Hardy Plant Study Weekend
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| PLEASE NOTE: The Hardy Plant Study Weekend is fully registered and there is a lengthy waiting list. Those on the waiting list can expect to hear from the registrar after May 15, 2005. Regretfully, registrations are no longer being accepted. Thank you for your cooperation. |
Vancouver Hardy Plant Group presents a weekend of talks, open gardens, plant sales and social gatherings to embellish your interest in and knowledge of plants in general, hardy perennials in particular. The Study Weekend also offers an opportunity to meet old gardening friends and to make new friends who share the love of plants and passion of gardening. You will be enthusiastically welcomed!
Graeme Bain, who has spent most of his life 'hands-on' with plants of all sizes, will share tips about techniques and the tools he finds useful.
Tracy DiSabato-Aust, author, designer and consultant, will enlighten us with her proven methods of pruning and shaping perennials for maximum effect.
Bunny Guinness, winner of six gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show for her garden design, is a goldmine of creative and innovative ideas.
Thomas Hobbs, whose destination nursery is a great source of 'new' and interesting plants, puts them together with flair and panache.
Roy Lancaster, a leading plantsman of our time, has introduced plants from many different parts of the world. Well known to us on the west coast, we are delighted to welcome him back to our Study Weekend.
Darrell Probst is so devoted to the genus Epimedium that he searches far and wide for the species. He is the owner of a mail order nursery specializing in these and other choice shade-loving perennials.
Paddy Wales is one part garden photographer, one part garden writer, and one part garden maniac. Her images of plants and gardens are breathtaking.
Open
Gardens - Friday
Three
entrancing country gardens, each very different in style, will be
open on Friday, June 24, 10:30am - 3pm. All lying to the south of
the city, they are easy of access for registrants driving from the
U.S. as well as from Vancouver Island. Details will be sent before
the Study Weekend.
Lectures
All lectures
will be held at the Instructional Resource Centre Building, Woodward
2 Theatre, University
of British Columbia campus on Friday evening, Saturday morning
and Sunday morning.
Open
Gardens - Saturday, Sunday
Saturday - Vancouver - 1:30pm until sundown.
Sunday - North Vancouver and West Vancouver - 2pm until 6:30pm. The
Sunday gardens are in close proximity to a freeway route that is quite
direct to the U.S. border and bypasses Vancouver.
Plant
Sales
Excellent
growers will offer choice plants for sale.
Book
Sales
There will
be an interesting selection of books for sale.
Open
Gardens - Monday - Bowen Island
Enjoy a
bus tour to stimulating gardens on nearby Bowen
Island. Sorry, not accessible by private car.
Housing
A block of rooms has been set aside at Gage
Towers on UBC Campus. Please contact Conferences & Accommodation
at UBC directly. Telephone: 604-822-1000 Fax: 604-822-1001.
Click here for a direct link to the UBC Conferences reservation page for the Study Weekend.
Click
here
for a zoomable map of Vancouver, with a star indicating Gage Towers.