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?