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
Grandview Garden Club
Each meeting of the Grandview Garden Club features a special speaker on a topic relevant to Grandview gardeners. Bring your ideas, questions, gardening concerns. We meet about once a month. Club dues are $20 per calendar year or $4 to drop in. The club is an offshoot of Britannia Neighbours, the group that looks after the Napier Square Greenway at Britannia and that puts on the East Van Garden Tour every June.
Thursday, October 16, 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.
We are seeking 2 volunteers to provide goodies per meeting. If you would like to volunteer for the October meeting, please reach out to me or Moira Non-members are welcome to drop in for $4. Invite your friends!- Please bring your own tea cup and, if you like, something that is looking lovely in your garden this month.
There will be door prizes! (And by the way, you’re always welcome to bring/donate garden-related things — plants, books, tools — to be awarded as door prizes.)See you at Britannia on Tuesday, September 9th!Also note - Meetings are the 2nd Tuesday of the Month - Oct 7, Nov 11, Dec 9 - December Meeting will be a Holiday Potluck.
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:
Non-members are welcome to drop in for $4. Invite your friends!- Please bring your own tea cup and, if you like, something that is looking lovely in your garden this month.
There will be door prizes! (And by the way, you’re always welcome to bring/donate garden-related things — plants, books, tools — to be awarded as door prizes.)See you at Britannia on Tuesday, June 10!Also note - No meeting in July and August!
Saturday, May 24, 2025
East Van Garden Tour! Sunday, June 15
This year's East Vancouver Garden Tour is on Father's Day, Sunday, June 15th. It's our one fundraiser for Britannia Neighbours, and the proceeds go to maintaining the Napier Square Greenway (at Napier and Commercial).
We use the money we raise to buy plants and supplies, and to pay someone to water the Greenway in the warmer/dryer months.
The tour will be in an area close to Figaro's, so you will likely be able to walk to a starting spot ... and the tour itself should be comfortably walkable for most people.
And we won't have tickets available on the day of the tour. You'll need to get your tickets for the tour ahead of time.
There are two ways to get tickets this year — online through Simpli Events or in person (cash only) at Figaro's Garden:
- Click on photo above to get your tickets online. (There's a small Simpli Events service charge on top of the $20 for each ticket.)
- Drop in to Figaro's Garden to buy tickets (exactly $20 — in person and cash only) while they last!! (You might want to call first to be sure they have tickets -- 604-253-1696.)
Tickets will be available until Saturday, June 14th or until we sell out (whichever happens first). Avoid disappointment and get your tickets early!
- Click on photo above to get your tickets online. (There's a small Simpli Events service charge on top of the $20 for each ticket.)
- Drop in to Figaro's Garden to buy tickets (exactly $20 — in person and cash only) while they last!! (You might want to call first to be sure they have tickets -- 604-253-1696.)