加拿大 温哥华耐寒植物小组 – 大温哥华地区长期活跃的耐寒植物交流平台

协会起源与目标

温哥华耐寒植物小组（Vancouver Hardy Plant Group）创立于 1997 年，由希望聆听国内外讲者讲座、交流多年生草本与园林植物栽培心得的爱好者发起，致力于推动耐寒多年生草本植物以及相关乔灌木的学习与景观应用，是大温哥华地区长期活跃的草本植物专题园艺团体。

专题兴趣与活动

协会的核心兴趣集中于耐寒草本多年生植物及其园林造景应用。小组每年春季与秋季各举办一次一日制讲座日（Spring & Fall Study Days），通常于温哥华市内 H.R. MacMillan 太空中心礼堂举办；讲者阵容长期包括 Christopher Lloyd、Fergus Garrett、Piet Oudolf、Anna Pavord、Helen Dillon、Dan Hinkley 等欧美知名园艺家。

会员制度与会员活动

会员制度以自然年为单位运行，会费为每年 30 加元，会员可订阅协会每年五期内部简报，并优先参加仅限会员的「开放花园日」实地走访，在大温地区不同社区轮流参观会员私家花园与试验种植。

公众学习与资源推荐

小组向公众与会员共同维护的在线资源区按主题推荐北美与大不列颠多家植物园、园艺出版机构以及社交媒体账号；从 Great Plant Picks 等适合太平洋西北的园林植物引种名录，到 Beth Chatto、Kew Gardens、Timber Press 的植物学专题读物，再到多位当代园艺名家的 Instagram 公开页面，是初学者与进阶爱好者扩展阅读与图片索引的常用入口。

区域花园与同业合作

在区域花园与同业合作方面，协会公开推荐温哥华岛、BC 省与美国华盛顿州的多座植物园作为会员参观目的地，包括 Glendale Gardens & Woodland、Milner Gardens and Woodland、Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden Society，以及 Bellevue、Kruckeberg、Dunn 等华盛顿州公共植物园，鼓励会员在春秋季节参与跨域园艺交流。

Founding and Mission

Vancouver Hardy Plant Group was founded in 1997 by an enthusiast who wanted to attend talks by Canadian and international speakers and to share knowledge of hardy, herbaceous perennials, trees, shrubs, and their use in landscape and garden design; it remains a Vancouver-based non-profit society devoted to the cultivation and study of hardy perennials in the Pacific Northwest.

Programme and Speakers

Twice a year, generally in February/March and October/November, the Group hosts the Spring and Fall Study Days at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre Auditorium in Vancouver, and over the years has welcomed Christopher Lloyd, Fergus Garrett, Roy Lancaster, Piet Oudolf, Anna Pavord, Helen Dillon, David Culp, Will McLewin, William Cullina, Dan Hinkley, David Tarrant, Chris Beardshaw and many other distinguished gardeners as speakers.

Membership and Open Gardens

Membership runs on the calendar year at 30 CAD per member and includes a five-issue-per-year newsletter subscription; members also gain access to the Open Garden programme, which visits different gardens in the Lower Mainland during the spring and summer months and is open to members only.

Public Resources and Reading

The publicly curated Online Resources page collects links to Pacific Northwest plantings guides such as Great Plant Picks, horticultural publications including Horticulture Magazine and Timber Press, public gardens such as Kew and the Washington Native Plant Society, and a long list of contemporary horticulturians to follow on Facebook and Instagram, making it a frequently used reading list for local gardeners.

Regional Gardens and Peer Links

The Group maintains a Gardens to Visit directory that points members and the public to botanical destinations across British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, including Glendale Gardens & Woodland, Milner Gardens and Woodland, Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden Society in BC, and Bellevue Botanical Garden, Kruckeberg Botanic Garden, Dunn Gardens, and the Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden in Washington State, supporting regional garden-based exchange.

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