Grandview Garden Club March and April Teasers

 March Garden Club

Jason Croutch from Fraser Valley Rose Farm will be talking about roses.  

April  Garden Club

Our Five Club Master Gardeners answering members’ questions. 

Vancouver Master Gardeners Spring Seminar 2026 - Cultivate Joy

 Vancouver Master Gardeners Spring Seminar 2026 – Cultivate Joy

Small things count, join us at Spring Seminar 2026 to hear how small things add up to create beauty and cultivate joy in your garden. You will be Inspired!

Gardening as a Practice of Belonging – David Tracey

Restoring and Sustaining Soil Health – Jo Tobias

Foodscaping: How to Grow More Food in Less Space – Erin Berkyto

Cracks & Crevices: The Art of Rock and Crevice Gardening – Paul Spriggs

PlantWise - Supporting Responsible Gardening - Megan Blackmore

Plus Gardening Vendors, Sea Soil Sale & Door Prizes!

Saturday March 28^th, 2026, 9am to 3:30pm, Michael J Fox Theatre, Burnaby

Early Bird Tickets: $55 until Feb. 14^th. Regular Tickets: $65 from Feb. 15^th: Register & Info

Cannot Attend - purchase the Recordings Only: $40 & get 1 month of viewing: Register & Info

No January Meeting and February Meeting- Zoom

 Our February Meeting will be on zoom.

Tuesday, February 10 at 7:00 pm

Topic: Photo and Review of the 2025 Garden Tour

Tuesday December 9th Meeting- Holiday Potluck!

Remember to come and celebrate on Tuesday, December 9th meeting with a Potluck Dinner at the Brittania Community Centre 55+ Room at 7:00 p.m.  🎄

Please bring something to share with the group.  Any potluck food will be welcome. 

Please bring your own cutlery, plate, cup and drink.  

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

Remember dues for 2026 are due:)

See you on the 2nd Tuesday in December! 

Cheers,☃🎄🎅🤶

November Garden Club - Tues November 11- Angela Hoy - Home Composting

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:

• We are seeking 2 volunteers to provide goodies per meeting.  If you would like to volunteer the meeting, please reach out to me 
• 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.)

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

Date correction to October 14 Meeting- Topic: Worm Composting

Join us at the Britannia Community Centre in the 55+ Room at 7:00pm on October 14

Topic: Worm  Composting 

Speaker: 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:

https://jennyshadegarden.blogspot.com/