VRS member, and Treasurer, Dana Cromie will be our speaker the evening of November 20th, the title of his lecture being 'A Day in Yunnan with Peter Wharton'. Dana will take us along for a short walk in the Cangshan with Peter Wharton on what was agreed by all was a perfect day. It was one particular day, he says, on which we saw a sample of each of the rhododendrons we saw on the whole trip. This was also Peter Wharton’s last trip to Asia. The trip to Yunnan was for UBC Friends of the Garden and their spouses, and was a pilot venture for future botanical tourism in Yunnan, Peter's intended retirement project.
Dana tells us that ‘I prefer not to give the audience the impression I have even 1% of Peter's knowledge, or that I am giving them Peter's talk or Peter's view on anything. It is just me after all’. ‘A retired number cruncher’, as he describes himself, Dana Cromie is a member of many local garden clubs and is very active as a Friend of the Garden at UBC Botanical Garden. He has a tiny garden in Vancouver with a heavy bias toward Ericaceae and Liliaceae. This trip to Yunnan was his first botanical vacation. Despite his modesty, Dana’s lecture promises to be interesting, and perhaps historically important.
