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


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.

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