Fall 2024 Study Day – Vancouver Hardy Plant Group

Saturday, November 2, 2024 – 10:00 am – 3:45 pm

H.R. MacMillan Space Centre

1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver

Registration
$50 for members, $60 for non-members and all tickets at the door.

PLEASE READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY

To register for the Fall Study Day, EITHER

1) Payment by e-transfer to lizatvhpg@gmail.com with your name or names in the note section; or,

2) Send a cheque, payable to the Vancouver Hardy Plant Group, to:

Elizabeth Taylor
3642 West 1st Avenue
Vancouver, V6R 1H2

Cheques must be received by October 25.

FALL STUDY DAY OUTLINE
10:00 – 10:10 Vancouver Hardy Plant Group notices and introduction
10:10 – 11:10 Tony Spencer – “Open Source: Origins of the New Perennial Movement”
11:10 – 11:35 Complimentary coffee – you are encouraged to bring your own cup
11:35 – 12:35 Loree Bohl – “Danger Garden, Contained”
12:35 – 1:20 Lunch – please bring your own
1:20 – 1:30 Door prizes and settling down
1:30 – 2:30 Philip MacDougall – “Japan Meander”
2:30 – 3:30 Tony Spencer – “Wildscaping: Planting Design with a Canadian Twist”

Tony Spencer, is the internationally-recognized Canadian writer, digital creator and planting designer behind The New Perennialist, an influential blog focused on Explorations in Naturalistic Planting Design. (www.theperennialist.com) He also hosts The New Perennialist talks, a webinar series featuring influential design innovators in the genre.
In 2024, Tony won his second ‘Top Landscape Design Award of Excellence’ from the US-based Perennial Plant Association (PPA) and in 2023, he was named PPA ‘Garden Media Promoter’ of the year. He is also winner of the 2024 Media Awards’ ‘Silver Laurel Medal of Achievement for Social Media’ presented by GardenComm.

Day to day, Tony is a puckish ringleader for the naturalistic movement all while experimenting on a new series of wild-ish gardens at his beloved cabin in the rolling hills of Mono, Ontario.
The New Perennial Movement has inspired designers worldwide to pursue a more naturalistic approach in their work. In his first talk for us, “Open Source: Origins of the New Perennial Movement”, Tony will trace the movement back to its early roots in northern Europe with a look at the seminal figures including Piet Oudolf who started it all. Then he will loop around for an overview of the New Perennial Movement and how designers and gardeners are connecting through their uncommon passion for a wilder vision of the modern garden.
Tony’s second talk “Wildscaping: Planting Design with a Canadian Twist” was recently presented at Italy’s ‘Landscape Festival’ which is recognized worldwide for its visionary content on design and ecological health. It offers an overview of Tony’s diverse projects- woodlands, ponds, green roofs, dry gardens- with a focus on Wildscaping and designing for climate change.

Loree Bohl, lives in Portland, previously Spokane and Seattle, making a complete PNW triangle. After purchasing her Portland home in 2005, Loree fell in love with the vibrant horticulture community in Oregon.
Her love for agaves, cactus and all things spiky—despite the fact she lives in “rainy” Oregon—was the inspiration for her blog’s name, “Danger Garden.” She publishes new stories 3 times a week that include photos of her garden, her travels to other private and public gardens, visits to nurseries and other random “planty” things she finds interesting.

Loree has served on the board of directors for the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon and Pacific Horticulture and is on the Garden Bloggers Fling advisory committee. She has written for Pacific Horticulture; the Oregon Association of Nurseries magazine, Digger; the Rock Garden Quarterly, and Better Homes and Gardens. Her first book “Fearless Gardening: Be Bold, Break the Rules, Grow What You Love” was published by Timber Press in 2020. She practices the fine art of garden “cramscaping” and is a firm believer there is always room for one more plant.
Loree is a fearless gardener whose own garden features a broad array of containers, many of which are unique combinations of found objects, most of which required seasonal movement or reconfiguring. Her talk for us “Danger Garden, Contained’. Is newly created for our Study Day and will focus on these container plantings.

Philip MacDougall, has long run his not-for-profit nursery, Chlorophyllia, a specialty nursery that focuses on woodlanders ignored by the ravenous deer. Philip scours the world (wild and marketplace) for new and interesting plants, with a fine focus on epimediums and ferns.
He has been a vendor at our study weekends and various specialty sales around the Lower Mainland for decades, and his home garden/nursery was on the Vancouver Hardy Plant open garden Fraser Valley day in 2023. A discerning reader of Dan Hinkley and Far Reaches catalogues, or the UBCBG database, will note many subtle references to Philip’s collections.

Like Loree, Phillip’s talk “Japan Meander” is newly created for VHPG members, his description “A visit to only far too few of my many favorite Japanese plants, peeks at several of Japan’s best gardens, plus onsen, temples, udon and an atomic bomb. I’ll talk on how Japan’s aesthetic has influenced our own much more western garden.”

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VHPG is adding a list of interesting websites, videos, newsletters, and Instagram accounts on our website. Perhaps this will give us a garden boost to where we can’t go in real life. If you would like to add to this list, please send a note to danacromie@gmail.com

Virtual Chelsea https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/virtual-chelsea

Virtual Kew www.kew.org/about-us/virtual-kew-wakehurst

The Gardener – A film about Frank Cabot at Les Quatre Vents https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/the-gardener

Facebook only

Peter Korn – facebook.com/peter.korn.5

Tim Ingram – facebook.com/gillian.ingram.773

On line zoom lectures from Xerces Society for Invertebrate conservationhttps://xerces.org/events

Margaret Roach, A Way to Garden Websitehttps://awaytogarden.com/

Garden Masterclass with Annie Guilfoyle and Noel Kingsbury, Online Blog and Podcasts

https://www.gardenmasterclass.org/blog-and-podcasts

Sarah Raven Websitehttps://www.sarahraven.com/

Huw Richards Grow Foods Organically YouTube channel