PLANT SALE for GGC members, Saturday, June 27th

There will be a small plant sale at Janet’s for Grandview Garden Club Members, this coming Saturday, June 27th, from noon–2:00 p.m.

It's in the lane at 2061 East 3rd Ave (between 2nd and 3rd), near Lakewood. It says “2061” on the gate.

Payment — cash or cheque — is by donation and proceeds go to Grandview Garden Club.

Suggested donations depends on the size of pot: $2.00, $4.00, $7.00 (about).

Some examples of plants are:

Mukdenia rossii, Hardy Geranium psilostemon (magenta), Hardy Geranium (purply blue), Deciduous azalea (apricot flowers), Pulmonaria (Lungwort), Orange Asiatic lily, Lovage, Eryngium (Sea Holly), Pink Dianthus, Salix ‘Yezo-alpina’ (shrub), Salix ‘Melanostachys’ (shrub), Monarda (red Bee Balm), Eucomis (Pineapple Lily), Rose 'Rosa Mundi' (Pink and white flower), Stachys byzantina ‘Big Ears’(Lambs Ears), Sarcococca (Sweet Box, slow growing), Stylophorum diphyllum (yellow Celandine poppy, Woods poppy), Hebe Veronica ‘Blue Mist’, Campanula glomerata (Clustered bellflower), Tiarella (Foamflower, native plant), Ajuga reptans (Bugleweed), Helleborus argutifolius (Corsican Helebore), Podophyllum peltatum (Mayapple), Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley)

There’s lots of information about all of these on Google.

See you on Saturday!

Zoom Meetings for the rest of 2020...

For the last three months we have held successful and well-attended Grandview Garden Club meetings on Zoom, but they have been by invitation only to people who had paid their 2020 dues.

Looking ahead, we expect to be meeting and listening to speakers online for the remainder of this year. In view of this, we have decided to open the meetings to our wider list of occasional visitors who are invited to join now at a reduced rate.

For $10 — half our annual membership rate — you can sign up for the remainder of this year. In return, you will receive an e-mail invitation to our next four Zoom meetings in July, September, October, and November, as well as to our December potluck Christmas event if we are able to have one by then. This will be a one-time offer because of the unusual circumstances we are facing.

Among the speakers you will be able to hear will be Christine Allen on botanical gardens of Australia; Laura Caddy from UBC Botanical Garden on alpine plants; and Casey Werfl, Vancouver Park Board horticulturalist, on winterizing your garden.

If you wish to join us on Zoom, please send us an e-mail at grandviewgardenclub@gmail.com and we'll make arrangements.

We hope to see you online at our next meeting.

If you are already a member for 2020, you do not have to do anything. You are already on our list and will receive the invitation to all meetings this year.

Happy Gardening from your friends at the Grandview Garden Club!