Tuesday, September 8th - About Growing Dahlias with Jennifer Zuk

 Date and Time:  Tuesday, September 8^th at 7:00 pm

Title: About Growing Dahlias with Jennifer Zuk

Where: Brittania Senior 55+ Centre

Jennifer Zuk has been a member of the Vancouver Dahlia Society since 1987. She started out just planting a few dahlias and it blossomed from there. After downsizing 2 years ago, she plants between 150 and

175.  She became interested in judging and went through 3 levels of training to become a senior

dahlia judge after 10 years. She also trained through the BC Council of Garden Clubs to

become both a Horticultural and Floral Design judge so she's often at Lower Mainland garden

clubs to judge their shows.  She has taken the Rose judging course through the Canadian Rose

Society and has been a Master Gardener since 2007.

No Meetings - July and August

 Enjoy your summer gardens!  We'll see you in September!

Last Chance to get your ticket for the East Vancouver Garden Tour - Sunday June 21st

 Hello, Fellow Garden Lovers!

This year's East Vancouver Garden Tour is on Father's Day, Sunday, June 21st. 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.

This year’s tour will feature about ten wonderfully diverse home gardens, both well established and newer ones.

The gardens are a mix of ornamentals, flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees. Each garden will either have the home gardener or a Master Gardener on site to chat and answer questions.

To start the tour, you check in with us and pick up your map (indicating where all the gardens are and including brief descriptions of each of them) at our usual home base at Figaro’s Garden (https://www.figarosgarden.ca) at 1896 Victoria Drive.

This year's tour will be in an area to the east and south of Figaro's and, once you get to a good starting spot (the epicentre is at about 5th and Nanaimo ), it should be comfortably walkable for most people.

How to get your tickets!

Note: As of June 2nd at 2:00 p.m., all the online tickets are sold out and there are just six still available at Figaro's!

Reminder: June 9 Meeting - Christine Allen - The Chosen Few

 Christine's Bio: 

From 1993 until 2006, Christine and her husband, Michael Kluckner, lived in Langley on a 9-acre farm, where she developed a collection of over 150 antique roses surrounded by many other plants. Since moving back to Vancouver, Christine has been creating a new garden on a 33 ft lot in the Grandview neighbourhood. This talk looks at the choices she made for a much smaller space, and her ongoing quest for a garden with year-round interest. 

We will also have Tool Sharpening! Remember to bring your tools! 

Drop your tools off 15 minutes before the meeting starts.  The van will be parked down in the parking lot at Britannia.

 BeSharp Sharpening – "Twice As Sharp For Twice As Long!"

Garden Tools

Pruners i.e. Felco $12

Bypass lopper $15

Anvil lopper $20

Garden Shears $24

Shovel $10

Axe $15

 Kitchen Knives, various prices from $12-25

 Scissors , Various prices from $15-40

 

Make sure to label your tools with asking tape.✂

Plant Sale - May 23

 

June 9 Meeting - The Chosen Few with Christine Allen

Christine Allen will be speaking - Topic: the Chosen Few

 Christine's Bio: 

From 1993 until 2006, Christine and her husband, Michael Kluckner, lived in Langley on a 9-acre farm, where she developed a collection of over 150 antique roses surrounded by many other plants. Since moving back to Vancouver, Christine has been creating a new garden on a 33 ft lot in the Grandview neighbourhood. This talk looks at the choices she made for a much smaller space, and her ongoing quest for a garden with year-round interest. 

For June Meeting:

We will also have Tool Sharpening!

The Besharpening Guy is coming on June 9 from 6:30 until 9:00.  Please drop your tools off before the meeting and pick them up afterwards and be sure to put names on your tools with a bit of masking tape.

May 12 - Talk on Vancouver's Ecological Meadows by Jack Tupper

 Hi Gardeners

Join us in May for a Talk on Vancouver's Ecological Meadows by Jack Tupper.  His day job is with the park board and he is doing research on the meadows.

 

Bio to follow: 

Jack Tupper is a landscape architect and photographer currently working for the Vancouver Parks Board on its ecological meadows.

Vancouver Parks Board’s Ecological Meadows

For the past 10 years Jack has been studying Vancouver’s meadows and over the last 5 years the Parks Board has implemented 42 hectares of ecological meadows across the city.  The data that have received shows a very positive response in terms of diversity of insects, fungi and microbial life.
Jack is now conducting further research into how far these ecological principles can be taken to improve Vancouver’s parks.  What would our parks look like if we maintained them from an ecological perspective?