Francisca Darts' Magical Mystery Tour - Oct 13th at 7:15

 Date and Time:  Tuesday, October 13^th at 7:15 pm (NOTE NEW TIME)

Title: Francisco Darts' Magical Mystery Tour

Where: Brittania Senior 55+ Centre

Francisca Darts’ Magical Mystery Tour

 

Have you ever wondered why paw paw orchards are festooned with roadkill?  How lungwort got its name? Why the English prefer black tea over green? 

Liz Knight will take you on a magical mystery tour of Darts Hill Garden Park, answering all these questions and more.  

Bio:

Liz Knight retired after a 40-year career in market research, throwing herself headlong into learning everything she could about plants and gardening. She became a Master Gardener in 2019. After serving as a mentor for 6 years, she now helps design and deliver the Master Gardener course.  A tour guide at Darts Hill, she is also responsible for all plant labelling and maintaining the park’s extensive plant inventory. Liz is the Communications Director for the South Surrey Garden Club, where she was president from 2023 to 2025.

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.