This talk will be about Paul's favourite crevice garden plants – Beautiful Pictures and information of the best plants for crevice gardens

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Paul Spriggs has been rock gardening for roughly 23 years and building crevice gardens for about 16 years. He is an avid plant explorer, photographer, mountaineer, owner of Spriggs Gardens Landscaping company, and past President of the Vancouver Island Rock and Alpine Garden Society.  He has a passion for all wild plants especially those of dwarf stature and collects and cultivates them at various gardens in his hometown of Victoria, BC, Canada. Paul has learned the craft of crevice garden building directly from one of it’s innovators, Zdenek Zvolanek, of the Czech republic, and in the past decade and a half, has built many gardens in public parks and private homes that range in size from small feature troughs, to large installations involving many tonnes of stone. Paul is passionate about spreading the word of this style, through speaking to garden clubs all over the west, and by giving workshops for those keen on learning the finer points of this developing art form. He has just finished his work  on the first North American book on Crevice gardening With co-author Kenton Seth of Colorado, released in summer 2022

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This will be a zoom and inperson meeting.

The meeting link will be sent to members in the newsletter and is on the members-only page

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For more information & to request zoom link, email 

specialevents@ovrghs.ca . $5 for non-members

Anne's presentation will be showing plants growing in the wild and in many cases the same plants in the rock garden, or close substitutes for impossible plants. Growing info etc.

Anne is mostly self-taught but blessed with mentors who were rock garden stars and gave me advice, plant gifts and encouragement.
Owner, designer, builder, planter, maintainer of large rock garden built on a series of rock ledges ending.in small cliff. Enthusiastic explorer of places with alpine plants.

 

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This will be a zoom and inperson meeting.

The meeting link will be sent to members in the newsletter and is on the members-only page

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For more information & to request zoom link, email 

specialevents@ovrghs.ca

$5 for non-members which can be applied to membership if you join.

Oron Peri is an expert in bulbs of the Mediterranean and Alpine bulbs. In this talk he will identify and describe some of the finest alpine bulb specimens and their locations in nature

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Oron Peri was born in Jerusalem where his family has been living for many generations.
Oron is a Plantsman, botanist, author as well as a leader of botanical tours in different parts of the world.
He is a world expert on Bulbous plants of the Mediterranean and his book 'Bulbs of the Eastern Mediterranean' was published by the AGS in 2015.
Oron is the owner of 'Seeds of Peace' a nursery specializing in bulbs mainly from the Mediterranean and South Africa.

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This will be a zoom and inperson meeting.

The meeting link will be sent to members in the newsletter and is on the members-only page

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For more information & to request zoom link, email 

specialevents@ovrghs.ca

$5 for non-members which can be applied to membership if you join.