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?

Grandview Garden Club - April 14 - Q&A Session with Our Resident Master Gardeners

 Join us in April for a Question and Answer Session with Our Resident Master Gardeners

 

We are very fortunate to have five master gardeners among our members: Christine Allen, Sandra Anthony, Janet Harper, Valerie Gray and Betsy Jones.  Between them, they have a wealth of gardening experience.  Their areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: roses, climbing plants, propagation for root and stem cuttings, shrubs and perennials for different seasons and garden areas, espaliered apples and apple tree pests, checking the texture of your garden soil, and food gardening.

 

The master gardening program demands a time commitment and a lot of work.  If any of you are interested in joining this esteemed group and doing the master garden program, feel free to ask a question about that.

For April 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, tools — to be awarded as door prizes.)

Meetings are the 2nd Tuesday of the Month - 

In May, we will have Jack Tupper from the Vancouver Park Board to talk about the 42 hectares of ecological meadows which exist in Vancouver.

June we will have Tool Sharpening and speaker still to be announced

Feel free to forward this message to any of your gardening friends who might want to join.

See you at Britannia on Tuesday, April 14! 

March Grandview Garden Club - Topic Rose Care

 Join us at the Britannia Community Centre in the 55+ Room at 7:00pm  on Tuesday, March 10

        Topic: Rose Care 🌹

   Speaker: Jason and his partner, Lisa, own Fraser Valley Rose Farm on Nicomen Island.

They mainly sell roses and companion plants for the local market but they offer a mail-order selection of smaller roses and perennials which can be ordered through their online store, Rose Farm Canada. 

 Fraser Valley Rose Farm – Beautiful Gardens Made Easy

Jason and Lisa propagate their roses on their own roots from their collection of mother stock.  They also bring in a small percentage of stock from other suppliers.

    During the growing season, their farm is open to visitors on Fridays and Saturdays

For March 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, tools — to be awarded as door prizes.)

Meetings are the 2nd Tuesday of the Month - 

In April, we will have our 5 members who are master gardeners here to answer your gardening questions.

In May, we will have Jack Tupper from the Vancouver Park Board to talk about the 42 hectares of ecological meadows which exist in Vancouver.