Daily Archives: November 25, 2010

Sunday, December 12, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Gibson House Museum Holiday Open House and Tree Trimming

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Help celebrate the Gibson House’s new Christmas Tree.  Please bring a vintage or homemade ornament to the Gibson House, 137 Beacon Street, on Sunday, December 12, from 1 – 4. (Ornament below from www.zazzle.com)  Free tours and light seasonal refreshments will be served.  The Gibson House Museum is the only house museum in Back Bay.  Since 1957 it has told the story of the Gibson family’s daily life during the mid 19th and early 20th centuries through their everyday possessions, decorative objects, and furnishings.  For more information, log on to www.thegibsonhouse.org.

Friday, February 25 – Sunday, February 27 – Along the Silk Road: Plants from Far and Near

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Plan now for The North American Rock Garden Society’s Western Winter Study Weekend, Friday, February 25 – Sunday, February 27, at the Mary Winspear Centre, 2243 Beacon Avenue, Sidney, British Columbia (approximately 20 minutes north of Victoria.)  This weekend seminar, hosted by the Vancouver Island Rock & Alpine Society, will include workshops, plant sales, seed sales, displays and open gardens. The focus will be on interesting plants and  other things occurring in  and around the ancient and modern silk routes.  This is a vast area of the northern hemisphere and so should make for some very interesting presentations and discussions.   Speakers will include Stephanie Ferguson, an expert rock and crevice gardener from Calgary, Vojtech Holubec from the Czech Republic and co-author of The Caucasus and Its Flowers, John Massey, owner of Ashwood Nurseries, UK, Bill Terry, meconopsis expert and author of Blue Heaven – Encounters with the Blue Poppy, and Dr. Bobby J. Ward, botanist and author of The Plant Hunter’s Garden. For more information, visit www.virags.ca/winterstudyweekend.htm, or contact Registrar Kathy Lalli at kathylalli@hotmail.com.  You may also telephone Yvonne Rorison at 250-519-0269.