CV Horticultural Society Meeting: October 20, 2025
Where: Florence Filberg Centre & Via Zoom
What Time: Doors open at 6.30pm, meeting at 7.15pm
Speaker: Paul Spriggs
Topic: How to design and construct a crevice garden
Website: https://comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca
On Monday, October 20, Paul Spriggs will be guest speaker at the Comox Valley Horticultural Society meeting. Paul will share his decades of knowledge on creating rock and crevice gardens having learnt from one of the original innovators, Zdenek Zvolanek of the Czech Republic. Paul will discuss the finer points of designing and constructing a crevice garden yourself.
Paul is the past President of the Vancouver Island Rock and Alpine Garden Society and owns Spriggs Garden Landscaping company. He’s an avid plant explorer, photographer and mountaineer. He’s also an author, publishing the first North American book on Crevice Gardening with co-author Kenton Seth of Colorado. Paul is passionate about spreading the word of rock and crevice gardening to garden clubs all over the world via talks or workshops.
Want to attend? If you’re joining us in person, we’ll be at the conference hall in the Florence Filberg Centre in Courtenay. Doors open at 6.30pm and the meeting will begin at 7.15pm. If you want to join us via Zoom see below for registration details.
How do I register for Zoom? Advanced registration for Zoom is required for both members and non-members. Current members will receive a separate Zoom invitation. Registration for non-members ($5.50) is very simple – visit our website at www.comoxvalleyhortsociety.ca by 5:00pm on Friday, October 17, as it requires two days to process.
