Fraser South Rhododendron Society
Our Monthly Meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month (except June, July and August). Please note that our meeting place is now Langley Mennonite Fellowship Church hall, 20997 40th Avenue, Langley. Doors open shortly after 7:00 pm and meetings start at 7:30 pm. Guests are most welcome to attend.
Meetings this year will be a combination of in-person meetings and zoom meetings.
This Month
Date: Wednesday, November 20th at 7:30 p.m. (Zoom)
Title: Arunachal Pradesh – Wilderness Untouched”, will chronical a two-week trek into a rarely explored part of Northeastern India focusing on a number of rhododendrons seldom seen in our gardens. The culture of the region and the political situation there shape the adventure, and takin, smoked wood rat and squirrels will make an appearance as well.
Speaker: Robert (Bob) Zimmermann fell in love with rhododendrons over fifty years ago. He began cultivating them on his kitchen stove and now grows species rhododendrons in the greenhouses of Chimacum Woods Nursery in Port Ludlow Washington.
Bob has traveled with botanists to China five times, once to Tibet, once to Japan and once to Arunachal Pradesh, sometimes adding unexpected adventure involving adverse monsoon weather, leeches, and politics among other things to study the plants he loves so much.
Along the way, it became a spiritual quest as botany, politics and cultural exposure shaped a call to be more connected to our roots as one species among a myriad and to see ourselves as a part of an entire system that needs to be respected and appreciated if we are going to survive instead of being eliminated.
Next Month
Date: Saturday, December 14th – Christmas get together, details TBA
Read about our first 10 years Here
