Sat. Sept. 11, 2021   1:30pm

Chaos in the Rock Garden: 
Putting Theory Into Practice

This will probably be a zoom meeting.

Check closer to the date of the meeting for updates.  

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$5 fee for non-members.  See end of description of talk for more details.

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This talk is about rock garden design and how it relates to natural landscapes and preferred plant habitats.

David Sellars is an award winning photographer and is a Past-President of the Alpine Garden Club of British Columbia. Together with his wife, Wendy, he is developing an extensive alpine and woodland garden in coastal British Columbia. The garden received the Millstream Garden Award for Rock and Alpine Garden in 2012 and was featured in the Fall 2013 issue of the Rock Garden Quarterly.

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David is a keen mountain hiker and maintains the website www.mountainflora.ca. His particular interests are rock garden design and construction, alpine plant photography and using video to illustrate mountain landscapes and alpine plant habitats. His YouTube Channel features wildflower hikes and some garden videos:  https://www.youtube.com/user/MountainFlora

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For more information & to request zoom link, email specialevents@ovrghs.ca

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Sat. Oct. 16, 2021  1:30 PM

Marilyn Light - Experiences with Seed Sowing 

This will probably be a zoom meeting. Check closer to the date of the meeting for updates. 

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$5 fee for non-members.  See end of description of talk for more details.

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Plantswoman extraordinaire, and long time OVRGHS member, Marilyn Light will be giving a presentation on her experimentation with starting seeds, including winter sowing.  This past winter she was more particular about recording her conditions with many different seed species obtained from OVRGHS, NARGS (North American Rock Garden Society) and the Ontario Rock Garden & Hardy Plant Society.  She was also able to obtain some interesting species including palm, conifer, tree/shrubs, as well as a number of different Apiaceae genera with which she is doing research for another project.  She's also working with species such as Allium, Aquilegia, Campanula, Erodium, Geranium, Dianthus, Silene, etc that do not require soaking so these were sown according to when she judged to be the best time.  She has been measuring the germinability under her conditions of the more than 125 species she's growing.  A good talk leading up to the OVRGHS seed exchange coming in Jan 2022.

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For more information & to request zoom link, email 

specialevents@ovrghs.ca