Knight's Caron Gardens at Pender Harbour. A Pot Luck picnic lunch to follow. |
| Monday,
May 31 |
Fraser
Valley Speaker: Garth Wedemire Topic: "Garden
Tours from the ARS National Convention, Everett 2009" - 7:30 pm |
| June
2010 |
| Saturday,
June 5 |
Nanaimo Annual Barbeque at Chris Southwick's house on Green Acres Way - 5:30 pm. Bring something to barbeque and an appetizer, salad or dessert and your own plates and cutlery. Don't forget to bring a lawn chair. |
| Saturday,
June 12 |
Cowichan
Valley CVRS picnic will be at Liz and Alan Murray's farm on Doran Road in Cobble Hill |
| Saturday,
June 12 |
North
Island Annual June potluck picnic at Ross & Nancy Munro's garden in Royston - at 4 pm. Bring a dish, lawn chair and cutlery. Lots of fun and fellowship guaranteed! |
| Saturday,
June 12 |
Fraser
South Annual Potluck Picnic and Auction - 2:00 pm.. Bring your edibles and auction items to the home of Karen Linton and Larry Morton. |
| Sunday, June 13 |
Vancouver Annual Potluck Supper and Auction at the home of Richard and Heather Mossakowski, in Lions Bay - at 3:00 pm -- preceded by open gardens from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at other Lions Bay members' homes ... details to be announced in our June “Membership News” |
| Saturday,
June 26 |
Mount
Arrowsmith Windup
Party Potluck. Details later. |
| Sunday,
June 27 |
Fraser
Valley Our
Annual BBQ & Pot Luck dinner will be held at Sheila Martin's home on Rippington Road in Pitt Meadows |
| Sunday,
June 27 |
Victoria Pot Luck Picnic at Ann and Tom Widdowson’s garden - 12 noon. |
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. |
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: "The Scottish Rhododendron Silver Jubilee"
- 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: Barrie Agar, Head Gardener, Royal
Roads University Topic: "The Gardens at Hatley Park" - 7:30 pm |
| Thursday,
April 8 |
Nanaimo Speaker: Harry Wright Topic: "Four Seasons at Haida Gold Gardens"
- 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" and Melissa Noel from the Coastal Invasive Plant Committee will tell us what not to plant,
what to watch out for and get rid of - 7:30 pm |
| Thursday,
April 15 |
Vancouver Michael Hickson retired Head Gardener at Knightshayes Court,
Devon Topic: "The Gardens at Knightshayers" - 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: Doug Justice Topic "UBC Botanical Garden" - 7:30 pm |
| Tuesday,
April 27 |
Peace
Arch Speaker: Ron Knight Topic: "The Evolution of Caron Gardens" - the Knight's 2.5 acre garden in Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast - 7:30 pm |
Previous Chapter Meetings
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2005, 2006,
2007,
2008 and 2009
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