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Thursday February 12
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Joyce Carruthers
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Singing The Blues
Joyce will talk about the blue flowers in the Czech garden she shares with Zdenek Zvolanek.
Joyce and Zdenek travel extensively (especially in Turkey) searching for plants. Their garden is full of their findings; most, if not all of the plants shown will grow here in Calgary.
List of Slides
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Lakeview Community Association Hall
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Special Date
Thursday March 5
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Popcorn & Movie Night
Harry Jans's trip to Calgary last Spring was cancelled due to bad weather, so we have organized a viewing of one of his trip DVDs, China: Sichuan to Qinghai; covering Wolong, Balang Shan, Songpan, Huanglong, Jiuzhaigou, Hongyuan, Aba, Shen Shan (Stone Mountain), Zhegu Shan, Min Mountains, and more.
Harry Jans has been rock gardening for more than 25 years, specializing in rare and unusual alpines. A founding member of the Dutch Rock Garden Society, and President for six years, he has been to China 13 times as both a participant and tour leader. He will be leading two tours to Tibet this Spring.
http://www.jansalpines.com/upcoming.php?id=1 for details.
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Lakeview Community Association Hall
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Special Date
Thursday April 16
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Josef Halda
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Alpine Plants Of The Balkans & Turkey
Josef Halda is a noted botanist, seed collector, and crevice garden designer from the Czech Republic. He has travelled the world to many botanically significant places, returning with unique collections of seed for sale. An expert, Josef has written monographs on Primula, Daphne, Gentiana and Paeonia. His lectures are filled with exquisite photos of rare plants in their native habitat.
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Lakeview Community Association Hall
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Saturday April 18
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Josef Halda
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Workshop
Crevice Garden Construction
$20 for CRAGS members, $25 for non-members. A light lunch will be provided.
Be prepared to participate; bring garden gloves and wear sturdy shoes or boots.
Sign-up sheet will be available at the March 5 meeting. For further information contact Lindsay Utting at 403-242-8613.
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Thursday May 14
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Malcolm McGregor
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The World of Saxifrages
Malcolm McGregor was editor of the Scottish Rock Garden Club journal from 2000 to 2006, and for many years editor of "The Saxifrage Magazine", specialist publication of the Saxifrage Society. His publications on Saxifrages include "Saxifrages; the Complete Cultivars and Hybrids", and "Saxifrages From Scratch". Malcolm lectures regularly on alpine plants and rock gardening, and has travelled widely in North America, Europe, Turkey and the Himalayas observing and photographing plants in the wild.
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Lakeview Community Association Hall
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Annual Plant Sale
Saturday May 23
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Annual Plant Sale
Free admission. Alpine plants and advice available from local and BC growers. Rocky Mountain Tufa will have BC tufa for sale.
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Lakeview Community Association Hall
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Thursday June 11
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Ross Gould
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Waterton Wildflowers
CRAGS member Ross Gould will share his experience and images from the
Waterton Wildflower Festival.
http://www.watertonwildflowers.com
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Lakeview Community Association Hall
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Saturday June 13
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Carol Huggler
Lindsay Utting
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Workshop
Making A Fishbox Trough
Bring a styrofoam fish box (available for free at grocery stores) and transform it into a trough ready to plant at Harvey Wrightman's workshop. Further details will be announced at an upcoming meeting or by email.
Contact Lindsay Utting; 403-242-8613 or 
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Saturday June 20
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 a.m.
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Harvey & Irene Wrightman
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Workshop
Tufa & Trough Planting
Cost $25 for one or both workshops,
plants & supplies extra.
Tufa Planting Workshop - the Wrightman's most popular workshop. Participants bring their own piece(s) of tufa (purchase tufa at the May CRAGS plant sale!) and choose the plants for growing on it. The Wrightmans provide planting instruction and the same first-class rooted cuttings they use themselves in the nursery, including kabschia saxifrages, Primula allionii, and other mat and bun forming plants. All tested for growing on tufa. This is a rare opportunity to create your own tufa masterpiece. Rooted cuttings will be available $3 each.
Trough Planting Workshop - Gardening in containers continues to draw more people into the field of alpine gardening. Bring your own trough or pre-order a REAL tufa trough from Wrightman Alpines before June 15.
Available troughs on their website: www.wrightmanalpines.com
Materials will be available for a finished planting - plants, soil, tufa and tufa gravel.
Registration fee for one or both workshops, $25. Plants and some supplies extra.
Inquiries to Lindsay Utting at 403-242-8613 or 
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Saturday July 18
4 p.m.
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CRAGS Summer BBQ
You are invited to a BBQ at the Kurio’s. Bring a dish to share (appetizer, salad, or dessert) your own meat to BBQ, drinks, and plates, etc. We have lots of space to spread out, plenty of plants to look at, grass for Bocce Ball, and a Sport Court for tennis/basketball/etc.
Lots of fun for everyone! Please RSVP to Cathy by July 13, 403-242-1254, 
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Last Chance
Plant Sale
Thursday September 10
5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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Plant Sale
Have extra plants in need of a home? Looking for plants to fill the gaps? Come to the plant sale in the parking lot before the meeting! Bring plants you have to sell, or come to shop. (Or do both—it's not too late to plant alpines.) Get advice on your purchases during the Grower's Forum.
It will be up to individuals to collect money for their sales. CRAGS would appreciate a 10% donation of your profits, or plant donations for our raffle.
Update: Roger Barlow (Beaver Creek Greenhouses) will be here with plants for sale, including some surprises! Roger will also be a Gardener's Forum panelist.
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Lakeview Community Association Hall
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Thursday September 10
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Llyn Strelau
Rodney Shaver
Rob Staniland
Stephanie Ferguson
Roger Barlow
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Grower's Forum
Last year's Grower's Forum was so successful, CRAGS has decided to stage another. We have again asked our local specialty nurserymen from Rundlewood Garden, Llyn Strelau and Rodney Shaver, to moderate and field questions. Rob Staniland, renowned for his garden's water system (especially the moraine) and knowledge of soils has also agreed to answer questions. Stephanie Ferguson will provide general alpine and steppe plant expertise. Guest alpine nurseryman Roger Barlow will add his expertise to the panel.
This is an ideal opportunity to get those nagging questions answered: woodland plantings, soil composition, crevice garden construction, blooming Aquilegia jonesii. Anything that comes to mind... Hopefully your questions will stimulate discussion and debate. Plants are as different as people, and a problem in gardening may have many solutions.
Write your questions down and come prepared!
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Thursday October 8
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Becky Simrose
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Wildflowers of Andalusia Spain
Recently returned from a family hiking vacation in Andalusia, Becky Simrose has been persuaded to share her photographs and impressions of the native plants she saw there. Andalusia is an area with a very rich flora and many of the plants found at higher altitudes are growable outside in Calgary.
Andalusia makes you see Arenarias in a way you never have before. Also, look forward to seeing orchid species (especially Ophrys) that are incredibly beautiful even though they look like large house flies?!
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Lakeview Community Association Hall
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Thursday November 12
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Lawrence Harder
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What Is An Alpine Plant?
Lawrence felt it was time for an examination of the physical characteristics of plants found in alpine regions. He hopes to illustrate how an understanding of a plant's physical adaptations may shed light on their culture.
Expect a thoughtful discussion from a botanist/biologist's perspective with photographs of plants from Lawrence's extensive field study, and herculean garden efforts.
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Lakeview Community Association Hall
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