Join us at the Britannia Community Centre in the 55+ Room at 7:00pm on Tuesday, November 11th.Angela Hoy’s presentation will go over the basic requirements for home composting , describe the different types and ways of composting, including best practices. There will be a light-hearted quiz at the end to reinforce these.
Topic: Worm Composting
Speaker: Angela Hoy
Bio: Angela took the Master Composter course in England at Garden Organic, after which she volunteered at many public events talking about composting.
She moved to Vancouver in August 2017 and quickly found Riley Park Community Garden where she has been a leading volunteer ever since, and was instrumental in the installation of the composting area there, regularly giving advice sessions to new volunteers and many groups around the lower mainland.
Angela also took the Master Gardener course in 2020 and was a basic training mentor for the next two years. In 2023 she took the Master Recycler course offered by SPEC and has completed her qualifying hours.
When not gardening, Angela enjoys a challenging game of Scrabble, reading crime novels and cooking.
For November Meeting:
- Please bring your own tea cup and, if you like, something that is looking lovely in your garden this month.
Sunday, November 2, 2025
November Garden Club - Tues November 11- Angela Hoy - Home Composting
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Hardy Plant Fall Study - Oct 25
Hardy Plant's upcoming Fall Hardy Plant's upcoming Fall Study Day. Use the QR code to register https://www.vancouverhardyplant.org/fall-study-day-saturday-october-25th-2025
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Date correction to October 14 Meeting- Topic: Worm Composting
Topic: Worm CompostingSpeaker: Jenny Arntzen
Bio: Jenny Arntzen is a novice gardener, having started her first garden at the age of 8, in 1964, in Lynn Valley. She has always had a great passion for digging up the beds, never really understood planting seeds, and still learning how to build watering routines. However, after planting over a million trees between 1975 and 1988, she is pretty good at transplanting. Two years ago she was introduced to vermaculture, the practice of worm composting. The worm castings provide rich soil amendments to support plant growth. After purchasing a handful of worms and cocoons in the spring of 2022, her worm farm now is 12 large bins producing continuous harvests of worm castings for building soil health.Jenny writes about her gardening experiences on her blog:
Special Afternoon Lecture- Troy Scott Smith
Vancouver Hardy Plant Group Presents:
Troy Scott Smith -Head Gardener
Sissinghurst- A Garden, in a Ruin, in a Farm
Wednesday September 17
1:30-3:00 HR MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St., Vancouver
Tickets $25
Information: vancouverhardyplant.org
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Garden Club - Tuesday, Sept 9 - Topic: - Pot Culture: The Why and How of Growing Plants in Pots
Hello Gardeners
Topic: Pot Culture: The Why and How of growing Plants in Pots.Speaker: Dana Cromie - a Lifelong Artist and GardenerBio: Dana is a lifelong artist and gardener living in Vancouver, British Columbia.Dana studied Visual Art at Capilano College, Institute Allende de San Miguel, and Vancouver School of Art. He then worked in clothing manufacturing as a production manager and as a planner.
The son of a green thumb and ardent volunteer, Dana has a renowned garden full of unusual plants. Dana has a deep engagement with the local garden community, and his garden has been toured multiple times by the Alpine Garden Club of BC, the Vancouver Rhododendron Society and the Vancouver Hardy Plant Group.
Dana wrote and photographed ‘In My Garden’ for Vancouver Lifestyle Magazine from 1999-2001 and has contributed to the Annual of the Rhododendron Species Foundation and the Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Club of BC.
After retiring, he became a Friend of the UBC Botanical Garden where he was head of the FOGs’ guides and coordinator of their various propagation units. Dana coordinated the acquisition and catalog descriptions of the plants for the UBCBG Collectors’ Plant Auctions from 2004 - 2011. Dana is and has been chair of the UBCBG Treasured Bulb Sale since 2015.
He has studied botanical illustration at UBC Botanical Garden with Alison Watt, at Emily Carr University with Elizabeth Mancini, and privately with Mary Comber Miles.
From 2012-2014, Dana was Artist in Residence at UBC Botanical Garden.
Dana is currently co-Chair of the Vancouver Hardy Plant Group, and Co-Chaired their recent Hardy Plant Study Weekend, which is a conference which rotates between Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, and Portland.
Dana is a regular judge at the Vancouver Island Rock and Garden Society spring show.
- Please bring your own tea cup and, if you like, something that is looking lovely in your garden this month.
Monday, July 7, 2025
Friday, June 6, 2025
June Meeting - June 10 - Introduction to Soil Science and Its Application in Garden Settings
Topic: Introduction to soil science and its application in garden settings.
Bio: Morgan is a backyard gardener and soil scientist with a background in agricultural research. She completed her Masters at UBC in which she looked at the effects of biochar (a soil amendment) on nutrient dynamics in a coarse textured agricultural soil. She enjoys sharing practical applications of the fundamentals of soil science, believing that this foundational knowledge can be used as a tool to deepen the relationship with the environment and how we garden.
For June Meeting:
- Please bring your own tea cup and, if you like, something that is looking lovely in your garden this month.