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AGC-BC Bulletin 62-1 Website Alpine Garden Club of British Columbia Draba densifolia growing in Sikanni Chief River Ecological Reserve Volume 62, Number 1 Quarterly Bulletin, 2019 In This Issue Upcoming Events................................................................. 3 From the Editor.................................................................... 6 Club News............................................................................ 8 Evolution of a Rock Garden ..............................................11 Alpine Plants, Spiders, and Some Fungi of Sikanni Chief River ER and Ospika Cones ER.......................................... 17 ‘Pinkie’ & Friends on Gabriola Island................................. 22 AGC-BC Book Review: Flora of the Pacific Northwest. An Illustrated 2019 Manual – Second Edition..................................................... 26 International Plant Portrait................................................. 28 Gardens Rock by David Sellars......................................... 30 Editorial ID Challenge........................................................ 32 Execu&ve President: Chris Byra Past President: Richard Hankin Vice President: Jay Akerley Treasurer: Philip MacDougall Secretary: Lynn Batt Directors: Peter Brolese, Jane Byra, Laura Caddy, Andy Matheson, Bruce McConnell, Jo Turner Annual Pot Show: Bob Tuckey Bulletin Editor: Laura Caddy Bulletin Associate Editor: Valerie Melanson Library: Marika Roe Meeting Pot Shows: Dana Cromie Membership: Jane Byra Name Tags/Membership Cards: Karen Shuster Plant Sales: Chris Byra Vol. 62, No. 1 !2 Membership Renewals Due If you have not already renewed your membership for 2019, please bring a cheque for $30 to Membership Secretary, Jane Byra, with your name and contact info. Cheques should be made out to the Alpine Garden Club of BC and sent to: Or renew online using your credit card through PayPal on our website www.agc-bc.ca/membership-renewal AGC-BC meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month except July and August in the Floral Hall, VanDusen Botanical Garden. Doors and Library open at 7:00 p.m. and the meetings start at 7:30 p.m. Please bring plants for the plant draw; the proceeds of which go toward paying for the hall rental. Don’t forget to bring your coffee/tea mug. 2018 AGC-BC Upcoming Events • Feb 28 - AGC-BC Meeting *NOTE Date Change* • Panayoti Kelaidis: No End of Novelty Out of Africa • Mar 13 - AGC-BC Meeting • John Mitchell: Plants from Wild to Cultivation: How Edinburgh Botanic Garden Features and Grows New Plants • April 6 - AGC-BC Annual Apring Show and Sale • Van Dusen Floral Hall, 12:00 - 4:00 pm • April 10 - AGC-BC Meeting • Ger van den Beuken: The Best Alpines of My Life • May 4 - AGC-BC Member Garden Tour • Coquitlam-Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge,12:00 - 4:00 pm • May 8 - AGC-BC Meeting • Claire Cockcroft: Asiatic Primulas: Clues to Growing Primulas After Seeing Them in the Wild • June 5 - AGC-BC Garden Tour • E.H. Lohbrunner Alpine Garden, 6:00 - 7:30 pm For more information, visit http://www.agc-bc.ca/events Vol. 62, No. 1 !3 Related Events Darts Hill AGM The DHGCTS is pleased to present Douglas Justice, Associate Director, Horticulture & Collections, UBC Botanical Garden as our featured speaker at the Society's AGM March 2, 2019 to be held at Emmanuel Evangelical Church, 17029 16th Avenue, Surrey, BC (doors open at 9:30 am). Douglas' talk is titled "Hiking the Mountains of Northern Vietnam". The flora of the mountains of northern Vietnam is renowned for its rich biodiversity, including an amazing array of rhododendrons, maples, conifers and herbaceous plants. Douglas has made three separate trips to Vietnam, hiking in a number of different areas and returning to some favourite places. Each trip has included a wide variety of collaborators from institutions in Vietnam and gardens in North America and Europe. We look forward to hearing about Douglas' amazing journeys to Vietnam to hunt for plants. Plan to attend and renew your membership for the nominal fee of $20.00 to enjoy a lively meeting with a light lunch plus an afternoon tour of Darts Hill Garden Park with Celeste Paley. Rhododendron aff. tanastylum in Vietnam. Vol. 62, No. 1 !4 Related Events VIRAGS Spring Annual Spring Show The Vancouver Island Rock and Alpine Garden Society’s 2019 annual Spring Show will be held at Cadboro Bay United Church, 2625 Arbutus Road, Victoria, BC on Friday, April 5 from 1 pm to 8 pm and on Saturday, April 6 from 9 am to 3 pm. As well as show entries to enjoy, there will be plant and seed sales, displays, door prizes, and refreshments. The sale of club-grown plants will begin at 11:00 am Saturday. Admission is by donation. For more information, visit www.virags.com or email [email protected] Botany BC Botany BC is an annual meeting of botanists and plant