Margaret’s presentation Wisley Walks and Inspirations incorporates her slides from a recent trip to the RHS garden with those of former UBC Botanical Garden Director Roy L. Taylor. Roy’s slides date from 1970 and 1986.

Our own Philip Mac Dougall will speak on 'Green Patience'.  That's the formula for woodland perennials.  In habitat, constrictions on light, nutrients and water lead to life cycles that thrive in forests but growth that is glacial compared to our sunny border plants.  Perrenials add the cyclic flow of birth, growth, death and regeneration  to the more static structures of evergreen Rhododendrons. This presentation focuses on Epimediums,  Polygonatums and their relatives. Familiar from long use in our gardens, the few tough old standbys cultivated for centuries in our gardens  have left the group with a dowdy reputation. New breeding and collections from Asia have recently added heaps of surprisingly good plants.  Painfully winnowed to only my very favorites, I'll provide an overview to these groups, some history, new plants I'm excited about and what might be expected in the future.