[pbs] club members was Big Government
Adam Fikso
adam14113 at ameritech.net
Sun Feb 1 22:00:45 EST 2009
Diane . I like your questions and musings. Thanks
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From: "Diane Whitehead" <voltaire at islandnet.com>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] club members was Big Government
>I have wondered about the non-involvement of different cultural groups
> in our ornamental plant clubs. It is very strange to attend a plant
> convention in an area of Vancouver where 60% of the residents are
> Asian, and see only a couple of Asian attendees.
>
> However, joining clubs might be a strange thing to do. Why aren't we
> focussing on our families? Why aren't we spending all our spare time
> actually gardening instead of sitting around talking about it?
>
> I thought that maybe alpine plant growers might come from countries
> with mountains. Do we have a disproportionate number of descendants
> of Swiss and Austrians in NARGS? Do the bonsai clubs have Chinese and
> Japanese members? In Japan, many girls take flower-arranging classes,
> but they buy the flowers on the way in to class. I don't know about
> flower-arranging clubs here.
>
> The people growing vegetables in our allotment gardens are often
> fairly-recent immigrants.
>
> The San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum has an
> outreach to various ethnic groups, asking them how they can help with
> their needs and interests. It was a while back that I attended a
> lecture on what they are doing, so I've forgotten a fair bit. I
> remember they have special events for Chinese New Year, including
> plant sales of lucky gold-flowered plants.
>
>
> Diane Whitehead
>
>
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