John Weagle will review the challenges and advantages of our Nova Scotian climate - wet, foggy, windy, stormy - for growing and breeding rhododendrons. From the early ‘ironclads’, he will lead us through the breeding work of Don Craig, George Swain, Capt. Steele, and Joe Brueckner to recent breeding work and testing of varieties and...Read more >

Jenny Sandison is our speaker. During the twentieth century, landscape design in England evolved from the colour co-ordinated rooms of Sissinghurst and Hidcote into more relaxed gardens created by Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto, among others. Towards the end of the century Piet Oudolf introduced sweeping changes to garden sign with his prairie style of...Read more >