enthusiasts of British Columbia and is open to anyone interested in plants. Although Botany BC meetings are focused to British Columbia, we welcome all the plant enthusiasts from the neighbouring provinces/states, and from elsewhere in the world. Botany BC 2019 will be taking place in the lovely Rossland and surrounding area starting the evening of Thursday June 20, 2019 through Sunday June 23, 2019. The event program and registration will be posted soon at: https://botanybc.000webhostapp.com Nature Vancouver Summer Camp The 2019 Nature Vancouver summer camps will be held in the spectacular Niut Range, just to the west of Tatlayoko Lake, or two hundred kilometres west of Williams Lake. Located at the tree line at 2000 metres, the camps will offer abundant opportunities for botanizing, birding and rambling ranging from easy strolls to more vigorous all-day hikes. The first camp will run from July 21st to 28th with the second camp running from July 28th to August 4th.. For more information, visit: https://naturevancouver.ca/summer-camps/ summer-camp-2019/ Vol. 62, No. 1 !5 From the Editor Laura Caddy As I sit and write this, taking a break from working on the layout of this issue, I’m half watching snow flakes fall outside my window. Vancouver it just starting to see the first signs of winter. I worry a touch about the plants in the E.H. Lohbrunner Alpine Garden, that are so far about 2-3 weeks ahead of last year. I know the flowers of the early Narcissus, Galanthus and Eranthis are tough and used to getting snowed on. It’s more the swollen, pushing buds, and newly exposed leaves in combination with the upcoming forecasted low of -7 degree Celsius that has me concerned. It’s days like this my usual harsh stance of “tough love” and “no babying plants” slightly falters. So, I turn to the Bulletin to keep my mind off a forecast that may not even come to pass. I am fortunate to have a plethora of interesting articles to focus on! It is a great pleasure to have a submission from a former editor of the Bulletin, Grahame Ware, who has recently moved and is updating us on how his Lewisia collection is faring in their new home. We also hear from Dr. Kendrick Marr of the Royal BC Museum and some of the field work he and his colleagues have done in the alpine environment. Ben Stormes, curator of the North American collections at UBC Botanical Garden, has been gracious enough to contribute a book review of the newly revised Flora of the Pacific Northwest. The Plant Portrait feature returns in this issue, supplied by Ger van den Beuken. Be sure to catch Ger’s presentation to the club in April if you can! And, continuing the unofficial public garden series, Darwin Carr enlightens us on the Dalhousie University Bicentennial Botanical Garden and its rock and alpine gardens. There is lots of news and upcoming events in this issue as well, including the Seed Exchange Report. Many thanks to all the volunteers who make this wonderful part of the club happen each year! I assume most member will have received their seed, from our club and other exchanges, by the time the Bulletin reaches you, and I hope after an exciting day of sowing your new treasures you’ll sit down, relax, and enjoy this issue. Vol. 62, No. 1 !6 Editor’s ID Challenge Too easy? Too hard? Let me know at [email protected] Vol. 62, No. 1 !7 Club News AGC-BC Seed Exchange Report Pam Yokome The AGC-BC Seed Exchange has wrapped up and been mailed out for 2018. This year we listed a total of 1375 different plant seeds from a total of 63 dedicated donors. Ann Jolliffe takes the prize with a grand total donation of 204 individual species! That said, some of the very desirable seed also came from people who only sent a few, so don’t be discouraged! Smaller contributions are very much needed. The club has very dedicated seed collectors from around the world and it is always very interesting to see which seeds come from where, as they are not always what you might expect. There were a total of 3714 individual packets of seeds ordered by 104 of our members with every order receiving over 85% of their first choices, most a much higher percentage. Much of the failure to fill an order was due to seed either promised but not sent in or seed that wasn’t really seed. The single most requested seed was Douglasia nivalis var. nivalis with Cyclamen purpurascens second, followed by a tie for third between Calochortus macrocarpus, Aquilegia scopulorum, Narcissus watieri and Rhododendron camtschaticum. Other popular seed that we were short of were most often North American natives. Seeds were mailed out Jan. 10 and 11, except for US members orders, which were held at their request, until the government shutdown was over. The Seed Exchange is a big job with lots of dedicated volunteers both new and very experienced, ranging in location from Surrey to Vancouver to The Sunshine Coast.
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