15 SeptemberGarth Wedemire, 'Plant Hunting in Nepal'.
20 OctoberNed Brockenbrough - 'A Hybridizer's Odyssey'.
Dr Ned Brockenbrough, from Bellevue, Washington.Ned’s career has been as a surgeon.Starting more or less in the middle of this career, he has beenAttending Surgeon at the University of Washington Hospital, Seattle, Founder and Director of the Vascular Clinic at the Harborview Medical Center, Founder and Director of the Vascular Laboratory at the Harborview Medical Center, Chief of Surgery at Northwest Hospital, Seattle, and Chief of Staff at Northwest Hospital, though he did not hold all these positions at the same time.He has received numerous medical honours and awards, but what is really important is the fact that hehas been President of the Seattle Rhododendron Society, ARS national Awards Chairman, and President of the ARS.He is a holder of the ARS Silver Medal.
17 NovemberBrian Minter (owner of Minter Gardens), 'Rhododendron's Best Friends'.
Brian Minter, is a native British Columbian, whose name is horticulturally very well known in this part of the gardening world.With a degree in Honours English from UBC, Brian went on to found and direct MinterGardens, a 32-acre show garden in Chilliwack, and an innovative garden centre and greenhouse growing operation called MinterCountryGarden.Clearly, he has put his Honours English degree to good use.
19 JanuaryAGM, Election, Members’ slides.
16 FebruarySean Rafferty and Brenda Macdonald on 'VRS Members in Yunnan'
16 MarchBen Hall, Professor of Biology and Genome Sciences at the University of Washington,'So many Rhododendron species: How they came to be and how they have moved about'.
20 AprilSteve Hootman, Co-Director of the RhododendronSpeciesBotanical Garden, Yunnan, Spring, 2005
13 May Show and Sale Park & Tilford N. Vancouver
18 MayWalk in the Sino-HimalayanGardens, VanDusen, led by Gerry Gibbens.
