Vancouver Hardy Plant Group was founded in 1997 by a person who was keen to attend talks given by both Canadian and international speakers – and share interest and knowledge of many types of plants. Twice a year (generally in February and October) we host a day of lectures (Spring and Fall Study Days) and occasionally we may have a speaker at other times of the year.
The Vancouver Hardy Plant Group is dedicated to the cultivation and study of hardy, herbaceous perennials, trees and shrubs, and their incorporation into landscape and garden design.
Registration
$60 for members, $70 for non-members, and all tickets at the door.
PLEASE READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY
To register for the Spring Study Day
Please send an e-transfer to lizatvhpg@gmail.com with your name or names in the note section.
JENNIFER JEWELL – Chico, California
Talks:
Cultivating Place: A Garden Culture of Care.
What We Sow in Cultivation of Our Places.
Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, gardening educator, and advocate. Since 2016, she has written and hosted the award-winning public radio program and podcast, ‘Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History & the Human Impulse to Garden.’ Her focus is the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture. Jennifer has been writing about gardening professionally since 1998; her work has appeared in Gardens Illustrated, House & Garden, Natural Home, and Pacific Horticulture among others. She is author of ‘The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants’, ‘Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast’ and just released last month ‘What We Sow’.
Dr. HENRIK SJOMAN – Gothenburg, Sweden
Talks:
The Essential Tree Selection Guide.
As Scientific Curator at Gothenburg Botanical Garden, and Senior Researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and Honorary Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Henrik’s work is mainly focusing on developing knowledge of site adapted plant use for urban environments. Finding ‘plants of tomorrow’ means to combine traditional plant hunting of less common species with research and evaluation, creating a diversified approach to a resilient urban forest suited to a future climate. Henrik co-authored ‘The Essential Tree Selection Guide’ published by Kew, co-authored with Arit Anderson.
Thomas Hobbs – Southlands Nursery.
Talks:
Garden Inspiration in France.
Tom Hobbs is well-known in the gardening world throughout North America and beyond as a plant guru, floristry specialist, and general aesthete. His flair for knowing how to inject excitement, style and opulence into a garden or any other space has, without doubt, had an invaluable influence on garden-making in British Columbia and much further afield.
Tom became known for operating the first ‘artistic’ floristry shop in the Vancouver area. However, the opportunity arose around 1991 to take over an existing nursery in the Southlands area. Tom not only for improved the nursery, but expanded the indoor plant merchandise and décor items, an area that Tom continues to expand.
Tom and partner, Brent Beattie, often open “The Farm’ to Vancouver Hardy Plant members.
This rural estate offers great lawns with sweeping views, informal islands of true treasures under giant conifers, a landscaped lake inserted into the forest margin, a formal kitchen garden that includes beds for breeding Iris, one of Tom’s favourites. There are architectural elements, follies and surprises at every turn. Tom has written two books, ‘Shocking Beauty’, and ‘The Jewel Box Garden’ based on his previous garden.